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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04 April 2011 packetHEATHY RIRS AND STRES CITIZENS ADVISORY BOAR Regular Meeting Agenda Plaza One Meeting Room April 21. 2011 - 4 p.m. 4:00 Public Comment 4:05 Board Comment 4:10 Approval of Minutes March 17, 2011 meeting 4:15 Agricultural Effciencies Louis Myer - Schmueser Gordon Meyer Engineers & Surveyors Draft Protocol and Guidelines for Award John Ely of Monetary Grants from Pitkin County Healthy Rivers and Streams Fund Executive Session John Ely a.River District and West Divide Water Conservancy District - conditional water rights - Crystal River C.R.S. 24-6-402 (4)(b) b.City of Aspen's Hydro Electric Plant C.R.S. 24-6-402 (4)(b) Upcoming regular meeting dates May 19 - Redstone Inn 4:00 pm June 16 - Aspen 4:00 pm July 21 - Aspen 4:00 pm All times are subject to variation without notice Agenda is subject to change HEATHY RIRS AND STRES CITIZENS ADVISORY BOAR Meeting Minutes March 17,2011 Pitkin County Courthouse Annex Plaza One Conference Room 530 E. Main Street Aspen, CO Board members present: Ruthie Brown, Bil Jochems, Lisa Tasker, Steve Hunter and Greg Poschman, Andre Wile Board members absent: Others present:John Ely, Lisa MacDonald, Michael Owsley Ruthie Brown attended the meeting via Skye phone conferencing. Public Comment None Board Comments Ruthie Brown thanked Staff for setting up Skye in order for her to attend the meeting. Approval of Minutes Ms. Tasker moved to approve the minutes of February 17, 2011. seconded the motion. Motion passed 7 to o. Mr. Poschman Colorado River District Dave Kanzer. Sr. Water Resources Engineer with the District gave a power-point presentation on the USGS stream gages. The District has identified some gages and data collection points in our area that could possibly be eliminated for the District's gage monitoring program. Discussions ensued about funding for the programs and possible new sites. The Board will discuss how they want to handle the request for funding of two of the gages and will invite Dave back with other entities to talk about the system as a whole and where the holes are in the system. Particularly the gages at a major diversion so the effect of that diversion can be monitored and analyzed through time. ACES Tom Cardamone of ACES and Fred Philips of Fred Philips Consulting presented concept designs plans for Rock Bottom Ranch and Spring Creek. ACES is seeking funding for the development of the plans. The goal is to protect, maintain and improve the quality and quantity of water in the Roaring Fork by restoring the riparian ecosystem through flood buffering, reduction of erosion and fitering through wetlands. The Board would like to see a list of other funding possibilties, grant opportunities and other entities approached, such as Eagle and Garfeld counties and the Roaring Fork Conservancy. ACES hopes to have the plan together so they are spending funds the very best way they can. Their time frame would be over a two year time period. Ms. Brown left the meeting at approximately 5:55 pm. Administration of Grant Requests John Ely asked for feedback from the Board on his memo and based on the feedback he will construct a form of grant requests with scoring criteria. Timing of the requests was discussed, along with scoring Minutes -Healthy Rivers and Streams Citizens Advisory Board March 17, 2011 Page 1 criteria and spending levels. The Board discussed having one-time grant cycle for proposals over $50,000 for disbursement in March of the next year. Mr. Ely will draft guidelines and protocol for the next meeting. 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C o m p i l e G I S m a p s o f C o u n t y i r r i g a t e d l a n d s wi t h S t a t e C D S S i n f o r m a t i o n · I n v e s t i g a t e e n g i n e e r i n g c o n s t r a i n t s · I n v e s t i g a t e i n s t i t u t i o n a l a n d l e g a l c o n s t r a i n t s · E c o n o m i c e v a l u a t i o n · D e v e l o p s c r e e n i n g c r i t e r i a l e a d i n g t o se l e c t i o n o f d e m o n s t r a t i o n o r p i l o t p r o j e c t · S e l e c t a n d p r o c e e d w i t h p i l o t p r o j e c t -l -I I-4 - ot:(I tn.._.o:i tn.~ AGENDA ITEM SUMMAY April 21, 2011 TO:River Board FROM:John Ely SUBJECT: Draft Protocol and Guidelines for Award of Monetary Grants from Pitkin County Healthy Rivers and Streams Fund Based on the expectation that requests for grants and awards for projects will increase as discussed at the previous meeting of the Healthy Rivers and Streams Board ("River Board"), it was recommended that the River Board consider and adopt a system of criteria for evaluating requests so that recommendations for awards or denials of an award can be explained and justified to the public. A copy of the previous meeting's agenda item is attached hereto for reference. This item sets forth a protocol and guidelines for award of monetary grants from the Healthy Rivers and Streams Fund for discussion and adoption. PROTOCOL AND GUIDELINES FOR MONETARY GRA AWARS FROM THE PITKIN COUNTY HEATY RIRS AND STRES FUND 1. Applicability. This protocol and these guidelines are applicable to projects and requests that are not being actively managed or participated in by Pitkin County or the Healthy Rivers and Streams Board. 