10-2148 Local Mitigation Strategy Update

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Seminole County Loc _il Mitigation Strategy (LMS) ~t. ..:~ .~ .~ Participating local government agencies are registered as organizations under the appropriate jurisdiction, as are other groups, associations, districts, regions and agencies, both public and private, which serve the jurisdiction or are headquartered in it. Because this is a local, multi jurisdiction mitigation plan, this approach enables all interested organizations, groups and agencies, regardless of their total number, to be directly and actively involved in the planning within a limited number of jurisdictions. In the case of Seminole County, this planning effort has involved seven jurisdictions defined as active participants in the planning. The active planning participants include: City of Altamonte Springs, City of Casselberry, City of Lake Mary, City of Longwood, City of Oviedo, City of Sanford, City of Winter Springs, and Seminole County. This is an all-inclusive list for all the entities within our County required to approve this LMS plan as amulti-jurisdictional plan. Participation will be identified by attendance and active participation in the process. Participating entities are the same jurisdictions that participated in the 2004 plan update and they have been consistently active in the process since that time. However, this LMS has had participation by all of the entities listed above, to the extent that they attended the meetings, participated, and contributed to the update process of gathering data, providing insight, and information all in the effort to better mitigate our community. 2. PuLe.~ Several public information activities have been undertaken to explain the mitigation planning process to the community and to solicit their input and involvement in the planning process, as well as to provide mitigation awareness and educational information. The LMS Working Group welcomes public input to the planning process, and fosters public participation through the issuance of legal notices and holding public meetings. For the update of this plan, a link was added to www. r~epareseminole.com that continues to allow the public to submit input and comment for the LMS plan update. The draft LMS plan is available via the website for continued public comment. A public announcement on www. repareseminole.com will be posted to offer the public another opportunity for comment and input prior to the adoption hearing. Once the plan is adopted the approved plan will continue to be made available via the website for future review and comment. Public comment on the plan will continue to be encouraged on www.~repareseminole.com. In addition to seeking public comment and input to the overall planning process and the draft plan, many of the participating agencies and organizations in the LMS Working Group individually conduct efforts to inform the public about the impacts of disasters, hazard mitigation and the mitigation planning process. From the report entitled "Public Information Activity Report", past highlights of the process used by the participating agencies to engage the general public in the mitigation planning process include atwo-hour television program aired all over Central Florida inviting comment on disaster preparedness and planning. The program was .:; , Page 5