Oconee County Hazard Mitigation Plan Update Kickoff Meeting

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Georgia Emergency Management Agency
Office of Homeland Security
Oconee County Hazard Mitigation Plan Update
Kickoff Meeting
Brian Laughlin
Hazard Mitigation Planner
WELCOME!! Please sign in on one of the attendance
rosters
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What is Hazard Mitigation?

• Defined Any sustained actions taken to reduce or
  eliminate the long-term risk to human life and
  property from hazards.
• Continuous, on-going process
• Pre- and post-disaster

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What is Hazard Mitigation?

• A few examples
• Elevating homes in floodplains
• Levees and floodwalls
• Stronger building codes
• Land use planning
• Safe rooms

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Why are we doing this?Long Term Goal

• Reduce disaster losses
• Loss of Life
• Damage to Property
• Economic impacts
• Social impacts

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Why are we doing this?Hazard Mitigation Benefits

• Mitigation saves money
• Every 1 invested will save 4
• Mitigation creates safer, more resilient
  communities
• Break the cycle of disaster damage
• Mitigation speeds disaster recovery

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Why are we doing this?Required for Federal Grant
Eligibility

• Annually
• Pre-Disaster Mitigation Competitive (PDM-C)
• Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)
• Post Disaster
• Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
• One of the first questions you will be asked
  Do you have a hazard mitigation plan?
• Others
• Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2K) requires
  a local plan to be in place for the above
  programs
• Emphasizes a proactive approach to emergency
  management prevent damages before the disaster

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Why are we doing this?

• Hazard Mitigation Plans are required by Federal
  law to be updated every 5 years
• Oconee Countys plan approved on August 12, 2008
• Oconee Countys plan expires on August 12, 2013

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What does this plan do?

• Identify and profile the Hazards
• Tornados, floods, lightning, etc.
• Requirement is natural hazards
• Can also include technological, or man-made
  hazards
• Determine the Risk (Threat)
• A real, quantifiable number that is based on past
  hazard history, or advanced statistical modeling
• Determine the Vulnerability
• How bad could the damages get? (dollars,
  numbers, etc.)
• Develop goals strategies to reduce long-term
  risks and/or vulnerabilities

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How do we do this?Updating Your Local Hazard
Mitigation Plan Getting Started

• Organize Resources
• Determine who needs to be part of the process
• Thank you for being part of this!!!
• Identify resources for information

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How do we do this?Updating Your Local Hazard
Mitigation Plan The plan itself

• Update Risk Assessment
• How have the hazards changed?
• Has development increased, decreased or remained
  the same?
• Are there any changes in your critical
  facilities?
• Update Goals Objectives
• What projects have been accomplished?
• Are there some that have not been accomplished?
  Why?
• Are there new and better ideas?

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How do we do this?Updating Your Local Hazard
Mitigation Plan The plan itself contd

• Update the Planning Process
• Describe the process used to update the plan.
• Who was involved?
• How was each section reviewed and how was it
  determined if revisions were necessary?
• Update the intended plan maintenance process
• What process and criteria will be used for
  evaluation and monitoring?

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How do we do this?Updating Your Local Hazard
Mitigation Plan Follow-up

• Submit for GEMA/FEMA Review
• Adopt Plan
• Implement the Plan Monitor Progress
• Ongoing after local adoption and FEMA approval

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Changes

• Planning Process
• Must include two documentable opportunities for
  public participation during drafting stage to
  comment on final draft prior to adoption
• Can be public hearings, website, etc.
• Risk Assessment
• NFIP repetitive loss structures vulnerability
  must be described in terms of types and numbers
  of structures.
• Goals Objectives
• Must have strategy for NFIP compliance spelled
  out, or a specific statement of why jurisdiction
  is not going to participate in program

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Changes

• New FEMA mitigation plan guidance
• For all plans submitted after October 1, 2012
• No new regulations
• New interpretations of certain regulations
• Available online

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What is my part?

• County Point of Contact
• Submit quarterly reports on time
• Submit for reimbursement as needed
• Coordinate with GEMA , consultant, participants
• County, Cities Towns
• Participate in planning process
• Plan adoption and implementation
• Everyone
• Will ensure your input into the planning process
• Will help the County meet the 25 grant match
  requirement

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What is my part?

• The best plans are the ones with diverse group of
  stakeholder participation
• Local government
• Non-government organizations
• Businesses and private sector
• Special districts and authorities
• Schools and colleges/universities
• Residents
• Others
• Each has an important role in this process

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Questions ... Discussion
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Contact Information
Brian Laughlin Hazard Mitigation Planner Georgia
Emergency Management AgencyPhone (404)
635-7307E-mail brian.laughlin_at_gema.ga.gov
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PDM Planning Milestones

1. Form Planning Committee
2. Kickoff Meeting
3. Form Steering Committee
4. Update Critical Facilities, Hazards, and Risk
   Assessment
5. Update Mitigation Strategy
6. GEMA / FEMA Review and Approval
7. Adoption by Resolution

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Timetable

• Plan schedule
• Accelerated 9 months, complete August 2012
• Standard 18 months, complete May 2013
• (Due date August 2013)

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Responsibilities
Oconee County and Cities Attend committee meetings Homework participation Regularly complete submit timesheets Government action as required (e.g. pass adopting resolution) Regional Commission Meeting coordination and facilitation Data analysis and mapping Planning process Labor match documentation Plan development Plan submission/revisions
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Labor Match

• Document all hours spent
• Use provided form
• Will be available through NEGRC website
• Meeting attendance, homework, and research should
  be included
• Use one form per work session
• Bring completed forms to meetings

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Homework

• Create steering committee
• Identify regular meeting schedule
• Review critical facilities (see handout)

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NEGRC Contact Information

• Dave Van De Weghe Principal Planner
• dvandeweghe_at_negrc.org
• [phone]