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R-14-31 A RESOLUTION CREATING AND APPOINTING MEMBERS OF A TASK FORCE TO DEVELOP A FLOOD PLAIN MANAGEMENT PLAN AND TO SERVE AS A PUBLIC INFORMATION DEVELOPMENT GROUP. WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth desires to protect its citizens from damage and injury resulting from flooding; and WHEREAS, the federal government has adopted numerous programs to reduce the effects of flood damage; and WHEREAS the City of Portsmouth is a participating community in good standing in the National Flood Insurance Program and attempts to maximize the City's prating under the Program's Community Rating System ;and WHEREAS the City is required to adopt a Flood Plain Management Plan ("Plan") and to update it every five years; and WHEREAS, the City last updated its Plan in 2010; and WHEREAS, in order to provide a high level of governmental transparency and to maximize the possibility of reduced flood insurance premiums for its citizens, the City has determined that a larger and more diverse task force is needed to develop the updated Plan. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia that there is hereby created the Flood Plain Management Plan Task Force whose duty shall be to prepare an updated "Flood Plain Management Plan" in a manner as required by the Community Rating System Coordinators Manual and to serve as a public information development group. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Task Force shall be composed of the following city staff members: Director of Neighborhood Advancement Neighborhood Advancement, Floodplain Manager Director of Planning Planning Staff City Engineer Director of Public Works Building Official GIS Department Manager Fire Department EMS designee Police Chief designee Director of Marketing and Communications Office of the City Manager, Senior Management Analyst BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Task Force shall include the following other