GLASS puts Neighborhood-level Citizenry on the table @ FEMA Stakeholder Engagement Workshop

MILWAUKEE - Pfister Hotel, 424 E. Wisconsin, 8:00am -4:30pm, was the site for he National Disaster Recovery Framework Stakeholder Engagement Workshop.

Takeaways
The information discussed in the breakouts was very informative.
Key decision makers from FEMA Region V were present and accessible.
Some needed points for the neighborhood-level stakeholders are:

** Business assistance after disasters.
** Chamber of Commerce organization do not speak for racial and cultural-sensitive groups.
** Clarity needed for key words like, "stakeholder", "inclusion", "community", "business community", first-responders.
** FEMA's role and responsibilities known by the citizenry (what to expect? Timeline.)
** Honest discussions of "mitigation".
** Initial and Ongoing updating/communicating of the National Disaster Recovery Framework
** Leadership of expectations with enforcement by the Federal offices – FEMA, HUD, Small Business Association, etc.
** Neighborhood-level proprietorship
** Pre-Post Planning of a disaster.
** Priorities of steps for Recovery.
** Rollout Technology
** Seminars at the neighborhood-level with same type Washington, DC, Regional and State "technical" roll-out.
** Sensitivity Training given to all that includes basics to thorough.
** Stop pretending, saying that areas are great when they have not done the basics – as in the case of Milwaukee, Mayor Tom Barrett, County Executive Chris Abele and Sheriff David Clarke
** Survival "tool-kit" and "How to" if there is an emergency.
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Mary Glass, Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association, was a member of the Economic Break-out group and shared the dilemma of stakeholders in Milwaukee at the neighborhood level. They have not been brought to the table; and, if there was an emergency at the time of the seminar, Milwaukee would be no more DISASTER PREPARED than they were in 2010 during the floods.

At the end of the seminar, Glass spoke with Paul Ricciuti, Recovery Division Director, FEMA Region V, he assured her that he would work to ensure that the People were informed and that mitigation was a key part.

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