The Trinity Regional Flood Planning Group’s April 21 hybrid public meeting will be at 10 a.m. as the group continues the process of developing the first-ever regional flood plan for Texas’ 38-county Trinity River Basin.
The meeting will be in Dallas City Hall, L1 auditorium, 1500 Marilla Street or virtually: Via WebEx videoconference at: https://bit.ly/3w7Xezx – or via phone at 408-418-9388, access code 2498 483 7327.
Among the meeting action items will be consideration of a new person to fill the Water Districts category vacancy on the RFPG, along with the potential approval of a list of recommended Flood Management Evaluations, Flood Management Strategies and Flood Mitigation Projects that have been identified to date by the Trinity RFPG.
The public is welcome to attend the meeting and participate in the public comment session, either in-person or virtually. Written public comments are also accepted at any time via this form or by email to [email protected].
If you wish to provide oral public comments at the meeting, you are encouraged to register in advance by emailing Reyne Telles at [email protected] no later than 9:00 a.m. on April 21, 2022, providing your name, phone number, email address and who are you representing, and indicating if you wish to comment on a specific agenda item or provide general comments.
During the meeting, those who have registered to speak, either in-person or virtually, will be called upon by the chairperson during the appropriate comment period.
At the chair’s discretion, unregistered attendees who wish to speak may also have the opportunity to provide oral comments during the public comment periods of the agenda.
• Those participating by videoconference will be asked to use the “raise hand” function, visible by hovering the cursor over the attendee’s name onscreen, to indicate their interest in speaking during the appropriate public comment period.
• Those participating by teleconference will be asked to enter *3 to indicate their interest in speaking and be placed into the queue to be called upon during the appropriate public comment period.
The Trinity RFPG, aka Region 3, was designated in April 2020 by the TWDB as a result of Senate Bill 8 during the 86th Texas Legislature, which established a groundbreaking, new regional and state flood planning process in the wake of historic statewide flooding. The Trinity RFPG is responsible for creating its first Regional Flood Plan by Jan. 10, 2023. This plan will then become part of Texas’ first-ever State Flood Plan by Sept. 1, 2024.
The initial members of the Trinity RFPG were designated by the TWDB last year. The group’s membership includes at least one voting member from each of the following interest categories: the public, counties, municipalities, industry, agriculture, environment, small business, electric-generating utilities, river authorities, water districts, water utilities and flood districts. In April 2021, the Trinity RFPG engaged a technical consultant team led by Halff Associates to support its planning effort.
The Trinity RFPG’s planning region (Trinity River Basin, or Region 3) has an estimated population of almost 8 million and spans a nearly 18,000-square-mile, 38-county region from Cooke County in the north to Chambers County on the Gulf Coast. For more information, visit the Trinity RFPG website www.trinityrfpg.org, follow the group on Twitter or email the group via [email protected].