Permitting Coordination Meetings
2026-05-14 10:00 - 10:50, 2026-05-28 10:00 - 10:50, 2026-06-11 10:00 - 10:50, 2026-06-25 10:00 - 10:50, 2026-07-09 10:00 - 10:50, 2026-07-23 10:00 - 10:50, 2026-08-06 10:00 - 10:50, 2026-08-20 10:00 - 10:50 (America/Los_Angeles) and 5 more dates
There are pulses of activity and different forums where permitting efforts are taking place, making it challenging for people to track and engage effectively. Join our permitting coordination check-ins every other Thursday to track progress, share insights, and collaborate effectively.
Running agenda and notes can be found here:
Permitting Efficiencies

Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3424790936?omn=88676126947&jst=2
Passcode: [REDACTED]

FbD Flow & Flourish Event Planning
2026-05-27 14:00 - 15:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=89218596438
Meeting Agenda:
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Venue Update
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Build-a-Session Activity
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Call for Abstract Discussion
Flow & Flourish is being developed as an event that brings together the integrated floodplain management (IFM) network, shared learnings, relationship building, and bold thinking for the future of Washington floodplains.
Planning documents and meeting notes can be found here: https://app.box.com/s/xzqaeu1tvn36i99p9d8eh60jznsgrkxf
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=89218596438
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Acquisition Coffee Chats
2026-06-01 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-10-05 15:00 - 16:00
Join us for a monthly virtual coffee chat focused on acquisition strategy, best practices, and shared challenges. Open to anyone interested in learning, connecting, and exchanging ideas in an informal setting.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83375229918

FbD Acquisitions/Buyout Core Group Discussion
2026-06-03 10:00 - 11:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=86805382082
Join us for a focused discussion on where there may be timely opportunities to advance conversations, panels, or policy work around acquisition, buyouts, and broader flood risk reduction needs.
We’ll explore:
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What is the State’s strategy given the known scale of risk and unmet need?
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Managed retreat and buyouts
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Voluntary buyout programs: lessons/needs
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Elevations and flood-proofing pathways
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Equity-centered approaches for mobile home residents, renters
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Flood Risk Disclosure
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Sharing projects that prevented flood damage/saved money – comparisons that demonstrate the real outcomes
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=86805382082
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Site Tours and Sustaining Support for Flood Resilience - FbD Lunch & Learn
2026-06-04 12:00 - 13:00
This Lunch & Learn will explore how site tours, relationship building, and sustained legislative outreach have helped garner support for integrated floodplain management, and what it will take to maintain momentum during a period of legislative transition.
Joining us will be Representative Steve Tharinger, a longtime champion of Floodplains by Design and Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky of the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership to share different perspectives of how FbD site tours helped build support for the program and local projects. Together, this conversation will highlight the importance of local partners hosting site tours and how outreach is an ongoing practice of education, relationship building, and storytelling that helps decision-makers understand the value of multi-benefit investments in the floodplain.
As always, we welcome feedback and ideas for upcoming topics so please don’t hesitate to reach out to Allan Warren awarren@b-e-f.org, Carol MacIlroy (cmacilroy@gmail.com), or Austin Bernales (abernales@b-e-f.org).
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84542310435
Passcode: [REDACTED]

FbD Flow & Flourish Event Planning
2026-06-24 14:00 - 15:00
Meeting Agenda Updated
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Framing the Event Program
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Dialogue Across Perspectives
Flow & Flourish is being developed as an event that brings together the integrated floodplain management (IFM) network, shared learnings, relationship building, and bold thinking for the future of Washington floodplains.
Planning documents and meeting notes can be found here: https://app.box.com/s/xzqaeu1tvn36i99p9d8eh60jznsgrkxf
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=89218596438
Passcode: [REDACTED]

FbD Funding & Policy Action Group: Summer Meeting
2026-06-25 10:00 - 12:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=81638494725
Floodplains by Design Funding and Policy Group Agenda (Packet Attached)
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10:00-10:50 – Welcome, Funding IFM to Reduce Fiscal Risk
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State Funding Outlook (Scott Richards, BEF Contract Lobbyist)
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Recent budget news
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Funding and policy implications for IFM
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Strengthening the investment case and messaging (Kas Guillozet and all)
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The Real Circumstances We Are Operating In: Guillaume Mauger, State Climatologist and Research Scientist, UW Climate Impacts Group, will present results from his work modeling future peak flows on Skagit County rivers as a backdrop to the significance of the future conditions we face.
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Natural hazard fiscal risk and fiscally smart IFM investment
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Who do we work with to build the story?
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Improving Flood Response: Emerging Insurance Products to Capitalize Flood Recovery Solutions (David Forte)
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Emerging Insurance Products for Recovery (David Forte, Senior Policy Advisor, Property & Casualty, Policy & Legislative Affairs Division, Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner)
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10:50-11:50 – Structuring a Buyout and Acquisition Fund
* Brief overview of Coalescing Vision for Establishing and Acquisition and Buyout Fund
* Navigating the economic case for floodplain buyouts as state policy – Todd BenDor, Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Community Design; Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Acquisition and Buyout Fund Policy Resources informed by regional and national perspectives: Kaitlin Strange, Policy Lead; and Mimi Tran, Design and Research Associate; with the Urban Oceans Lab.
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11:00-12:00 – Wrap up
The Funding & Policy Action Group serves as the go-to convenor for floodplain funding and policy efforts across the state and to leverage current momentum for integrated floodplain management into innovative approaches that can better position partners for funding, address barriers to implementation, and improve coordination across all levels of government.
Meeting Info
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=81638494725
Passcode: [REDACTED]

