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Providence City Council adopts 2024 hazard mitigation plan to qualify for FEMA grants
Summary
The council voted unanimously to adopt the city's updated 2024 Hazard Mitigation Plan, a roughly 300-page, five-year update that adds 19 mitigation actions and new hazards (including electrification and invasive species). Adoption was required to unlock FEMA funding, including BRIC grant opportunities.
The Providence City Council voted to adopt the city’s 2024 Hazard Mitigation Plan, approving a resolution that city staff said is required for continued eligibility for several Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) mitigation grants.
Director Claire Caservo, who led the plan update process, told the council the plan is a statutorily required, five-year comprehensive hazard-identification and mitigation document. “The multi hazard mitigation plan is a comprehensive hazard identification and mitigation plan that we update by statute every 5 years,” Caservo said, and adoption by the governing body is necessary to remain eligible for federal mitigation grants.
The plan update took about nine months, Caservo said, and included four meetings of a local hazard mitigation committee and five public workshops (four in-person and one virtual) offered in English and Spanish. Staff said 32 community members and representatives of multiple city departments and stakeholders participated in the committee process.
The update adds three hazards of concern not in the prior plan: infestation and…
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