Thank you all for coming tonight.

My name is Jennifer Dyke.

I'm the assistant director of the stormwater management program here at the city of Fort Worth.

I did want to point out we've got our director of Lauren Prayer over here of the Transportation Public Works Department.

So we really want to thank you all for coming tonight.

I know y'all are all very busy.

You've got your own lives in your schedules, and you made an effort to be here.

So we really appreciate it.

That's what we want.

I also know that probably several of you in this room were impacted by the significant flooding that happened a few weeks ago at the end of April.

And that's what we want to hear about too.

That's why we do these plans.

That's why we have a program here at the city.

We really are working to keep the community safer.

So we really appreciate y'all's feedback tonight, your participation, and we're happy to talk with you afterwards or schedule follow-up meetings as needed.

So thank you all again.

I'm gonna hand it off to Bethany.

We're gonna go ahead and start the meeting.

All right, everyone.

We're gonna do uh formal introductions here in a few seconds.

Um, but I want to run through the agenda with you, um, so you guys know what you're in for.

It's a good turnout.

So thank you all for taking time out of your day to be here.

Um, like I said, we'll do introductions, we'll talk a little bit about flood history and some of the recent flooding that happened, um, and then we're gonna talk about the actual flood management plan, kind of high-level, what it looks like, what we're focusing on, and then the actual steps that we take through the CRS program to get that approved and implemented.

Um, and then we're gonna do a feedback activity where you guys uh are gonna have input and and um you're gonna get on your phones and do a menti poll, and then we'll kind of talk about schedule and what this plans schedule looks like, and then we'll have time for QA.

So, whatever you guys want to talk about after that.

So, I keep losing those screens.

Okay, meeting objectives.

Um, we wanted to make it clear of what it is that we're doing here, right?

So, first we want to we want to educate and and teach y'all about the flood management plan.

We want y'all to ask questions.

We want to be very transparent with everything that we're doing, um, and more importantly, we want your input.

So we've got surveys, we've got this feedback activity, so we want to hear what are your priorities, what are you looking for?

Um, and then we want you guys to take this information and spread the word, right?

Like communicate with others, and then come and represent your community and its needs.

So, exactly what you're doing right now, just coming in and representing your community.

So, introductions.

Um, I'm Bethany Flightman.

Um, I'm we're working with the city of Fort Worth.

I'm the project manager for the floodplain management plan.

Um, and then we've got Gavin here who's also working with us at Frieza Nichols, and then Lisa, I'm gonna hand it off to you to introduce your crew.

All right, so I'm Lisa Biggs.

I'm our floodplain administrator, and I'm an engineering manager over our floodplain management group and our flood warning group.

Um, so I I've been at the city for about 10 years now, and I've been floodplain administrator for a little over two years now.

So it's it's definitely keeping us busy.

So on my team, I've got Humuda Mouda here, who's one of our senior uh professional engineers that works in the floodplain management team.

Uh, back in a corner there, he's not on the screen, but Ronjan Mutawa back there, who is our flood warning guru.

If you have any questions about any flood warning or any of our flasher systems, he's your man.

Um, and then you've already met uh Jennifer Dyke here, who is our assistant director.

And oh, Linda, yes, Linda Stern here is our communication specialist.

So she has helped us with getting this program put together, and then also anything that you'll see online or in print or uh on text or Facebook as well.

So all right, and so you know, you probably have seen this a lot at other stormwater uh management presentations.

We always like to talk about our mission overall for the stormwater management uh group.

So it is to protect people and property from harmful stormwater runoff.

And so we do have within stormwater the four core groups to do that.

We have our maintain, which is maintaining that existing system that's already out there, our storm drain systems uh that you see out there.

We're improving, so we want to make sure that we're going out and improving the system that we have there or adding new where we need to add new upsizing where we can.

Warn and is the next one, and so that's where you'll see our flood warning system, and we also include the floodplain management side of this here as well.

So any of the flood risk mapping that we have, we have that under the warn.

And then we have review, so making sure that everything that's getting built out there, whether it's public or private, is meeting our standards.