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2021 Multijurisdictional Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Executive Summary <br /> <br /> <br /> Provide a dynamic, actionable approach to hazard planning that integrates with other planning <br />mechanisms to enhance or support hazard mitigation. <br /> Invite and enhance the public’s awareness and understanding of hazards and their input on hazard <br />prioritization and mitigation. <br /> Create a decision-making tool for policy and decision makers. <br /> Prioritize multi-benefit actions that reduce risk to vulnerable communities, protect those most at risk, and <br />advance equity, including across racial, ethnic, and rural/urban lines. <br /> Promote compliance with state and federal program requirements. <br /> Ensure inter-jurisdictional coordination on hazard mitigation activities. <br /> Integrate the concepts of climate change into the hazard mitigation planning process. <br /> Support economic viability, including for those who are most economically vulnerable, after a hazard <br />event. <br /> Ensure a safe, respectful, non-discriminatory, and inclusive response to hazard events. <br /> <br />Goals <br />The Steering Committee and planning partners established the following goals for the plan update: <br /> Protect life and property, including protecting the health and safety of communities. <br /> Engage the whole community to better understand the hazards of the region and ways to reduce their <br />personal vulnerability to those hazards. <br /> Promote hazard mitigation as an integrated public policy and as a standard business practice. <br /> Integrate climate change strategies to increase resiliency of community lifelines (critical facilities) from <br />the impact of climate change. <br /> Protect and preserve the environment. <br /> Develop and implement hazard mitigation strategies that use public funds in an efficient and cost- <br />effective way. <br /> Develop hazard mitigation strategies that eliminate disparities and provide access to quality services for <br />all unserved, underserved, under-resourced, and ineffectively serviced individuals and families. <br /> Improve community emergency management capability. <br />The effectiveness of a mitigation strategy is assessed by determining how well these goals are achieved. <br /> <br />Objectives <br />Each objective meets multiple goals, serving as a stand-alone measurement of the effectiveness of a mitigation <br />action. The objectives also are used to help establish priorities. The objectives are as follows: <br />1. Improve understanding of the locations, potential impacts, and linkages among threats, hazards, <br />vulnerability, and measures needed to protect life, safety, and health. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />xxiii