LINCOLN, Nebraska – The Lower Platte South Natural Resources District (LPSNRD) Board of Directors approved the Professional Services Agreement for LPSNRD Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan 2025 Update. The HMP is a community-guided document that identifies vulnerability to natural and man-made hazards, and mitigation projects to reduce or eliminate these vulnerabilities. The HMP is required to be updated every five years for participating communities to get funding for mitigation projects. The current 2020 HMP is due to be updated and approved by FEMA by May 20, 2025.

In planning for 2025, LPSNRD applied and was approved for Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant with The Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, which would utilize Federal funds to pay for 75% of the HMP update.

The accepted bid came from JEO Consulting Group, Inc. at a cost not to exceed $117,850.00. JEO’s proposed schedule for the HMP update project is to start March 1, and be completed with adoption by April 2025.

In other business the board:

• Accepted bid for the Salt Creek Levee Resurfacing Project – Vandorn to “O” Street - Gana Trucking & Excavating ($135,825).
• Accepted bid for the Beal Slough Bank Stabilization Project – 40th & Nebraska Parkway - Yost Excavating ($88,198).
• Approved $2,500 increase in the maximum cost-share amounts for the LPSNRD Surface Water Quality BMP Cost-Share Fall and Summer Programs.
• Approved transferring 2.289 acres of wetland mitigation credits from Blue Heron Wetland Bank to Piening Water Quality Basin Project.
• Approved renewal of the Saline Wetland Conservation Partnership Interlocal Agreement effective FY2025-2029.
• Approved farm pond application for Andy and Dana Cotter, of North Central Lancaster County at a cost-share not to exceed $14,400.