Summary
The Town of Nashville unanimously approved Resolution 2025-29 to adopt the 2025 Nash–Edgecombe–Wilson mitigation plan, updating the town's hazard mitigation guidance to include items such as cyber threats and pandemic response.
The Town of Nashville adopted Resolution 2025-29 to approve the 2025 Nash–Edgecombe–Wilson mitigation plan, a regional update compiled by an outside consultant and a task force of municipalities and emergency-management personnel.
A staff member explained the plan is periodically updated every five to 10 years and that an outside consultant, Abby Moore of WSP Consulting (Upper Coastal Plain Governance), led a task force of municipal and county managers and emergency management personnel to prepare the document. The speaker said the plan now includes items not emphasized in prior versions such as cyber threats and pandemic response.
The plan is lengthy (the staff presentation noted 753 pages) and staff provided a link to allow council members to review municipal-specific sections. A councilmember asked for two corrections in the draft (replacing instances of "board of commissioners" with "town council" in the indicated paragraph); staff confirmed those edits and then the council voted to adopt Resolution 2025-29. The transcript records a voice vote with all in favor: "All those in favor, let it be known by saying aye. Aye."
The adoption makes the 2025 regional mitigation plan the town's reference for hazard mitigation guidance; the plan's municipal sections document both prior actions and additions relevant to each participating jurisdiction.
