Emergency management presents updated Hazard Mitigation Plan; local adoption motion introduced
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Summary
County emergency management presented the state- and FEMA-approved five-year Kansas Online Security Region 1 Hazard Mitigation Plan and a commissioner moved to adopt a local-adoption resolution. The transcript records the motion; the spoken record of a final roll-call vote was not explicit in the audio.
Geary County Emergency Management presented the county’s updated five-year Hazard Mitigation Plan — a document the speaker said has already been approved by state authorities and FEMA — and requested local adoption so mitigation funding can be accessed for eligible projects.
Gary Burgess explained that the plan updates an earlier five-year plan and that local adoption will enable the county to use mitigation funds for recovery and resilience projects, citing prior use of the plan in response to last year’s ice storm. A commissioner moved to approve a local-adoption resolution for the plan (the resolution number was presented verbally but portions of the number are unclear in the transcript). The transcript records the motion being made; the verbal record in the meeting does not contain a clearly enumerated vote tally for that motion in the recorded segments.
What the motion does Local adoption is an administrative step that allows county governments to qualify for mitigation grant funding and to be eligible for project reimbursement under the state and FEMA frameworks. County staff said that the plan will be distributed to commissioners and that copies will be provided on request.
Next steps Staff will provide commissioners with a copy of the plan and the adopted resolution once clerks finalize the file. Any county projects that use mitigation funds will require separate project approvals and budget allocations.
