HomeMy WebLinkAboutDrainage Subcommittee Minutes 2018-06-28 Special Friendswood Drainage Sub-Committee Meeting Minutes
Date: June 28, 2018 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Friendswood City Hall
Attendees: S. Rockey C. Gustafson M. Kabiri K. Clark G. Harris
R. Lovely K. Koncaba C. Faircloth M. Rives
Absent: L. Coggins J. Stahl P. Donart Harris Co. Rep Harris Flood Reps
Discussion Summary
All team members introduced themselves and gave a brief summary of their interest in drainage. There
was a review of the founding of this team,the chartering by the city council,and meeting norms. The
work process was discussed. The team will be using a modified six sigma approach to the analysis. The
facilitator agreed to send a short document about the process to the team. The team also decided
future meeting frequency and time and dates.
The agenda is attached to the email on the meetings minutes along with the slides that were presented.
Also attached is a brief summary of the six-sigma process.
The facilitator will be keeping detailed action items lists. The current action item list is also attached.
Additionally,the team agreed that due to the large amount of documentation, a drop box will be
created in which all team members will be included so files can be shared.
General team discussion which included:
• Future Harris County flood control meeting July 17 and observations by Ron Lovely of previous
Harris Co meetings. His impression of the meetings was not positive.
• The team reviewed and understands that this effort is to be focused initially on Friendswood
and only later might we draw in upstream and downstream entities
• The team agreed early on that some professional modeling of Clear Creek in Friendswood would
be required. Morad Kabiri will invite a Rice University professor to speak to the group.
• Ken Clark relayed that there are discussions on-going to have Harris County authorize payment
for clearing the Harris County side of Clear Creek and they might consider paying Galveston
Drainage District to do the work.
• There was discussion of the Mud Gully Phase III project.
• There was discussion of the Six Sigma "Define the Problem" step which the team will begin to
discuss at the next meeting.
• The team agreed that significant historical data needs to be obtained for the team's work.
• The team agreed that Atlas-14 (NOAA rain probability curves) need to be obtained. There is an
action item on this.
• The team discussed and agreed that since it is a large team with a tight deadline and it is
understood that occasionally team members may miss meetings due to other obligations,that
we would have a buddy system so of one person misses a meeting their companion has the
responsibility to update them before the next meeting so the team doesn't have to backtrack.
The match ups are:
o Steve Rockey and Ron Lovely
o Carl Gustafson and Ken Clark
o Marcus Rives and Gary Harris
o Morad Kabiri and Patrick Donart
o Casey Faircloth and Kenny Koncaba
o James Stahl and Lee Coggins
Communications
The team decided that during the work phase of the committee there may be sensitive information or
information discussed that ultimately does not make the team's final recommendations. Therefore,our
meeting norms on communications will be as follows:
1. Team members are free to share any committee work with other team members
2. No information should be disseminated outside of the team unless,as a team,we have agreed
that certain information can be shared. This includes forwarding emails,social media, and the
like.
Next Steps
There was agreement that the team should meet each week for 1.5 hours on Wednesdays starting at
6pm at City Hall. There will not be meeting the first week of July due to the Holiday. The facilitator will
send out a re-occurring meeting notice
Action Items—The action item list is being maintained on a separate spreadsheet and will be attached
to the email with the minutes.