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Washtenaw County resilience officer outlines 2025 priorities, including hazard‑mitigation plan to unlock federal funding
Summary
County Resilience Officer Beth Gibbons briefed the Board on the Resilient Washtenaw plan, staffing and 2025 priorities, and said the office will pursue a countywide hazard mitigation plan to enable FEMA BRIC funding and lowered flood-insurance rates for municipalities.
Beth Gibbons, Washtenaw County’s resilience officer, told commissioners the county office has grown to a three-person team and is prioritizing implementation of the Resilient Washtenaw plan in 2025, including a countywide hazard mitigation plan to improve eligibility for federal resilience grants.
Gibbons said the resilient plan sets two core targets: carbon neutrality in county operations by 2030 and countywide carbon neutrality by 2035. The Resilient Washtenaw plan also assigns eight strategy areas — energy transition, housing, mobility and access, health, working lands and natural areas, infrastructure and circular economy, and implementation and engagement — and lays out roughly 45 measurable action areas.
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