PUBLIC HEARING ON AN APPLICATION

Staff Report & Agenda Item Details

PUBLIC HEARING ON AN APPLICATION TO AMEND HISTORIC AND EXISTING USE PERMITS FOR CRAWFORD & CRAWFORD, INC.® | Call to order at 2:17 p.m. the Public Hearing on Application To Amend Historic and Existing Use Permits for Crawford & Crawford, Inc. Party representing application: Kyle Biery. Middle Pecos GCD Minutes for March 19, 2019 Page 10 Public Comment: None Protestant to application: Cockrell Investment Partners, LP/Ryan Reed The following were sworn in to testify: Ty Edwards/MPGCD General Manager, Kyle Biery/Applicant Party Status Determination: Ryan Reed: Our justiciable interest is that we are affected by pumping. Now if it is true that they are surrendering 500 acre feet in the Pecos Valley...my client's production is out of the Edwards/Trinity, the Rustler, and the Capitan. | do not know if we will be affected by that or not. Alvaro Mandujano, Jr. made a motion to deny party status to Cockrell Investment Partners, LP. Motion seconded by Weldon Blackwelder. Motion Carried unanimously. Vote: 9 For. -0- Opposed. 2 Absent. Ty Edwards: Crawford and Crawford, Inc has applied to Amend Historic and Existing (H&E) Use Permits, which requests to surrender 500 acre feet H&E Use production rights from 3 water wells currently totaling 1,092 acre feet of H&E Use for Irrigation. The water wells produce groundwater from the Pecos Valley Aquifer and are located on Survey T&P RR CO Block 48T8 Section 27 (620 acres) property ID: 6769 approximately 2 miles west of FM 1776 and 8.4 miles north of 285. Crawford and Crawford submitted this application to retire 500 acre feet H&E irrigation permits. Last month they submitted a permit with a full hydrogeological report and Mr. Weatherby protested the permit, and asked that they reduce their H&E amount. They withdrew the application that was before the Board last month. They are still in agreement to drill the 2 monitor wells, one on the north, one on the south side of the property, one on Mcintyre and one on themselves. Kyle Biery: One monitor well has been drilled on Crawford and Crawford property. One monitor well will be drilled on Mcintyre property. Crawford and Crawford will pay for the monitoring equipment for both wells. u Adjourn Hearing and Consider and/or Act on Application To Amend Historic and Existing Use Permits for Crawford & Crawford, Inc. President Jerry McGuairt recessed the hearing at 2:27 p.m. Janet Groth made a motion to approve the amendment to the historic and existing use permits for Crawford and Crawford, Inc.. Motion seconded by Weldon Blackwelder. Motion Carried unanimously. Vote: 9 For. -0- Opposed. 2 Absent. Middle Pecos GCD Minutes for March 19, 2019 Page 11

This motion is scored as RESTRAINS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 4.5/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, voting YES on measures that cap or reduce ad valorem tax burdens, expand taxpayer exemptions, retire debt early, enforce competitive bidding caps, or remove regulatory/zoning barriers to private property rights earns a positive Pro-Liberty score.