Task 1: Assemble, Review, and Evaluate Existing NHMPs and other Existing Conditions Data and climate change factors with RiverCOG and municipal support. Task 2: Conduct municipal interviews with officials, commissioners, and community leaders to determine the status of existing mitigation projects and identify significant changes in hazards since the last plan. This should include National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) maps updates and inclusion of RiverCOG’s recently completed Flood Susceptibility data with RiverCOG and Municipal Support. The first round of municipal interview meetings will be conducted in advance of the start of this project. Detailed summaries of those meetings will be provided. Task 3: Create and implement a municipal public involvement strategy (municipal public meetings, website, media releases) with RiverCOG and municipal support. Task 4: Create Draft Plan – Analysis, mapping and identification of mitigation strategies with RiverCOG and municipal staff. Task 5: Plan, coordinate, and hold regional public involvement meetings presenting draft plan and receiving comments / posting to websites / media releases / printed copies on view at public libraries and town halls with RiverCOG and municipal staff support. Task 6: Complete state and FEMA review and RiverCOG and municipal adoptions, including public meetings held by the municipalities and RiverCOG with municipal and regional staff.
