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• The flood bulletins are weekly forecasts with daily updates. They are produced from May through September. • Bill Badini is a contact at HDR for the flood threat bulletins. Riverside should coordinate collecting flood outlook products with Kevin Houck. The spatial data in the bulletins should be available in GIS format. County Data Collection AMEC will contact counties and local governments in order to determine types of flood hazard data available, and the process to obtain these data: • AMEC's focus is on collecting flood hazard data from counties/local government. • AMEC will request from CWCB contact information for county representatives known by CWCB to be flood data `keyholders', including local government managers, CASFM members (CFMs), emergency managers, floodplain managers, and GIS managers. • AMEC will develop a Data Collection Questionnaire to distribute to counties. This questionnaire will assist counties understand the type and form of data we are searching for and allow us to document contact with and response from counties. CWCB expressed interest in reviewing and contributing to a draft form of the questionnaire. AMEC will circulate the questionnaire to CWCB and Riverside for input prior to distribution to counties. • AMEC will gather information on'data update frequency', i.e. the regularity with which an agency updates data. A request for this information will be included in the questionnaire. • CWCB currently has no plan for how to update data sources or how often. As the project moves ahead, AMEC will provide the state with recommendations for how the data update process might be simplified for CWCB. • CWCB agreed AMEC should begin contacting local government entities prior to completion of the user / stakeholder assessment interviews. • CWCB will contact counties (probably via CASFM) to introduce the Flood DSS project as a `news item' in early June 2009. This will allow local government staff to feel more comfortable with the data requests because they would have heard about the project. • AMEC will develop a list (and map) that prioritizes data collection at the county level and shows data collection progress over time. • AMEC will develop a list of six representative counties on which to focus initial data collection efforts. Once AMEC have put in a sustained effort on collecting from these counties (~1.5 months) they will report details of the data and data collection experience so the project team understands the likely issues we can anticipate for remaining counties, as well as view the data we can anticipate collecting statewide. A number of focused points, issues, and directions, as well as more general comments, were raised during the discussion on data collection: While the DNR projection datum is NAD83 Zone 13 N, Carolyn indicated we could use Geographic WGS84 to improve web performance.