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Newport News Program for Public Information
Name Affiliation
Acting Chief of Civil Design Engineering, City of
Kathie Angle
Newport News
Development/Property Management, City of
Andy Wilks
Newport News
Port Development Administrator, City of Newport
Doreen Kopacz News
LaToya White Public Works-Stormwater, City of Newport News
Engineering/Environmental/MS4, City of Newport
Allison Watts News
Ashley Gordon Dewberry Engineers Inc., Consultant
Maggie Mathis Dewberry Engineers Inc., Consultant
II. PPI MEETING SCHEDULE
The PPI committee met five times during the planning process to complete the PPI
planning effort. The PPI Committee meetings were held in tandem with the
Floodplain Management Planning Committee meetings at the Newport News City
Hall Engineering Department Conference Room. The meeting dates and objectives
are covered in Table 4 below.
Table 4. Summary of PPI Committee Meeting Dates
Meeting Date Objective(s)
Introduce the PPI process and PPI members,
Meeting #1 / develop a set of goals and guiding principles,
5/17/23
Kickoff and begin assessing public information needs
(Steps 1-2)
Finalize information needs assessment,
Meeting #2 6/20/23 including flood insurance coverage, and identify
priority areas and audiences (Step 2)
Meeting #3 7/27/23 Formulate effective messages (Step 3)
Identify outreach projects (Step 4) and review
Meeting #4 8/23/23
existing outreach activities (Step 5)
Review and discuss draft PPI document for
Meeting #5 9/19/23 adoption; discuss program implementation,
monitoring, and evaluation
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