FLOOD10807 ‎(2)‎

• County: Statewide
• Community: Northeast Colorado
• Title: Notheast Colorado Emergency Managers' Association Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Date: 10/1/2003
• Prepared For: Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washin
• Prepared By: Amec
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

The County Mitigation Strategies

Step 6: Set Planning Goals
Introduction
The Hazard Mitigation Planning process followed by the MCPC is a typical problem-
solving methodology:

· Describe the problem (Hazards Identification),
· Estimate the impacts the problem could cause (Vulnerability Assessment),
· Assess what safeguards already exist that could/should lessen those impacts
(Capability Assessment), and
· Using this information, determine if you should do something (Determine
Acceptable Risk), and if so, what that something should be (Develop an
Action Plan).

When we decide that certain risks are unacceptable and that certain actions may be
worthy, the development of Plan Goals and Objectives takes place. Goals and Objectives
help us describe what we would like to see take place, using increasingly more narrow
descriptors. We begin with Goals, which are broad-based, long-term and general
statements. Goals are accomplished by meeting Objectives, activities that are specific and
achievable in a finite time period. In most cases there is a third level, called
Recommended Actions, which are very detailed and specific ways of meeting the
obj ecti ves.

When developing the Goals and Objectives for this plan, the MCPC was provided with
the model below as an example of this relationship.

GOAL
Improve Communities' Capabilities
to
Address Hazard Risks and Vulnerabilities

Provide Detailed
HIRA Data to Communities

Enforce Existing
Ordinances

Promote Disaster
Resilient Education

Identify Hazards
Analyze Risks
Create Maps
Coordinate with CO-OEM

Floodplain Management
Building Codes
Subdivision Ordinances

Adopt School Education Programs
Host Construction Technique Workshops
Conduct "Hazard Awareness" Week

The MCPC discussed Goals and Objectives for this plan at two points in the planning
process. First, early in the planning process, the MCPC established general Goals and
Objectives to set the initial tone and direction for the overall plan. Then, after the
problem solving as described above took place, the Goals and Objectives were revisited
as a validation and refinement process to determine if the MCPC data collection
supported them.

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