FLOOD08745

• County: Statewide
• Community: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: Colorado Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Date: 12/1/1999
• Prepared For: State of Colorado
• Prepared By: Kistner and Associates
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Flood Mitigation/Flood Warning/Watershed Restoration

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Colorado Flood Hazard Mitigation Plan -1999

6,1.5 Other State Agencies
Designated state agencies serve on the SHMT and
selected state agencies will be asked to participate in
appropriate mitigation actiVIties,

This plan designates a lead and partner agency for each
recommendation. A designated lead agency will develop
an action plan, tt is expected that this action will involve
other appropriate state agencies and organizations at
the state and local levels, In essence, the lead agency
will coordinate the statel1oca1 team designed to most
effectively implement the recommendation, In that
capacity, the lead agency is responsible for
communication and reporting progress toward
implementation,

6.2 Monitoring & Reporting Activities
A slmpl~ied on&-to-two page reporting form will be used
by the designated lead agency to report to the Office of
Emergency Management OEM will monrtor the
implementation process as a whole at all levels to
ensure that progress is being made,

6.2.1 Site Visits
The Office of Emergency Management and Colorado
Water Conservation Board will participate in onsrte visits
with a goal of reaching each of the Colorado counties
over a fiv&-year period, Not only will this give the state a
first-hand look at the progress of mitigation
implementation in the counties, but rt will provide an
opportunity for local level officials and the county EMCs
to address needs, barriers, problems, and successes in
their local mrtigation efforts. The visits will be structured
so that county EMCs and floodplain administrators are
able to demonstrate their mrtigation progress, This may
also involve meeting with other local mrtigation
participants, such as the local utilities, county highway
officials, or community organizations,

6.2,2 Written Reporting
Each lead agency will be responsible for providing
periodic written progress reports to OEM, The format for
these reports will be developed by OEM to capture the
information necessary to monrtor progress in
implementing mrtigation recommendations.

6.2.3 Survey and Evaluation
The public, including local officials, will be surveyed to
monitor increases in awareness, understanding, and
acceptance of hazard mrtigation as a valid issue.
Policymakers will be surveyed to monrtor changes in
their awareness, understanding, and priority ranking of
mrtigatlon as rt relates to policy development

State agencies will be surveyed to monrtor their
departmental mrtigation activities and their participation
on the State Hazard Mitigation Team,

Finally, county EMCs will be surveyed to monrtor
communrty progress In implementing specific local level
recommendations.

Future surveys can be buitt upon this process to
continue to measure effectiveness based on data
collected regularly,

This plan is designed to be a changing document
Regular scrutiny and evaluation is the cntical portion of
the plan process that keeps the plan current and usable
as a tool for mitigation activities, The State Hazard
Mrtigation Plan will be evaluated annually by the SHMT
or more frequently ~ deemed necessary to ensure its
ongoing relevance to the state's mrtigation needs,

Evaluation of the plan will be coordinated and
conducted by the State Hazard Mrtigation Team
(SHMT). Each year the goals and objectives will be
reviewed by the SHMT to determine their continued
appropriateness, The state's progress in hazard
mitigation, developments in hazard identification and
analysis, mitigation opportunrties, and mitigation policy
developments are some of the issues to be considered
in evaluating the plan's goals and objectives, The SHMT
will develop the spec~ic activrtles to accomplish the
evaluation,

Local viewpoints and information will be sought to
facilitate this evaluation process, Community meetings,
focus groups or other outreach activities will be held to
access local ideas. County and city offICials and
organizations have indicated their interest In ongoing
participation in the evaluation of the plan in this manner.
Lead agencies and state agencies will be asked for their
views on the goals as they relate to the
recommendations with which they are involved,

Mrtigation recommendations will also be evaluated as
they relate to the goals, Each recommendation will be
measured against the expected outcomes stated in the
plan, Surveys of lead agencies, state agencies and local
government emergency management coordinators,
together with information gathered during the monrtoring
process, will provide much of the basis for evaluation,
Those outcomes will be reviewed to see ~ the expected
outcomes were attained, the reasonableness of the
progress, the effectiveness of the process of
implementation, and the need for modification of the
expected outcomes,

Selected success stories or problem areas will be
studied in depth to highlight and illustrate issues
needing further focus, These case studies will be
utilized In suggesting models for mrtigation for other
Colorado communities and for analysis of process
effectiveness.

This information documenting progress toward
outcomes will be presented to the SHMT by the SHMO
for evaluation, The SHMT will assist in analyzing the

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