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Castle Valley committee finalizes edits to 2025 hazard mitigation draft, sets pre‑Thanksgiving submission timeline
Summary
The Castle Valley Hazard Mitigation Committee reviewed reviewer comments on its 2025 draft mitigation plan, agreed to add web and audio posting language, debated whether to add a water‑monitoring priority project, and divided the state plan review checklist with a goal to return edits before Thanksgiving.
Castle Valley's Hazard Mitigation Committee reviewed comments on the town's 2025 draft mitigation plan on Nov. 12 and confirmed a short list of textual fixes, transparency additions and a submission timetable to meet the state's planning tool requirements.
Committee chair (identified in the transcript as Unidentified Speaker 1) opened discussion by thanking staff for addressing reviewer comments and proposed two small wording fixes, including clarifying a reference to the regional plan and inserting a sentence noting that flood and fire are the community's most likely hazards. "I think it wouldn't hurt to add a sentence ... stating that flood and fire are our most likely hazards," the chair said.
The committee agreed to add language under public and stakeholder involvement that agendas, minutes and audio recordings will be posted on the town website, and to clarify attendance language to include town staff. Members also identified several places where page numbers and formatting would need correction before the plan is entered into the state planning tool.
Members discussed the communications section at length. One member asked that the plan explicitly reference Wi‑Fi calling and recent outreach from a private carrier; the committee agreed to wait for the fire commission's input before altering language about a potential cell site. The draft already references voice‑over‑Internet options elsewhere in the document, and the committee located the Wi‑Fi calling language in the priority projects section.
On priority projects, the committee debated whether to add another action project to cover lower‑likelihood hazards or to limit priorities to projects the town can reasonably manage. The chair proposed including a water contamination monitoring project as a priority; members said it could be listed even if full implementation details were not developed now. "Water monitoring," the chair stated as a possible new mitigation action.
The meeting assigned responsibility for completing the state plan review checklist. Committee members split elements: Colleen Thompson and others will address specific elements (planning process, risk assessment, mitigation strategy, plan updates and adoption) and staff will circulate a cleaned version of the draft with correct page numbers for reference. Colleen agreed to deliver a revised draft by the Monday following the meeting and distribute an updated packet to members by the following Thursday, with the goal of returning sections so the committee can send the package to Jocelyn Buck by the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
Procedural business included a routine motion to approve minutes from the Oct. 8 meeting; the motion was seconded and approved on a roll‑call vote. The committee closed by confirming the timeline to submit the plan draft to the state and accepted that further edits will follow after state/FEMA review.
The committee's next step is for staff to circulate the corrected draft and for members to complete their assigned checklist elements so the plan can be uploaded into the state's local mitigation plan review tool and returned before the Thanksgiving target date.