2. Availability of Grant Funding. Every budget year at or near the October meeting of the River Board, the River Board will make a recommendation to the BOCC for appropriation of sums to be made available for the following budget year to be awarded to individuals and organizations making appropriate requests for grants and financial assistance. This recommendation shall be based upon the available resources for the fund but may be changed at any time during the course of the coming year by the BOCC upon recommendation of the River Board. 3. Review of Grant Requests. To the greatest extent possible, the River Board shall review and make recommendations on grant requests once a year in "the fourth budgetary quarter. This review timing is to allow the River Board to compare requests for funding in order to select the most deservng projects and requests. However, the River Board may make recommendations for funding at any time of the year based upon the particular needs of the requesting party or scheduling needs involved with a particular project. .--, April 21, 2011 I 2 I PROTOCOL & GUIDELINES FOR_-- MONETARY GRA REQUESTS 4. Conditions of Award. All individuals or entities shall be required to complete a grant agreement contract upon award of a grant request. Such grant agreements shall be individually structured based upon the particulars of the project and award but will contain at a minimum, a commitment on the part of Pitkin County to fund the grant request at a particular identified level; a requirement to report back to the River Board on progress of the project and its ultimate completion; a dispersal schedule for the grant award; a statement of ownership of any final work product or studies and a description of any restrictions to the use of that work product or availabilty to the County and public at large; a commitment by the grantee to adhere to all of its representations made to the River Board; and a penalty provision that failure to utilze the grant award in a manner stated in the agreement and as represented in the application may result in forfeiture of the remainder of the grant and an obligation to refund monies previously dispersed by the County. 5. Review and Award of Grant Requests. There is no obligation on the part of the River Board or Pitkin County to award all of the grant funds appropriated. All recommendations for funding are based not only upon the availabilty of funds but also the merits of the request. The River Board is free to request additional information from any part seeking an award in order to better understand and evaluate the project and request. All requests shall be evaluated according to following enumerated criteria. The use of the criteria and scoring associated with the criteria is not an absolute formula to an award of grant requests but serves as a guide to allow the River Board to evaluate projects and proposals in relation to each other and to evaluate the overall merits of a project or proposal. Grant Criteria and Wei Viability of Project The likelihood of completion of the project with the grant or award, or recognition that other steps and further funding would be needed to fully com lete the ro' ect Visibility of Project MAIMUM 25 POINTS The degree the project wil be seen and appreciated by the public or actively used b the ublic Goals of River Board MAIMUM 25 POINTS Degree with which the proposed project coincides with the stated goals of the River Board or other ongoing projects of the River Board Prospect of Repetition of Project MAIMUM 25 POINTS Degree to which the grant or project re resents a strate or ro osal that MAIMUM 10 POINTS LJ April 21, 2011 3 PROTOCOL & GUIDELINES FOR MONETARY GRA REQUESTS could be repeated in other locations so that the benefits of the award may not be limited to one single event History of the Requesting Part The degree to which the individual or MAIMUM 10 POINTSentityhasbeensuccessfulIIother projects or endeavors or is known in the community Partcipation by Other Partes Is the grant applicant conducting the MAIMUM 10 POINTSproject or work on its own or have partnerships been established with other agencies or entities that reflect that the goal of the project is shared by more than one party Proposed Project Budget Is the requested grant the sole source of MAIMUM 10 POINTSfunding for the proposed project or are there other funding sources available to the applicant Requested Board Action: Discuss and adopt protocol and guidelines for monetary grant awards from the Healthy Rivers and Streams Fund Agenda Memorandum dated March 17, 2011Attachment: AGENDA ITEM SUMMAY clt~~ .1ù ~ (-¿d II \Y\t~D March 17, 2011 TO:River Board FROM:John Ely SUBJECT: Administration of Grant Requests As we are all aware, up to this point in the life of the fund, we have not been particularly flooded with requests for funding. In fact, the fund has only contributed $43,000 to the Roaring Fork Conservancy for Phase II of the Watershed Report and $9,000 for two years contribution to the maintenance of the Emma stream gage located on the Roaring Fork River at Hook's Bridge. However, at this point, it is a safe prediction that requests to the fund for grants or awards will increase. At this point, we anticipate requests for funding