 Call the meeting to order. All right, Tom Tester. Here. Scott Holowick. Here. Roger Lang. Here. Renee Davis. Here. Dan Wolford. Here. Ken Houston. Here. Wes Lowry. Here. Kevin Bowden. Here. Hope Bartlett. Here. Alex Merkheim. Here. Chris Huffer. Here. Paul Wilson. All right. Chelsea Wilson. And Heather McIntyre is here. I don't see Councilmember Barton yet, but chair it up for him. Okay. Thank you. That's approved for use the month's minutes. Anybody have any questions or comments about last month's minutes? I have a motion to approve. Second. All right. All in favor? Yeah. All right. All right. Kevin, do you give us a status of water? Sure. The flow at the St. Recognizmoline, Lines page was 19.7 CFS, the 125 year historic average is approximately 14.5 CFS at this day. The call on the St. Recognizmoline was Rocking Creek Ranch. Like how before? Which has probably already a date of probably 19-2001. And it had membership 5.5 and zero. And then the group, 5-5-5-0-5. Way down there. Currently, there are no calls in the South Platte. The Ralph Price-Roswold, but my pleasure is in violation of 6389.5, which is approximately 10.5 feet down for $13,977 paper feet. This is about 2,200 paper feet per fall. Union Reservoir is currently at a age height of 2,320 for 9,873 feet, which is down approximately 2,895 feet from the fall. Select St. Marine Basin Storage Reservoirs at the end of December for the 75% of the fall. This time last year, the St. Marine Basin Reservoir was for the 69% fall. So we're doing a little bit better than last year. In terms of snowpack level, the color of the headwaters is currently 95% of the average. And St. Marine right now is 81% of the average. So it took a little bit of effort on the St. Marine, but we'll put it in the next couple of weeks. Questions for Kevin? What's going on? We've got a question for you. It's empty. Yeah. That's a sharp answer. I'm assuming it was for handed purposes. Yeah, we have a hole in the bottom of the storage that's in the outlet. And we have to bring it all the way down. Basically, we have a hole in the bottom of the bottom. And we're currently working on it next to that. And so hopefully, in the next couple of months, we'll be prepared to put a lot of that in. Yeah, it says it has to be here as well. Yeah, I've had the calls. OK. Any point if you mind what you heard? Any agenda or opinion? I just wanted to know, we received the annual sustainability and climate action report just for board's information. I'll pass that out at the end of the meeting. And then with the board, actually, let's say, presentation by the Sustainability Group, you can let us know and we'll ask the body to a future meeting. Just want to put on the record that I'll hand out that report at the end of the meeting. Anything else? That's all I have. Yes. No development. I don't want to stay out. Can you even talk about board? Yeah, I wanted to, I've got a quick PowerPoint here for you to take a look at. Two things going on the Colorado River. The first is we attended the City Council's retreat. They had asked for a presentation on the Colorado River and what its potential impacts might be on long-life future water supply. And then also, I had an opportunity to go down with Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District Board of Directors, staff, and a few other Northern Colorado water providers to the lower Colorado River in Arizona and meet with some of the water providers down there in the Central Arizona Project and a lot of water districts down there to kind of try to bridge between the upper and lower rivers. And I wanted to give a quick report on that. How did you do? Well, I just said, we could probably solve everything. We should be able to just cut. So I'm just going to go real quick. I think water board pretty much knows all this. I've seen it all, but I want to let you know what we've talked to council about. The first thing we did was just try to ground them a little bit. Everything that the water board has looked at and reviewed and worked on over the years. We first talked to them about our guiding water principles, which we've had for well over 20 years, and went through those and explained them. And then we explained that most of our water supply is based upon two really founding documents, the Royal Water Master Plan. We talked a little bit about that and what was in that plan. And then the future water demand analysis. That document, you may recall, is we've updated it not every five years. We have to think what the actual demands are, have been. We have the data in the last five years of data and use that to project a future water demand. And then after that, we talked about the Colorado River Basin, one of the things that was of interest to us. Really, I'm probably going to ask quite a bit about it. Lately, it's that fact that CSU came out there with a study that said it could be up to a 30% decrease in flows in the Colorado River. But if that didn't get the news media, and we've got people talking very quickly. So I wanted to talk about that. So to ground that, we talked a little bit about not only the Colorado River Compact, but also how the federal government operates the main standard of the Colorado River. We talked a little bit about those projections, a little bit about the current Colorado River flow data. I always like to point out that we have yet that the below 100% delivery of water to the lower basin actually long-term average is about 110% to about 112% delivery. So it's hard for me to, a little bit of personal, it's harder for me to find something different. We're being assured when you have 100% of what you're supposed to do, so I'm sorry about the comment there. Then we talked a little bit about how the basins and the upper and lower basin use, kind of comparing, really honestly, the last four or five, six years, the upper basin varies between 30 and a half and 4 and a half million acre feet and 7 and a half. So well below what we otherwise could be, and then lower basin way over then. So that bears the discrepancy of it. But we went out and talked about it. So just wanted to brief counsel on the future unknowns of our project that's really in our water demand evaluation. We call our variability, assumptions, everything from climate to density to future planning projections. So there's quite a bit in that document that comes from Waterloo Bay. Then we talked a little bit about the impacts of the CVP versus when you gap, especially when you look at the relative priorities of those two projects. And then its potential future impact on the long line. One thing I always like to point out is we go back to the start, the volume water principles, long line. 1 third of our water supply is coming from the west slope 2 thirds from the main basins in the rain. So even a 30% west slope impact is only a 10% impact on long months water supply because it's only 1 third of our water supply. So that's good news for us. Now there will be impacts on the part side, but it won't be a clean review of that. So that's really kind of wanted to let counsel know. And then we talked about what the options summarize if there is an impact so great, we didn't have to say something. Really, these are our options. Our number one option is water conservation. We're close to our 10% savings. But putting it in perspective, I'm going to use real round numbers here, about 30,000 acre feet of future demand in Oval. Of that, the 10% savings is about 3,000 acre feet. So if we were to get another 10% to 15% savings, that's 3,000 to 45,000. And really, water conservation has a potential to significantly impact any future shortage we might have. But we still have a lot of projects sitting there. The Union ransomware pump back pipeline, especially combined with combination of the Union ransomware and large amount, those projects really are our next and next in line projects that we need them. Especially the pump back pipeline because that means it's water. Great to write up to our system by exchange, but it's not the same system. And then button rock in large amounts. And then we have the number of hours. Trying not to go into a debt fund actual projects is the real crux of that council retreat item is to talk about where are we and what are we doing in the same time. So I feel it went really well because it was a really great question and we really engaged in it. So we're happy. Hopefully, I don't know. But I guess we've ever learned on the spot. Hopefully, we got across though and we didn't. Yes. Citizens were. Yeah, that was an allocable, and more of a piece of the retreat. Good. We had some other interest in part of the retreat the same day. Yeah, well, we tried to get to