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Iowa Flood Mitigation Board Annual Report 2020 IOWA FLOOD MITIGATION BOARD ANNUAL REPORT 2020 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT V. Joyce Flinn Director [This page is intentionally blank.] IowaIowa Flood HSEMD Mitigation Annual Board Report Annual – SFY2019 Report - 2020 PagePagePage 2 22 Table of Contents 04 IOWA FLOOD MITIGATION 06 IOWA FLOOD MITIGATION BOARD ACTIVITIES 09 IOWA FLOOD MITIGATION BOARD PROJECT DETAILS SALES TAX INCREMENT PROJECTS 11 City of Cedar Rapids 12 City of Dubuque 13 City of Iowa City 14 City of Coralville 11 15 City of Storm Lake 16 City of Waverly 17 City of Cedar Falls 18 City of Council Bluffs 19 City of Des Moines 20 City of Burlington FLOOD RECOVERY FUND PROJECTS 21 City of Fredonia 22 City of Hamburg 23 City of Hamburg 24 City of Hornick 25 Mills County 26 City of Pacific Junction 27 City of Buffalo 28 City of Council Bluffs 29 Fensler Drainage District 30 Fremont County 31 Fremont County 32 Scott County 33 City of Hamburg 34 Coulthard Levee District 21 35 Pleasant Valley Levee District 36 Waubonsie Levee District 37 Missouri River Left Bank-Bartlett 38 Missouri River Left Bank-Miller 39 Mills & Pottawattamie District 40 Mills & Pottawattamie Levee 41 Lorimor Drainage District 42 Mills-Fremont Drainage District 43 New St. Mary’s Drainage District 44 Pony Creek Drainage District 45 Platville Drainage District 46 Honey Creek Drainage District 47 Noble’s Lake Drainage District 48 Pigeon Creek Drainage District 49 Pigeon Creek Drainage District 50 Sac Drainage District 51 Vanman Levee District 52 Watkins Drainage District PagePagePage 2 22 Iowa Flood Mitigation Board Annual Report - 2020 Page 3 Iowa Flood Mitigation Program Iowa Flood Mitigation Program • John Torbert, public member The Iowa Flood Mitigation Program was signed into • Representative David Sieck, Iowa House of law by Governor Terry Branstad in April 2012 as a Representatives mechanism to assist local governments in their • Representative Charlie McConkey, Iowa House efforts to break the cycle of damage, reconstruc- of Representatives tion, and repetitive damage caused by flooding. The program strives to reduce or eliminate the risk • Senator Rob Hogg, Iowa Senate from, and effects of, flooding by providing funds for flood mitigation projects that otherwise would not • Senator Ken Rozenboom, Iowa Senate be funded. Administrative assistance is provided to the Board The 2012 law created the Iowa Flood Mitigation by the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Board to administer the Flood Mitigation Program. Emergency Management (HSEMD). The Depart- The Board is comprised of four voting public mem- ment also provides technical assistance to those bers appointed by the governor, five voting mem- governmental entities wishing to complete appli- bers representing State agencies, four nonvoting ex cations for Board consideration. officio members of the Iowa General Assembly, and one nonvoting ex officio member representing a As defined in Iowa Code Chapter 418, an eligible State agency. The present membership is: project “means the construction and reconstruc- tion of levees, embankments, impounding reser- • Joyce Flinn, Chair, Iowa Department of Home- voirs, or conduits that are necessary for the pro- land Security and Emergency Management tection of property from the effects of floodwaters and may include the deepening, widening, alter- • Dr. Amy Kaleita, Vice Chair, public member ation, change, diversion, or other improvement of watercourses if necessary for the protection of • Lori Beary, Iowa Finance Authority such property from the effects of floodwaters.” • Jake Hansen, on behalf of Michael Naig, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Eligible applicants to the program are governmen- tal entities. According to Chapter 418, “governmen- • Tim Hall, on behalf of Kayla Lyon, Iowa Depart- tal entities” means any of the following: ment of Natural Resources • a county • Karen Austin, on behalf of Michael Fitzgerald, • a city Treasurer of Iowa • a joint board or other legal or administrative entity established or designated in an agree- • Jon Wolfe, on behalf of Kraig Paulsen, Iowa De- ment pursuant to Iowa Code Chapter 28E or partment of Revenue 28F between any of the following: • Lorraine Glover, public member • two or more cities located in whole or in part within the same county • Ronald Herrig, public member • a county and one or more cities that are locat- ed in whole or in part within the county Iowa Flood Mitigation Board Annual Report - 2020 Page 4 Iowa Flood Mitigation Program • a county, one or more cities that are located in the Iowa General Assembly and any other monies whole or in part within the county, and a drain- available or obtained by the Board. Monies in the age district formed by mutual agreement fund can be used to provide financial assistance to under Iowa Code § 468.142 located in whole or governmental entities in the form of grants, loans, in part within the county and forgivable loans. The Board specifies the terms • One or more counties, one or more cities that and conditions of any assistance provided from are