In this step, your community will convene recovery stakeholders to begin establishing necessary statutory authorities and measuring the scope and scale of the immediate, short-term, and long-term recovery needs.
Guiding Questions
- Authority: What authority is required to initiate, plan for, and implement recovery?
- Coordination: How are local disaster recovery operations directed and/or coordinated?
- Decision-making: How are initial and long-term recovery planning decisions informed?
- Capacity: If the event exceeds local recovery capacity, or if state or federal support will be requested, what information, documentation, and actions are required to support those processes?