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Slide 8. What players need . You do not need to be a recovery expert to do these tasks. You need working knowledge of your community and some idea of the effects of floods. You have here a collection of background documents and maps to help you with the tasks. The materials include your community plan and land use diagram, zoning ordinance and maps, emergency response plan, and any available redevelopment plans and lists of historic buildings. Y OJl also have the flood hazard information available for your community, including your Flood Insurance Rate Maps issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and your floodplain management ordinance. You can refer to these items throughout the exercise as questions arise. Here is a base map covering the community. You will be recording information on this map throughout the exercise. You also have a set of colored pens for adding information to the map. Handout 2 tells you which color to use for each category of information to be mapped. Slide 9. Getting started Before you start the exercise, you need to organize yourselves to do the work. First, you need to select a player to take the lead on each task. The selections can be recorded on Handout 3 in your packet. The task leader will be responsible for keeping the discussion on track and helping the group reach some decisions before the timer goes off. We will also ask the leader to give a two-minute (or less) summary of the results at the end of each task, focusing on any problems encountered and recommended actions to overcome them. You also need to select a player to be group recorder. This should be someone whose position on the city staff is somewhat peripheral to the topics covered in the exercise. For example, the planning director or building official would not be a good choice, but the city clerk or personnel director might be. This person will fill out the handouts with particular attention to Handout 4. Recommended Actions, which is filled out at the end of each task. If available, a flip chart or a blackboard may be used in place of Handout 4. The recorder will then recap the recommended actions listed on Handout 4 as part of Task L. In addition, you may want to select the artist among you to draw on the map. Now, open your packet and review the four handouts. Take a minute to look them over. Then go right to selecting the players to fill the various roles. We will start the introduction to Task A as soon as you have made your selections. Script-Introduction to Tasks, page 4