15 minute, 59 second (counting intro & credits) video of City of Mount Vernon City Council discussion regarding hiring Cultural Resource Consultants, Inc {CRC} to document & inventory Mt. Vernon's rich history. This is being triggered by legal requirements for federal financing of the City Government of Mt. Vernon's flood protection. The Skagit Valley Herald covered the meeting at tinyurl.com/4y92yv (speed dial to the news story).

This video was bought by Skagit IMS (which is also a consultant to the City Government of Mt. Vernon) and uploaded as a pro bono project. The only changes made to the video were to add a title and credits plus soundtrack to both from the recent movie "The Kingdom" after trimming to this discussion. As to the purpose of posting the video, the purpose is almost completely to share with other consultants working on this project this video public record and a tiny bit to showcase Skagit IMS capability.

Finally, if others have interest, that's welcomed. That said, this webpage with posted video & comment opportunity is not intended to be political so please keep your comments here to the information discussed in the video and use the video wisely & to generally accepted professional standards. Thank you for your understanding - any questions, please post comments.

City of Mount Vernon, Washington Town Hall on FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs). Skagit Information Management Systems - skagitims.biz - helped in the production of the PowerPoint you will see. A video obtained by skagitriverhistory.com .

Briefing by City Engineer of Burlington Chal Martin on Skagit River hydrology issues, followed by discussion and action to join the Skagit Flood Advisory Conference Team (Skagit FACT). Also a request for the federal government to submit the municipal-generated data from expeditions to The Smith House and work by Pacific International Engineering (PIE, PI Engineering).

As to documents, the presentation is available at tinyurl.com/5znxw5, the joint resolution requesting the use of PIE hydrology by FEMA for flood insurance rate mapping is available at tinyurl.com/6nrb5b and the joint Mount Vernon-Burlington letter to Representative Larsen to lobby for correct hydrology is available at tinyurl.com/5zxu9l. All links are speed-dial to PDF files on skagitriverhistory.com . Finally, official Mount Vernon minutes are available at ci.mount-vernon.wa.us/imageuploads/CityMeeting-Minutes-281.pdf

City of Mount Vernon TV10 video hosted on Google Video of May 24, 2007 town hall meeting convened by the Mount Vernon and Burlington Chambers of Commerce regarding FEMA flood mapping for flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs) that set the rate for flood insurance. Employees from the City of Burlington, City of Mount Vernon, their independent chambers of commerce, and FEMA as well as county commissioner candidate Don Gordon, Jeff Hansell of Hansell-Mitzel Homes and Bob Rauch all spoke at the meeting before a question & answer session at 66:20.

Video, quality titles and credit are by TV10. The first minute stutters, but that's okay.

Discussion by Mount Vernon City Council of Washington Trust for Historic Preservation's designation of downtown Mt. Vernon as endangered after an intro clip that includes some Windows Movie Maker special effects. The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation's website is wa-trust.org/ It is worth noting that in the summer of 2008, there is also an agreement regarding doing right by the history of the MV waterfront - including this building in force to resolve this issue justly. The agreement is online at skagitims.biz/Client%20Pages/City%20of%20Mount%20Vernon/Mount%20Vernon%20History%20SIGNED%20MOA.pdf

This video was bought by Skagit IMS and uploaded as a pro bono project to those concerned about Mount Vernon history for whatever reason (e.g. business, property ownership, political, personal). Hopefully this capability is remembered by viewers when they have needs for a video to be posted to the internet &/or edited.

Finally, comments and downloading the raw video for future viewing &/or possible editing is welcomed but please take these privileges as privileges to be taken seriously. Thank you for your understanding - any questions, please post comments.