Partnering with Missouri Communities: Roadmap to Resilience Webinar 2: Roadmap Action Steps 1-3 1 PM CST, October 21, 2020
Roadmap to Resilience Webinar Series • Webinar 1: The Roadmap to Resilience ▪ 1 PM CST, October 7, 2020 • Webinar 2: Building Blocks to Launch Resilience Efforts - Actions 1-3 ▪ 1 PM CST, October 21, 2020 • Webinar 3: Building Blocks to Launch Resilience Efforts - Actions 4-6 ▪ 1 PM CST, November 4, 2020 • Webinar 4: Application of the Roadmap – St. James, Missouri ▪ 1 PM CST, November 18, 2020 • Webinar 5: Implementing Action Steps ▪ 1 PM CST, December 2, 2020 2
Webinar 2 Agenda • Welcome • Partnering with Missouri Communities: Roadmap to Resilience Project • Speaker: Cherylyn Kelley – Department of Natural Resources -Division of Energy • Deep Dive: First Three Actions for Communities to Launch Resilience Efforts • Speakers: Dana Al-Qadi – Engineer & Karen Massey – Consultant, AECOM • The Value of Leveraging Community Partners and Assets when Resilience Planning • Speaker: Bill Abolt – Vice President, AECOM • Questions • Next Steps & Closing Remarks 3
Presenters Cherylyn Kelley – Karen Massey – AECOM MoDNR-DE Senior Sustainability Senior Energy Policy Consultant Analyst Dana Al-Qadi, D.Eng – Bill Abolt – AECOM AECOM Senior Engineering Vice President Consultant 4
Partnering with Missouri Communities: Roadmap to Resilience Cherylyn Kelley Senior Policy Analyst – Division of Energy
Project Team 6
Cost Share Partners 7
Partner Communities 8
Partnering with Missouri Communities: Roadmap to Resilience Project Overview • Two-year project initiated in February 2019 • Funded by U.S. Department of Energy • Target is small- to medium-sized communities • Helps make resilience planning process more straightforward and impactful – no need to feel ‘lost’ or ‘perplexed!’ 9
Land Area 10 1% 2% 97% Population 6% 27% 67%
Small and Medium-Sized Community Resilience Gaps • Roadmap project developed in response to significant gaps in planning for resilience in small and medium-sized communities. • Majority of resilience work has focused on large metropolitan areas • Resilience gap widening between cities and small- to medium-sized communities • Small- to medium-sized communities face barriers towards building their resilience 11
ChronicStressors Acute Shocks Persistent, long-term issues that weaken Sudden, high intensity events that pose a community’s social, economic, and a direct threat to a community. environmental fabric and exacerbate Examples include: outcomes to acute shocks. Examples include: • Tornados • Declining population • Floods • Poverty/inequity • Disease outbreaks • Aging infrastructure • Infrastructure failure • Inefficient public transportation systems • Poor air and soil quality 12
Roadmap to Resilience Goal • Replicable, scalable • Help communities prepare • Address unique attributes 13
14 RESILIENCE VISION Resilient small- to medium-size communities that are equipped with energy resources to thrive environmentally, socially, and economically in the face of chronic stresses and acute shocks.
SMALL-TO MEDIUM- SIZE 15 COMMUNITY RESILIENCE The ability of a community to withstand, adapt to, and reduce the impact of acute shocks and chronic stresses while preserving and improving its unique character, sense of community, and livability.