it. Without water. Well, Ken, talking about build out, how far down that list do we have to go to build out? Or do we meet the build out needs somewhere on that list? Yeah, actually, right now, we're on water board. Advice council to participate in the Windygout Firmly Project. The Windygout Firmly Project lost a little bit of water conservation should bring us to build out if all the assumptions we leave are proof. We did crystal ball a little bit. So we're really hopeful that we don't have to go there far down this list. We're obviously keeping it all firm. It's available. It's available. You said water conservation was the top option. Are the other four projects listed there in order or priority, according to maybe staff or council director? Small say, sort of. Yes. I think water conservation would be our first go to. But the pipeline, we've actually, part of that is already built. It can be phased. Nice thing about that project, there's four different phases. So we can build the first phase. You have to go to the union enlargement before. Otherwise, you don't run out of water in union. So at some point, come back pipeline, we could get that going pretty quickly. And its advantage is that there's a lot of water down here at the bottom end that we have available. It could be made available if we just get it back up into the system. First phase is really just up to you Creek Golf Course at the Ruffin Ready Ditch. That gets you to you Creek Golf Course, a number of parts. Three schools and Box Hill Golf Course for really a fairly short project. And that will give us a lot. So yeah, I would say, obviously, we're going to look harder at our competition. That come back pipeline would be the first one. And then it also allows us to do a number of other things, especially with the return of those. So what you just said makes me understand that I never quite understood what the come back project did. I always thought that it comes back all the way to the water treatment plant. So we could make the non-potable water and we'd measure our potable water. But it sounds like you have some interim steps where we just make the raw water more usable for irrigation and stuff, exactly. That's exactly the spot on it. An example is right now, we irrigate Fox Hills. We irrigate Fox Hills out of Pleasant Valley Paralympic North of town. That's the senior water right in winter. And also the irrigates, you've created irrigates a number of parks and three schools. So you've got a lot of irrigation going on coming out of Pleasant Valley. We've previously changed Pleasant Valley up to Butterock. So we can take that water into the winter, into our treatment plants. And now you've got to be able to irrigate. You've got a lot of land to irrigate, so then we would use a pipeline to irrigate. So that'd be phase one. Second phase, we'd take it up to the east side of Longmont, Lake Macintosh. And then you have that water available two huge ways, all of our p-ditch and all of the parks on about the north half, almost two thirds of Longmont. All of that is available, but we'd also move it on up to the highland ditch or rock and ray so we could put water in their ditch and take a like amount of water. And so that'd be the second phase. That opens up a whole bunch more water availability. The third would be to take it up to Birch Lake and you get just a little bit more capacity there. Then the fourth phase is clear to the plants. Highland likely we'd never take it that far. I think there's enough exchange capacity between here and there. To use that. Would you use those, some of those initial steps before you even do a large, huge reservoir? We'd do at least the first phase. I think there's enough water. We've got to keep it in and don't let it toss it here. That's where reservoirs are, I don't know. It's been in the lower levels in the new reservoir. So that does have an impact on the brain, the creation of it. Yeah, we would utilize more water out of the Union reservoirs. But we'd also utilize the St. Grand Creek Function Station number one, which pumps out of the St. Grand Creek just downstream of Main Street. And we'd exchange water that comes out of this water plant. Put that out there. But also, we have a lot of lower ditches that after the 4th of July, we can't move up to Bun Rock because they're on return flow. That's everything from the North 75th now. And so all those ditches currently, the only use we can make of is in the St. Grand Creek. But if we could put those into that St. Grand station number one, that place, right, open up the Union, move it up to the parks. It opens up a whole other avenue for all of those water plants. We just did change a bunch of bonus ditch water, Costco, all the land that's irrigated or what is now Costco. That water is now available to us, but it begins. It's right down here. We do use it for return flows. We do use it for exchanges. So we have and we'll use it. But it just makes the availability of that use much better. So yeah, that's sort of in the order, but not exactly. And this is not going to be loaded with me, probably, but do you have like a lot of energy consumption for the planned pumps available? I don't know. Is somebody, if the project is partially planned or anything? I would have to pull up the full information out. I mean, obviously what we do on the St. Gregory Pump Station number two, this is built, but we've been using it. Ooh. So I'll send you a note saying I would like to have this. Okay. And I would be curious to hear that too, so. Oh, good. Then I'm not going to send it out, if you can go and get it to the next column. No problem. We can, we can, we can pull that information out. Sorry, but yeah, nice to know. This, the desirability of projects, I've always kind of wished when I see the pump back, part of it, I'm like, whoa, what's that? Energy load? What's that? Yeah. But I think it would be low retreated water, which is also an energy savings too, right? It would be a rower of water. So there's a good energy savings there. Well, that's right. If we consume that energy, then we have that energy, then it's energy that we could curtail when we need to give us an energy over the platter. Especially the pump station. Yeah. Which is already there. Have I had any thoughts? Well, it, it, it diverts out of the creek into a large, spanned gravel pit. So we have up to 72 hours. We are always diverting to the pond, and then we can palm. When we should. When we should, yes. And that's, that's, that's a much better way to do it. Yeah, that's what we say. Easily doable. Great. So anyway, that was, that was our presentation. Just wanted to do, do that. And then the second half, I just wanted to report back real briefly on our trip down to Arizona. Obviously, you know, I didn't solve anything, but for me personally, after having done this and then come back, you know, what I, for years and a month before I went down there, I was, darn it, those school-based people need to get their act together and quit using so much water because they way exceed their allocation and I was pretty strong about that. Now that I've known the chore, I still feel that. So it doesn't change any, but I have a little more empathy for them. I have more understanding of what their challenges are. It's, it's very difficult for the lower basin because they have developed over a hundred, well over a hundred years on storage and they don't know what, God doesn't mean anything to them down there because they've always had huge storage pockets. Up here, prior appropriation, okay, your ditch gets called out, your ditch gets called out. You know, we, it's normal for us to have a ditch get called out. But that doesn't happen on the lower basin. And there are, but there are some, some big challenges there, and so on. Yeah, when I went down there, we flew into Phoenix to meet everybody and it shows out of there. So a little bit more rock there than I would like. I don't know, the heat island effects got to be interesting and things. It's the asphalt rooftop or rock. So it's interesting. So just kind of because what I'm going to talk about you don't know exactly kind of the map. We flew into Phoenix, we met here. Our first day was, so just this area, the Gila River starts in Arizona goes clear through, excuse me, New Mexico, goes clear through the south side of Arizona all the way through here. So you probably heard this area around Phoenix called the Valley of the Sun. Really, what it really is, this big, huge valley that was the Gila River years ago. The Gila River comes down through here, up past Phoenix, it comes all the way down. And I say Gila River, there is no river there. Even east of Phoenix, there is no river. I'm