FLOOD10331

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: A Primer for Hosting Buyout Workshops
• Date: 1/1/1994
• Prepared For: Association of State Floodplain Managers
• Prepared By: The Mitigation Assistance Corporation, Boulder, CO
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

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A Primer for Hosting Buyout Workshops

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conference costs, including meals, breaks, and conference materials. (For guidance on
workshop costs, contact the Association of State Floodplain Managers Executive Office at
608-274-0123. )

ESTABLISHING A WORKSHOP DEVEWPMENT TEAM

Objective
Successful buyout programs are a product of many team members that form a partnership
for the purpose of developing and implementing the program. Buyout programs are
complex in that people, neighborhoods, communities, economies, the environment, and all
levels of government are usually involved. Establishing a Workshop Development Team
that reflects, at a minimum, the major players that will be supporting community projects
sets the example for those projects in terms of the coordinated leadership and project
frameworks that are most successful.

Suggestions
Workshop leadership will depend upon the magnitude of the event. H the needs of one or
two communities are being addressed, local leadership should be included on the Workshop
Development Team. This will foster a sense of local ownership in addition to establishing
partnerships with agencies that can provide technical and financial assistance. The more
communities the workshop is planning to serve, the more difficult this will become. In
these cases, regional or state-level leadership may be more effective.

H the flooding event covers a multi-state area, a joint workshop may be suggested. Several
issues should be considered before proceeding with this approach. Regulations, economics,
and politics differ from state to state and an overlap in state programs is likely to occur.
The need to conduct this workshop in a timely manner may preclude multi-state
coordination and favor the one-state approach.

The Davenport Workshop Development Team
Overall conference leadership for the Davenport workshop was assumed by the Iowa
Federal Coordinating Officer, Ed Thomas. He, the Iowa State Hazard Mitigation Officer
(Chris Finch), and the contracted partners of the National Park Service and the Association
of State Floodplain Managers (Chris Brown and Larry Larson, respectively) formed the