Purpose
In this activity, you will revisit your planning approach (Step 1, Activity 3) and determine how you will address the risks and vulnerabilities identified in Step 3. This will help determine how to best develop, prioritize, and implement potential resilience strategies.
Why?
Now that you understand the risks and vulnerabilities of your community, it is important to revisit your planning scope and goals before you move forward. Revisiting your community engagement timeline and goals will help you identify how to best support the development of strategies that address your vulnerabilities and risks.
When?
This process generally takes one to three weeks to complete.
Tips
- Ensure the declaration adheres to the provisions of C.R.S. 24-33.5-709.
- Include information on timelines of the state of emergency (must expire within 7 days except by consent of the governing board.
- Detail the special provisions and authorities that are conferred by the declaration in the language of the declaration itself.
- The State does not require a declaration to provide assistance.
How does my community do this?
- Reassess your community’s overarching resilience goals and vision. Now that you have completed the vulnerability and risk assessments (Step 3), it is important to revisit your resilience vision, goals, and guiding principles (Step 2). Make adjustments as needed. A few key questions to consider:
- Does your community’s resilience goal still resonate with your team now that you have completed the vulnerability and risk assessment? If not, what needs to change?
- When do you foresee those goals and visions being updated in the future?
- Define objectives for addressing the vulnerabilities identified in Step 3. Use your overarching community resilience goals to help guide the development of your objectives. Objectives are specific statements intended to help you overcome the shocks and stressors identified in Step 3. For example, if you have identified increasing wildfire risk as a key concern in your community, your objective may be to reduce wildfire risk or to enhance the evacuation preparedness of your community, or both. Additional objectives could include: enhance drought preparedness; reduce the impact of shorter, warmer winters on the tourism economy; reduce wildfire risk; enhance biodiversity; reduce the impact of extreme heat events; and more. A few key questions to consider:
- What shocks and stressors were identified in Step 3?
- Does your community already have planning objectives defined?
- How might your objectives change over time?
- How do you define success for your objectives?