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5 SHELTER SURVEY AND RETROFIT PROGRAM — In accordance with Florida's statewide hurricane <br />shelter space deficit elimination program, the following must be uploaded to the Division's Sharepoint <br />portal, https.//portal.floridadisaster.org All information must be verified by the county <br />A) Identify potential hurricane shelter retrofit projects or report that there are no new identified <br />projects (This information is used to compile the Shelter Retrofit Report.) <br />B) Report all hurricane shelter retrofit projects that are undertaken, regardless of funding source(s) <br />or report that there are no projects. <br />C) Develop and submit a strategy to ensure that by June 1, 2016, all designated Special Needs <br />Shelters (SpNS) have a standby power system or capability with adequate capacity to support <br />life -safety systems, essential lighting and outlet receptacles, air-conditioning, and necessary <br />medical equipment. For those designated SpNS facilities without a permanently equipped <br />standby electric generating capacity, a locally sourced and acquired temporary electric generator <br />with adequate capacity to support the standby power system requirements must be provided <br />D) Develop and submit a strategy to ensure that by June 1, 2016, there is adequate designated <br />SpNS client space capacity to meet the anticipated five-year demands as determined by the 2012 <br />Statewide Emergency Shelter Plan (January 31, 2012) All designated SpNS facilities must at a <br />minimum meet the hurricane safety criteria established in the American Red Cross Standards for <br />Hurricane Evacuation Shelter Selection (ARC 4496) and be equipped with an adequate standby <br />electric power system or capability as described in item 5 C above. <br />E) Update and submit a hurricane shelter deficit reduction progress reports, which include "as -is", <br />retrofit and Enhanced Hurricane Protection Areas (EHPA) construction (This information is used <br />to compile the Shelter Retrofit Report.) <br />F) Provide a brief report on results of the year's coordination with school boards, community <br />colleges and universities (as applicable) for implementation of the statutory and code required <br />Public Shelter Design Criteria (a.k a. EHPA) The most recent published Statewide Emergency <br />Shelter Plan can provide guidance for implementation of the EHPA criteria. A checklist to provide <br />this information will be made available on the Division's Sharepoint Portal. -- <br />22 <br />