Information

Type: Deliberation

Department: PW - Public Works

Directors' Update: July 31, 2024

Business Meeting: Aug. 6, 2024

Summary:

Authorizing the adoption all of Volume 1 and the Lewis County portion of Volume 2 within the Lewis County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan and Community Wildfire Protection plan. 

Publications:

Cover Letter To:

Additional Copies To: Mindy Brooks

Resolution

WHEREAS, all of Lewis County has exposure to natural hazards that increases the risk to life, property, environment and the County’s economy; and

WHEREAS, pro-active mitigation of known hazards before a disaster event can reduce or eliminate long-term risk to life and property; and

WHEREAS, the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-390) established new requirements for pre- and post-disaster hazard mitigation programs; and

WHEREAS, a coalition of Lewis County stakeholders with like planning objectives has been formed to pool resources and create consistent mitigation strategies to be implemented within each partner identified capabilities within the Lewis County Planning Area; and

WHEREAS, the coalition has completed a planning process that engages the public, assesses the risk and vulnerability to the impacts of natural hazards, develops a mitigation strategy consistent with a set of uniform goals and objectives, and creates a plan for implementing, evaluating and revising this strategy.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Lewis County Board of County Commissioners:

1. Finds that adoption of the Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) and Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) to be in the public's best interest; and
2. Adopts in its entirety, Volume 1 and the introduction, the Lewis County annex, and the appendices of Volume 2 of the Lewis County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan and Community Wildfire Protection Plan. If changes to the plan are required after adoption in order to meet plan approval requirements, those changes will not require Lewis County to readopt the plan; and
3. Directs Lewis County departments and offices to use the adopted and approved portions of the Lewis County HMP and CWPP to guide pre- and post-disaster mitigation of the hazards identified; and 
4. Directs the Department of Public Works, Division of Emergency Management and Department of Community Development to continue to participate in the Planning Partnership as described by the Lewis County HMP and CWPP; and
5. Directs the Department of Public Works, Division of Emergency Management and Department of Community Development to coordinate the strategies identified in the Lewis County HMP and CWPP with other planning programs and mechanisms under its jurisdictional authority.

DONE IN OPEN SESSION this 6th day of August, 2024.