SEMA Mitigation Management: Jasper and Newton County Hazard Mitigation Planning 2024-2025 Planning Process (Required for Counties to continue to receive FEMA and SEMA Funds)

Hazard Mitigation Planning Survey

*** Please help us to continue to provide disaster relief funding for our communities by filling out this short 5 question form. Thank you!!



The Harry S Truman Coordinating Council (HSTCC) is a quasi-governmental, not-for-profit regional planning commission that has been providing services to our communities since 1953. Our board of directors is comprised of serving mayors, commissioners, and city council members across Jasper, Newton, Macdonald, and Barton Counties.


HSTCC is responsible for the implementation and management of state and federal funding programs received from both the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). HSTCC is currently conducting a survey to assess and fulfill state and federal reporting requirements for FEMA and SEMA funding.



This survey is required in order to apply or continue to receive state and federal grants for projects such as building tornado safe rooms, flood buy out programs, building code changes, elevating roadbeds subject to flooding, flood control projects, flood-prone property acquisition, and structure demolition/relocation, wind damage to building and property, flood-prone structure elevation, dry floodproofing of historical residential and non-residential structures, and numerous other benefits to your community. Please help us to keep your grant eligibility status by filling out the following 5 questions.
1.Jasper County-Please select your jurisdiction from the drop down menu
2.Newton County-Please select your jurisdiction from the drop down menu
3.The hazards in the Hazard Mitigation Plan update are listed below. Please indicate you opinion on the likelihood for each hazard to impact YOUR JURISDICTION. Please rate EACH hazard as Unlikely, Occasional, Likely, or Highly Unlikely
Unlikely
Occasionally
Likely
Most Likely
Flooding
Levee Failure
Dam Failure
Earthquakes
Drought
Extreme Temperatures
Severe Thunderstorms
Severe Winter Weather
Tornadoes
Wildfire
Pandemic
4.Please indicate your opinion on the potential magnitude of each hazard’s impact on YOUR JURISDICTION (identified above). Please rate EACH hazard 1 through 4 as follows:
Negligible
Limited
Critical
Catastrophic
Flooding (Major and Flash)
Levee Failure
Dam Failure
Earthquake
Land Subsidence / Sinkholes
Drought
Wildfire
Severe Thunderstorms
Severe Winter Weather
Tornadoes
5.FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants are administered by the State Emergency Management Agency.  Listed below are some types of projects considered. 

Please check all those that could benefit your jurisdiction, in your opinion:'
6.Please comment on any other issues that the McDonald County Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee should consider in developing a strategy to reduce future losses caused by hazard events.