DIALOGUE’S 20th ANNUAL STATEWIDE MEETING

Implementing Change: Where’s the Political Will?

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IMPLEMENTING CHANGE: WHERE’S THE POLITICAL WILL?

JANUARY 9, 2014
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO
2401 12th St. NW Albuquerque, NM 87104

8:00 – 8:30 AM           Registration

8:30 – 9:00 AM           Introductions/Opening Remarks

9:00 –10:00 AM          Keynote Speaker: John Leeper, PE, PhD, AMEC, former manager Navajo Nation Water Management Branch

“Is There Political Will to Avoid Train Wrecks?”  (.pptx file)

10:00 – 10:15 AM       Break

10:15 – 11:45 AM       Panel: Water Philosophy –  Highest & Best Use of Water?

                                    Frank Chaves – Environmental Director, Pueblo of Sandia

John R. D’Antonio, Jr. – Lead Civilian, Albuquerque District, US Army             Corps of Engineers

Trudy Valerio Healy – Water Protector, NM Water Trust Board, Philanthropist, Healy Foundation

                                    Max Yeh –  Principal Researcher, Percha/Animas Watershed Association – “Water and Law” (MS Word file)-

1l:45 – 12:45               Lunch 

12:45 – 1:00 PM         Tribute to Frank Titus   1928 – 2013

1:00 – 2:30PM            Panel: Lessons from the Drought – Shortage Sharing

Moderator – Lucy Moore, Mediator, Co-founder New Mexico Water Dialogue, Author Common Ground on Hostile Turf

Beth Bardwell – Director of Freshwater Conservation, Audubon New Mexico – “Shortage Sharing between farmers and birds” (.pptx file) 

Ryan Christianson – Chief, Southern Water Management Group, Western Colorado Area Office, Bureau of Reclamation – “Sharing shortages on the San Juan River” (.pptx file) 

Brian Gallegos – Staff Manager, Water Rights Division, Office of the State Engineer – “Shortage sharing on the Rio Chama”

David Gensler – Hydrologist, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District

2:30 –2:45 PM            Break

2:45– 4:00 PM            Panel: Political Will – Implementing Change

                                    Herbert Becker – Managing Attorney, JA & Associates, LLC

                                    Bill Hume – former Director of Policy and Issues for Governor Richardson, former Editor Editorial Page Albuquerque Journal

                                    Mimi Stewart – New Mexico House of Representatives

4:00 – 4:30 PM           Closing Remarks: Next Steps for the Dialogue and New Mexicans

                                    Nominations of candidates for the Dialogue Board

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