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<br />P.O. Box 8181 * 131 West Margaret Lane, 3rd Floor * Hillsborough, North Carolina 27278 <br />Telephone: 919 245-2625 <br /> <br />November 13, 2018 <br /> <br />To: Board of Orange County Commissioners <br /> <br />CC: Bonnie Hammersley, Orange County Manager <br /> <br />From: Brennan Bouma, Sustainability Coordinator, Asset Management Services <br />Kirby Saunders, Emergency Management Coordinator, Emergency Services <br /> <br />RE: Announcing the completion of the Triangle Regional Resilience Assessment <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br /> <br />In July of 2017, Orange County joined the Triangle Regional Resilience Partnership (TRRP) and staff began <br />working with partners from the Town of Chapel Hill, Durham County, City of Durham, Town of Cary, and the City <br />of Raleigh to identify the assets and threats we all share in common. The results of this assessment will point to <br />areas where the cities, towns and counties in our region can take action to become more resilient in the face of <br />environmental, social and economic disruption. <br /> <br />Each TRRP member jurisdiction had a team of staff working together on this multi-step process. Our Orange <br />County team included: <br />• Lindsay Shewmaker (Social Services) <br />• Ashley Moncado (Planning) <br />• Kirby Saunders (Emergency Services) <br />• Janice Tyler (Aging) <br />• Brennan Bouma (Sustainability/AMS) <br /> <br />SUMMARY <br /> <br />Our work is summarized in the Triangle Regional Resilience Assessment which is available on the Orange County <br />Sustainability webpage: http://www.co.orange.nc.us/477/Sustainability. This assessment is a high-level look at <br />important regional assets, the threats to those assets, and possible tactics to build regional resilience. The <br />process has built a relationship foundation and a bank of technical information that will allow the TRRP to <br />continue working on these issues regionally. This assessment is also structured to assist local governments in <br />creating their own more specific community-level strategies to increase resilience. <br /> <br />As an initial step, staff plans to use this assessment to inform the upcoming 2019 update to the Eno-Haw Hazard <br />mitigation plan. <br /> <br />Thank you. Please contact us with any feedback or questions. <br /> <br />Brennan Bouma, Sustainability Program/AMS, 919-245-2626 <br />Kirby Saunders, Emergency Services, 919-245-6135