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1. Have you established an economic resilience committee/task force? [Note: should include people with influence and authority who can provide resources necessary to commit to and carry out a resiliency plan should events arise.](Required)

Yes

1.1. Does your economic resilience committee/task force include representatives from your local community?(Required)

Yes

1.2. Is the public sector included in your economic resilience committee/task force?(Required)

Yes

1.2.a. Please tell us which public sector entities are included:(Required)

Planning

Economic development

Mayor's office

Other

1.2.b. Which "Other" public sector office(s) are included?(Required)

1.3. Is the private sector included in your economic resilience committee/task force?(Required)

Yes

1.3.a. Please tell us which private sector entities are included:(Required)

Chamber of Commerce

Other businesses and/or business organizations

1.3.b. Which "Other" business and/or business organizations are included?(Required)

1.4. Are any philanthropic organizations included in your economic resilience committee/task force?(Required)

Yes

1.4.a. Please tell us which philanthropic organizations are included:(Required)

United Way

Red Cross

Community Foundation

Religious organizations

Food pantry

Homeless shelter

Other

1.4.b. Which "Other" philanthropic organization(s) are included?(Required)

1.5. Are any emergency services included in your economic resilience committee/task force?(Required)

Yes

1.5.a. Please tell us which emergency services are included:(Required)

Fire

Police

Hospital

Other

1.5.b. Which "Other" emergency services are included?(Required)

1.6. Are any county/regional representatives included in your economic resilience committee/task force?(Required)

Yes

Please tell us which county/regional representatives are included from the following categories:

Public sector:(Required)

County/regional government

Planning

Economic development

County Executive's office

Other

Private sector:(Required)

Chamber of Commerce

Other businesses and/or business organizations

Philanthropic organizations:(Required)

United Way

Red Cross

Community Foundation

Religious organizations

Food pantries

Homeless shelters

Which "Other" county/legal representatives are included from the public sector?(Required)

Which "Other" county/legal representatives are included from businesses and/or business organizations in the private sector?(Required)

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Which "Other" county/legal representatives are included from philanthropic organizations?(Required)

1.7. Are any statewide representatives included in your economic resilience committee/task force?(Required)

Yes

Please tell us which county/regional representatives are included from the following categories:

State government:(Required)

Planning

Economic development

Governor's office

Other

Private sector:(Required)

Chamber of Commerce

Other businesses and/or business organizations

Philanthropic organizations:(Required)

United Way

Red Cross

Community Foundation

Religious organizations

Food pantries

Homeless shelters

Which "Other" county/legal representatives are included from the public sector?(Required)

Which "Other" county/legal representatives are included from businesses and/or business organizations in the private sector?(Required)

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Which "Other" county/legal representatives are included from philanthropic organizations?(Required)

1.8. Are representatives from EDA included in your economic resilience committee/task force?(Required)

Yes

1.9. Are any other entities or organizations not covered above included in your economic resilience committee/task force?(Required)

Yes

1.9.a. Which "Other" entities or organizations are included?(Required)

Part 2: XYZ Resilience

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2. Have you drafted a resilience action plan specifically for Economic Development, including resilience of the ED Organization? [Note: It is important for your organization - and your city as a whole - to have a continuity plan in place. This action plan will help you execute each of the following elements of your Resiliency plan.](Required)

Yes

3. Have you established a business emergency operations and business recovery center (either stand-alone or integrated)? [Note: This should be a physical place.](Required)

Yes

Address of business emergency operations center:

Address of business recovery center:

Purpose: This should be a physical place that acts as a command and communications center during a disaster from which to communicate with businesses in the community. You may use it to communicate about impending hazards, to provide information and instructions during a disaster, and to provide assistance immediately after a disaster.

Potential Partners: Many regions around the country have partnered with their Small Business Development Center to take on this role. You also may appoint a volunteer group trained in incident management.

Role: Partners are programmatically responsible for getting information out to businesses throughout a disaster.

Cost/Funding: While having a place identified doesn’t have to cost you anything until a disaster hits, recovery funding to establish these centers may be available through the Department for Emergency Management and/or FEMA

Examples: South LA BEOC/BRRC (biz dev leads)

4. Have you built an economic risk profile including identification and frequency of specific types of disasters and past impacts?(Required)

Yes

4.a. Please tell us which economic risk profile activities you've completed:(Required)

Based on FEMA database of declared disasters, identify those for which your community or region was within a declaration.

Using NOAA forecasting, determine the likelihood of each disaster occurring within 20 and 30 year timeframes.

Inform key industry of these likelihoods and work with them to better prepare for these hazards.

5. Have you developed and shared resilience best practices of key resident industries and/or targeted prospective industry?(Required)

Yes

5.a. Please tell us which reslience best practice activities you've completed:(Required)

Meet with resident industry leaders to determine their best preparation and response strategies

Conduct research on best practices for prospective industries. FEMA publishes significant information on examples of business resilience, and information on individual recovery strategies is often available through EDA and/or State disaster agencies

6. Have you integrated economic resilience into other types of planning efforts (land use, economic development, redevelopment, etc.)?(Required)

Yes

6.a. Please tell us which integration activities you've completed:(Required)

Work with planning departments to ensure resilience practices are embedded in master plans they are preparing/implementing.

These should be based on elements that are identified in the overall economic resilience plan. Look to leading comprehensive plans from APA for guidance.

7. Have you integrated federal, state, and regional/local public sector emergency management and disaster recovery into your economic resilience planning?(Required)

Yes

7.a. Please tell us which emergency management and disastery recovery integration activites you've completed:(Required)

Nurture relationships with local, regional, and state disaster preparedness, response, and recovery organizations.

