Planning Director Kier Dirlam asked the committee to authorize an application for a Countywide Resilience Implementation Strategy grant (total application budget $277,778) to prepare a needs assessment, a portfolio of priority projects, and an implementation dashboard; the committee approved the request.

Members discussed keeping parts of the 2024 energy code (the ERI/performance pathway) available as a mechanism that could allow faster, lower-permit-burden rebuilds while noting trade-offs for first-cost and resilience; no formal delay of energy-code adoption was approved at the meeting.

Following presentations from three grant consultants, the commission ranked DRMP first and voted unanimously to authorize negotiations for a three‑year grant-writing contract; Calvin Giordano and GrantWorks were named alternates if talks fail.

Some solid #ResilienceStrategy advice in here:https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/National-Resilience-Strategy.pdf (20 page PDF, a well-written quick read or skim)January 2025"National Resilience Strategy: A Vision for a More Resilient Nation"While explicitly a #NationalResilienceStrategy, it has a lot of sound guidance for understanding, analyzing, and developing a resilience strategy at all levels, for yourself and your home, with your neighbors and relationships, to civic resilience, and beyond.Here is an overview of the sections, to get an idea (if you avoid PDFs), and to help with discovery across various services:* The Need for Collective Action toward National Resilience* Defining Resilience  * Adaptive  * Protective  * Collaborative  * Fair and Just  * Human-Centered  * Interdependent  * Sustainable and Durable* Understanding the Resilience Landscape* Strategic Approach to Build Attributes of a Resilient Nation* Throughlines of a Resilient Nation  * Cross-system and cross-sector use of resources  * Resilience manifests in adaptive capacity and communities  * Layered resilience  * Cascading reliance  * Environmental hazards, including climate change  * Technology innovation and digital transformation  * Cyber infrastructure  * Iterative continuous feedback loops  * Supply chains  * Robust safety nets* Resilience Pillars  * Pillar I: Governance Systems  * Pillar II: Social and Community Systems  * Pillar III: Economic Systems  * Pillar IV: Infrastructure Systems* ConclusionAnd yes the text contents of the PDF include the terms #diversity #diverse #equity #equitable #inclusivity #inclusive, in many contexts (including and beyond the ones that may come to mind).Related: https://tantek.com/2025/011/t1/remembering-aaronsw-twelve-yearsPreviously, previously:* https://tantek.com/2024/336/t1/disruptions-how-to-prepare* https://tantek.com/2024/313/t1/reflecting-listening-thoughts#NationalResilience #Resilience #Strategy #Biden #BidenWhitehouse

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