ADJOURN HEARING

Staff Report & Agenda Item Details

Iv. ADJOURN HEARING All members of the public who wanted to provide public comments were given the opportunity. Ronald Cooper made a motion to adjourn at 11:26 am. Motion seconded by Vanessa Cardwell. Motion passed. Vote: 8FOR -0-Oppose 3Absent 0 Abstain ll Adjourn hearing and consider and/or act on Petitions to Adopt or Modify a District Rules by Cockrell Investment Partners, L.P. Mr. McGuairt announced that the Board would consider the Petitions and take action as required by the statute and our rules. He walked through our options explaining that the statute and our rules require that the District either: (1) grant one or more of the petitions in part, or in their entirety, and initiate rulemaking proceedings on the subject matter identified in the granted petition in accordance with rulemaking procedure set forth in our rules; or (2) deny one or more of the petitions in part, or in their entirety, and provide an explanation for denial in the minutes of the Board meeting or in a separate written statement to be kept in the District's records. The Board must take action on the Petitions not later than the 90" day after the District received the Petitions—having received it August 19, the 90 day is Sunday, November 17", which is the day before our next scheduled Board meeting. Mr. McGuairt offered the Board the opportunity to talk about the Petitions first or to propose a motion and then have a discussion. Mr. McGuairt announced that if the motion was to deny then the Board needs a separate written statement prepared to memorialize the reasons for denial, as our rules and the statute require. Mr. McGuairt requested that the movant identify what comments they're relying on and anything else that supports the motion. Janet Groth made a motion to deny the first petition for rulemaking to mandate a “Mitigation Fund” and Guidelines in whole for the reasons set out today by Dr. Bill Hutchison and MPGCD legal counsel and General Manager with a request that the written statement be prepared to reflect those reasons. Motion seconded by Alvaro Mandujano, Jr. Motion passed. Vote: 8FOR -0-Oppose _3Absent 0 Abstain Alvaro Mandujano, Jr made a motion to deny the second petition for rulemaking to define “Unreasonable Impacts” in whole for the reason set out today by Dr. Bill Hutchison and MPGCD legal counsel and General Manager with a request that the written statement be prepared to reflect those reasons. Motion seconded by Vanessa Cardwell. Motion passed. Vote: 8FOR -0-Oppose 3Absent 0 Abstain Page 4 of 8 OO Minutes of 10-15-2024 il Consider and/or act to approve Minutes of Regular Meeting on September 17, 2024. The draft Minutes were emailed to the Board prior to the meeting. Ronald Cooper made a motion to approve the Minutes for the meeting of September 17, 2024, as presented. Motion seconded by Puja Boinpally. Motion passed. Vote: 8FOR -0-Oppose 3Absent 0 Abstain IV Consider and/or act upon Treasurer’s Report for the Month Ending September 30, 2024 General Manager Ty Edwards presented the Treasurer's report to the Board. Puja Boinpally made a motion to approve the Treasurer's report ending September 30, 2024, as presented. Motion seconded by Alvaro Mandujano, Jr. Motion passed. Vote: 8FOR -0-Oppose 3Absent 0 Abstain Vv Consider and/or act to approve accounting of annual and sick leave for District employees. Annual Leave and Sick time as of September 30, 2024 Gail Reeves 116 hr Vacation 389 hr sick Ty Edwards 81 hr Vacation 432 hr sick Ant Bodnar 24 hr Vacation 340 hr sick vi Update and possible action on Pecos County Groundwater Flow Model and Timeline on Tech Memos. Dr. Bill Hutchison gave an update on the progress of the model. A new draft tech memo has been created for the model grid. That tech memo and all the tech memos are on the District's webpage with peer review and feedback encouraged. Belding Farms Data processed 5600 data points from 1957 to 2023. TWDB had over 47,000 water levels from 1940 to

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