Department: Flood Control District
Department Head/Elected Official: Tina Petersen, Ph.D., P.E., Executive Director
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Grant
Project ID (if applicable): Z100-00-00-P033
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): U.S. Department of Homeland Security
MWDBE Contracted Goal (if applicable): N/A
MWDBE Current Participation (if applicable): N/A
Justification for 0% MWDBE Participation Goal: N/A - Goal not applicable to request
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request by the Flood Control District for approval to submit an application to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for grant funds in the amount of $49,900, with no required match, for the FY 2024 Cooperating Technical Partners Special Project Initiative. (Project ID Z100-00-00-P033, Countywide).
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Background and Discussion:
It is recommended that the Flood Control District is authorized to submit a full grant application through a FEMA Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Grant seeking funding for the design phase required to support the development of a Flood Risk Area Visualization Tool.
The Flood Control District wishes to create a tool that will help visualize areas at risk of flooding in a way that considers an area's flood hazards, history of flooding, population density, the vulnerability of the population to flooding, and to build in the ability to consider estimates of future flood hazards.
Lower income population is more impacted by flooding due to lack of financial resources to recover from a disaster, therefore Social Vulnerability Index will be used as a factor when evaluating how at-risk of flooding an area is. To prepare to consider future flood hazards, the Flood Control District wishes to develop the capability to consider Climate Informed Science Approach (CISA) floodplains when the data is made available to facilitate climate-resilience planning. CISA floodplains are currently unavailable for our area, so the too...
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