A Comprehensive Approach to Community Resilience • Strengthen critical energy infrastructure Alleviate energy burden • Invest in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and • energy storage solutions Promote economic development and growth • Mitigate hazards • Increase community operations resilience • • Enhance community livability 16
Deep Dive: First Three Actions for Communities to Launch Resilience Efforts Dana Al-Qadi, D.Eng Senior Engineering Consultant – AECOM Karen Massey Senior Sustainability Consultant – AECOM
The Roadmap to Resilience • A scalable, comprehensive approach that can be tailored to unique resilience initiatives • Based upon best practices and baseline analysis for existing resilience planning efforts in communities in order to identify and develop priorities, tools, and planning practices • Details a resilience plan development process • Four Resilience Planning Phases • Six Actions Resilience Planning Process 18
Four Phases Communities define their resilience objectives and goals as well as identify resilience threats and stressors. Use the baseline conditions identified in the Assessment phase to envision actionable targets that can be achieved through Work with key stakeholders to define implementable measures. clear, actionable steps to implement initiatives that accomplish targets set in the Envision phase. Monitor strategies and progress on critical areas, report findings, and adjust as needed to support ongoing monitoring of metrics and goals to inform future decision making. 19
Six Actions 20
Action 1: Stakeholder Engagement To develop a thorough understanding of small-to medium- size communities’ resilience needs, it is critical to conduct outreach to stakeholder groups and prioritize stakeholder engagement. 21
Leadership One-on-one or small group initial meetings with community leaders can provide community context and lay the foundation for successful Schedule Initial Meetings engagement. Empower local leadership to lead resilience initiatives to increase the likelihood that initiatives Empower Local Organizations to Take will be successfully implemented, maintained, and Leadership well-received. 22
Logistics Facilitators can prepare stakeholders for productive discussions by requesting needed data, Start the Conversation statistics, or circulating questions in advance. Facilitators can hold meetings in local and Local and Accessible Location accessible locations at convenient times of day. Facilitators can use multiple mediums of communication to reach their target audience: Communication Platforms online, print, or word of mouth. 23
Message Focus on relevant resilience topics such as energy and critical facilities, economic development and growth, resilient community operations, and Address Relevant Topics energy burden. Identify commonalities in different communities’ case studies in terms of assets, challenges, funding strategies, and impactful partnerships during Provide Successful Case Studies stakeholder engagement. 24
Stakeholders Develop a comprehensive list of stakeholders for resilience efforts with updated contact information Select Effective Stakeholders and areas in which they may be relevant to engage. Holistic resilience planning is most effective when engaging interdisciplinary expertise and leveraging the role of multiple departments and Share Expertise agencies. 25
Action 2: Baseline Analysis The objective of a baseline analysis is to evaluate existing structures, partnerships, and initiatives and use the evaluation to inform areas of opportunity. 26
Baseline Analysis Best Practices Leverage Stakeholder Conduct Bottom-up Conduct Risk Define the Baseline: Efforts: Community Inventory and measure Assessments: Use stakeholder Engagement: Conduct assessments conditions and engagement Bottom-up citizen driven that are specific to a boundaries of critical opportunities to identify participation is effective areas. community in order to information and data for resilience planning inform pragmatic and that will contribute to that addresses needs of incremental resilience the baseline analysis. the community. plans. 27
Baseline Analysis Best Practices Take a Strategic Identify Co-benefits: Create Scalable Conduct Financial Approach: Identify opportunities Solutions: Inventory: Resilience planning for multifunctional Use strategic planning Identifying existing infrastructure that can to identify solutions financial resources that should emphasize small, smart, address resilience that can be scaled to are being used, or incremental needs and achieve other communities to could be used, to fund investments for collateral benefits that meet additional resilience measures. ongoing progress and address community challenges. priorities. benchmarking. 28
Baseline Analysis Best Practices Utilize Integrated Resilience Approaches: Prioritize Solutions: Utilize integrated resilience approaches to plan Inventory and measure conditions and and implement initiatives in a way that supports prioritize solutions and initiatives that meet reduction of community vulnerability to a range the larger needs of the community and of threats and contributes to building resilience in enhance resilience to future threats based on a way that accounts for improved risk defined and set goals. management, city development, and community livability. 29
Action 3: Leverage Partners and Assets • The objective of developing partnerships is to bring together skills, resources, and perspectives of multiple entities and/or individuals to accelerate resilience planning and implementation more comprehensively and effectively than one organization could alone. • Form partnerships to fill critical gaps in funding, expertise, workforce and physical assets as well as provide other benefits. 30
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