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Adams County committee adopts updated All Hazard Mitigation Plan
Summary
The committee voted to approve the 2025 Adams County All Hazard Mitigation Plan update, a five-year, FEMA-aligned document with 39 recommendations that adds epidemics/pandemics and high-hazard dam considerations and can be amended if urgent hazards are identified.
The Adams County committee voted to approve the county’s 2025 All Hazard Mitigation Plan update after a presentation from the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.
Daryl London, a planner with the commission, told the committee the draft organizes five primary parts — planning process, planning area background, risk assessment, mitigation strategies and plan maintenance — and includes 39 recommendations organized by hazard type. "We expanded the hazards by adding epidemic and pandemic," London said, and the draft introduces FEMA's community lifelines concept and new FEMA program requirements for this cycle.
The update also adds information about high-hazard dams and describes the history and risk assessments that inform recommended projects. London said the plan is intended to catalog day-to-day responsibilities county staff already perform while also identifying larger "wish list" projects that communities could pursue if funding becomes available. "If something comes up, we can always amend the plan and get the application done that way," he said, citing a hypothetical need to rehabilitate a structurally compromised dam as an example.
Committee members pressed for clarity about implementation and funding sources. London said the plan itself does not impose mandates; instead, it points to potential funding programs and asks local units and county staff to pursue projects on a voluntary basis or as part of regular duties. A supervisor asked whether the committee drafts the plan or whether final approval rests with the full county board; the committee clarified this is a standard approval step before forwarding to the county board.
The chair called for a motion to approve the plan. The motion was moved and seconded (the transcript records the second as Supervisor Baker) and the committee approved the resolution by voice vote.
Next steps: the committee-approved plan will be forwarded consistent with the county’s usual process for formal adoption and may be amended later if an urgent hazard or funding opportunity arises.
