13 - RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE 2017 LAMAR COUNTY MITIGATION PLAN

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Lamar County Multi- Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan Chapter Two • Past occurrences of hazardous events in or near Lamar County, the severity, duration and the resulting influences on the County. • Description of Lamar County's vulnerability to identified hazards including types and numbers of existing and future buildings, infrastructures and critical facilities in targeted hazard areas. • Probability or likelihood of hazard occurrences. • Estimated potential dollar losses of structures considered vulnerable. • General description of land uses and development trends for future land use decisions. All external information and data collected for the Lamar County Mitigation Plan will be available for local jurisdictions to use in mitigation projects as needed. PHASE 3 - DEVELOP MITIGATION STRATEGIES: An important portion of the mitigation planning process is to develop strategies to reduce losses as identified in the Risk Assessment phase. The long -term mitigation strategies include: • A description of mitigation objectives intended to reduce long -term vulnerabilities. • Identification and a comprehensive analysis of a range of mitigation actions and projects. • Action plan describing how the mitigation actions and projects were prioritized, and how the plan will be implemented and administered. To facilitate this process other project meetings were utilized to assist in the development of Strategies. One such project meeting was the Lamar County Annual Training and Exercise Planning Workshop which had a total of 14 represented local agencies, schools, and private groups as well as TDEM, Texas Forest Service, and American Red Cross represented. City Council Meetings were a solution to getting more public involvement. The purpose of utilizing City Council Meetings was to provide updates to our plan development but evolved to a source to include more general public input and awareness of the overall plan its process and purpose. PHASE 4 - ADOPTION, IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE: A formal adoption by the county and the local jurisdictions is required after the HMPT reviewed and finalized the rough draft and the draft was approved as adoptable by FEMA. Each jurisdiction gave an informal approval after the HMPT reviewed and finalized the drafts prior to submission to the state for initial review. After the informal adoption by local jurisdictions the plan was submitted to the State of Texas Governor's Division of Emergency Management for review and coordination. Once accepted, it will be forwarded to the FEMA Region VI for review and approval. After the State of Texas and FEMA review the plan will be available for public review and comment at both the County Emergency Coordinator's Office and the County Clerk's Office. 40