Structure
Identifying mitigation actions
Data from the mitigation feedback app, interviews, county steering committee meetings, and the public survey, helped staff identify necessary and feasible actions for the region. For each action, BRADD staff identified:
- Goal: goal(s) that the action falls under.
- Hazards covered: the hazards that the action addresses.
- County: county or counties that the action includes.
- Applicable jurisdiction: community that the action applies to. Please note that when the action list states the applicable jurisdictions include “all counties + cities,” each county and its cities are included in the action.
- Priority: this ranking (low, medium, high, very high) reflects BRADD’s benefit-cost analysis of each action. To determine the priority ranking of each action, BRADD staff considered the benefit-cost analysis in terms of:
- Feasibility of the action to address the problem
- Timeline of the action (can it be completed within the 5-year plan timeframe)
- How soon the action could begin
- Contribution of the action to save life or property
- Effectiveness of creating a long-term solution for resiliency
- Lead implementer: organization(s) that is most appropriate to lead the action.
- Other proposed parties: organization(s) that could provide additional assistance or guidance for the action.
- Potential funding sources: grant programs, loans, or other funding options. For actions that require staff time and not additional funding, “staff time” is used instead.
- Status: clarifies the status of the action – whether it is a new action in the 2021 plan or an ongoing activity from the previous plan.
Actions vary by county and city; however, many actions apply to all jurisdictions. The BRADD Regional Economic Development Committee, which includes representatives from each county, approved these mitigation actions.
Changes Since 2017
The largest change in the Multi-Jurisdictional Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan from 2017 is the conversion to this Digital Format. This process also allowed the Barren River Area Development District to complete its Regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) 5-year Plan concurrently – enabling communities to simultaneously review, draft, and objectives relating to hazards and community development in general.
With regard to Hazard Mitigation Action Items/Objectives, the priority ranking system remained the same from 2017 to this update. Additionally, communities reviewed all previous objectives and action items and determined on an item-by-item basis if the action was still relevant, still needed, had already been completed, needed a different approach. All objects currently cataloged in the county and regional listing reflect the most up-to-date needs of each community.