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Clive adopts 2026 Flood Response and Recovery Plan and tests new damage-assessment app
Summary
Council unanimously approved the 2026 Flood Response and Recovery Plan after staff described a 20T tabletop exercise and the use of a new state-adopted damage-assessment app that allows staff to log real-time assessments and share results with officials for recovery and insurance coordination.
The Clive City Council on March 26 adopted the city’s 2026 Flood Response and Recovery Plan and heard staff review outcomes from a recent tabletop exercise.
Emergency management staff described the tabletop (a Level 20T exercise) and a state-adopted damage-assessment tool (referred to in the transcript as a newly adopted application) that allows staff members to conduct rapid, field-based damage assessments with results accessible in real time to city leaders. Staff said the tool provides a more operationally useful data set than previous text-and-photo methods and will improve cleanup planning and recovery coordination.
The presentation also outlined updates to dam emergency action plans, road-closure protocols, camera access during events, and a shift from paper binders to secure electronic plan access. Staff reviewed lessons learned — stranded residents during exercise scenarios, gaps in GIS water-depth modeling — and noted that Clive’s work to reach a Class 4 rating under the Community Rating System could be generating roughly $70,000 in annual flood-insurance premium savings for policyholders in Clive.
Council voted 5–0 to adopt the 2026 Flood Response and Recovery Plan. Staff said a press release will follow to notify the public as the city moves into higher-risk months for severe weather.