sure it flows sometimes, if you have a rainstorm, a little. They thanked us for bringing water to them because in the three days, a couple days before and then one day we were there, they got two and a half inches of moisture, which is their average yearly precipitation. So again, entire year precipitation in the three days we were here. So the picture's actually probably better than you imagine. And this maps a little deceiving because for some reason they showed this whole southwest area of Arizona in green. Can't wait to drop off. There's no green there, so. But anyway, we went from Phoenix all the way down here to Yuma to look at the interesting part of the systems out there is the southern southeastern part, especially around Yuma is all pre-compact ditch water. There's a number, big ditch is a pre-date that I keep going to the compound. North, you know, throughout Phoenix and up in that area, there's a lot of native water from coming out of the hills or from flight staff and east, but they're being supplies like Havasu up here in the central Arizona project. So basically we were down here in the Yuma area and we were up here on the central Arizona project and then went east into the Elendian Reservation to look at some of the issues there. Our first stop was meeting with the Weldon Mohawk Irrigation Drainage District. That very interesting, this is the actual canal again, this is pre-compact water and the two ditches go and main ditches out around the Yuma, Arizona area. The area down there was very, basically is the vegetable farms for all of America. I mean, this time of year they're growing most of our lettuce and all of our produce down there and shipping it to the North East called the United States all over the country places. So while they need to take care of water issues down there, that also is our lifeline, bread and butter, it's our food. This is the actual canal, the Weldon Mohawk canal. This is a little bit, better view of it, a little bit straight down it. Kevin told me he'd eat all of our ditches of this bit around here. Easy actually, I like what you're looking for. The interesting thing about this ditch is a lot of their ditches are lying down there as you can imagine, they need to prevent infiltration. Large part of this one was not lying and it wouldn't fly here in Colorado, but the interest, the reason it's not lying is because the water comes out of the Colorado River and goes down the canal, but the canal's actually flowing from West to East up the valley. And so they, and I'll show you in a second, they lift the water and then it flows and then they lift it again and it flows to move it to the East, move it from the Colorado River up into the valley for use. But because of that, the ditch has to go downhill so it goes down and a lot of these places like this, it's actually lower than the Gila River. So there actually is water coming from the Gila River, groundwater, and the Gila River going into their ditch so they didn't lie in it so they could get that water. Like I say, I wouldn't float here in Colorado, but it was interesting to me that that was one of the things they do. Very high groundwater cable. This, at this point here, the far West end of the Gila River where it comes, right before it goes into the Colorado River and their problem there is groundwater cables too high. So they actually pump water out of the ground and go into the groundwater cable so they don't have salt in their fields. But the fields are amazing. So this is one of the pump stations where, remind you a little bit of some of the pump stations you'll see on our large irrigation projects. Those are a little bit shorter, smaller units, but what's amazing is it's only about 12 to 15 foot lift. They lifted up about 15 feet, and it goes into the next pump station. So pretty large pump station to pump that water. Then it's just a broccoli field that they were actively harvesting. You can see a manual labor going on. Amazing, one thing I learned about these replicas is that they can't have, because they're a produce, they can't have anything contaminating them. They basically, it's pick and process and chip, and you believe it, so they actually have inspectors that go out and put little flags. They look if there's a coyote here, any footprint, any print of any animal, they flag that and they can't harvest the produce for like 10 or 15 feet around that. So the edge of a lot of the fields, you would see the rest of the fields harvested and they weren't. But some of this. No, they do that, but they don't use the brain. They can't use the brain, they just, they have to, you know, they're processing it. Most of their fields are farmed three times even. So they're growing it, the higher process, I got lucky enough to sit by one of the farmers that we were growing down there, and he told me a bunch of the stuff they do. It's amazing that he says, I'm not a farmer on the grower, because they grow the crop, but once they've grown it, then they turn it over to shipper, and it's not their crop anymore. They, shipper owns the crop in the field, harvest it, transports it to the processing unit, and ships it to all of the country. So they really, all they do is, is farm it. This is one of the plants. So after we, after we've had with two or three different irrigation groups and talked to them, way back we got an opportunity to, to our plant. This particular one you can see, different types of lettuce going up here. You see, here in the back, the orange is carrots, where they mix it in, in there. But this plant is, how the products come in, wash, these are centrifugal spinners that, as if it tasted moisture, that after taking moisture, if the wool of one was picked out, otherwise it won't keep, to be shipped. Comes in here, goes up, these conveyors that is, was put into plants. Just, it was amazing to me, this particular plant, what you're looking at right here, across is about half a million pounds of lettuce a day. And there's like, they said there's like 20 of these plants in the humid area. And they package enough produce, they're in the humid area, all in and all. But they send out a fully loaded semi, a fully full, 19 seconds, for just amazing the product that leaves, just this area. So, what it does is let you understand how important that, you know, it's not as easy as you say, let's try all this down. You know, it's our, it is, it is. So then, then we got a chance to sit down with the Central Arizona Project folks and talk to them and see what they were doing. The amazing thing to me, I guess I should have known this, I didn't know this, but of the Arizona's allocation, Colorado River Water, California got the biggest about four and a half million acre feet and they're seven and a half million. Arizona, Nevada, they didn't walk out there with that 20,000 acre feet. But Arizona got about three, little over three million acre feet of seven and a half. But over 40, I can't remember the exact number, about 45% of Arizona's allocation actually goes to the very Canadian reservations. So, the rest of Arizona was going to only have about 55% of their allocation to work with. A lot of reasons behind that, that I won't worry as opposed to details, but one of the areas we're able to go to is called Lake Pleasant. And if you think of it's just north of the Phoenix area, and this is where I did get a little jealous. The dam on this thing isn't much bigger than the dam we're building up in Chimney Hall right now for 100,000 acres of land. It doesn't work about the same size as the dam. That's 850,000 acre feet. So, for a very small dam, they got a really nice reservoir. I'm very jealous about that. But it's essentially a, called the Equalization Pond, the Central Arizona Project. They pump one of the power, because they have huge amounts of power, and a number of other factors, but it's pumped into Lake Pleasant, which is by Phoenix, and then the rest of the system is littered out of there. This is, the day we're there, you can see really in the north, and basically Phoenix is up, up in the mountains here, and up in the mountains. It's up in the mountains in love here. You can see that we actually have pretty good snow. Shut down my tent for like three days. Again, that was interesting. After we visited Central Arizona Project, I went and met with the Indian Reservation, and folks there, they're doing, this is the Gila River, after they got an entire year's worth of moisture. It's kind of interesting, I wasn't aware of this, again, the fish was doing very good. Great to learn this. They act, the Indians actually farmed well before even the Spaniards came into the country. So, over the years, the irrigation in Eastern Arizona