Reach out to FEMA state and regional offices and ensure they have a role and input into all economic resilience efforts.

Put forward that the economic development organization views these organizations as critical partners in increasing economic resilience.

8. Have you ensured engagement of stakeholders including community organizations/nonprofits, workforce organizations, private infrastructure providers (85% is private), and regional EDOs?(Required)

Yes

8.a. Please tell us which community stakeholder engagement activities you've completed:(Required)

Invite all relevant organizations to engage and provide input in every step of the economic resilience building process.

Also, private infrastructure providers who own 85% of infrastructure, must be engaged from the beginning and provide estimates of damage to justify additional inestments into increasing their own ability to withstand disaster.

Faith-based organizations can and should be involved, along with both workforce development and labor organizations to ensure all employees are personally prepared.

9. Have you developed a system for implementation and monitoring of the economic resilience strategy (#2 above)?(Required)

Yes

9.a. Please tell us which implementation & monitoring activities you've completed:(Required)

Project management software can be utilized to develop a progress monitoring system.

A subcommittee should be appointed and charged with reporting progress and informing the task force of obstacles to ensure strategies stay on track.

Results should be reported to current stakeholders and to prospective industry to validate efforts to both resident and prospective companies.

10. Have you provided for Public Private Partnerships to increase the effectiveness of physical and systematic resilience?(Required)

Yes

10.a. Please tell us which Public Private Partnerships activitives you've completed:(Required)

Work to develop options for public sector participation in hardening private sector infrastructure, justified by reduced tax revenue losses

Develop relationships with private sector investors who participate in public private partnerships, using parametric insurance or public sector risk reduction such as providing a partial guarantee against loss

Develop relationships with private sector investors who have significant investments in the community/region that may be damaged, or revenue interrupted, by lack of resilience capacity, and propose solutions that may involve their investment

Part 3: XYZ Resilience

11. Have you developed a funding mechanism for incentives to businesses to encourage their development of continuity plans?(Required)

Yes

1. Business continuity plans can make the difference between small business survival and failure. There are three elements to engage them—information, education, and incentives.

a. Information must be provided to dispel false notions about the cost and time involved in developing a continuity strategy

b. Education must be provided in how to develop a plan across multiple sectors

c. Incentives can provide balance in the eyes of small businesses by helping offset the perceived time and expense of developing and implementing continuity plans

d. Incentives may be in the form of limited tax abatement, such as exempting small retail businesses from sales tax for a month, or small manufacturers from a pro-rata property tax calculation for one month.

2. Encourage businesses of all sizes and types, including professional services and self-employed/home based businesses, to adopt continuity strategies.

12. Have you utilized tools such as FEMA’s Benefit/Cost Analysis to justify public and private investment to enhance resilience?(Required)

Yes

12. a. Please tell us which tools you've utilized:(Required)

Attend, or utilize self-instruction, for FEMA’s Benefit/Cost Analysis tool courses and work with FEMA staff to master its operation

Use Benefit/Cost Analysis to provide justification for investments in infrastructure and to apply for Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding

For investment in making other structures (buildings, facilities, housing) more resilient, learn and utilize the Resilience Scorecardtm Return on Resilience system

13. Have you organized resources to protect, and quickly restore, essential services such as such as power, water, and telecommunications infrastructure?(Required)

Yes

13.a. Please tell us which essential services activities you've completed:(Required)

Work with private infrastructure owners to ensure it is strengthened and maintained using mechanisms such as parametric insurance and public private partnerships

Present the case for strengthening and maintaining robust public infrastructure by citing the connection between failure of critical infrastructure and loss of tax and other revenue

Prepare specific information for businesses on back-up power, water, and communications, such as new solar/wind battery, satellite back-up telecommunication, and water purification technology

14. Have you developed emergency funding sources for small businesses in order to survive and/or reopen until federally backed funding (SBA Disaster Loans, HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funding) arrives?(Required)

Yes

14.a. Please tell us which activities you've completed to develop and implement a system to raise emergency financing through a combination of donations, grants, and investment by:(Required)

Businesses that were not damaged and can afford to donate using a nonprofit organization;

Local/regional/national foundations by applying for contingency funding before disaster strikes;

Providing funds to purchase parametric insurance that is activated when parameters such as strength of storms, inches of rainfall, or similar measurements are met

15. Have you provided information to businesses on types of insurance, such as business interruption, and catastrophe bonds, specifically to provide protection in case of disaster?(Required)

Yes

15.a. Please tell us which activities you've completed toward providing insurance information:(Required)

Work with local insurance agencies/companies to educate businesses on specifics of different types of coverage

Consider forming a catastrophe bond purchasing network to spread the cost of this protection among many businesses

16. Have you used valuation of built and natural infrastructure and facilities to finance both resilience and recovery through securities and insurance?(Required)

Yes

16.a. Please tell us which activities you've completed toward financing resilience recovery through securities and insurance:(Required)

Both built (gray) infrastructure such as roads, electric grids, and water systems and natural (green/blue) infrastructure such as mangrove groves and coral reefs can be assigned a value through purchasing parametric insurance

Facilities such as city halls, schools, and hospitals can also be valued using this method

Parametric insurance pays upon occurrence of a specific hazard such as flooding or wildfires upon meeting pre-agreed parameters such as inches of rain per hour.

This coverage can allow financing of resilience and recovery investments into the built environment and into natural protective infrastructure

17. Have you developed close working relationships between the EDO and public and private critical infrastructure organizations?(Required)

Yes

Power companies or authorities, water systems, communications providers, and healthcare facilities, both public and private, need to be intimately involved in both development and implementation of economic resilience strategies,

2. These organizations should be supported by economic development organizations in justifying their own investments in more resilient facilities