Jefferson County - East-West Gateway Coordinating Council

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The mitigation goals include the following:
Jefferson County – Section 4
• Prevent the loss of life, minimize illness and injury
• Preserve property, infrastructure, business, maintain jurisdiction integrity
• Develop sustainable long-range growth strategy
This section is organized with general goals that are to be met by accomplishing the
accompanying objectives, actions and subsequent strategies. An action matrix has been
included for Jefferson County. It provides a reference for the jurisdiction during the
implementation process. It identifies each goal, objective and strategy, identifies the
hazards addressed by each strategy, type of strategy, target completion date, responsible
party/organization for implementation, potential funding source, prioritization, as well as
monitoring and evaluation indicators. Specific information on potential funding sources is
in found in Section 3 of Jefferson County Hazard Mitigation Plan.
The goals, objectives, actions and strategies identified here were developed through a
multi-step process.
• Hazard identification and analysis (identification of the hazards most prevalent of
the area and following the area).
• Area vulnerability assessment (identification the areas of the jurisdiction most
vulnerable to the previously identified hazards).
• Jurisdiction capability assessment questionnaire (assessment identified the steps the
jurisdiction had taken toward reducing their vulnerability to hazards by reviewing
the jurisdiction’s legal, institutional, political, technical and fiscal capability. This
step identified the jurisdiction’s capability to implement future mitigation measures.)
Evaluation
Several mitigation actions were proposed and discussed by all of the participants at the
mitigation workshops for inclusion into the Hazard Mitigation Plan. The following table
provides an analysis of the County’s proposed mitigation actions. Each action was
reviewed according to the STAPLEE criteria. STAPLEE criteria include: Social, Technical,
Administrative, Political, Legal, Economic and Environmental considerations. The asterisks
in the columns on the right indicate the action would have a positive effect.
TABLE J54 JEFFERSON COUNTY PROPOSED MITIGATION ACTION
EVALUATION
Proposed Action S T A P L E E
Objective 1.1: Raise public awareness.
Encourage development of public outreach programs * * * * * *
Encourage organizations to develop hazard measures for
employees/visitors
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Encourage development of emergency management
curriculum in schools.
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