located in whole or in part within those the fund. During the 2020 legislative session, the counties, and one or more sanitary districts Iowa General Assembly passed, and the governor established under Iowa Code Chapter 358 or a approved, legislation that allocated special fees combined water and sanitary district as pro- collected from the Flying Our Colors registration vided for in Iowa Code § 357.1B and Iowa Code plates to the Flood Mitigation Fund. § 358.1B, located in whole or in part within those counties. During the 2019 legislative session, the Iowa Gen- eral Assembly passed, and the governor approved, The three funding sources to support the program legislation that created, and appropriated $15 are a sales tax increment, the Flood Mitigation million into, the Flood Recovery Fund. An addition- Fund, and the Flood Recovery Fund. al $21 million was appropriated to the fund during the 2020 legislative session. This fund is under the The sales tax increment consists of the amount control of the Board and consists of monies appro- of increased sales tax revenue within the govern- priated by the Iowa General Assembly and any oth- mental entities’ boundaries. The Iowa Department er monies available to, or accepted by, the Board of Revenue works with the governmental entity for deposit in the fund. Monies in the fund can be to establish a base year, and in subsequent years, used to provide financial assistance to a political deposits those sales tax revenues that exceed the subdivision of the state located in a county desig- base year revenues into a separate account main- nated under Presidential Disaster Declaration DR- tained by the State treasurer. By law, the Iowa De- 4421-IA (March 12-June 15, 2019) and also located partment of Revenue can only deposit 70 percent in a county where the Federal Emergency Manage- of the increment revenue into the account with the ment Agency (FEMA) Individual Assistance Program remainder going to the State general fund. Funds was activated. Eligible projects must support flood placed into the account are then made available to response, recovery, or mitigation. the governmental entity to support its flood mitiga- tion project. This funding cannot annually exceed $15 million for individual governmental entities or $30 million in aggregate for all governmental enti- ties. The application period for sales tax increment funding closed Jan. 1, 2016. The board continues to work with the communities that were awarded funding through review of project sta- tus reports and makes adjustments if necessary. The Flood Mitigation Fund is under the control of the Board and consists of monies appropriated by Page 4 Iowa Flood Mitigation Board Annual Report - 2020 Page 5 Iowa Flood Mitigation Board Activities Iowa Flood Mitigation Board Activities amount of the funding award remains un- changed. The Flood Mitigation Board convened in Des • The Board reviewed and discussed the impact Moines for two in-person, and four virtual, meet- of other funding sources on the Flood Recov- ings in 2020. Those meetings were held on January ery Fund. 29, February 6, February 14, June 8, September 28, • The Board approved on a 7-1 roll call vote the and November 4. request submitted by the City of Hamburg to repurpose the scope of work in the Flood January 29 Meeting Recovery Fund application due to the an- nouncement and availability of Community Technical assistance for application amendment Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery development was provided by HSEMD staff to the (CDBG-DR) funding for FEMA acquisition and sales tax increment and Flood Recovery Fund ap- demolition local match. plicants: • The Board unanimously approved the request submitted by Mills County to repurpose the • The Board unanimously approved the request scope of work in the Flood Recovery Fund submitted by the City of Burlington to amend application due to the announcement and the agreement to adjust the annual sales tax availability of CDBG-DR funding for FEMA ac- increment remittance amounts due to previ- quisition and demolition local match. ous projection shortfalls. The total amount of • The Board approved on a 7-1 roll call vote the funding award remains unchanged. the request submitted by the City of Pacific • The Board unanimously approved the re- Junction to repurpose the scope of work in the quest submitted by the City of Cedar Rapids Flood Recovery Fund application due to the to amend the agreement to adjust the annual announcement and availability of CDBG-DR sales tax increment remittance amounts due funding for FEMA acquisition and demolition to previous projection shortfalls. The total local match. Iowa Flood Mitigation Board Annual Report - 2020 Page 6 Iowa Flood Mitigation Board Activities • The Board reviewed and discussed additional • The Board unanimously approved the re- Flood Recovery Fund applications, focusing on quest submitted by the City of Cedar Rapids evaluating applications for immediate needs to amend the agreement to adjust the annual that can lessen the impacts of the upcoming sales tax increment remittance amounts due spring flooding.
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