ITEMS DISCUSSED

1.      Flood and Stormwater Committee Reports

The next meeting will be a joint meeting on February 15th at UD&FCD in Denver. The topics for the next meeting will include: Udall Project - City of Fort Collins Stormwater Utility - Link Mueller to present; S. Platte River Project at Speer Blvd.

John Liou of FEMA is working on a National Conference for the summer of 1996 on Stream Enhancement.

The June meeting has been changed to a joint meeting on the 27th and this meeting will include a field trip to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver.

Mike asked about updating the old outdated CASFM Brochures. It was concluded that yes they should be updated and Mike was selected for this opportunity.

Mike mentioned that the organization has not been focusing on students at the universities. Susan suggested we offer a student rate at the Conference. Others suggested we put up posters or display boards at various universities and also contact students at ASCE meetings. CASFM has a student membership rate of $ 10. This discussion will be continued at the next general meeting as nothing was finalized today.
 

Susan handed out a summary of Hotel Research completed by Mark Glidden. The Glenwood Springs hotels don't have much to offer in the way of conference facilities. The conference dates are September 18, 19, and 20th. Vail hotels looked very good. Mark is still checking on the cost of food at the hotels. It was decided that Susan would contact Mark and if Vail still appears to be the most bang for the buck, then she will direct Mark to make hotel reservations as soon as possible. Susan will let Kevin know the location for the conference so that he may include it in a mailing he is planning at the end of January. Vail appears to be a central location for people traveling from the western slope as well as from the front range.

The call for presentations was passed out by Brian and discussed. The conference will also invite people from the American Society of Landscape Architecture, the Colorado Riparian Association, and the International Erosion Control Association. Nancy and Brad will obtain mailing labels from these organizations later in the year for use in mailing the conference registration forms.

By March Susan should have the conference finalized and ready for others to produce the conference brochure.

Student sponsored trips to the conference were discussed. Students could be nominated by the professors and maybe 5 students per university. This item will be considered at the next general meeting.
 

Kevin will mail out CASFM membership lists to all members as part of an overall mailing he is planning at the end of January.

The treasurer's report was provided by Doug. In summary the CASFM organization currently has $ 31.77 in the savings account and $ 12,453.95 in the checking account.

Chip explained that he has so many articles for placement in the newsletters, that we may need to add additional pages. It was agreed that additional pages would be fine. Maybe the newsletter could also include a job openings column or a page of business cards.

Craig asked about the need for a spring workshop in Greeley for the NE region of CASFM. It was decided that a lot of conferences and workshops are coming this spring and a NE workshop is not necessary.
 

Brian explained that Larry Lang and company are moving ahead on the Flood Task Force in advance of this summers snow melt floods which may or may not occur.

Bill explained that a recent workshop in Denver blasted storm water and water resource projects without having all of the facts that went into those projects. He explained that one could make each and every project pretty, but pretty costs more money and nobody wants to pay for pretty. Maybe a future CASFM conference session should be held to discuss the topic of pretty projects, maintenance issues, obtaining an end product that works. Citizens need to understand what they are giving up in order to get a pretty project.

It was suggested that at the beginning of this years conference, someone announce that different people will be presenting different opinions on various subjects and caution everyone that these are just peoples opinions on the way to do a particular project. Maybe a summary panel should be held near the end of this years conference to discuss and bring out all of the issues, positions, opinions, etc. Maybe we should invite someone to speak on "Conflict Resolution" at the conference.
 

END OF MEETING MINUTES

These meeting minutes have been prepared by Kevin Gingery. Any corrections, additions and/or modifications should be forwarded, within 7 days from receipt, in letter form to the following address:

Kevin Gingery
RBD, Inc. Engineering Consultants
209 S. Meldrum
Fort Collins, Colorado 80521

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