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KITTITAS COUNTY <br />DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS <br />PUBLIC WORKS — BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />WORK SESSION DATE June 13, 2016 <br />TOPIC <br />FEMA CTP Agreement <br />ACTION REQUESTED Affirm Staff's Grant Submittal <br />Request for FEMA CTP Whiskey <br />Creek Floodplain Modeling Project <br />LEAD STAFF: Mark R. Cook <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Affirm staff's grant submittal to FEMA CTP Whiskey Creek Floodplain Modeling <br />Project. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />Previously, staff has briefea tree Boara on FEMA's Cooperative Technical <br />Partnership program. The Board may recall this program exists for local <br />agencies to contract with FEMA for technical assistance re -mapping floodplain <br />rate insurance maps. Earlier this year, we obtained commitment through this <br />program supporting remapping activities for approximately seven miles of Currier <br />Creek. Last month FEMA contacted our consultant (Watershed Science and <br />Engineering) advising them that they would match our contribution ($60,000) <br />towards Currier Creek and requested we select another system for match. We <br />have selected Whiskey Creek and propose a similar modeling effort (seven or so <br />miles of creek reach). The deadline for CTP grant submittal was 06-10-2016. <br />Staff was able to put together the application and submitted it last Friday. <br />DISCUSSION: <br />Whiskey Creek flooding this spring underscores the need for additional <br />evaluation of floodplain extent. The FEMA CTP grant moves us closer to <br />validating new technologies that hold significant promise towards wide scale <br />county deployment — remapping numerous miles of Digital Federal Insurance <br />Rate Maps (DFIRMs). <br />FISCAL IMPACTS: <br />We anticipate a planning level cost estimate of approximately $60,000 supporting <br />the mapping effort. It is anticipated that FEMA will make our contribution. <br />ATTACHMENTS: <br />EXHIBIT 1: CTP Application <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />PUBLIC WORKS BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />