Committees

The nine-member set of Officers conducts the business of the Association. All positions are elected by the membership to two-year terms.

CPMs can add or delete members for their agencies, and may have permission to register their fellow employees for membership and AFMA events. Exists primarily as a convenient grouping for email purposes.

This Committee works on varied education and communication projects within the floodplain management community, including the scholarship fund drive, CFM training and testing, and the AFMA Library at Gateway Community College.

The Flood Warning Committee works within the Arizona flood warning community to promote improved flood detection, planning, message dissemination and response, and flood exercises.

The mission of the Legislative Issues Committee is to assess and communicate legislative matters in an effort to educate and activate our membership to participate in public policy decision making concerning floodplain management.

The Newsletter Committee compiles, produces and distributes the Association's biannual news letter.

The mission of the P&P Committee is to develop the agendas for the P&P Breakout Sessions at AFMA Conferences and to make recommendations to the Board related to floodplain management policy issues. In addition, we strive to provide high quality, low cost education opportunities to the AFMA membership in the form of short-courses and field trips.

As the name implies, the goal of this Committee is to support programs and training that foster positive river management and restoration policy.

The mission of the Technical Committee is to develop the agendas for the Technical Breakout Sessions at AFMA Conferences and to make policy recommendations to the Board related to floodplain management technical issues. In addition, we strive to provide high quality, low cost technical education opportunities to the AFMA membership in the form of technical short-courses and field trips.

This committee is responsible for the Association website, maintaining the AFMA membership database, and setup and operation of Audio-Visual equipment at AFMA events.

The Conference Committee plans our AFMA conferences, including selecting hotel venues, planning field trips and activities, and soliciting presentations. We meet once per month, on the 2nd Thursday of the Month. Contact Elizabeth.Rockwell@maricopa.gov to attend!

This committee seeks to provide information and training on positive river management and restoration within the regulatory floodplain. We hope to provide floodplain managers with more information on balancing floodplain function within natural river systems. We are actively looking for new committee members and if you have an interest in joining, please contact Jake Fleishman at jake@naturalchanneldesign.com.