Meeting Attendees

Officers:

Chair – David Mallory, UDFCD

Vice Chair – Dave Bennetts, UDFCD

Treasurer – Shea Thomas, UDFCD (also Scholarship Committee Chair)

Secretary – Deb Ohlinger as substitute for Robert Krehbiel

Metro Regional Rep. – Deb Ohlinger, Olsson Associates

Southeast Regional Rep. – Liz Staten, HDR

Committee Chairs:

Holly Piza, UDFCD – Stormwater Quality Co-Chair

Herman Feissner, Feissner Consulting LLC – Stormwater Quality Co-Chair

Members:

Kevin Houck, CWCB

Brian Wozniak, Kiowa Engineering

Alan Turner, CH2M Hill

Jim Kaiser, City of Thornton

Scott Yanagihara, CH2M Hill

The following is a summary of the interactions, comments and 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 and issues for further consideration. Should the attendees believe that anything might be misrepresented or misleading, please bring this to the attention of Robert Krehbiel, CASFM Secretary.

1)       Secretary Report

The General Meeting minutes for the January 10, 2010 were distributed and reviewed. The minutes were approved by a motion and vote.  A quorum of officers and regional representatives was present. 

2)       Treasurer Report

Account balances and expenditures were reviewed.  Savings account holds $20,997.55 and the checking account holds $38,708.57. The 2010 budget shows expenses of $153,175 and revenue of $125,500, with actual expenses of $5,355.50 and revenue of $11,120.00 so far this year.  The Treasurer’s report was approved by a motion and vote.

At the January General Meeting, a motion was passed to provide CASFM funds in the amount of $2,500 for Haiti relief to Habitat for Humanity organization.  The donation had not yet been completed when Randy Schnicker, a CASFM member and longtime employee of the City and County of Denver Public Works Department was killed in a skiing accident.  The Haiti relief motion was amended to designate the Randy Schnicker Memorial at the American Red Cross as the recipient of the CASFM relief funds.  If individual CASFM members wish to donate as well, they can do so through the American Red Cross. 

David Mallory is working with attorney Ed Krisor on changing CASFM’s IRS status to 501C3.  He has an accountant he works with on many non-profit organizations.  CASFM is trying to contact Oklahoma and Wisconsin, which recently changed their tax status, to gain insight. 

3)       Regional Representatives’ Reports

a)    Denver Metro – A social was held February 18 at Dixons downtown Denver. Rick McLaughlin and Jack Goble presented a project involving the restoration of the Falls of the Chattahoochee River. Just over 30 people attended.  The next social will be April 6 from 4:00 to 6:30 at CB & Potts in Westminster.  Julie Ash of Walsh Environmental will discuss restoration efforts on the Eagle River.  Deb is considering planning two more social before the annual conference and one after the conference, bringing the total for the year to five.  The overall budget will likely be exceeded but most socials have come in under budget.  General comments were that five socials would be acceptable.

b)    Northeast – Basil Hamdan had no report. 

c)    Southeast – Liz Staten reported a social was held on February 16 in Colorado Springs.  Five people attended. She would like to have four socials this year, including a tour of a creek restoration project.

d)    Northwest – Rick Dorris had no report.

e)    Southwest – Victoria Schmitt had no report.

4)       Committee Reports

There is a committee page on the website that contains chairs and lists of committee members.  The database of interested individuals stays intact for a long time.  The committees might meet at the annual conference.  

a)    Floodplain/CFM – David Mallory reported for this committee. David sent a letter in early February to ASFPM and FEMA regarding non-levee embankments.  A copy of the letter was provided.

b)    Stormwater Quality – Holly Piza and Herman Feissner reported they 70 emails were sent to people who had expressed, at one time or another, interest in the committee.  Out of the 70 emails, there was one response.  Holly and Herman would like ideas for what people would like to see on the next stormwater quality field trip. 

Holly had a potential location for a BMP monitoring site, but it turned out there was no storm sewer in the area.  Herman will be speaking at US Green Building lunch event on May 18.  The committee is looking for opportunities to work with local area kids. The Denver Green School is a new DPS school that will implement a project based learning environment using sustainability as its primary focus.  A design charette at the school might be a possibility.

The Volume 3 re-write is nearing completion and the deadline has been extended due to the number of comments received.  Tomorrow they will be posting half the manual for review and comment. An email will go out to Technical Advisory Committee and stakeholders to offer the opportunity to review and comment.   

c)    Outreach – Ken Cecil did not have a report.  It was noted that CML was interested in having CASFM do a workshop at the CML conference at the end of June 2010. It could include Stormwater Management 101, LID, or NPDES.  It is June 22-25 in Breckenridge.

d)    Scholarship – Shea Thomas reported that the CASFM teamed with ACEC’s scholarship program and 37 applications were received for the UWRI scholarship.  Twelve candidates were interviewed and the scholarship was awarded.  The Ben Urbonas (CASFM) scholarship is awarded to graduate students and is due March 19 for the 2009/2010 school year. Applications are available on the website for the $2500 scholarship.

e)    Membership – Kevin Gingery reported via email that there are 724 members.    

f)     Training – No report. 

g)    Website – Membership payment by credit card has been a success.  22 corporate and 35 individual memberships have been paid with credit cards.   

h)    Community Rating System – There will be CRS regulatory workshops on April 7^th and April 9^th. 

5)       Newsletter – Dave Bennetts will be moving forward with the spring newsletter with the information he has received. 

6)       2010 Conferences

The 2010 conference (to be held in Snowmass September 22-24) call for papers has been distributed.  Abstracts are due April 30^th.  The plenary session will be replaced by a technical session or some other event.  There could be a Volume 3 workshop Tuesday afternoon.  Committee meetings could also be held Tuesday afternoon.  Assistance is needed for activities such as field trip leaders, helping with the conference CD, etc.  

7)       Other Business

a)    An email will be sent about elections for next year’s officers and regional representatives. 

b)    An ASFPM chapter conference call will be held March 18^th.  Any committee chair or officer can participate. 

c)    Due to the rockslide and questionable status of I-70 in Glenwood Canyon, the suggestion of switching the May and July general membership meetings was discussed.  The issue will be discussed with David Hollingsworth of the City of Longmont (since the July meeting is scheduled for the Sandstone Ranch) and with Stuart Gardner (since the May meeting was scheduled for Snowmass).  The meeting days would be changed so that the May meeting would be Thursday, May 13^th at Sandstone Ranch and the July meeting would be Friday, July 9^th in Snowmass.  

d)    The Colorado Water Conservation Board is amending the state floodplain regulations.  Changes of note include a 0.5-foot allowable floodway increase, 1 foot of freeboard above the floodplain, and protection for critical facilities.