More than 25 diverse stakeholders met in Cottonwood, AZ at the first Verde River Watershed Report Card workshop in November 2018. This 4-page newsletter summarizes the outputs from this workshop. Objectives of the workshop were to: i) introduce the project and agree on outcomes, ii) begin the process of developing a report card, and iii) define the geographic scope of the report card, indicators, thresholds, data sources, and communication plan.