NOTICE OF THE MEETING OF THE CLEARWATER UNDERGROUND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT

May 8, 2024

Notice is hereby given that the above-named Board will hold a Workshop and Board meeting on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at 1:30 p.m. in the Clearwater UWCD Board Room located at 640 Kennedy Court, Belton, Texas. 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 April 10, 2024, Board meeting.
4. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to accept the monthly Financial Report for April 2024 (FY24) as presented.
5. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to accept the monthly Investment Fund account report for April 2024 (FY24) as presented.
6. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to approve KT Groundwater to assess and review the new Edwards BFZ GAM.
7. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to approve the FY24 line-item budget amendments as requested.
8. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to change the June Board meeting date to June 11, 2024.
9. Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, to approve the set-back waiver for Tommy Daniel.
10. Hold an encumbrance hearing on the following application:
    Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action necessary upon receiving testimony related to the encumbrance of acreage necessary for 20 acres, per District Rule 9.5.5 (g), as it relates to an approved drilling permit for well #N3-23-010P requiring tract size necessary for a Lower Trinity well equipped with a maximum 4-inch column pipe, per District Rule 9.5.2, Latitude 30.921147/Longitude -97.625147 by Jaffe Interests, LP, James Kerby, Owner Mustang Springs.

11. Hold a public hearing on the following application:
    Discuss, consider, and take appropriate action, if necessary, on an application submitted by Jordan Furnans, LRE Water, LLC on behalf of Victory Rock Texas, LLC requesting an operating permit to produce groundwater for a defined beneficial use providing water for commercial sand and gravel mining operations, to wash the mined material, dust suppression, and to provide water to a concrete batch plant facility known as Five Star Concrete, LLC on contiguous tracts of land leased from Byron Goode totaling 394.18 acres. CUWCD well #N3-24-003G located in the Stillhouse Hollow Management Zone, is completed to 880 feet below land surface and screened in the Hensell Layer of the Trinity Aquifer at approximately 820-880 feet below land surface. The well is equipped with a 2-inch column pipe and a 10-HP submersible pump rated at 42-gpm located at 7090 Solana Ranch Rd, Salado, Texas, Latitude 30.876146, Longitude -97.609419.

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. Discuss FY25 Budget timeline and process.

Dated the   3^rd    day of   May   2024.

Leland Gersbach, Board President

By: Click here for original signed document
Dirk Aaron, Assistant 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.