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City of Rye Community Reconstruction Program Committee Meeting #4

City of Rye Community Reconstruction Program Committee Meeting #4. Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6 :00 PM, Rye YMCA. Agenda. Welcome and Introductions Refine and Finalize Asset Inventory Review Needs and Opportunities Discuss Strategies Prepare for Public Engagement Meeting #2 Looking Ahead.

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City of Rye Community Reconstruction Program Committee Meeting #4

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  1. City of RyeCommunity Reconstruction ProgramCommittee Meeting #4 Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6:00 PM, Rye YMCA

  2. Agenda • Welcome and Introductions • Refine and Finalize Asset Inventory • Review Needs and Opportunities • Discuss Strategies • Prepare for Public Engagement Meeting #2 • Looking Ahead

  3. Welcome and Introductions

  4. Asset Inventory

  5. Assets Identified to date

  6. Summary of Assets • INSERT TABLE FROM MJ

  7. Asset Values and Risk Assessment • SUMMARIZE FINDINGS AND HOW THEY’LL BE USED FOR NEXT STEPS

  8. Needs and Opportunities

  9. Recovery Support Functions Natural/Cultural Resources Health/Social Services Infrastructure Community Planning, Capacity Building Economic Development Housing

  10. Community Planning & Capacity Building • Needs • Emergency communications post storm/flood/emergency • Power outage prevention • Availability of storm recovery equipment for individuals (resources like generators, propane, batteries, and sandbags sell out fast at Home Depot) • Opportunities • Coordinate communication among public, city services, and community service organizations. • Coordinate communication between city, utilities, and county. • Bury major power lines or protect/reinforce power lines or consider installing micro-grids * Initial ideas supplied by committee members on 7/29/14

  11. Economic Development • Needs • [insert] • Opportunities • [insert]

  12. Health and Social Services • Needs (during a storm event) • Preserving community services/ centers to protect their operations and infrastructure • Preserving health/medical services to ensure uninterrupted service • Improved communication about available resources and local organizations providing health and social services • Preserving the ability of emergency response services to perform their necessary functions • Opportunities • [insert] * Initial ideas supplied by committee members on 7/29/14

  13. Housing • Needs • Ensure that communication and evacuation procedures serve people in all types of housing • Provide emergency and long-term shelter for residents with nowhere to go • Protect evacuation routes in different neighborhoods • Develop regulations/incentives for homeowners to • Create more pervious surfaces on their property • Retain on-site 50-year stormwater runoff • Implement water retention and flood resiliency projects • Opportunities • [insert] * Initial ideas supplied by committee members on 7/29/14

  14. Infrastructure • Needs • Separate stormwater and sanitary sewer system • Be sure storm drains are clear and open • Ensure that the public works department is ready for major storm and coordinating with emergency services • Protect exits on flooded roadways/evacuation routes • Slow water from the brooks coming into Rye (start at the airport) • Opportunities • [insert] * Initial ideas supplied by committee members on 7/29/14

  15. Natural and Cultural Resources • Needs • Field space • Parking • Public access to water • Open space that’s permeable • Trees • Further restore and improve Blind Brook wetlands, Rye Nature Center, Rye High School, Library, YMCA, and downtown • Opportunities • Playland/ Playland parking lot as an opportunity for open, permeable field space and access to water • Parking structure at Highland/Cedar – don’t pave more land to create parking and create a raised “flood-proof” areas for cars • Create walking/recreational area that also serves as flooding buffer/trees and permeable land that addresses the bottleneck for floodwater from dam and harbor * Initial ideas supplied by committee members on 7/29/14

  16. Strategies

  17. Strategy Brainstorm • Collaboration within the watershed to prevent riverine flooding • Infrastructure resilience • Design for sea level rise, coastal vulnerability, and tidal impacts • Readiness for future storms

  18. Strategy Brainstorm • [insert committee ideas]

  19. Public Engagement #2

  20. Public Engagement #2 • Tuesday, September 9, 2014 from 7 to 9 PM • Rye Free Reading Room • Promotional materials • Discuss strategies, projects, and actions • Expectations and facilitated discussion groups

  21. Looking Ahead

  22. Scheduling • Optional check in call: August 26 • Next committee meeting: September 16 • Sixth committee meeting: September 30

  23. Draft Agenda for Next Meeting • Review Public Engagement Meeting Results • Present Risk Assessment Methodology and Results from Unmitigated Risk Assessment • Identify Draft Reconstruction and Resiliency Strategies, Projects, Programs and Actions • Possible Education Session • Homework: Reconstruction and Resiliency Strategies, Projects, Programs and Actions

  24. Timeline Jan July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec PLAN DEVELOPMENT 1: Existing Conditions Analysis & Goal Setting 2: Needs & Opportunities 3: Projects & Strategies 4: Final Plan & Implementation Steps IN-PERSON COMMITTEE MEETINGS (roughly twice monthly)

  25. Stay Connected & Stay Informed at www.stormrecovery.ny.gov/nyrcr/

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