DEPARTMENT: Office Of Risk Management
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Adoption Of Dakota County All Hazard Mitigation Plan
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RESOLUTION
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WHEREAS, the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 requires counties and cities to prepare an All-Hazard Mitigation Plan (Plan) every five years; and
WHEREAS, plans must address potential natural and manmade hazard and develop mitigation strategies to reduce the impacts of hazard events both in dollars and lives saved; and
WHEREAS, counties and cities must have an approved and adopted a Plan to be eligible for both federal disaster relief and mitigation project grant dollars; and
WHEREAS, the first Plan was approved by the Minnesota Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (MNHSEM) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2006 and the was updated again in 2011 and 2017; and
WHEREAS, since late 2020, Dakota County staff has been coordinating the required five-year update to the Plan with the 14 urban and six rural cities of Dakota County; and
WHEREAS, each city is required to participate, develop their own mitigation strategies and adopt the Plan as their own once conditionally approved by MNHSEM and FEMA; and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 22-069 (February 22, 2022), the Dakota County Board of Commissioners authorized the submission of a draft All Hazard Mitigation Plan to MNHSEM and FEMA for initial review and to place the draft Plan on the Dakota County website for a 45-day public comment period; and
WHEREAS, the Plan received conditional approval by MNHSEM and FEMA on August 4, 2022.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That Dakota County Board of Commissioners hereby supports the hazard mitigation planning effort and wishes to adopt the 2022 update to the Dakota County All-Hazard Mitigation Plan; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Dakota County Board of Commissioners hereby directs staff to coordinate with the 14 urban and 6 rural cities of Dakota County on preparation of resolutions...
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