Submitted By: Payal Pandya
Department: Engineering
STAFF RECOMMENDATION (Motion Ready):
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Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) Annual Report
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OCALA’S RELEVANT STRATEGIC GOALS:
Quality of Place
PROOF OF PUBLICATION:
N/A
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BACKGROUND:
The Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) Steering committee must submit the annual report to the Florida Department of Emergency Management (FDEM). Additionally, every year the City is required by the Community Rating System (CRS), to submit an annual evaluation report of the LMS projects to City Council and review our progress in implementing the plan, in order to maintain our Insurance Services Office (ISO) rating for flood.
Attached is a letter on the implementation of the City's LMS projects from the City Engineer. Also attached is the LMS annual report submitted to FDEM by the LMS Steering Committee and coordinated by Marion County.
In summary, eight (8) of the City projects currently on the LMS projects list were submitted to FDEM for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) public assistance grant funding from Hurricane Irma in 2019. Two (2) of the projects were denied; however, the six (6) remaining projects were funded. The City Engineer's Office is now diligently working on design of the funded projects.