Travis County Commissioners Court
April 4, 2006
Item 25
Now, joe, regarding the -- the fema. Number 25. Consider and take appropriate action on the proposed notification letter and associated cost for the preliminary flood insurance rate map and flood insurance study for Travis County.
>> this we brought to the attention of the court I believe it was last week or the week before on trying to get the notice out to affected property owners on the changes to the 100 year floodplain brought about by the remapping of the floodplain by fema. We are prepared to do this mailout and I believe that jess ask and p.b.o. Has asked that this be an automatic transfer so that the funds will be put into the right line item that we can use. And this is for the -- for the direct mailout, we will -- we will be transferring some money in t.n.r. To cover some temporary hires that will allow us to staff up for the response when people start calling in. We will be using temporary staff to do duties that are routine while we use our more experienced staff to respond to questions that we expect when people do [indiscernible]
>> we do expect a -- a lot of phone calls.
>> yes, we do.
>> just to give you an idea, stacy sheffield, t.n.r., there's been some media attention recent media attention on these new maps that's generated in the past seven days, over 182 e-mail requests for the maps. And over 50 phone calls. Anything we need for mr. Tuey to hear to put it in the newspaper for us.
>> I believe he's brought us a lot of business already [laughter]
>> move approval.
>> second.
>> any more discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. Thank you all for your patience, also.
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