from the Colorado River District, ACES and the Roaring Fork Conservancy, as well as Pitkin County's General Fund. As these requests continue to increase, it is recommended that the Board consider and adopt a system of criteria for evaluating requests so that recommendations for awards or denials of an award can be explained and justified to the public. The first distinction I think we should make is between projects that are being handled by us directly and those projects to which we are merely contributing funds or other assistance but are not the part with ultimate responsibilty or control of the work. These criteria are intended to apply only to that latter group of projects for which we do not have ultimate responsibility and control. I believe the first issue to be discussed is that of when we want to review requests for funding. If we adopt a fied time for acceptance, review and award for requests for money, then we will be in a better position to assess our own finances in relation to the projects that we are ourselves prosecuting and the status of tax collections. Also, by having a set time for acceptance of requests, we will be in a position to evaluate these requests against each other and in effect have a competition for the amount of funds we have determined to make available for funding requests. By not establishing a set time or times for review of requests, we will be operating on a sort of first come, first serve basis. However, this approach does give flexibilty to those entities requesting funding from us and opens up their abilty to request money coincidentally with the time that they actually need the funds. I recommend that we establish a set time or times so that grant requests can be reviewed together. i---- ¡March 17 , 2011 I 2 i ADMINISTTION OF GRA .' REQUESTS The next issue to be discussed I believe is whether or not to place a limitation on funding. The manner in which a limitation on funding would be conducted would be to discuss the issue of grants at some point in the calendar year, vis-à-vis the rate of tax collections and anticipated tax collections versus projects that we are actively undertaking and a recognition of what tye of balance of funds we wish to carry forward into future years. Setting limitations on the funds available for grants would not necessarily limit the entities to which we award money, but may by implication put us in a position of not being able to award the full amount of a request. The next issue to be discussed is the criteria upon which to evaluate requests for funding. Tyically, the way such developed criteria are utilzed with a scoring grid to evaluate how a particular funding request complies with or satisfies the established criteria. The criteria may be weighted so that more important criteria, as determined by the Board, will result in a favorable scoring. A suggestion for criteria that we could utiize may consist of the following: . The percentage of the funding request to the overall project budget . The strengt and number of other committed sources of funding . Whether or not the project is complete or has begun to be undertaken . The viabilty of the requesting part; is it an entity that has been in existence for some time . The degree to which the project coincides with the stated goals of our program and fund . The degree to which the project is visible or utilzable by the general public . The fiscal viabilty of the proposed project, in other words, will the grant lead to a finished product or will the completion of the project stil be in doubt without additional funds . The viabilty of the project to be translated to other areas or repeated, in other words, is the proposed project a one-time event or could it possibly be repeated and the benefits of the work translated or duplicated to other communities in the state or other aspects of our watershed This list is by no means exhaustive and could certainly be shortened or lengthened to more accurately reflect the concerns of the Board. A final consideration to be discussed is whether or not to impose conditions upon the grant or award of funds. The previous three awards of funds from our program have simply been with our blessing and a trust that the funds will be utilzed for their stated purpose in the best manner possible. If the award of funds or a grant program develops further it may be appropriate to review how these monies are spent or to work with the requesting entity to provide assistance if needed. Conditions to be considered may include: . Whether or not to make a flat payment at the time of an award or to make progress payments based upon the progress of actual work performed : March 17 , 2011 3 i ADMINISTRATION OF GRA · REQUESTS . Whether or not to request progress report on the project with schedules of anticipated completion . Whether or not to require that some aspects of the project be made available to the public so that other individuals or entities may benefit from the work . Whether or not to evaluate the status of work and determine whether or not to continue funding the project consistent with an award or to stop funding the project Attached are the forms currently used by the Healthy Community Fund. Requested Board Action: Informational - Discussion and comments from the Board