Mayor Nancolas called a special meeting to get approval of "COOPERATING TECHNICAL PARTNERS PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT" from the Caldwell City Council on 6-19-2009. No media coverage of this meetins has been reported in any of the legacy media.
Why this draft proposal required a special meeting of the Caldwell Politicos is not clear to THE GUARDIAN. We obtained minutes from the meeting and the FEMA document and here is the analysis. FEMA is willing to review a data based appeal on flooding issues for downtown Caldwell but it will be a data driven effort and will require agreement of six governmental entities before FEMA will consider changing their initial assessments. The Entities are City of Caldwell, City of Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho Homeland Security, Idaho Dept. of Water Resources and FEMA Region X to be in agreement. (Sounds like an uphill struggle.)
The City of Nampa has already inserted some weasel wording in the agreement in that they "have the option" to work collaboratively with the other five agencies.
For now downtown Caldwell will remain on the revised FEMA flood map as a flood zone as outlined in a previous report on their data. Changes will be subject to a data driven decision and not a political decision.
Stay tuned for more..
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