2016/11/30 Council Agenda Packet

Print Application Page 6 of 24 Scope of Work(Page 1 of 2) Title of your proposed activity(should include the type of activity and location): City of Everett Hazard Mitigation Plan Update Proposed types of Mitigation Activity(ies): Activity Code Activity Name 91.1 Local Multihazard Mitigation Plan If Other or Miscellaneous selected above, please specify: Describe the geographic area(s)to be covered by the planning activity: All land included within the City of Everett's city limits. The City of Everett is the seat of Snohomish County and its largest city. The city is located on a peninsula at the delta of the Snohomish River in the west central portion of Snohomish County. It borders Port Gardner Bay and includes approximately 15%tidal water within its area of 47.7 square miles. Source(s) of hazards specific to the geographic area to be addressed by the planning activity: Tsunami, Fire, Other(Specify in Comments),Volcano, Flood, Severe Storm(s), Mud/Landslide, Earthquake, Toxic Substances Scope of Work(Page 2 of 2) Option that describes the intent of this planning application: Update If a plan update, describe the evaluation process of the existing plan for its strengths, weaknesses and utility: The contract team,with the assistance of the Emergency Management Director(Director),will evaluate the existing 2011 City of Everett Hazard Mitigation Plan to identify where new or updated information will be incorporated. The team will conduct a section by section inventory of the existing plan to identify where any gaps in information exist. The contract team will review the identified hazards as well as the existing plan's goals and action items and consider revising them if warranted by changing conditions in the City of Everett. The contract team will also review the existing plan's implementation strategies for the action items to determine if they have been effective and are still relevant or need to be revised. Describe the process for implementing this planning activity, including the following plan development requirements: 1) participation of agencies, stakeholders and the public; 2) hazard identification and risk/vulnerability assessment; 3) mitigation strategy; 4)plan adoption; and 5) plan maintenance: Everett OEM will hire a contractor to update the Everett Hazard Mitigation Plan. The Emergency Management Director(Director)will oversee and work with the selected contractor team.The contractor team will report to the Director and be responsible for several key activities. It is estimated to take four weeks to bring a contractor on board. The contractor team, with the support of the Director,will conduct partner agency, stakeholder, and public engagement in the plan update process. They will use public forums, collaborative meetings, press releases, web-based tools, social media, and other means to encourage participation from the community. The contractor team will establish public meeting schedules through the City of Everett's Council of Neighborhoods for citizens, business, and government and education stakeholders to participate. The contractor team will compile public input gathered through engagement activities to apply to updating the mitigation goals and the City of Everett Hazard Inventory and Vulnerability Analysis(HIVA). Everett's World Café style public forum for the City of Everett 2011 Hazard Mitigation Plan update was recognized as a successful community involvement approach in FEMA's Local Mitigation Planning. Everett Emergency Management and the contractor team will explore utilizing this method or a modified version of it to engage 164