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This is going to be a big
and powerful storm.
Because of the nature of this storm
we are certain
that this is going to be a slow
moving process through a wide
swath of the country,
and millions of people are going to be affected.
We're part of Federal Disaster
Recovery Coordination and the
area I work in is Community Recovery Assistance.
Essentially what we do is we go in
and work with communities that
don't have the capacity to hire professional
staff, but need the resources
that that professional staff
would bring. We essentially
go in and meet with the elected officials
and offer them assistance.
Assistance could be everything from just
specific technical assistance and
engineering, architecture, mitigation,
or it could be a complete community based
recovery strategy
which would be a path forward,
a way out of the disaster.
They do a great amount of work
with municipalities planning
what that recovery strategy is going
to look like and how it is
that they will be able to take advantage of
all of the necessary federal resources
that would be able to assist them in
their recovery. And what that FDRC
does is try to coordinate all of that
into a plan so that the municipality
has a continuing
strategic time line
to be able to meet those recovery goals
that the municipality has established.
We were very fortunate here in New Jersey
in that we
made a special effort in
locating local residents of New Jersey
who may have those skill sets.
We have hired almost
22, 23 professionals
in architecture and engineering and
downtown development and community
planning, so we have a great team
waiting to go out and assist the communities.
We essentially can do
everything that a professional
consulting team would do for them
When people ask us what we do,
we claim two things.
We are strategists and we're personal trainers.
We help them develop
or prepare a strategy that identifies
specific projects and alternative
funding sources. It's hard to move forward
if you don't know what it is you need to do
and how much it's going to cost and
how you're going to pay for it.
We are the community recovery assistance teams
that work with the communities
to prepare recovery strategy.