RIVERDALE, IOWA (November 17, 2025) — The next quarterly meeting of the Quad Cities Flood Resiliency Alliance will be held on Thursday, November 20, 3PM, in the City Hall Community Room in Riverdale, Iowa. The Alliance is a forum for timely and educational information on flood prevention, mitigation, flood insurance, and floodplain management and is open to the public. The agenda for the November 20 meeting includes:
November 20:
Presentation by Chris Mathias, Community and Economic Development Director,
City of Moline, “How the Moline Riverfront Plan Incorporates Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines”.
Background:
Chris Mathias Bio: Chris Mathias is the current Community and Economic Development Director for the City of Moline and has worked there since 2023. Previously, he worked with the City of Moline as the Property Management Coordinator and with Scott County as the Planning Director. He graduated from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with his bachelor’s and master’s degree in urban and regional planning.
The first QCFRA Meeting of 2026 will be held on February 19, 2026, at 3PM.
About the Alliance: At River Action’s October 2018 Upper Mississippi River Conference, a workshop launched a new initiative for the greater Quad City region within the Mississippi River watershed. The Quad Cities Flood Resiliency Alliance kicked off with many local river cities, towns, and villages showing a keen interest in flood prevention, flood damage-mitigation, and floodplain restoration. Quarterly meetings followed, starting in November 2018.
The Quad Cities alliance includes parts of Scott, Clinton, Muscatine, and Louisa counties in Iowa, and Rock Island, Whiteside, Mercer, and Henry counties in Illinois. It provides a forum for river stakeholders to share information, resources, flood-prevention or -mitigation policies, and to get to know river neighbors for assistance before, during, or after flood events.
About 75 communities comprise the alliance footprint, but out of the Quad City communities, only three are currently enrolled in the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System. The CRS encourages a wide variety of creditable activities that communities can undertake as they continually strive to improve their ratings. The base rating begins at ten, and a variety of activities take the rating toward the best rating of one, which earns the largest flood-insurance discounts. The activities themselves provide benefits to the community in reduced or avoided flood damage, quicker recovery, and stricter floodplain regulations to continue these benefits into the future. Moline, Davenport, and Rock Island County are rated eight, seven, and seven, respectively, and currently earn modest discounts on flood insurance premiums.
Goals of the alliance include educating communities on the CRS program and assisting with application and enrollment, training certified floodplain managers to eventually have one in each community and establishing pre-disaster communications and relationships between communities to enable sharing of resources and assistance around flood events.
