FbD Funding & Policy Action Group: Summer Meeting

Floodplains by Design Funding and Policy Group Agenda (Packet Attached)
1.
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)
2.
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.
3.
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: 1234