and Washington, Mexico, dried up the Gila River well before then, and they basically ran out of water. So, I then started having to go on pumps, pretty good groundwater table there, but obviously over the years, they're pulling down. So, a lot of the water they're using in Guinea is going to groundwater recharge. Right here, just where we went, there's a large groundwater recharge project. So, they're trying to bring the groundwater back out. They also are, this is one of the canals for the Indian Reservation, and there are, they put solar over the canal. First, really, one of any significance in Western United States. They're just putting case-ons and then they'll put high beams across the canal, then they'll melt. Good and bad, it's going to be tough to do business on that canal over time, but what it does is, A, it doesn't think of any land, B, it shades the canal, so you have less evaporation. And they're believing more importantly than anything else, it will keep their algae growth down. It won't get the sunlight into the water. So, they're really feeling three benefits there. This was, so, one of the problems with large amount of groundwater withdrawal in Arizona was subsidence of the land. So, this sign up here is where this land was in 1969, and it's subsided to put it down to here in just from 1969 to 2018. So, I understand the issues they're dealing with for them. Their concern is, if you take less color on the water, then the pumps are going to be turned on more and the subsidence is going to increase. So, it's not as easy as you're saying, shut it off. So, this is all down to removing groundwater? From removing the groundwater, yeah. It allows this, basically the water is in the floors. By removing the water, it allows the floors to settle. And literally, there's a big article on Mexico City, April the weekend, one 20 inches a year down here. Yeah, same thing. Yeah, same thing. Well, and in Florida, if you give a little, some little expensive gardens, then they dissolve and then they have use in Mexico City. So, that was, that kind of visual, that's what you understand. And finally, we got a chance to go to a desert garden area. And I never knew there was a cactus called an octopus cactus. But you can see how it got its name. So, that was really the end of it. And it was lucky enough, flying out of Phoenix on the way back, and we just kind of climbed up, not quite now, to do yet. This is meteorite crater, just about 60 miles east, east of the flight staff. Supposedly the biggest meteorite crater in the world. I don't know if that's true, but it turned out that, it's kind of neat to see, especially with the snow, it really, really stuck out. Anyway, that was our trip. I, it was very interesting, and if you're interested, I think the Central Arizona Project organization is going to come up all around in the summer, during the cyclical trip. Meet with a lot of the water from Microsoft here. So. Good. It sounded like the Indians get a pretty good chunk of water. Do they have that much agriculture that they use, you know? They do. They do. They do. You know what they do, but it's huge, and they have very, very large. That's, again, meteorite, almost exclusively from all over the place. They're going to use the Colorado River water tank to replace that ground water pump here. To balance it. Yeah. Yeah. But it's still missing. Yeah. So, the other thing is that, when does this issue, how many more years do we have to wait to get a finale out of? Who's going to get what? Long-term. Hello, Zach. Is that near-term or far-term, or is it? We don't know. There's a near-term, far-term part of it. I don't know what I ever saw, but that would be interesting. The near-term is 2026, the current operational guidelines for Colorado River, for the river reclamation expire. And we're right now, a lot of talk going on between all the states. The river reclamation says we want all the states to pass our next operational guidelines. Basically, they operate the Colorado River Project. Me, Powell, the two big ones, as well as cleaning the origin. Blue Mesa here in Colorado, how they operate those systems make a big difference. I suspect they're going to not release quite as much to the lower basin. They have a dual responsibility. The primary purpose of the need in Powell's water supplies is they have to prioritize that, but they also generate a lot of electricity. If they let them go below minimum power point, then they shall have a lot of power generation, especially E which powers a lot of certain government. Yeah, there's a short-term, I believe there's going to be an improvement in how it's managed on the short-term, but the long-term is still. Nobody, I've been award people folks in Arizona or us coming down to the upper basin. Great. Thanks a lot, man. Very important to know. Okay, next item is the annual button on the little forest stewardship update. And that is, Miles and the ball. Who's doing that? Yeah, Miles and Bryce. Where do you want us to sit? Well, Miles, come up here, he's going to talk. Oh, we're splitting it. Okay, well, here you come up. Good, well, let's allow a step back. Hey, everybody, I'll leave it at some point. In the recent past, a little out of you have done a recent tour of the Bundra out. And it's going to see you again. My name's Chris Hadley, and this is your large ranger for lawn mower. And this is how strict you open your full-time ranger at the Bundra. And Miles is our resident ranger up there and he was also generous enough to come in on his day off to meet with you all and share what we've been doing over the last year. We always enjoy this opportunity to update you all on what's going on at the Bundra and what we've accomplished in the past year, in terms of supporting water resources and protecting our forestry watershed. You get kind of a sneak peek at 2024. So we'll talk about annual trends. If you do one slide recap of who we are as water rangers, what our mission is, talk about how we support water resources as the two day-to-day operators of Button Rock Dam. Talk about the recent Button Rock Dam and the plan that you all had a hand in, daddy and reviewing of this for your whole process. Talk about the implementation of that plan. Talk about some facilities projects that were completed in 2023, talk about the scaling up of the forestry ship program that we accomplished last year. Miles put together two slides of top critters of 2023. We have some pretty fun stuff as always to share with you all. And then a sneak peek at goals for the next calendar year and give you an opportunity to ask us any questions. So trends of 2023, I've got some stats on my phone so I'm not texting it. Do you have something to reference here? Overall, we saw decreased visitation relative to the past couple of years, 2018 through 2022. You know, our best hypothesis for this is that it's related to post-pandemic trends and recreation because we saw a mirrored of kind of just decreased public lands recreation across multiple land systems in Colorado, including bulletin parts of the space which are closest to Denver. We also had an unusually cool and stormy spring. I'd love to have that again, but maybe less flash flooding that we think discouraged visitation, especially in May and June. And then very notably, we changed our dog regulations in May, 2023 that was anecdotally in front of looking at the timeline associated with the free steep draft off of visitation. So I'm going to buy the numbers. 2023 was 61% slower than the heyday of the pandemic in 2020. 