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D. Post Flood Activities A pre-flood plan should include a section that addresses post-flood operations and activities. Post-disaster procedures should be discussed with appropriate emergency response staff before completion. Two items need to be included in the post-disaster section: I) responsibilities for post-flood mitigation activities, and 2) identification of post-flood mitigation opportunities. E. Circulating The Draft The draft action plan should be publicized and circulated among affected entities such as state and federal agencies, neighboring communities and other departments in community government. Written concurrence of community agency heads should be secured. The draft should be made available for review by affected citizens and businesses. The public meeting part of the review process should occur no sooner than two weeks after citizens have had a chance to perform their review. After the meeting, appropriate changes should be made and submitted to the community's governing body for adoption. F. Adoption The recommendations usually involve more than one department in the community. Therefore, the plan needs to be adopted by the community's governing body. The resolution to adopt the plan should contain the following: Q' Official adoption of the plan and its recommendations, Q' Designation of someone who will insure plan implementation, Q' Designation of priority recommendations, and G' Proviso for implementation progress reports. G. Implementation and Evaluation The community's resolution which adopts the plan should identify one individual with overall responsibilty for implementation of the program. Persons involved in the implementation of the program should definitely be involved in the planning process. Inexpensive but locally visible projects should be implemented quickly so the public sees that the community is doing something. A monitoring system of program implementation should also be set up so persons 21