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NYCEM's interagency coordination for hazard mitigation
2:40:12
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Council Member Ariola inquires about NYCEM's coordination with other city agencies like DEP, DOT, and DOB, especially in light of new housing policies. Commissioner Iscol explains NYCEM's role in hazard mitigation planning and interagency collaboration.
- NYCEM manages the development of the city's hazard mitigation plan, a federal requirement for funding eligibility
- The plan accounts for various hazards and is regularly updated
- NYCEM provides technical assistance to agencies for applying for federal grants related to hazard mitigation
- The agency works closely with other departments to ensure they have resources to address identified risks
Joann Ariola
2:40:12
Right.
2:40:12
Yes, definitely.
2:40:13
And I know that this doesn't come under your purview, but in those coastal areas where seawalls are kind of falling apart and things like that, how does NICEM coordinate with agencies like DEP and DOT and the DOB, especially now with the city of YES where there will be more basement apartments that are utilized because they're in zones where it's legal and ADUs where they're legal, this just puts just another layer of what you need to know and how you need to mitigate and where you need to notify and or remove people for their safety?
Zachary Iscol
2:40:49
So we do work with them in a couple of different ways.
2:40:52
So number one is we manage the process to develop the city's hazard mitigation plan, which is a federal requirement to make us eligible to federal funding.
2:41:03
That plan accounts for many of these different hazards that we need to deal with.
2:41:07
And we also look at a lot of the data and look at what are some of the tools and things we can do to mitigate those types of hazards across the city.
2:41:16
And that is updated very regularly.
2:41:18
One of the things we're looking at putting into it, for example, is wildfires in the next edition of the hazard mitigation plan.
2:41:24
I think in addition to that, our agency provides a lot of technical assistance to agencies in order to apply for federal grants and other types of funding specifically related to those types of issues.
2:41:39
And so we not only do the risk analysis with the hazard mitigation plan, but then we work very, very closely with the agencies to make sure that they have the resources in order to actually address them properly.