In 2005, the Community Service Center's Oregon Natural Hazards Workgroup (ONHW) at the University of Oregon partnered with the Central Oregon counties (Jefferson and Lake), Oregon Emergency Management (OEM), and Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) to develop a collaborative Pre-Disaster Mitigation Planning Grant proposal for the Central Oregon region. At this time the regional planning effort consists of Lake and Jefferson counties. Each county joined the Partners for Disaster Resistance & Resilience (Partnership) by signing (through their county commissions) a Memorandum of Understanding for this project.

The grant was awarded and supports both local and state staff to develop natural hazard mitigation plans in Lake and Jefferson counties. ONHW served as the lead project coordinator providing plan development support, technical resources, and a proven planning process / framework for each county. Both counties are taking part in the ONHW's quarterly training series. This series includes trainings on organizing to prepare the plan, conducting community vulnerability assessments, developing goals and action items, and implementing the plan. The final plans will be posted to the web on their individual county web sites and the actions items will be stored in the state action item database.

Region 6 Report Downloads (Central Oregon): Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, and Wheeler counties

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