Meeting Attendees

The following is a summary of the interactions, comments and future items discussed. While this summary is not intended to represent a complete or comprehensive account of the meeting, it is intended to reflect the salient points raised or issues for further consideration. Should the attendees believe that anything may be misrepresented or misleading, please bring this to the attention of Cindy Thrush, CASFM Secretary.

We currently have 378 members in our database. A current membership list was distributed via e-mail to all CASFM members.

2.          Secretary Update

David Hollingsworth presented the Treasurer’s Report. For the reporting period, we have $2,738,10 in expenses (socials, CML dues) and $8,610 in revenue from membership renewal dues. Our current balances are $36.96 in Savings and $14,698.67 in checking. David also provided a comparison between the budget and what has been spent to date.

David filed an extension for our tax return, form 990-EZ, Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax. He has retained the services of an Accountant to fill in the remaining missing blanks and submit it on our behalf.
 

4.         Regional Representative’s Update

4a: CASFM Happy Hour Social Activities: The next social for the Metro Area is currently being planned by Doug Trieste for sometime this summer. Finding speakers is always a challenge so for this social we may just take a “summer break” from having a speaker, and just be social. The regional representative for the NE Region, Debbie Haferman, has been busy planning a workshop (see next item below) but does plan to have a social this summer. Stuart Gardner for the NW Region, and Bob Saloman from the SE Region are working on items for their areas. The SW Region doesn’t have many members so they haven’t worked on putting a social together yet.

4b. Future Meeting and Field Trips: There was some interest in having a field trip to watch the installation of Roller Compacted Concrete on the spillway for Leyden Dam. Cindy checked with the Engineer for the project, Mike Miller at URS Corporation, and he would be willing to do the tour. We will need someone to coordinate the logistics for this. The best time to see this will be some time in early July. So, we are still looking for volunteers to coordinate. Volunteers to coordinate field trips are welcome to contact Doug Triest and or John Doerfer.
 

5.         Workshop and Seminar Scheduling

Floodplain 101 Workshop –Nothing new to report on this workshop. Debbie is coordinating a workshop on FEMA’s Conditional Letter of Map Revision and Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR/LOMR) process. The date has been set for July 12 and 13th in Ft. Collins. An announcement has been sent to all CASFM Members. Sally McGee from FEMA and Tom Smith from Michael Baker will also be at this workshop. Debbie is working to get the CML mailing list to also send the announcement to those members. Urban Drainage will also be having a short seminar/workshop during this same week in Denver to discuss the process for submitting CLOMR/LOMR’s that will be reviewed by Urban Drainage. It is expected that starting some time in July, CLOMR/LOMR review for projects in the Urban Drainage District Boundaries will be performed by Urban Drainage. More details to follow.

6.         ASFPM Certified Floodplain Manager Program

Kevin distributed an e-mail to all CASFM members from ASFPM regarding the Certified Floodplain Manager Program. They wanted to know how states felt about a proposal for ASFPM to take on many of the administrative duties associated with this program on behalf of the states. Members present at the meeting discussed this briefly. Some of the items that are not clear include the fee schedule, who would force non-compliance, who would handle the complain process, and who would monitor the Continuing Education Credits. Other comments included having a state agency take the lead, having certification may help the jurisdictions FEMA community rating system, would we offer a workshop on this (including a sample test), and it may be a benefit to CML members. Our delegate to CML should ask them how they feel about this. All members are encouraged to forward their comments to Kevin Gingery by May 25th at gingek@ci.loveland.co.us

7.         Newsletter Update

Ron Degenhart has agreed to coordinate the newsletters for this year. THANKS RON!!!!! A request was e-mailed to all members for articles. Please consider submitting an article for the newsletter, June 1st is the cutoff date. Ron’s e-mail address is rdegenha@ci.aurora.co.us

8.          Reaching out to Colorado Communities

Debbie and Roy reported on activities this period. The new charges for a booth at the CML conference are $2,000, up from $500 last year. It was determined that this was way too much. They are looking into maybe sharing a booth or hosting a hospitality room to try to reach out to members. Debbie was successful in collecting money for a t-shirt, but if we don’t have a booth we may not have a way to distribute them. She will return the money to sponsors if it doesn’t work out for this year. Roy is working on a Yahoo Group List that will be linked to CML, which will serve as a request for information site. Roy will put our general informational brochure on this site. The address is www.geocities.com/CASFM2000 - check it out. We will also print up about 500 more of our informational brochures for distribution at the CML conference.
 

9.         Upcoming Ballot – Future Needs, 2002 and beyond

Board positions whose terms expire this year are President, Vice President, and Secretary. The ballot will be out next month. If anyone is interested in adding his or her name to the Ballot, please contact Kevin Gingery. The officers take their positions at the annual conference in September.  ANYONE interested in serving our organization in any of these positions, please contact Kevin Gingery at gingek@ci.loveland.co.us

10.        2001 Conference Planning

Jamie Cribbs and Robert Krehbeil updated us on conference planning progress. A draft program was distributed for review and comment. Susan Hayes volunteered to coordinate the plenary session, and handed out some questions she has developed for the panel. The topic will be, Public Notification vs Public Participation, Which are you doing? Thanks Susan. The group approved authorizing speaker fee funds for the keynote speaker. The program looks good, thanks to Robert for putting this together. Jamie went over the draft conference brochure. We discussed earlier in the year the need for the conference to support itself, and with the rise in food costs we will need to raise the price of the conference. The group supported this. The conference brochure is expected to go out at the end of May. Thanks for all your hard work Jamie, we will miss you at the conference!!! Jamie is expecting her third child the day before the conference so she won’t be able to come this year (Sorry Jamie, I couldn’t wait to spread the good news, and it was getting pretty obvious anyway!) .

Just a reminder, the 2001 conference will be held at the Steamboat Sheraton on Wednesday, September 19 through Friday, September 21st

For reference, the conference committee is comprised of:
 

2001 Conference Committee

11.        Other Items