2020-403-E Emergency Svc-Hagerty Consulting Inc COVID long term recovery

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» Performing post-disaster impact assessments and facilitating focus groups aimed at better understanding the unique needs of vulnerable populations within their communities and working with them to build and validate recommendations to improve future experiences. » Promoting thoughtful and intentional engagement of under-represented communities/individuals in our planning documents and model these principles in Hagerty-led engagement processes (e.g., Hagerty was a consistent advocate for American Sign Language interpreters during a two-week long public engagement effort). » Raising concerns of systemic inequalities with clients and proposing solutions to address those challenges through economic and community development. » More specifically, completing shelter assessments for jurisdictions to ensure that their plans reflect best practices for accommodating access and functional needs and revising capacity estimates based on our findings. » Recommending a review of disaster recovery policies in coordination with university systems to identify policy amendments that could expedite recovery without risking the safety or security of disaster survivors. Part of this approach included monitoring the long-range impacts of the policy through that same partnership to ensure that vulnerable populations are not disproportionately impacted over time. Step 3: Lay the Foundation for Financing Recovery Shortly after the Final Draft Recovery Framework is submitted, Hagerty can facilitate a two-hour training event via remote webinar. The purpose of the webinar will be to build the County’s capacity to navigate recovery by: » Providing an overview of the major funding streams identified in the Long-Term Recovery Framework. » Offering a series of recommendations to help the County recover the funds to which it is entitled. » Describing common pitfalls of grant management and potential mitigation strategies, minimizing opportunities for de-obligation of funds. The webinar can be completed at any time during the period of performance, as long as Hagerty has advance notice to effectively prepare and execute the training. The final recording will be provided to the County upon completion of the event. Support for Enhanced Stakeholder Engagement Hagerty recognizes that in an environment that is rapidly changing due to COVID-19, timeliness is an important element of success for this engagement. Similarly, Hagerty understands the importance of engaging the Long-Term Recovery Group to provide input and help shape the Recovery Framework. Our experience indicates that the Long-Term Recovery Group would benefit from participating in a stakeholder orientation process prior to or shortly after project kickoff. Such a process would empower the stakeholders to more effectively contribute to the planning process within the agreed upon timeframe of the engagement and help mitigate the need for an extension of the planning timeline due to low turnout/engagement. Hagerty has included the cost of this orientation in the cost proposal that follows. DocuSign Envelope ID: F4067998-FFF7-46D8-9A00-3615ECBE25B8