2020 we had, what I would say was unsustainable levels of visitation. We had 71,000 visitors. In 2023, we saw 28,000. So looking at our peak month of visitation is always July. And in July, 2020, compared to July, 2023, we saw a 64% reduction. Yeah, that's mirrored with other park systems throughout the state. Annual visitation in 2023 was about a 30 lower than 2022. We think that that was most likely related again to the rules, the regulation, overhaul related to that as part of the rock management plan. So the end result of all this really is a more sustainable level of visitation to your watershed, at least from our perspective as the people tasked with safeguarding financial resources up there and water resources. It's later on our preserve infrastructure. And all that said, it's also worth noting that Rangers are actually busier with enforcement related to the management plan, I'm sure. But our enforcement contacts over the last year were 75% higher than in 2022. So there's a kind of a trade-off when you overhaul regulations. There's a learning period. We took a phased approach to an educational approach to rolling out regulations changes. Now we've kind of advanced to stricter enforcement. And now we have signed an online material, everything in place to help people become informed of the regulation before visitation. So educational spirited, but I just want to put in there that we are actually busier, even with fewer people in that enforcement piece of our job. Other trends from the last year included scaling up of the forestry program due to an infusion of large grants that I'll talk about in more detail. And catching up finally on a multi-year maintenance backlog to more sustainable and professional manager development structure up there. And I'll take it from wildfire. So you compare everything to the pandemic in 2020. What is your enforcement contact so it's like in 2023 compared to 2020? You know, I would guess that they're still higher because in 2020, Miles was alone up there as a sole seasonal learning year until October when I was hired. So the data would be harder to compare since we were working on hard copy paper logs and it was literally one ranger and then police and kind of ad hoc team with natural resources staff up there. So it was not as easy of a number as that. Anecdotally having that ranger in 2020 both in Penn County and then finishing out my year in Long Island. It was crazy. So I'm sure we have the same system in place that we have now. It would have been much higher. I mean, we saw just all sorts of crazy things in 2020 across the public land systems in Colorado but kind of post pandemic 2021, 2022 compared to that. We're much higher in 2023 in terms of context of the public about five linear installations than it is predominantly dog related. So who we are, what we do, we are water generators. We have a team of two FTEs, miles in a cell, two temporary rangers that we hire. This year we have a third year returning temporary ranger and Dan and we just hired a second Abigail and we're gonna be training this spring. So we were trained in first aid, emergency response, firefighting, food enforcement. It's part of that resource protection and public safety mission. We control around the 3,000 acres. In addition to the surrounding area, a non-city owned, certain areas surrounding but not that we incidentally look after. We've responded to search and rescue, EMS calls, fires on adjacent forest service property. We've responded to accidents on private land. So we have this kind of for the large no man's land between the Analyst Park and Lions that we're involved in. But our primary duties are for Miles and I to act as operators about our dam, making sure that it's secure, that it's safe and that it's operating clients with our water rights. Resource protection, so protecting the natural resources a lot of habitat, a lot of the values. And also, and you know, the watershed health as part of that, also the built infrastructure and the security of our water utility sites. As rangers, which differentiates us from straight law enforcement is we have that educational ethos. So a large part of our job is public outreach and education. And even when we're doing rules enforcement, we're coming at it from the authority to resource educational perspective. And we're involved in emergency response. I'm an EMT, Miles is a wilderness resource responder we're both wildland firefighters. So we respond in support of Fuller County Sheriff's Office and their emergency services deputies as well as three different fire protection districts and the county's wildland fire team to help protect our watershed. Our source of majority of our drinking water and that's majority of our native water. What are your hours of operation? It's a good question. So we do our best to cover daylight hours down the desk as best as we can stretch our hours. Obviously in the winter, we have fewer hours of daylight. So we work into the evenings and nights. We stagger shifts, but we cover the preserve 365 Sundays a week. Miles and I carry pagers that the Sheriff's Office can use to contact us. We keep them at our homes. So we can get paged after hours. So 10 of never ending. But we do our best to cover daylight and cover the peak times of visitation which is pretty variable of weather. Last Sunday was, you know, was the busiest shift that I've had in a couple months actually, despite the horrible wind. So it's still a popular destination or parking lot of school despite the rules change on year on impression. But yeah, we do our best to cover the preserve for all the times that the color would be there. In terms of that research protection enforcement that why I wear my costume every day at the body camera and radio and all the Batman belt is that that compliance piece of making sure that public who visit our watershed are in compliance with online net school code that they're compliant state law and other things that we help to look after in coordination with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Sheriff's Office. We had over 900 enforcement contacts last year at Bondram enforcement contact is anytime that I talk to you remember the public about a rules violation. We have a way of tracking it with mobile devices where we drop a pin and say what it was about and what enforcement action was taken. So we have very reliable data. Additionally, now the guidance of the city attorney's office the whole time staff that they're in your program are also in body cameras. So you have a lot of data. So over 900 enforcement contacts out of about 3,000 contacts or bring your vision overall. So we're a part of that range of vision that covers everything from union through our dozens of urban parks out to McCall Lake and up to Bondram. Overall, we average only about 3% of our enforcement contacts result in a ticket that we really get to educating people and getting compliance volunteers. Great, so big change from 2020. We only wrote eight parking tickets. I think there are some days where we write a dozen in a ship. So our parking issues have largely been resolved between signage and massive decrease in our vehicle traffic. We wrote five sentences last year. I think we've already written more than that in plain plain board. I believe that four of those were probably for dogs. One of them was for some riding in dirt bike. That one was actually caught by boat. We checked 286 fishing permits and fishing licenses. Yes, as that was only two most found violation was dogs in the pre-hidden area, which wasn't a rule until May 15th, 2023. We issued 135 orings or tickets. That would probably be 131 moreings and four tickets. Compliance increased over time following May 2023 rule change with our nearly 300 permit checks. Fishing licenses have found very high compliance with fishing regulations. Generally speaking, our anglers are awesome and very friendly and very, you know, definitely kind of desired to do the right thing. We raised $10,500 through the wealth price fishing permit program, which controls access to the stockwaters between the Inland Weir and the dam itself, by the draft dam, for the fishing season and they first through Halloween. So that money goes back into management and primarily funding temporary anglers to have. Like Craig said, we do a lot of stuff, so we provide a lot of assistance to the public. So the last year, we responded with one emergency instance. 19 citizens resisted 370 naturalist and interpretive contacts that we recorded. 113 may have a resident contact. There's nine private properties up there. It's kind of a, kind of keep everybody happy, so a lot of contacts with the neighbors up there. We support the multiple visitors of volunteer projects. Well, we've been working on the cats a lot with you. You get our trails up to the children's kind of. So they work on the hummingbird switchback, they can run it back. We worked with WRE last year while in restoration volunteers. They did a more shorter trail every week. They almost finished. And then they made a seed collection and we did what we call the tracking and we put it forward again when we put it through the, I think I can put it down before the next one. But as I think you're one of our ranger talks, we do a handful a year, mostly through school groups and for our administration for as we work with. So, so note about EMS calls. We had EMS calls for injury or stifling on a stifling trail. I was first at the price for responding to a number of cyclists in town. August 10th, there was an ATV over accident that we responded to in front of property. And then August 20th, we had a search and rescue on a pipeline. It was pretty far down in Canary, so a lot of people in the pipeline was there. About 30,000 people on it. What's the new look after doing this? So that's a new fires? No, so every year we do