Past Meeting Minutes

July Adjudicatory Hearing Meeting 2014

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Summary: The purpose of this hearing is to receive evidence and testimony concerning the denial of a request for a variance from the District’s Ground Water Management Area, Rules and Regulations. Specifically a request from Medicine Creek LLC to drill a new well, denied by the Board of Directors at our April 8, 2014 regular board meeting.

June Regular Meeting 2014

Monday, June 9, 2014

Summary of the meeting: Draft budget, water purchased from Frenchman Valley/H&RW delivery, Basin Wide Planning with LB1098, N-CORPE status, Gothenburg Livestock ARP contract, Dunbar Peterson bid accepted, personnel changes.

Regular May Meeting 2014

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Summary of the meeting: Basin tour, Accepting bids for new computers and server, N-CORPE status, USGS water model, discussion held on pooling changes, starting of the focus group meetings, suggested changes to the personnel policy.

April Regular Meeting 2014

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Summary of the meeting: Draft budget, Compliance Issues, Farm Bill Update, NRCS local work group, Watershed Rehabilitation, Conversation on the Basin Tour, Sylvia Johnson covering for the I & E Employee job while entertaining accepting position, 2014 scholarship winners, Website construction, N-CORPE status, Acceptance and motion carried on Wolfe ARP contract, tree planting.

April Variance Meeting 2014

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Summary of the meeting: Variance request VAR 11-FY2014 for Medicine Creek LLC to construct a new water well.

March Regular Meeting 2014

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Summary of the meeting: Compliance issues, Envirothon, Water Conference, Legislative Bills Update, N-CORPE status, Rules & Regulations being effective March 10, 2014, Election Filings, Personnel committee meeting, hiring a new I & E employee, direction to look for bids to do construction in the MRNRD office.

February Regular Board Meeting 2014

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Summary of the meeting: Compliance Issues, Legislative Conference Summary, Water Conference, Legislative Bills Update, N-CORPE status, Wolfe’s ARP Contract, Rules & Regulations Change for Hard Cap, Frenchman Valley/H&RW water purchase, Texaco Fund Claim, Approved Dan Smith on helping with legal matters, & election filings deadlines.

February Variance Meeting 2014

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Summary of the meeting: Variance request VAR9-FY2014 from Campbell Land to construct a new well and Variance request VAR10-FY2014 from Dan Loomis to construct a new well.

February Rules & Regulations Meeting 2014

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Summary of the meeting:  Jack Russell, MRNRD District Manager.  Russell did a brief presentation of the proposed changes to the Rules and Regulations, 2014 Supplement to Appendix 1 which will state “With the designation of a Compact Call Year by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, the allocation for that calendar year will be restricted to 15 inches”.

January Regular Meeting 2014

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Summary of the meeting: EQIP Funding with NRCS, Legislative Conference, Final Forecasting & Allocations, Approving 2014 Dry Year Leases,

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