Is your community ready for natural disasters?

Join us as we kick off a new regional hazard mitigation and community resilience effort.

We are pleased to announce that Linda Langston, a dynamic national speaker on climate resilience and hazard mitigation issues, will join us April 2 as we kick off our 2019 Regional Hazard Mitigation planning process.

Every five years, MARC helps jurisdictions on the Missouri side of the region update a hazard mitigation plan to meet FEMA requirements. Kansas communities are also in the process of updating their plans. As we launch the 2019 update, current events are bringing these issues to the forefront.

• Climate resilience is at the front of mind for local, state and national leaders due to recent weather disasters and forecasts for increasing risks.
• Legislation passed in 2018 has increased the amount of mitigation grant funds available for FEMA to distribute.

Keynote Speaker:

Our keynote speaker is Linda Langston, director of strategic relations at the National Association of Counties (NACo), and former supervisor of Linn County, Iowa. Langston will discuss the importance of hazard mitigation planning and preparing for disasters, and why local governments should care.

During Langston's tenure with Linn County, the community experienced a flooding disaster, which changed her perspective about how to address recovery and mitigation efforts. She is the chair of the Resilient America Roundtable for the National Academy of Sciences and is a member the National Advisory Council for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where she serves as the chair for the federal insurance and mitigation sub-committee.

Workshop Topics:

Some of the things participants can expect to learn include:

• What are the hazard mitigation requirements for local plans?
• Do all jurisdictions face the same challenges?
• Have the challenges changed over the past five years?
• How are risks changing with climate change or other conditions?
• What actions have local governments or schools taken to mitigate hazards and what results did they achieve?
• Which strategies have proven most effective in mitigating hazards?

Elected officials, city administrators, emergency managers, public works directors, planners, school officials and others on both sides of the state line will benefit from the discussion at this event.

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Questions? Contact John Davis at jdavis@marc.org or Marlene Nagel at mnagel@marc.org.

 

When:
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
8–8:30 a.m. Registration/
Continental Breakfast
8:30–11:45 a.m. Program

 
Where:
Kauffman Foundation
Conference Center
4801 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
Map and directions»

Who Should Attend:
Elected officials, city administrators, emergency managers, public works directors, planners, school officials and others on both sides of the state line will benefit from the discussion at this event.


Cost:
Free to attend,
but registration is required.

RSVP:
Please register online.


Space is limited,
so sign up today!