Attending Officials at Meeting

----- Original Message -----
From: McGuire, Steve
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:05 AM
Subject: Saturday Meeting


Good morning everyone.

Bob, this is excellent! Thanks for doing this.

A couple of updates. We will have the agenda for Saturday's meeting posted on the website later today. Saturday's meeting will include the Mayor, City Manager, Police Chief, a person from Senator Harkin's office and a FEMA official. We are waiting on confirmation of names. Yesterday the City agreed to go into the neighborhood and shoot video of every home. This will be shown on Saturday and be made available on the site Bob Irwin has created.

A number of folks have called and emailed expressing opinions about "should FEMA buy out the neighborhood". My sense is that there are a range of opinions, all of which need to be respected. For this reason I hope to iterate that Saturday's meeting is not a meeting about making a decision about the neighborhood. This is not a goal, and in the end each individual will determine what happens to their property and whether they will pursue rebuilding or not. It is a meeting to gather and disseminate information, hear folks' questions and figure how we can work collectively to insure that each individual has available to them the full range of options we have as home owners and citizens of Iowa City.

Please share this with others email with others.

Best,

Steve