County staff: updated Emergency Operations Plan ready for consent; FEMA-approved hazard mitigation plan needs resolution

Oct 6, 2026

Deputy Director Tinger presented an updated Kent County Emergency Operations Plan that staff said can go on the consent agenda and described a FEMA-approved Hazard Mitigation Plan that will require a formal resolution for adoption because it ties to grant funding.

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Deputy Director Tinger (S11) told commissioners the Kent County Emergency Operations Plan was last reviewed in 2020 and that staff had updated the base plan, emergency support functions and hazard-specific annexes. "The next step in this would be for Levy Court to adopt it and then to authorize President Masson to sign a promulgation statement," Tinger said, explaining the consent-agenda path for the EOP.

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