Local Mitigation Strategy Task Force Steering Committee
The Santa Rosa County Local Mitigation Strategy Task Force met on the above date with 15 members present. A copy of the sign in sheet showing attendees is attached.
Vice-Chairman Scott Paul called
the meeting to order at
Approval of Minutes
Steve Furman moved approval of the minutes of
Nominations of Officers for FY
2005
Paul said Paula Davis’s recommendations for FY 2005 officers are Dave Ling, Beckie Faulkenberry, or Rhonda Royals.
Beckie Faulkenberry moved approval of Dave Ling for Chairman; Hunter
Walker seconded, and the vote carried unanimously.
Steve Furman moved approval of Scott Paul for Vice-Chairman; Rhonda Royals
seconded, and the vote carried unanimously.
Paul said Red Cross representative, Rosalyn Bates, will be leaving the LMS committee. He asked Bates if there will be another person representing the Red Cross. Bates said Mr. Adams was previously on the committee, and she felt he will be replacing her as the Red Cross representative.
Ling thanked everyone in attendance and gave a brief history of the LMS committee. He discussed the importance of the LMS committee and the legislative requirements.
Briefing on DMA2K Plan
Completion and Submission Status
Larry McDonald said the DMA2K plan is not ready for approval at this time. He said he felt the plan will be ready in two weeks. McDonald said time and the number of inquiries on initiatives has been extraordinary. He said the initiatives lists are compiled and separated by municipality. McDonald said all initiatives are required to be submitted on the initiatives list proposal form for scoring purposes. He said the scoring will provide important information on the amount of hazard being reduced.
Current Mitigation Planning
Issues
1.
Hurricane Ivan Mitigation Issues & Mapping Program
McDonald discussed the housing list provided by Robin Phillips. Phillips said the houses are housing elevation or demolition and rebuild projects. McDonald said before FEMA can issue funds on these housing projects, they will need to be placed on the initiatives list of the LMS plan. He said an initiatives list proposal and assessment form needs to be completed on each house for scoring. McDonald said each structure should be listed individually.
Royals asked
when the committee will vote on the initiatives list. McDonald said not today.
Royals said she has some projects to submit to Phillips. She discussed a
townhouse project on Highway 98. Royals discussed partial demolition of the
townhouses in detail. Furman discussed a possible complete reconfigured
development of the property. There was lengthy discussion on the townhouses.
Donna Adams
asked where to direct citizens wishing to be on the initiatives list. McDonald
said if an individual requests to sell their property, an elevation, or some
form of mitigation and the City of
McDonald said when this committee reconvenes, everything will be completed including the finalized initiatives list. He said at the last meeting FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and Hank Erickson, DCA (Department of Community Affairs) Division of Emergency Management, clearly stated any HMGP (Hazard Mitigation Grant Program) and PDM (Pre-Disaster Mitigation grant program) application not on the initiatives list submitted without approval in the LMS plan will not be funded by FEMA when funding is released.
Bates asked if all
residential mitigation projects need to be on the initiatives list. McDonald
said yes. Furman asked if all the homes damaged by storm surge are eligible to
be on the initiatives list.
Bates asked FEMA the outcome of different projects such as a sewer treatment plant project versus a residential elevation project. C. Bailey Williams (FEMA Mitigation) recommended grouping the homes on one application. He said homes that are uninhabitable are the easiest to justify and the easiest to get approved. Williams said the townhouses discussed earlier will be more complicated because all occupants are not in agreement. There was lengthy discussion on the townhouses and voluntary participation. Bates asked if it will be better to submit one application on a whole area of homes as one project. Williams said there can be one application and project as long as the properties are connected by at least one corner.
McDonald said it
may be necessary for an independent list to be maintained on residential houses
for HMPG funding. He said unused funds from other areas will roll over and
become available in this area after the
McDonald said
the scoring form is designed for projects that are essential to the first 72
hours of recovery. He said individual houses will not score well, but they do
need to be on the list to be eligible for supplemental funding. There was discussion on the benefit cost value
and scoring of items on the initiatives list. Williams said
McDonald asked about
privacy issues with residential addresses on the initiatives list. Faulkenberry
said the houses can be listed as a “single family home” without an actual
address. Williams agreed the houses can be listed as single family homes.
Furman discussed concerns with regard to who will be responsible for choosing
which houses will be approved for funding. McDonald said the by-laws allow for
a working group to research this issue. There was discussion on “a first come
first serve basis” being the best way to disperse funds for residential houses.
McDonald said this is a multi-jurisdictional plan and the most important thing
is for all projects to be on the list.
Furman moved to group residential houses as
a single line entry on the initiatives list with a list of the residential
houses maintained separately to be used with and part of the initiatives list; Faulkenberry
seconded, and the vote carried unanimously.
McDonald said Phillips and McConnell will be responsible for maintaining the residential housing list. He said the decision of who receives funding will be an administrative decision of the municipalities. Williams discussed three tiers of FEMA funding that will be available and said the projects should be ready to submit when funding becomes available.
2. Initiatives Listings
McDonald said
there are projects that need committee approval to be added to the initiatives
list. He discussed the
Donna Adams moved approval to add the projects
not previously approved to the initiatives list; Furman seconded, and the vote
carried unanimously.
3. Other Items
McDonald said
the City of
McDonald asked the LMS committee if the Jay committee will be an official working group for the LMS Steering Committee. He said according to the by-laws no official action needs to take place for this to happen.
Ling said the
next scheduled meeting is
There being no
further business to come before the LMS committee at this time, the meeting
adjourned at
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Chairman