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Ramsey County │ Annex E: Recovery 6 • Long-term leadership. The NDRF suggests that a jurisdiction should be prepared to identify a “Disaster Recovery Coordinator” or equivalent to provide leadership in recovery planning and prioritization of goals. This leadership is required to manage overall recovery coordination and management at the local level. In Ramsey County, this position has been designated as the Disaster Recovery Manager (DRM). The DRM will be appointed by the County Manager based on the incident scope and type. The DRM will work with the leadership of the affected municipalities to coordinate recovery efforts countywide. • People. Both public and private sector jurisdictions and organizations should be prepared to expand their administrative capacity. Recovery from a disaster will create a large number of “new” tasks to be completed while the day-to-day operations of government continue as well. Disaster recovery operations traditionally require a combination of adding new people to carry out the additional tasks and prioritizing day-to-day government operations to ensure regular and additional tasks are completed. For example – “Only disaster-related building permits will be considered until . . .” • Community involvement. The public will be informed of the recovery process through media releases, public forums, town hall meetings, etc. Jurisdictions must continue to implement, coordinate, and manage awareness and outreach efforts to individuals with disabilities and access and functional needs (DAFN); this task cannot end as the focus shifts from response to recovery, and the same public alert and warning communications should be used. • Planning. Jurisdictions must incorporate principles of planning into the recovery process. Recovery that is allowed to just “happen on its own” leads to a variety of future problems for a community. Basic questions such as “Do we put it back the way it was?” or “Do we take this opportunity to mitigate?” need to be considered by the Recovery Coordination Group. A jurisdiction also needs to communicate post-disaster planning and operational needs to the state and lead an inclusive planning process, facilitating practices that comply with applicable laws, including civil rights mandates. • Partnerships. A community must coordinate with relevant regional planning organizations that provide resources and/or planning expertise. A community should work in pre-disaster planning to promote partnerships between nonprofit organizations, faith-based organizations, the private sector or other relevant organizations, and nontraditional and/or underserved communities. • Priority setting. There are an unlimited number of ways things can go wrong, so there are an unlimited number of ways a community could recover from them. Subsequently, everything cannot be planned ahead of time or repaired at once. Priorities will have to be set; a pre- planned process to do this can accelerate the recovery process. This will also involve the review of pre-existing plans and cross-checking the pre-planning priorities against the post-disaster planning priorities that are set. • Transparency. As part of the community’s involvement in recovery, each municipality must implement a transparent, accountable system to manage recovery resources. The more transparent the process, the more cooperative the community will be during the recovery process.