Comfort Flood Coalition
Regulatory Meeting 3-28-2012
Minutes
Present:
Alfredo
Reagan Arnold
Tim DeWitt
Louis Faust
Emmanuel Flatten
Jan Hendrix
Keven Holtan
Robert Schmid
Shirley Solis
Steve Spence
Julie Quest-Brooks

•	Discussed the formation of a sub-committee to engage surrounding counties, and acquire FIRMs, regulations, as well as contact their flood/development administrators to compare our situation. Julie Quest-Brooks volunteered to pursue this task.

•	Discussed the need for volunteers from Comfort to attend the bi-monthly Kendall County commissioner's court meetings to not only show our presence, but to also gain any helpful information. Comfort meeting volunteers are:

APRIL 9 - Mani Flatten, Louis Faust, Steve Spence, Roxana Orrell
APRIL 23 - Mani Flatten, Irma Rios, Roxana Orrell
May 14 - Tim DeWitt, Shirley Solis
May 28 - Jan Hendrix, Louis Faust

•	Discussed contacting an engineer to gain some real figures on the H&H study, as well as boilerplate construction plans. Regan Arnold spoke about having had this study prior to building on one of his properties. 

•	Discussed challenging property valuations with an outside appraiser, given our location within the floodway and floodplain. Julie Quest-Brooks volunteered to use her real estate information to follow the actual sales prices of properties within the Comfort floodway.

•	Discussed finding a plaintiff that can push the issue of construction. Mani will try to contact a resident who had contacted FEMA after he had challenged Kendall County's refusal to allow him to replace flood damaged moble homes on his property.

•	Discussed analyzing and drafting proposed changes to the current Kendall County ordinance, utilizing Houston's ordinance, and any information that we can gather from other counties and cities.

•	Reviewed the new CFC logo and upcoming website.