Local Hazard Mitigation Plan

What is Mitigation Planning?

Hazard Mitigation Planning involves any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to life and property from a hazard event.
Mitigation planning is a process for systematically identifying policies, activities and tools that can be used to implement those actions.
The Mitigation planning process has four steps: organizing resources, assessing risks, developing a mitigation plan, and implementing the plan and monitoring progress.

The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 requires all local governments to develop and adopt a Hazard Mitigation Plan which will help to maintain and enhance the disaster resistance of each jurisdiction.
FEMA requires local jurisdictions to have an approved Hazard Mitigation Plan in order to qualify for the following Hazard Mitigation funding: Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) and Pre-Disaster Mitigation.

ABAG (Association of Bay Area Governments) has received FEMA funds to create a Multi-Jurisdictional Plan. They are the lead agency with local jurisdictions going under their umbrella plan titled "Taming Natural Disasters."
The City of Concord's unique portion of the ABAG plan is called the Annex to the plan, which includes prioritizing the mitigation strategies, and a brief explanation of our planning process, mitigation activities and plan update process.
Concord City Staff from eight departments have reviewed and prioritized the mitigation strategies, which are a part of our Annex to the umbrella plan.
City Council must authorize creation of the plan as a demonstration of commitment to the process. With FEMA's approval of Concord's Annex, Council will adopt the resolution approving the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan.