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GENERAL MEETING MINUTES
Meeting Attendees
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Chris Carlson |
John Pflaum |
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 John Hunt, CASFM Secretary.
1. Membership Update
We currently have 378 members in our database. Additional people will be added as a result of our CLOMR/LOMR workshop.
2. Secretary Update
2a. No corrections to the last meeting minutes.
2b. Mailbox update: A letter from the IRS regarding change of address (they had our old PO Box) and questioning whether we needed to file form 990, a newsletter from the Arkansas Section.
3. Treasurer Update
3a. David also filed our tax return, form 990, Return of Organization Exempt
From Income Tax, and it was attached to the treasurer’s report. He retained the
services of an Accountant to assist with this complex 8-page document. Nice job
David and thanks for bringing us into compliance.
3b. David Hollingsworth presented the Treasurer’s Report. For the reporting period, we have $4,326.89 in expenses (socials, newsletter, brochure printing, FEMA Workshop mailing, ASFM Conf.CML dues) and $390 in revenue from membership renewal dues. Our current balances are $37.21 in Savings and $10,761.78 in checking. David also provided a comparison between the budget and what has been spent to date.
4. Regional Representative’s Update
4a: CASFM Happy Hour Social Activities: There was a social for the Metro
Area held in June at Baby Doe’s. It was well attended, approximately 35
people. The speaker was Terry McKee from the Army Corp of Engineers and he
spoke about wetlands and the 404 permit process. The NW Region has a social
planned for August 22nd at the Grand Vista Hotel. The topic will be the DeBeque
Canyon Landslide – What’s Water got to do with it? The SE Region has a social
planned for July 26th in Pueblo. The topic will be a tour of the National
Weather Service Facilities followed by dinner. 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 later this summer, details to follow. 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: URS has volunteered to coordinate the field trip to watch the installation of Roller Compacted Concrete on the spillway for Leyden Dam. The schedule has been delayed to early August and news on this should be coming out soon, probably via e-mail. There was also interest expressed in touring the work on Horsetooth dam. Tom Ochwat will look into this possibility.
5. Workshop and Seminar Scheduling
5a. Floodplain 101 Workshop –Nothing new to report on this workshop.
5b. Debbie is coordinating a workshop on FEMA’s Conditional Letter of Map Revision and Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR/LOMR) process to be held later this week on July 12 and 13th in Ft. Collins. Already over 100 people have registered for the workshop. People are coming from out of state as well. This is a record crowd for a CASFM workshop and much thanks goes to Debbie for coordinating this workshop.
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ASFPM – A History of CASFM Request
Kevin distributed a memo he wrote to ASFPM regarding our comments on the Certified Floodplain Manager Program. Kevin brought up several good points, and it was a well written memo. Thanks Kevin. Colorado now has several more Certified Floodplain Managers, Stuart Gardner has two in his region and Marsha Hilmes-Robinson from Ft. Collins and Mark Matulik from CWCB was recently certified. Kevin received a request from ASFPM to give them a two-page narrative history of our organization. Kevin will look through the file boxes to obtain as much information as possible. However, if there are any old members out there that were around when CASFM started, we could sure use your input on this. Please e-mail Kevin with information at gingek@ci.loveland.co.us
7. Newsletter Update
The summer edition went out, many thanks to Ron Degenhardt. We also plan to send out a fall edition after the conference. A request for articles will be sent out to all members.
8. Reaching out to Colorado Communities
8a. CML Conference. Chris Carlson reported on activities this period. He attended the CML Conference but CASFM was not able to have a booth due to the new charges for a booth being $2,000. A flyer about CASFM was put together and distributed in everyone’s registration packet.
8b. Where do we go from here? CASFM has a slot reserved in November to put on a
workshop for CML members. CML will handle all the logistics for the workshop.
There was discussion about developing a questionnaire to find out who in the
smaller communities is the floodplain administrator and what we could do to help
them. We could also gage CML member interest in the Certified Floodplain Manager
program. CML also puts together a newsletter in which we could include articles.
An article was placed in the last edition about the CASFM project awards. We
could also put in articles that recognize communities for outstanding drainage
projects. The committee will put together an Action Plan for next year and
present the Action Plan at our general meeting in Nov. Reaching out to Colorado
Communities will be an item for discussion at the CASFM Annual Conference
committee breakfast.
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
10. Web Site
Roy Vestal has been working on the web site. It has taken shape and links are starting to be provided. Please submit your company’s website address to Roy if you would like to be linked. There are 52 people on the yahoo group list. ANYONE that has interesting pictures of flooding, please submit to Roy. The address is www.geocities.com/CASFM2000.
11. 2001 Conference Planning
John Pflaum reported for Jamie Cribbs and Robert Krehbeil. We currently have 15 people registered for the conference. Everything is on schedule. Abstracts and papers are due on July 20th. Then we will start getting the conference notebooks put together. People attending the Conference should make reservations for their hotel soon. Moderators have been notified. It is too expensive to rent the computer projectors so presenters that have them should bring them and are encouraged to share. The moderators will work this out. The awards papers will be judged soon. If you are interested in assisting with the judging, please contact John Doerfer.
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
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Conference Chair: |
Jamie Cribbs |
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Program Chair: |
Robert Krehbiel |
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Workshop Chair: |
Debbie Haferman |
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Field Trips: |
Dave Bennetts |
Vendors: |
Doug Williams |
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Registration: |
Chris Pletcher |
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Plenary Session: |
Ron Enserro |
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CASFM Awards: |
John Doerfer/John Pflaum |
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Hotel: |
Mark Glidden |
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Golf Tournament: |
Mike Bartusek |
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Logo/Materials: |
Alice Smith |
Special thanks go to Jamie and Robert for doing and outstanding job, and rumor has it they will take charge again next year, yeah!
12. Other Items
We have new brochures printed and available for distribution.
EPA is holding public meetings to discuss proposed numeric standards for discharges for NPDES Construction Projects greater than one acre. Having numeric standards will have a significant impact. Who knows what will be their next step, numeric standards for discharges from municipal systems?
ACTION ITEMS |
BY WHOM |
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Work on doing Floodplain 101, concentrate on Alamosa and Denver. |
Brian Hyde and Craig Houdeshell |
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Work on Drainage Funding Workshop |
Debbie Haferman |
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Organize Field trip to Leydan Dam Investigate Field trip to Horsetooth Res |
URS Tom Ochwat |
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Put together a 2002 “Action Plan” for community outreach for discussion at the November Meeting. |
Committee Members: Debbie Haferman, Chris Carlson, Anna Lenahan, Kallie Sampish, Roy Vestal and Stuart Gardner |
NEXT MEETING:
9:00 am on Thursday, November 8th at McLaughlin Water Engineers NEW OFFICE. Directions will also be sent out with the meeting announcement/agenda.