Project Description:
The development of a City-wide Resiliency and Hazard Mitigation Plan to increase community resilience to sea-level rise and climate change through an engaged stakeholder process.
The Plan should utilize the frameworks provided in the Regional Resilience Tool Kit (https://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/regional-resilience-toolkit), 12 North Carolina State Disaster Recovery Framework Recovery Support Functions (https://www.ncdps.gov/documents/north-carolina-disaster-recovery-framework) and 6 FEMA Recovery Support Functions (https://www.fema.gov/recovery-support-functions) to create a resiliency framework that focuses on avoiding hazards, withstanding the event, recovery and to ultimately “Build Back Better” at the citizen level; the business level; and the municipal level. Strategy initiatives should run the gamut from the routine and highly feasible to the very ambitious, including social and community health programing, resiliency planning frameworks, land-use regulatory changes, and large-scale infrastructure projects including the use of green infrastructure practices when possible.
The City of New Bern reserves the right to waive any informalities, to reject any and all responses to the Request for Qualifications, and to accept any responses, which in its opinion may be in the best interest of the City of New Bern.