To Agencies and Organizations Interested in Natural Hazard Mitigation
This email is notification that the FEMA Notices of Funding Opportunity for the Pre-disaster Mitigation Grant Program (PDM) and Flood Mitigation Assistance Grant Program (FMA) have been released. These are the two annual FEMA natural hazard mitigation grants. A ‘Hazard Mitigation Grant Program – Post Fire’ (HMGP-PF) grant is also available, due to the Ironworks Fire. All three funding opportunities are reimbursement only and require 25% non-federal match. A more detailed description of each funding opportunity is attached here.
Eligible sub-applicants for these three grants are local government, Tribal entities, State government, quasi-governmental entities, universities, and non-profit organizations. Although private individuals cannot apply directly, an eligible sub-applicant may submit an application on their behalf.
We encourage all potential sub-applicants to submit a Notice of Interest to DHSEM immediately to be considered for funding under these grant opportunities. The Notice of Interest is attached here. The same Notice of Interest form is used for all three funding opportunities. The deadline for Notice of Interest submittal to DHSEM is October 23, 2019. After a general eligibility determination is made, DHSEM will conduct a mandatory Sub-grant Orientation meeting. After the required Sub-grant Orientation Meeting, DHSEM will provide the full New Mexico Mitigation Sub-grant Application. Complete applications are due to DHSEM by December 20, 2019.
Again, further description for each of the three grant opportunities is attached. If you have questions about the different funding opportunities or the application process, please contact the State Mitigation Program at dhsem.mitigation@state.nm.us or 505-476-9682.
Thank you for your interest in mitigation, Wendy
Please download the following documents:
NOI Mitigation Program 2019
FMA19 Announcement Final
PDM19 Announcement Final
HMGP-PF 5281 Announcement Final
Wendy Blackwell, CFM
Preparedness Bureau Chief
State Hazard Mitigation Officer
New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
PO Box 27111
Santa Fe, NM 87502
Contact:
Office: 505-476-9676
Cellular: 505-231-8517
Primary Email: Wendy.Blackwell@state.nm.us
The next NMFMA workshop/conference is scheduled for next April, 2020, at the Drury Hotel in Santa Fe. Since we have had problems finding volunteers to help set up our Fall conferences around the State, the Board of Directors has decided not to schedule a regular Fall conference. If anyone is interested in organizing a Fall conference anywhere in New Mexico they should contact our Conference Committee Chair, Loretta Hatch, at Loretta.Hatch@state.nm.us .
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CFM Study Guide
ASFPM has recently developed a CFM Study Guide to help those who are interested in becoming a CFM to study for the test. Click on the link or go to CFM Certification, Certification.
These You Tube videos may also be helpful as you study for the CFM exam:
Part 2 - Ancillary items to FPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giJBv75zm2A&t=0s&list=PLMW0WSdc7771DSqt2u2r6vbtT70cu8E9K&index=8
Part 3 - BFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX5-cYTB4rU&t=0s&list=PLMW0WSdc7771DSqt2u2r6vbtT70cu8E9K&index=9
Part 4 - Mapping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z11M-_njlw8&t=171s&list=PLMW0WSdc7771DSqt2u2r6vbtT70cu8E9K&index=2
Part 5 - Map:FIS Excercise Example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gxThIIZqw0&t=0s&list=PLMW0WSdc7771DSqt2u2r6vbtT70cu8E9K&index=3
Part 6 - NFIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FMHNqkpDmc&index=6&list=PLMW0WSdc7771DSqt2u2r6vbtT70cu8E9K&t=0s
Part 7 - Elevation Certificate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUSWXmwJW4&index=7&list=PLMW0WSdc7771DSqt2u2r6vbtT70cu8E9K&t=0s
The CFM exam is proctored at every NMFMA Workshop/Conference.
New CFMs
NMFMA recognizes CFMs who were recently certified by the NM CFM Program. Congratulations on passing the CFM exam proctored at the NMFMA/Arid Regions Conference held at the Hotel Albuquerque in Albuquerque, NM on April 17, 2019:
Juergen Donaubauer, CFM
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Otero County |
Eric Hamilton, CFM |
Wilson & Company |
Warren Hardin, CFM |
Eddy County |
Douglas Mize, CFM |
Souder Miller & Assoc |
Chelsea Morganti, CFM |
NMDHSEM |
Christine Soulsby, CFM |
Wilson & Company |
Laurie Stout, CFM |
Village of Corrales |
Sonia Walker, CFM |
Village of Los Lunas |
Also, congratulations on passing the CFM exam proctored at the FEMA 273 Course offered in El Paso, TX by TFMA on June 14, 2019:
Jeffery Patterson, CFM |
City of Carlsbad |
Also, congratulations on passing the CFM exam proctored in El Paso, TX by TFMA on August 16, 2019:
Cecilia Estrada, CFM |
City of Las Cruces
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FEMA is seeking Environmental Floodplain Specialists and Historic Preservation Specialists. Check out the FEMA/NFIP page on the "Other Agencies" tab.
NMFMA Committees
Conference Committee
Purpose: To plan and produce semi-annual workshops for New Mexico
floodplain managers and others.
Chair: Loretta Hatch, CFM, Village of Bosque Farms, pzadmin@bosquefarmsnm.gov
Our Conference Committee Page contains important information about past, present, and future conferences.
GIS Committee
Purpose: To make GIS more available to NMFMA members
and communities throughout the State.
Chair: Anders Berg Email:anders.berg@aecom.com
Our GIS Committee Page contains interesting tidbits from the worlds of GIS and is updated regularly.
Training and Education Committee
Purpose: To develop training and education opportunities for floodplain managers and others.
NMFMA is interested in developing more training opportunities for its members. If you have ideas about training classes that can be given at our conferences/ workshops or as separate training events, please contact us.
Purpose of the New Mexico Floodplain Managers Association
1. To promote public awareness of proper floodplain management;
2. To promote the professional status of floodplain management and secure all benefits resulting there from;
3. To promote a liaison between individual concerns with proper floodplain management and to
encourage the exchange of ideas;
4. To keep individuals concerned with proper floodplain management well informed through education and
professional seminars and to provide a method for dissemination of information, both general and technical;
5. To inform concerned individuals of pending floodplain legislation and other related management
matters, and;
6. To study and support legislation pertinent and necessary to the effective implementation of floodplain
management matters.