2018/02/28 Council Agenda Packet

Executive Summary I What Is the Hazard Mitigation Plan? This Hazard Mitigation Plan is designed to reduce risks while supporting and advancing the values of Everett stakeholders.In developing this plan,the City of Everett recognized its engaged residents and community organizations,trusted local government,and - successful business community.The planning process "� ""` recognized the Waterfront and Port as a global trade l � hub,home to the US Navy and a marina,with planned _ -- - - new development.It recognized the value of Everett's = location on Possession Bay and the Snohomish River and how residents and visitors enjoy its shorelines, parks,and forests.The public planning process was built Downtown Everett at dusk.Photo Credit:City of Everett on preserving and advancing these expressed values. The 2017 Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) and the 2017 Hazard Inventory and Vulnerability Analysis (HIVA) are based on the City of Everett's current priorities and available data regarding hazards.This is the third HMP and HIVA reports,building upon the 2006 and 2011 reports. The 2017 HMP was developed through an extensive public process described in Chapter 2.This process generated action items to be addressed by the City of Everett and its partners in the coming five-year cycle.Action items are specific projects and programs carried out by city departments and their partners to improve resiliency.These action items are grouped by strategy area and are explained in full detail in Chapter 3.A summary matrix of all the action items is provided at the end of this section. In Chapter 4,the status of the 2011 HMP action items is reviewed and examples are given of the positive work being done by the City and its partners.Concluding this chapter is a section with examples of hazards mitigation references in Everett's Comprehensive Plan.Chapter 5 provides guidance for implementing,monitoring,and updating the HMP.Appendices cover public process meeting materials,public online survey results,a risk methodology, potential funding sources,a list of definitions and acronyms,and a matrix of action items grouped by lead agency. The public process approach was driven by Appreciative Inquiry(Al) methods applying storytelling to a World Café format.Al focuses on identifying what people value about Everett and what contributes to their human wellbeing. Past and current efforts to improve resiliency are celebrated and built upon.This approach encourages creative engagement and supports progress by building on the positive core rather than dysfunction.' The World Cafe process allows for face-to-face conversations to take place in small groups.Storytelling was used as a means for participants to discuss what they valued and how what they valued addressed daily community life as well as disaster mitigation.Resiliency concepts were incorporated into these discussions.Resiliency is defined as the ability to absorb a disturbance and to recover more quickly and with fewer losses.Being resilient allows communities, ecosystems,and the built environment to respond to hazard events with better outcomes.Rather than building back as before,resiliency is about building back better from lessons learned and creating a process that enables the community to reorganize following destructive changes. I Freitag,Robert et al.2015.Whole Community Resilience:An Asset-Based Approach to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity Before A Disruption.Journal of the American Planning Association,80:4,324-335. City of Everett 2017 Haard Mitigation Plan - 1