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Governance Capital Stormwater Management Series

| OUR PARTNERS

| GOVERNANCE CAPITAL

OPTIMIZE PROCESS COORDINATION THROUGH SUSTAINED PARTNERSHIPS

• Operational coordination
• Regional governance opportunities

| Background

Worked with each city department

• Debris management
• Code consortium
• Police hiring and training

| Background

Next level

• February 2018 Mid-Iowa Association of Local Governments

meeting

• City manager steering committee
• Re-engage Polk Soil & Water Conservation District

| Stormwater Series

Why are we doing this?

• 30+ years of standard approach isn’t working
• Lots of approaches – no one size fits all
• What can we do better?

Six pillars of stormwater management

• Education
• Policy
• Quality
• Quantity
• Discharge
• Restoration

| Tour

Greenwood Hills Prairie Trail 55th Avenue NW

| Flash Flooding!!!

• Rainfall trends intensifying
• ‘Business as usual isn’t enough’
• A public utility?

| What Did We Learn?

• Education/Outreach
• Policy
• Funding
• Technical

“The City of West Des Moines has found great benefit in the Stormwater sessions conducted through Capital Crossroads. The presentations and panel discussions were a great way to understand what is working and what is not in our area and other parts of the

• Midwest. Working side by side with Metro communities and

government organizations is truly the only way to solve these complex issues pertaining to stormwater management. I believe we can walk away from this effort with a plan of action that all can agree

• n.” - Brian Hemesath, City of West Des Moines City Engineer

| What Is Next?

Held Final Scheduled Session October 10

• What do we do with this information?

MAC Presentation November 13 City Council Workshops