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• Board Meeting Date: 9/18/2007
• Description: Flood Section - State Hazard Mitigation Plan - Flood Chapter Update - FEMA Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

having major roles in the annexes update process. Colorado State Forest Service, Colorado
Geological Survey, Colorado Division of Water Resources, Colorado Department of Higher
Education, and Colorado Water Conservation Board were invited. Discussion included
progress with annex updates, including this flood mitigation manual, and requirements for
the umbrella document update in 2007. A pre-planning meeting also occlmed with the Office
of Risk Management (ORM) in Spring 2007 to review and determine possibilities for the
state assets section. ORM provided DEM with their assets spreadsheet, as they did last time.
The project was presented at the Flood Task Force meetings in early 2007. Presentations
were given at the Governor's Conference on Emergency Management in early 2007
including the earthquake loss results, flood insurance, and community wildfire protection
plan efforts. A presentation by the SHMO was given at the Local Emergency Managers'
training in Febmary 2007 to explain the plan update and invite their participation and input.
Surveys and questionnaires were sent out to various paIiies soliciting input and ideas for the
plan. Groups included local emergency managers, state foresters, and federal, state and local
paIiners unable or too remote to attend meetings.

An email was sent to each representative outlining the purpose of this project. Each office
received an invitation to attend the kickoff meeting. Several agencies were concerned
with attending; however their participation was assured through emails and was
encouraged to generate ideas for the plan update.

On May 24, 2007, CDEM convened a kick-off meeting with invited representatives
(temporary State Hazard Mitigation Team). The purpose of the meeting was threefold.
First, the agencies were provided a perspective concerning the current effort to revise
Colorado's plan. Second, the agencies with information to share proceeded to give short
presentations. Lastly, the participants were asked to provide input through "worksheets"
that would be evaluated later by DEM. The first sheet asked participants to rank actions
by priorities. Responses were received both at the meeting and through email. The second
sheet asked for the participants to rank the probability for each hazard to occur with respect
to a specific outcome. The third sheet asked the following questions: What mitigation
programs does your agency administer? Please note why your program(s) is/are effective so
we can cite this in the plan. What mitigation activities has your agency undertaken with
respect to state property? What mitigation activities has your agency undertaken with
respect to other property? Please list any new hazard-related legislation we should include in
the plan update. The fourth sheet tried to get participants to ascertain how to define critical
facilities by hazard. DEM asked participants to take that sheet back to their agency and

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