CC MEETING: July 8, 2025
DATE: June 30, 2025
TO: Erin Rinehart, City Manager
FROM: Elliott Reep, Emergency Management Coordinator
Rex Redden, Executive Director of Public Safety
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Consider A Resolution Of The City Of Carrollton, Texas Adopting The 2025 Dallas County Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) Update.
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BACKGROUND:
The Federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) require communities to adopt a hazard mitigation action plan to be eligible for various pre-disaster and post-disaster federal funding for mitigation purposes. FEMA requires that communities update these plans every five years to be eligible for the federal funding. The City of Carrollton currently has a FEMA approved plan called the Dallas County Hazard Mitigation Plan. This Plan was approved by Council on January 12, 2016 and re-approved on July 7, 2020. The HMP was submitted as a joint plan with Dallas County and partnering jurisdictions during both previous processes.
In 2024, Dallas County, Carrollton and the 18 other jurisdictions collectively updated the 2020 Hazard Mitigation Plan to be submitted and approved by FEMA in 2025. Dallas County hired H20 Partners to assist with the update of the plan and plan submittal to the State and to FEMA. In the Dallas County Hazard Mitigation Plan Update, Carrollton assessed risks from a range of natural hazards; and identified risk reduction strategies and actions for hazards that threaten our community. If the City were awarded federal funding after a disaster, the hazard mitigation plan will be used as a baseline for possible funding.
Each jurisdiction that is partnering in the Dallas County Hazard Mitigation Action Plan 2025 is required to have their Council adopt the plan via Resolution before the final plan is submitted to FEMA for approval. Once approved, our Dallas County Hazard Mitigation Plan 2025 will be in good standing until its next required update in 2030. The final draft of the plan will be accessible on the Dallas County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Website.
Approved Plan Link: <https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7zh2xo3w03mbv1ou64hly/Dallas-County-Draft-HMP-Update-REDACTED-Public-Copy-05.15.2025.pdf?rlkey=p3fdaqcz8tr8458np19yipv2t&e=1&st=x42sg7pv&dl=0>
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
There is no cost to the City to adopt the plan. The adoption of the plan allows for possible allotment of federal disaster grant funds in the future.
COMMUNITY IMPACT:
The importance of adopting the Dallas County Hazard Mitigation Plan Update is that it allows the City to potentially apply for federal disaster funding. The Plan is a tool used to formulate projects to mitigate the various identified hazards (ex. flooding, tornado, etc.) that can or may have in the past impacted the City.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION/ACTION DESIRED:
Staff recommends the approval of the Resolution adopting the 2025 Dallas County Hazard Mitigation Action Plan Update.