December Board Meeting

NOTICE OF THE MEETING OF THE CLEARWATER UNDERGROUND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT

December 13, 2023

 Notice is hereby given that the above-named Board will hold a Workshop and Board meeting on Wednesday,
December 13, 2023, beginning at 1:30 p.m., in the Sirena Room at Tenroc Ranch located at 5471 Thomas Arnold Rd., Salado, Texas 76571. The following items of business will be discussed¹.

Board Meeting:

1. Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Public comment.²
3. Approve minutes of the November 8, 2023, Board meeting.
4. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to formally receive a petition for annexation from the Aquifer Conservation Alliance in Western Williamson County, and set forth the prescribed public hearings.
5. Continue the preliminary portion of the Public Hearing on the following permit applications:

a.) Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, on an application submitted by Dr. Gretchen Miller, Ph.D., PE, PG, on behalf of Mr. James Kerby, Jaffe Interests LP (Mustang Springs Development), for two drilling permits for two proposed new public water supply wells to be completed in the Lower Trinity Aquifer (Hosston Layer), with a maximum 4-inch column pipe on a 1,106-acre housing development located on the north side of FM-2843 approximately 6 miles west of the Village of Salado in the Stillhouse Hollow Management Zone. No groundwater production will be authorized with these drilling permits.

6. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to accept the monthly Financial Report for November (FY24) as presented.
7. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to accept the monthly Investment Fund account report for November (FY24) as presented.
8. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to approve the FY24 line-item budget amendments as requested.
9. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to set the calendar dates for 2024.
10. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to approve CUWCD staffing position description.
11. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to approve office re-configuration cost.
12. General Manager’s Report concerning office management and staffing related to District Management Plan³.
13. Receive monthly reports and possible consideration and Board action on the following³: a) Drought Status Reports, b) Education Outreach Update, c) Monitoring Wells, d) Rainfall Report, e) Well Registration Update, f) Aquifer Status Report & Non-Exempt Monthly Well Production Reports
14. Director comments and reports.
15. Discuss agenda items for the next meeting.
16. Set time and place for the next meeting.
17. Adjourn.

Workshop:

1. Receive updates related to GMA8 DFC determination, per TWC section 36.108, and plans for the next round.
2. Receive presentation related to the CUWCD Groundwater Management Model.
3. Receive information related to the TAGD’s GCD Boot Camp: “Aquifer Science” on January 30, 2024, in Round Rock, Texas.

Dated the   _8th      day of December 2023.

Leland Gersbach, Board President
By: Click here for original signed document
Dirk Aaron, Asst. Secretary

Agenda items may be considered, deliberated, and/or acted upon in a different order than set forth above.

CUWCD is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Reasonable accommodations and equal opportunity for effective communications will be provided upon request. Please contact CUWCD’s office at 254-933-0120 at least 24 hours in advance if accommodation is needed.

 ¹ During the meeting, the Board reserves the right to go into executive session for any of the purposes authorized under Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, for any item on the above agenda, or as otherwise authorized by law.

² Please limit comments to 3 minutes. The Board is not allowed to take action on any subject presented that is not on the agenda, nor is the Board required to provide a response; any substantive consideration and action by the Board will be conducted under a specific item on a future agenda.

³ No formal action will be taken by the Board on these agenda items. These items are on the agenda to provide CUWCD’s staff, Stakeholder Committees, and Directors with an opportunity to bring to the public and each other’s attention important activities and issues pertinent to the management of groundwater within the District, including, but not limited to, current events in the District involving groundwater, wells, or CUWCD permittees, state or regional developments related to water management, and activities of the staff, and Directors. Substantive deliberation and formal action on any of these issues will be conducted pursuant to a specific item on a future agenda.