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The Fall 2018 Workshop/Conference Registration page is now available. If this link does not work, go the the Conferences tab, Event Calendar, and click on the link shown on September 11. A link to the preliminary agenda is shown on the Registration page. If you have any questions contact Loretta Hatch, our Conference Committee Chair at pzadmin@bosquefarmsnm.gov .

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.

The CFM exam is proctored at every NMFMA Workshop/Conference.

Upcoming NMFMA workshops/conferences are scheduled for the following times:

Fall 2018 September 11-14, Ruidoso Convention Center, 111 Sierra Blanca Drive, Ruidoso, NM. The conference hotel
is the MCM Elegante Lodge and Resort, located just across the parking lot from the convention center.
Loretta Hatch is the conference/program director.

Spring 2019 April 16-19, Hotel Albuquerque, 800 Rio Grande Blvd., Albuquerque, NM. NMFMA is hosting the Arid
Regions conference this year. Contact Alandren Etlantus at aetlantus@bhinc.com if you would like to
make a presentation.

If you are interested in making a presentation or sponsoring any of our workshops/conferences, please contact our Conference Committee Chair, Loretta Hatch, at pzadmin@bosquefarmsnm.gov

New CFMs

NMFMA recognizes CFMs who were recently certified by the NM CFM Program. Congratulations on passing the CFM exam proctored at the NMFMA Spring Workshop held at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe, NM on April 11, 2018:

Gary Bierner, CFM

Dennis Engineering Company

John Critchfield, CFM

William J. Miller Engineers, Inc

Suzanne Hathon, CFM

Town of Bernalillo

Bruce McWilliams, CFM

William J. Miller Engineers, Inc

Joseph Santillanes, CFM

City of Socorro

Spring 2018 Workshop Sponsors

NMFMA would like to thank the following sponsors of the Spring 2018 Workshop at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe, NM:

All of our sponsors assisted with the cost of breaks throughout the workshop, the Wednesday night social, the Thursday business luncheon and the Thursday night soocial. Thanks to all of our sponsors for your generosity and continuing support of NMFMA. Click HERE to see the Sponsorship Brochure.

SPONSORS

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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.

NMDHSEM - HAZARD MITIGATION FUNDING INFORMATION

The Conference Committee survey on conferences

Members attending the Fall workshop in Elephant Butte filled out a survey about upcoming conferences. The questions and results are listed in the Membership Survey Results.

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.

Chair: Jim DeAngelo, CFM, jfdeangelo@gmail.com

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.