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Minutes for the Stormwater Management Board meeting on February 15, 2012.
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Date: February 15, 2012
Location: Huntington Building
Conference Room
900 West Monroe
Jonesboro, AR 72401
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Opening: Chairman Zolper called the meeting to order to order at 8:31 a.m.
In Attendance marked in bold
Members:
Dewaine Beisner, Vice-Chairman
Charles Coleman
Derek Daniels
Michael Daniels
Marvin Day
Darrel Dover
Jerry Farris
Garry Meadows
Barry Phillips
Rick Wyatt
Dennis Zolper, Chairman
Officials & Staff:
Harold Perrin - Mayor
Otis Spriggs - Director of Planning & Zoning
Craig Light - Chief City Engineer
Eric Scarbrough, Stormwater Engineer
Joe McKeel - Stormwater Inspector
Tracey Cooper - Secretary
Also in Attendance:
Josh Hurd
Mac McAlister
Robert Rees
I. CALL TO ORDER
II. ROLL CALL
III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
A. Minutes for the October 19, 2011, Stormwater Management Board Meeting
Motion to approve the minutes was made by Beisner and seconded by Dover. The minutes were unanimously approved.
IV. OLD BUSINESS
Light gave an update on the Corps of Engineers. The Corps gave a presentation on January 30th. He provided a copy of the PowerPoint presentation they presented. It contained a project schedule. Light reported the project is moving along and the City is accumulating a lot of man-hours to be used towards the in-kind contribution for the project. Daniels questioned the goal of the project. Light stated the scope of the study is to build hydrology models, defining sub-basins, rebuilding models of existing conditions, and proposing improvements based on models.
The Community Rating System (CRS) was explained. The audit was done in early November 2011. There has been no response to the audit. Light explained this is a slow process and he had no idea when the City would hear back on the audit findings. He hopes the City will be classified as a 7 after the audit. This would decrease the flood insuranc...
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