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10 <br /> <br />Kirby Saunders, Emergency Management Coordinator, made the following PowerPoint <br />presentation. He said, after a declared disaster, the County is eligible for mitigation funding, <br />which is used to reduce the impact of potential impacts: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Kirby Saunders said the country has already seen 10 major disasters this year, and this <br />is the 5th consecutive year of $10 billion disasters. He said this has been the costliest of all <br />disasters in the history of the country. He resumed the PowerPoint presentation: <br /> <br />Kirby Saunders said the mitigation program has a significant return on investment; every <br />$1 spent on mitigation results in $7 in savings in recovery. He resumed the PowerPoint <br />presentation: <br />