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Streamlining – The Need: Costs Saved and Lessons Learned

Explore the mutual benefits of streamlined disaster preparedness, response, and recovery through improved coordination between public, private, and regulatory sectors. Learn about the critical role of building departments, licensed professionals, and regional collaboration in ensuring timely and effective disaster resilience. Discover how modern tools and standards can optimize code enforcement and enhance community growth post-disaster. Uncover the importance of eliminating conflicting regulations and maximizing the return on investments for sustainable economic development.

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Streamlining – The Need: Costs Saved and Lessons Learned

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  1. Streamlining – The Need:Costs Saved and LessonsLearned Facilitating Disaster Preparedness, Response & Recovery

  2. Parallel Tracks – One Goal Design / Solution Regulation / Health, Safety and Welfare

  3. Reconstruction and Business Continuity. Timely, Effective and Significant

  4. Understanding Interdependency. • Municipal • Departmental • Individual • Technological

  5. Mutual value of Public-Private Coordination. • Disaster preparedness • Planning • Response • Recovery

  6. Existing cooperation and Increase Collaboration. Traditional Model- Designers Solve Problems Regulators Review and Approve

  7. Understanding the roles, responsibilities, and authorities. • Local • County • State • Federal • Private sector (traditionally regulated)

  8. Existing Regulations that may impede efforts. Go time is too late…

  9. Access – Process - Resolve Responsive Process is Critical

  10. Develop an action agenda. Strengthen regional disaster resilience

  11. Private Sector Construction Firms and Government Regulators Key participants Specialized Roles

  12. The Critical Role of Building Departments • Damage assessment inspections • Authorizing utility reconnections • Plan reviews for more complex reconstructions • Issuing permits • Field inspections of reconstruction.

  13. Licensed Professionals… The Role of Architects and Engineers

  14. Regional Pool Qualified Inspection Personnel and Contractors

  15. A New Form of Mutual Aid… First Responders Role Critical-Event Specific Building Department-Leadership- Comprehensive Coordination

  16. Identify and EliminateOut-Dated and Conflicting Regulations • Slowed Response • Duplication of Effort

  17. Incorporating the Right Tools Find the Median Technical Sophistication Practicality and Service

  18. The Most Powerful Tool Current – Contemporary – Effective - Performance Based – Uniform State of the art Standards Regulations!

  19. Greater Uniformity in Codes and Administration • Enforcement Processes Expedited • Availability of Public and Private Response From Outside the Disaster Region

  20. Streamlining - Well Staffed, Funded and Trained Building Departments Effective and Efficient Code Enforcement

  21. Incorporating GIS Damage assessment inspections

  22. Effective Use of Information Technology on Day-To-Day Basis Not Just in Response to Disasters

  23. Advantage to the Municipality ISO… Insurance Services Office, Inc. Codes, Staff and Training all play a critical role in the ranking of a municipality…those same benefits are directly translated to the property owners.

  24. Identify and Eliminate Areas of Conflict/Overlap • Statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations… • Impact on disaster response and recovery. • Keep in place to protect health, welfare and life safety during disaster response and recovery. • Can be suspended for a reasonable period of time during recovery

  25. Return on the Investment! • Efficient and Effective Economic Development and Growth Model for the Community.

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