training at the National Guard to do that. So in April we're gonna be pretty much covered after the practice on pocket drops for wildfires. April for them to do it? Yup, yeah, I just had an interview with the National Guard to get some data on the calendar. So we have an NLU at the National Guard and the Department of Fire Prevention, State of Colorado, that allows them to do this training that basically cross trains and certifies National Guard pilots as aerial wildland fire fighters so that the state's National Guard can be deployed on wildland fires in Colorado. Well, I guess nationally, but it would be primarily outside here in Colorado. If you wanna come up and watch the black box and the photos of your taxpayer dollars paid for, you can see them right there, watch them. They have a two-week window in April, so that's about 10, and they have days that are scattered around from there. Largely under-dependent, a couple of days to now start in April, and that's what we did this time. So we also support water resources management. We do the daily reservoir evaluation measurements, put the log online, daily security patrols, and the damage safety inspections. Of course, a lot of people do the safety tests that come on the NLU right now. And then in the spring, summer, fall, we do the groundwater uses, so we're going to bless and share it with other uses on the NLU. So, 20.4, you know, it's the action plan to run a dam that's prepared for participating in the damage safety inspection state of Colorado, so it's about 30 years. It's the damage safety inspection and then it's the order of electroelectricities that's going to act in that control box. So the rules change the prices talking about earlier, the management plan, we go 2023 to plan the second-hand council. May 2023, the new rules were adopted and preserved. So based on the dog ban for us pretty much, it changed for a lot. When we closed off the last site of the preserve, for wildlife habitat, the fact that it kind of resumed. So, when you're going to make the plan actions, when you're spelling wild and golden versus similar signs, so when you set that in the future, you have about four signs that go around, so any rules, and a bunch of signs. So, yeah, we achieved high compliance with the regulations for your house enforcement. So the first two lines, we were really engaged in these. We just had verbal warnings and people around on these now were described as for, well, we installed gates and fences for habitat conservation areas. So that's on the website. We've ordered for service land, that's actually not pretty good. We're only for seasonal failures, so I'm not sure how to concentrate on it. So, we'll set it up for use, close down a little more. Is there dogs, new dogs, positive in your opinion? I'm a dog person, so I got to make some options. But it's, listen, I think it's probably a good thing. So, yeah, I think so, it's like, well, I'm not a dog person. Well, I'm protecting the water, and I don't want to use them. Yeah, I'm not a dog person, I'm not a dog person. So, your hours of operation changed, too. Any significant changes, too? So, previously, before the code update, our hours of operation, were, you can walk in 24-7, but the parking lot hours was closure from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m., which were large and unenforceable hours. What we revised it to was to match nature areas throughout the city of Audemont Public Land System, so that the preserve closes one hour after sunset, or the parking lot closes one hour after sunset until one hour before sunrise, which we found was a good compromise as it largely encompassed the hours in which people want to be out there. And we still allow 24-7 access by walk-in. So, if you want to backcountry camp in Colson Belcher in the summer, and walk in, you're welcome to do that. And what that allows us to do is be good neighbors, both to the U.S. Forest Service, which is open 24-7, 365, as well at the same time being a good neighbor to Boulder State Parks and Open Space, which has multiple bordering properties, most notably Hall Ranch, and they have a strict sunset to sunrise closure. And at the same time, being sensitive to our private residents so that they want to walk out of their house, they're not getting the summons for being on the preserve after hours. And we feel that this changed the lattice to really crack down on the behavior that was problematic, which is after hours folks parked in the parking lot, doing things that they shouldn't be doing, often our main concerns, people building fires. So that one hour after sunset is a lot easier for us to control. Living on the property, when I look at the miles living there, going in and out, the one access, you also see what's going on on the trailhead, so we're able to catch the vast majority of after hours activity. So this here, where last year we protected preserve the Nile wildfires, so every facility up there for the city owns, and has fibers in that site in. The station has a metal roof on the garage, so if I do that to the next, there's a previous church that's been done on that. So we also serve by all building to look forward to hanging out by wildfire partners, improve the municipal space and evacuation routes, so we're wild up to where we're going to cross the station forward, and do a lot of horseshoe work around the facilities, and then we address our lack of wildfire issues at the station, and then we're all going to try that out. It doesn't have to be a plan, it's an improvement that's been done. So in addition to the management plan of the facilities projects, a big part of what we did last year, especially my position, was focused on scaling up the Forest Stewardship Program, which exists to help protect our raw water, water shed from wildfire on the primary mechanism that we have, or what we have for achieving that is selective spending informed by state and national best practices. We lied of 880 hours of staff time this year, treated more acreage than we ever had in the past, in large part due to the fact that we were able to leverage approximately $900,000 in grant funding. So we treated 209 acres and purchased forestry equipment with that money and helped offset expenses. We generated $55,000 in revenue for biomass that we essentially sold to Boulder County for the use in the biomass heat plants at the transportation and open space complex near our airport and their jail, as part of our company. This availability of funding reflects the great emphasis nationally in the state of Colorado on forest health and fire prevention, and Governor Paulus, as well as other years have made available large amount of money. The passenger in line that we benefited from last year is Coast Walk Grant, Colorado Strategic Wildfire Action Program grant that we won jointly with Boulder County it was a $1,000 grant that funded multiple projects across multiple land systems. And that was COVID stimulus dollars that were repurposed and sent out through grant college to address a lot of our crisis. So we did a variety of scale projects. We also distributed 62 courts of free fireworks to the public, denied the Nelson Funding Bar Care Plan, thanks to plant operators for allowing us to do that, which is here for all that wood in 11 days. And we have to decide all in 11 days. So there's a snapshot of the Antelope Park project. This is a chemical treatment. And then on the small scale end, you can see a lot of that there from the Nelson Funders 62 courts that we distributed. So we used a variety of treatment methods from hand-filling and firing slash, for burning, to domestication, chipping, and everything between. We had largely very, very positive feedback from the public and very team-active interactions while this work was actively going on here, plus it's like sleeping line trail. How do you know, how do your friends, would work just get out or? Oh, for the, what did we? Yeah. Yeah, we're like, what else can you in the word mouth? I mean, like, Pinewood Springs, Lions, some people, some guys came over from Empire, as we'd go out and check their permits to make sure that they were the people who just had they wear them, and they were getting their firewood and was directly checked and it was got people from all over. As local as directly across the street from Nelson Landers Club, that came over and it was tracked here to the Wildwood. So as part of the forestry or chip program, we were able to create 20 forestry-related jobs last year for youth. We partnered with Landmore Penny Conservation Corps, which employs certified soldiers ages 21 to 26. Some of the crews are our LCCC crew at work. And we partnered with Boulder County