Identifying Community Impacts of Natural Hazards

As part of Barren River Area Development Districts 5-year update to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and Multi-Hazard Multi-Jurisdiction Mitigation Plan (HMP), county-level Steering Committees met for an hour each month from January 2021 to April 2022 to create county-level strategic plans. This is a summary of the agenda for Meeting #4.

During their fourth month together in the planning process, each Steering Committee took a closer look at the natural hazards that could impact their communities. As part of this planning process, steering committees were asked to consider all goals/objectives that could help to reduce loss of life and property due to hazard impacts. When reviewing natural hazard information, committee members were also asked to assess each hazard’s potential impact on the community. For a more in-depth look at the information covered regarding natural hazards and their impacts, visit BRADD’s 2022 Multi-Hazard Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan.

During this meeting, BRADD Staff also continued working with steering committee members to add a listing of all possible hazard impacts to the County Profile Sheets. As Steering Committees worked their way through the immense amount of data presented, this profile sheet assisted members with identifying trends early and became key tools when looking at crafting new goal/objective statements later in the process. Each Steering Committee also made use of a custom Google Classroom set up for committee members to share information and review any meeting materials for meetings they could not attend.

BRADD staff then compiled the information gathered during this meeting and used it (paired with previous meeting information) to build the foundation for each County Strategic Plan in each of the succeeding monthly meetings. To read more about information covered in other monthly meetings, click here.