Thursday August 7, 2003 

“The Community Rating System (CRS)

& All-Hazards Mitigation Planning”

TO:       CRS Program Coordinator

            Floodplain Managers

            Emergency and Mitigation Planning Office

SUBJECT:         Training Workshop

On Thursday August 7, 2003, FEMA Region VIII is offering a training workshop on the CRS and ALL –Hazards Mitigation Planning at the Regional Office in Denver, CO.  The Workshop will provide information on how to undertake a local mitigation planning process that results in a plan that will successfully satisfy the requirements of the CRS Program and the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan criteria of  the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (DMA2000).

Location          The Regional office is located in the Denver Federal Center, Building 710, Denver, 80225-0268.  Use gate 1 to enter the Center off of 6^th and Kipling. Parking is available on the North side of building 710A.  You will be asked to present your driver’s license to the security officer in building 710. The workshop will begin at 9 am and is expected to conclude at 3:30 pm. 

Attendance will be limited to 50 participants, and we are requesting that a representative of the local planning department accompany the floodplain manager to the workshop.  Please send a list, by name, title, telephone number and email, of interested participants to Ken and myself no later than August 4.

If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact Simon Cardenas (303) 235-4912 or Ken Crawford (303) 235-4926, or email at simon.cardenas@dhs.gov or ken.crawford@dhs.gov.

Agenda

9:00 AM                     Introductions

9:15 AM                     Overview – what to expect

9:30 AM                     Getting Started – you are not by yourself and here is who can help

9:45 AM                     Organizing Resources – involving the public, coordination among agencies, integration with other planning efforts and who should be involved

10:15 AM                   Assessing Risks – identifying all hazards, profiling hazard events, assessing vulnerability and estimating potential losses

10:40 AM                   Break

11:00 AM                   Assessing Risks – continued

12:00 PM                   Lunch – on your own

1:15 PM                     Developing the Mitigation Plan – developing mitigation goals and objectives, identifying and prioritizing mitigation actions, preparing an implementation strategy and documenting the planning process

2:15 PM                     Break

2:30 PM                     Implement and Monitor Progress – adopt the mitigation plan, implement the plans recommendations, evaluate the results and revise the plan

3:15 PM                     Recap – helpful hints, questions