Youth Corps and they sent us our Longmont crews. They're all Longmont teens, ages 14 and 17. So they got a really cool source tap, sense of place, some of our work. They did a really good job for us in really hard conditions because they worked a lot of days in cold rain. So Boulder County Youth Corps naturalized soils to steer by machinery. We saw them as photos, panels. We did a great job at providing erosion and helping restore the understory. LCCC, salvage, 21 trees, and tested with Ipsfields, published in the Native Pest, in addition to treating 31 acres for forest health and fire mitigation, mostly in the area in Mullen Park and on both sides of the Rainier Station and right around the control house about in our family areas that they focused last year. And then, Grangers, we worked with wild and restoration volunteers to collect native seeds on site and reseed in areas that were the most disturbed. We adopted a five-year intergovernmental agreement with Boulder County Sheriff's Office fire management team last year. So VCSO has its own wildland fire department and kind of the genesis of that is the county owns so much land that is then taken out of the tax pool for fire protection districts that some years ago they decided to make their own fire department to help ease that burden on local fire departments. They actually have their own full-time wildland fire crew which is responsible for fire suppression but also prescribed fire on the 100 plus thousand acres of Boulder County First Open Space Land, much of it bordering but around. So we partnered with them in this IGA that allows them to supervise specifically slash fire burning at Leather Rock. They developed embedded slash fire burn plan that went through a technical review with the US Forest Service. We secured permits from the state of Colorado and now we're just working on very, very specific weather conditions to allow us to safely burn some small piles out of the log and which was cut in 2021 above the end line. Also adapted by your IGA with Colorado State Forest Service which is an extension of CSU that allows us to pay them a fairly nominal fee honestly for professional forestry supporters. So they'll come out, help us plan projects, mark trees, consult with us on forest wood products, forest tests, logistics, anything that we need from professional forestry services and they do it very cheap. So we really appreciate their help and great supporters of us. Here's one of the pieces of the machinery just this attachment that we were able to buy with grant funding this year that allows us to more cleanly deck and salvage wood. These are trees that were vested with Ips pine beetles that we salvage and isolated that can be milk as boosting lumber for wood spaces or historical preservation or facilities projects. And then this is the area that we recede that's miles right there. We receded a strip of about one acre with new seeds. This is how it comes out. So just kind of digging into then any gritty career putting this forestry or chip program finances table and kind of some luck at my notes but to give you some highlights from this we have been very effective at leveraging grand dollars for the forestry or chip program since the program started in 2004 we've leveraged over $1.9 million in grant funding. We raised over $100,000 into that funding just in 2020-31. Again, this reflects that national and the state attention given to forest issues. Technically this means that we came out in the black last year because we got half of the $1 million grant that we were doing at Laeword at Bullard County and that paid for the good amount of projects. So $500,000 of that grant funding was a zero match from us. So it looks like our member who's being in is blocking the total for the top of that. Remember anyone with a little bit? There you go. So you can see that we technically came out about four per day in black last year over a forestry or chip program. We didn't actually profit. But point being we were able to leverage a large amount of money. We spent about a half million and over $100,000. And next year, looking towards 2024 or 2025, we've already leveraged $408,000 of cash grants or cash value of labor that we've leveraged and we're excited to get into that work next year. I'm going to leave this up for a second in case anyone has any questions about finances in the forestry or chip program. You can see we've come a long way since 2020 when we had to suspend everything from due to COVID-19. We would continue to scale up and we're able to do that work done last year despite significant inflation and with your school problems related to flash flooding and rebuild roads multiple times throughout our project and have over a month of downtime for much longer due to that. So it was a success despite really adverse conditions. Why is it interesting that you call it a repurposing money? I think it was easy to lose it because I think the federal government was going to claw it back and the states didn't disperse it. So it seemed that caught the state of thought or at first that money went really fast. So last year, the largest project was the, it's called the same green forest health project, phase one, which was joint project in Boulder County and they were acting as the fiscal agent, City of Longmont and our local NRCS conservation district, Boulder Valley Longmont Conservation District and it was a multiple project sites across public, so both municipal, county, land and private, three different grant funding sources. We were able to put them all into one RFP and so we didn't compete against each other and get one contractor to do all the work, which was good for them and really good for us, it helped them much more prospectively and logistically efficient for us here at City. What that looked like is treatment in large areas. So you can see Jason treatments on West, Paul and East, Paul Ranch on Boulder County, directly bordering our treatments at Antelope Park, which is the area of Sliguline Trail. That was a far-worn state grant funding project in part. That same project also helped to fund the North Shore Project, which was focused on reducing off-paradise directly to some developed price prices more and I Cook Mountain was our large co-swap project, it was 132 acre units. We had 24 acre, 22 acre and 132 acre unit that we treated. Boulder County treated, I believe, a couple hundred acres in Paul Ranch and then you can see in this far right, those parcels down in Skiddle Ridge neighborhood of Lyons were a public-private partnership using a federal grant to do partner-regulation work on Prattland that we didn't pay into, but we partnered with to be able to do a joint RFP. Boulder County was instrumental in pulling this off because they printed all the dollars to do this and we pinned it back because we did not have any money to front beyond what we've allocated for each year so the county allowed us to leverage foreign grant dollars and we were being able to touch on our own, so that's huge. We also had a co-swap workforce development grant that funded a project called the Platinum larger protection project that learned with any conservation corridor. It was an 18-week field season so they went back into the third entry treatment in Ballin Park, kind of in the area of the ranger residence, complimenting the planned treatment of Prattland to our northwest. Then they moved down, did some treatment off the map right around the control house for some defensible space right around but not the other control house and then they spent the rest of the season focused on these two units, kind of wings on either side of the ranger station, looking at protecting infrastructure and the rest of the work room and fire risk. Okay, any other questions about wildlife or about forestry for you on the wildlife? Pretty impressive amount of work. Yeah, it was a lot of work and we definitely couldn't have done it without the partnership with Boulder County. They basically gave us one of their senior foresters, Scott Golden, for the entire field season. He was managing the whole close walk project but the vast amount of the acreage was on our property so we basically got our own forester the entire summer. We drive up and over from haul ranching to the everyday and we go scout sites at four in the morning or whatever he had to do in his schedule and it was fantastic. Wild mix, so this is kind of a deer that has been dead for like a day or so so if you're a camera and you have to cut this down like a little bit of soil-safe video, just gonna put it up here. Oh, I've never seen one in person, but we see a lot of tracts. This is like a quarter of a mile from miles this