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<br />. <br /> <br />For Community Rating System credit, a written progress report must be prepared each year, a <br />duty for which the planning committee is well suited, as committee members wrote the plan and <br />have a stake in seeing it implemented, ' <br /> <br />2. PLAN FOR PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT <br /> <br />The planning process will succeed only if the right people are <br />involved, Two groups of people are important: the technical staff <br />of agencies and organizations involved in the solutions and the <br />public, Technical staffwas discussed in the previous section. The <br />public includes: <br /> <br />Advantages of Public Involvement <br />. Better fit local needs <br />. Strengthen local support <br />. More realistic plan <br />. A void misunderstandings <br />. Share the workload <br /> <br />. owners and renters of floodprone homes <br />. representatives of homeowner or neighborhood organizations <br />. managers offloodprone facilities, such as businesses, power stations, and schools <br />. fanners and others who affect watershed runoff conditions <br />. "river watchers," "Friends of the River," and members of similar organizations <br />. land developers, real estate agents, lenders and others who affect the future of the <br />floodplain and the watershed <br />. local watershed councils or associations <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />These people have their own concerns and flooding may not be one of their main ones, They <br />should not be viewed as a burden but as people who can help you design an effective program and <br />provide support for it. You can involve them in a variety of ways: <br /> <br />. they can serve on or send a representative to the planning committee <br /> <br />. you can invite them to those meetings that address the issues that are most important to <br />them <br /> <br />. you can distribute a questionnaire or host a workshop to gather their input and give <br />guidance to the planning committee <br /> <br />. you can conduct a "waterfront day" or a demonstration project to attract public attention <br />and raise the attendees' level of awareness and interest <br /> <br />. they can be kept abreast of what's going on through a newsletter or presentations at their <br />meetings <br /> <br />. they may want to just have a chance to review the draft plan <br /> <br />The level of people's involvement depends on how much time they have available and how much <br />the issues affect them. One of the most important things is that they are asked to participate, that <br />e they are offered a chance to have a say in your planning work. <br /> <br />The "IO-Step" Mitigation Planning Process <br /> <br />s <br /> <br />May 1999 <br />