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The Nebraska Floodplain and Stormwater Managers Association (NeFSMA) is an active organization of over 100 members representing over 50 organizations. NeFSMA pursues multiple purposes including: 1.)promote public awareness of floodplain and stormwater management; 2.) promote the professional status of floodplain and stormwater management and secure all benefits resulting there from; 3.) promote cooperation and information exchange between individuals and entities concerned with floodplain and stormwater management; 4.) keep individuals concerned with floodplain and stormwater management well informed through educational and professional seminars and to provide a method for dissemination of information, both general and technical; 5.) inform and educate concerned individuals of pending floodplain or stormwater legislation, funding and other related management matters. Please browse our website to learn more about NeFSMA at www.nefsma.net. If you are interested in joining, either contact one of the board members or complete the membership form.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

NeFSMA Improving Effort to Track Continuing Education Credits for CFMs

We have been working for some time now to figure out how to improve the process of tracking Continuing Education Credits for CFMs.  ASFPM provides credit pre-approval for our meetings and conferences if they meet their discipline guidelines.  We work hard to provide events that will help CFMs meet their continuing education credit requirements so that they are not forced to attend out-of-state conferences unless they want to.  But how do we get around the process of rounding up all your attendance certificates every two years to submit to ASFPM?  Failing to do so can have expensive consequences for maintaining your CFM status.

Well, since NeFSMA is a state Chapter, ASFPM will track your credits on-line at www.floods.org if they have the information that you attended.  This means you don't have to send your certificates of attendance to them. NeFSMA will provide that information to ASFPM after each workshop if you attended.  You should log into the member page of ASFPM to verify that your information is current.  I checked mine today and it was up-to-date.


We hope this is a valued member benefit you receive from NeFSMA.  We currently have 31 NeFSMA members that maintain their CFM and possibly a few more since our Annual Conference last month.  If you are interested in becoming a CFM or what the value of that certification program might be to you or your community, please contact Bill Jones or Andrew Christensen with Nebraska Department of Natural Resources.
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