house. Yeah. Just gonna put it on the other side of the van. It's really good. Neither has some pictures, both from our wildlife and a lot of the new deer animals. Yeah, we got some moose, a little moose couple down in the middle of an interesting room for the first time about a moose on our animal. A lot of bear, I guess, all the bear-pitched animals were close to motion, but not many people did. Just gonna add, yeah, a lot of them. Okay, we've got a lot of them out there. A lot of the pictures are on the left side of the property. I think that's kind of sweet, so I can't go to the village. Grangers have seen more wildlife since the rural changed. Dog rural changed and the vegetation's gone down. I'd say definitely a more obvious wildlife sign. We have an outline walk down the lower road, the main road, the low city line trail cut off. At 11 a.m., two or, like, one rager drove down the road, and I drove up, and there were fresh, large tracks from a town in Lyon, right on the left of the road. Well, that's a problem, too. So I think it was just annual, but good indicator that we're doing. I don't think we'll be up there. Sneakpeak, and next year, as I mentioned, we have already secured two grants and over $400,000 in value. Those grants include a free adverse Colorado, which is a lot of dollars. Colorado Youth Court Association Grant, which will fund eight weeks of labor by the county consecrated for on the St. Green Watershed Protection Project, which is a treatment-focused, protecting the Longmont Reservoir, most vulnerable piece of life on a raw water system up there. And that has, again, $88,000. We also have another Coast Guard for the First Felder Grant from the state of Colorado that'll fund initial 15 weeks by the Labor County Conservation Court. It's cash value of $200,000. We're gonna split that between 2024 and 2025. So we'll hold down there about seven weeks of that current and again, next year. We also recently received an application award from Boulder County's new asset MG Strategic Fire Mediation Grant, which was the 1A tax initiative two years ago. So those dollars are being dispersed now and that will fund a contract treatment. It'll fund $100,000 reimbursement after the back for our contract treatment on what I've called the Spill & Roll Project, which is the goal between the butternut dam, dam press and the spillway. That's had some small kind of minor treatments, but it's a pre-accessible area year-round that gives us a good opportunity to treat reasonable slopes in and along our reservoir of watershed to help limit the potential for cash value of fire. We are actively hiring for a seasonal position at temporary watershed forestry technician help with this work. We have additional facilities improvements scheduled for this year, but then get a mention of the hazardous outbuilding that's near the range of residents. Instruction of a storage barn, that's a CIP project to help protect a lot of this valuable equipment that we have out there that currently sits out in elements and is vulnerable to the animalism. We have more forest development partnerships we're going to partner in the other areas or in discussion with the older time community on waste part of them to help improve these short trail accesses to the various climbing sites under them. Any questions? Can you just give a follow-up? We've gone through all the public implications, so if we get weather that's within the very specific parameters of our burn plan, then yes. So what that looks like is at least three inches of snow cover on small piles, six inches of snow cover on large piles, very light wind and cold enough temperatures for a couple of days after to maintain that snow cover. And unfortunately, since we jumped through the last few year credit hoops on Valentine's Day, since then all of our storms rather than falling by like 55 degree weather or followed by winds and 55 degree weather. So we're hoping that that military decides to make it winter again and we can get rid of some of these piles that are fields on the ground for the wildfire that we'd love to have taken out of the equation are close to 250 piles in the law frame area, just by the inlet, they're all fairly small. The piles can dance down as they age, these piles were built six feet by six feet, now it's in a fairly four feet. So it's a very low complexity project for professional fire team like Polar Can't Share's office. So hoping that we can finish that project out and move on and hope for snow for all the reasons. Tom, do you have any questions? No, I'll reiterate just an impressive amount of work. So yeah, really fantastic up there. It's a special place too, so. Anybody else? I know that Colt-Snap knows a negative point about that. No. Everything just gets ice here on the outlet. Cool. We thank you for what you do. Thanks for letting us do what we did. I appreciate it. I'm glad to be a number of people, so we appreciate it. Thanks for coming on your day off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's see if we have one. I think we did one last slide on the plan, which is something. Okay. When it comes to the annual waterborne report, I don't know how to do that. Are you going to give us some information down there? Yeah, so I've done a kind of draft that you can look at before we finalize it entirely, but much of the report is pretty much in the same form as it's been years past. Then one of the, I guess, bigger changes in the beginning of the report was additions to the raw water requirement policy. It was a little section that was added to the attainable housing review base under the payment to the fee protection, lieu of non-sort water rights transfers. I made updates to the waterborne members and those that came in the place there spot in the past year. Developed an activity in 2023. There were 41 acres reviewed by a water board, water rights in the oligarchy and oligarchy extension were acquired. And the only deficit I saw passionately paid for was springs that long month and that moving power that we'll build. Major general business kind of just goes over everything that the board took action on last year. I'm kind of just running through this though. Yeah, we're going to just hand it out. One of the items was the minor addition to the waterborne bylaws and then there's also various other additions. Major issues were reviewed by water board but did not require action or also put in there. And then the water supply and water short implementation plan as always is revised in every year. And in 2023, we decided to maintain the sustainable conservation level and not many changes as I saw. So if you have any suggestions or questions about the annual report for this thing now. Questions about what we have talked about last year. It's a good report. It's a good summary and it is one of the one of the items that one board is required to do each year is to report annually to Water City Council. So this is a nice summary document that has that. And so there are no other changes will provide this report to the city council. Any comments, questions? You don't think what I saw is that it's obviously ordinance type stuff that needs to be updated. There's like the director of the department title. That person hasn't been here for like three years maybe. That's not our to do, but more about it. So the update that needs to deal with some of those issues. We are approved to report. We're motioning to approve the report. I'm moved to be adopted and drafted. Second? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Yeah. Good work. All right. Last item review made the project listening to items tentatively scheduled for future board meetings. Cash and Lou, I'm ready to go with that in April. We have all the information. We'll see if we do. We'll be prepared to come with you like we do have in April, that's the plan. Okay. Yeah, it's going to be April because for now there's some staff and some water board members that this is, it falls on the spring break and we're not going to be available. So we're going to need to move it to April. Okay. Any other questions on the status report? That's coming up for us. Can I just, can I get clarification on something? Does that seem to suggest that we will not have a water board meeting in March or do you think it will get changed or what? It'll, unless something requiring water board action comes up that we're unaware of at this point, it will just be, there won't be any meeting in March. Okay. Thank you for the recognition. Marsha, you'll be very quiet today. Everything all right now. It happens once we want it. It's always nice to have you. Okay. Anybody got anything else? All right. What's that? All of your meeting.