New BWD Committee structure and schedule

Many thanks are due to Director Bob Mendenhall for providing the following information and for his initiative to reorganize and simplify the committee structure.  This is a good, constructive, and welcome development.  Thanks again, Bob.

The BWD board recognized that there was a great deal of overlap among the ad hoc committees dealing with groundwater. Since Groundwater Management does not fit the definition of an ad hoc committee, the BWD board agreed that it should become a Standing Committee of the BWD and incorporate the former ad hoc committees on New Development and on Conjunctive Water Use. The Standing Committee on Groundwater Management will meet according to a fixed schedule at 9:00 AM on Wednesday one week prior to the regular Board meeting. Normally the regular monthly board meeting is on the fourth Wednesday of each month; so the Standing Committee on Groundwater Management will meet on the third Wednesday of each month. The BWD will publish an agenda one week prior to the committee meeting and minutes of the proceedings.

The ad hoc committee on Preservation and its sub-committee on Tiered Water Rates are still apparently in limbo.  Hey, you can't have everything.