FbD Flow & Flourish Event Planning
2026-07-20 14:00 - 15:00
Meeting Agenda Update:
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Event Goals and Outcomes
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Review of Agenda Flow: Moving from “What Is” to “What If”
Flow & Flourish is being developed as an event that brings together the integrated floodplain management (IFM) network, shared learnings, relationship building, and bold thinking for the future of Washington floodplains.
Planning documents and meeting notes can be found here: https://app.box.com/s/xzqaeu1tvn36i99p9d8eh60jznsgrkxf
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=87907873482
Passcode: [REDACTED]

FbD Steering Group Meeting
2026-07-29 10:00 - 12:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=88927503200
Meeting agenda to come.
We envision a future in which partnerships, policies and practice collectively encourage integrated management of Washington’s floodplains, leading to strong community relationships, healthy salmon runs, vibrant agriculture and infrastructure out of harm’s way. Individuals in the Steering Group bring their expertise to the table to understand, link, and support the broader needs across the State of Washington necessary to achieve the vision above. In doing so, their needs are also met.
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=88927503200
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Topics Updated Monthly - FbD Lunch & Learn Series
2026-07-30 12:00 - 13:00
We are moving the July Floodplains by Design Lunch & Learn to Thursday, July 30th. Thank you for your flexibility as we adjust the schedule. Additional details and information to be provided soon. While we update the specific details of the Lunch & Learn sessions monthly, the topics are informed by feedback from the Floodplains by Design network of practitioners and partners.
As always, we welcome feedback and ideas for upcoming topics so please don’t hesitate to reach out to Allan Warren awarren@b-e-f.org, Carol MacIlroy (cmacilroy@gmail.com), or Austin Bernales (abernales@b-e-f.org)
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84542310435
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Topics Updated Monthly - FbD Lunch & Learn Series
2026-08-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-09-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-10-01 12:00 - 13:00
While we update the specific details of the Lunch & Learn sessions monthly, the topics are informed by feedback from the Floodplains by Design network of practitioners and partners.
As always, we welcome feedback and ideas for upcoming topics so please don’t hesitate to reach out to Allan Warren awarren@b-e-f.org, Carol MacIlroy (cmacilroy@gmail.com), or Austin Bernales (abernales@b-e-f.org)
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84542310435
Passcode: [REDACTED]

FbD Flow & Flourish Event Planning
2026-08-27 14:00 - 15:00
Agenda to be updated.
Flow & Flourish is being developed as an event that brings together the integrated floodplain management (IFM) network, shared learnings, relationship building, and bold thinking for the future of Washington floodplains.
Planning documents and meeting notes can be found here: https://app.box.com/s/xzqaeu1tvn36i99p9d8eh60jznsgrkxf
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=85260684838
Passcode: [REDACTED]

FbD Funding & Policy Action Group: Fall Meeting
2026-09-17 10:00 - 12:00
The Funding & Policy Action Group serves as the go-to convenor for floodplain funding and policy efforts across the state and to leverage current momentum for integrated floodplain management into innovative approaches that can better position partners for funding, address barriers to implementation, and improve coordination across all levels of government.
Meeting details to be updated a week ahead of meeting date.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=89690456204
Passcode: [REDACTED]

FbD Flow & Flourish Event Planning
2026-09-22 14:00 - 15:00
Agenda to be updated.
Flow & Flourish is being developed as an event that brings together the integrated floodplain management (IFM) network, shared learnings, relationship building, and bold thinking for the future of Washington floodplains.
Planning documents and meeting notes can be found here: https://app.box.com/s/xzqaeu1tvn36i99p9d8eh60jznsgrkxf
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=83047890079
Passcode: [REDACTED]

FbD Steering Group Meeting
2026-10-29 10:00 - 12:00 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=89896403246
Meeting agenda to come.
We envision a future in which partnerships, policies and practice collectively encourage integrated management of Washington’s floodplains, leading to strong community relationships, healthy salmon runs, vibrant agriculture and infrastructure out of harm’s way. Individuals in the Steering Group bring their expertise to the table to understand, link, and support the broader needs across the State of Washington necessary to achieve the vision above. In doing so, their needs are also met.
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5653221882?omn=89896403246
Passcode: [REDACTED]
