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19 • REGULARTrinity Bay Conservation District (Chambers County)

PROJECT UPDATES:

Presented in: Board of Directors Regular Meeting - February 15, 2023 on 2023-02-15
Meeting Agenda PDF

Official Roll-Call Vote

Restrains Gov't • 2.6/10 Impact Weight
PASSED (2 - 0)
“Adjourn”
AR
Annette Rayburn
Director, Place 3
ABSENT
LH
Lester Hankamer
Director, Place 4
ABSENT
JW
Justin Woody
Director, Place 5
ABSENT
VC
Victor Caraway
Director, Place 1
YES
RN
Richard Nicely
Director, Place 2
YES
MW
Michael Winzer
President
ABSENT

Staff Report & Agenda Item Details

PROJECT UPDATES: Presented by General Manager Shadden: Hazard Mitigation Draft has been completed and submitted to (TDEM) Texas Department of Emergency Management for review. Once the State of Texas finishes their review, it will go on to FEMA. So, we have submitted it to TDEM and I have a phone conference with the tomorrow afternoon about that and several other things. But it is in their hands and on its way to getting approved. We won another appeal with FEMA and I believe this was on 15353, which was another one of the Bridges that we did, and they deleted and said we should not get paid for several different things on there. So, we filed an appeal through FEMA and FEMA agreed that the stuff that we asked for was consistent with what it would take to do that type of job, so we won our appeal on it and we are getting $4,920 back. They didn’t pay us for mats, shackles and different things like that. We have brought several appeals, so this is the second one that we have won. The other one was about $10,000 and this one is right at $5,000 so about $15,000 back. I also have a meeting with them, they asked for a meeting over Easer 2, the one we built out in the middle of nowhere a 100’ bridge and the Fitzgerald I. So that is 2 more Pw’s that they are asking 10 questions about that we appealed. All of that stuff seems to be moving and so far we have been doing pretty good. Director Caraway - Is this money the money that has been sitting in the that drainage construction f

Bastiat Liberty & Property Rights Analysis

This motion is scored as RESTRAINS_GOVERNMENT (Impact Weight: 2.6/10). Under the Bastiat Liberty Watchdog Index, voting YES on measures that cap or reduce ad valorem tax burdens, expand taxpayer exemptions, retire debt early, enforce competitive bidding caps, or remove regulatory/zoning barriers to private property rights earns a positive Pro-Liberty score.