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40 <br />CONTRACT MODIFICATION t12 <br />ADDITIONAL LMS PLANNING SERVICES PROPOSAL <br />FOR <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY <br />1. General Program Assistance. Provide Local Mitigation Strategy (LMS) program <br />support services to the Department of Eatergency Services (DES), as needed. Services to <br />be providers include: assisting DES; organize acrd conduct Woikiiig Group and/or <br />subcomnrittet: meetings; presenting specific agenda items regarding program activities; <br />serving as a "sounding board" for ideas; providing graphic support; and providing <br />technical advice regarding AreView software and TAOS products. <br />Deliverables: Organizing and conducting necessary meetings of the Working Group. <br />Prepare a memorandum documenting technical consulting services <br />provided to the DES. <br />Grants. Assistance. Work to implement the highest priority _projects listed in the <br />adopted Indian River County LMS Project Prioritization List (PPL). The initial step will <br />be consulting with DES and members of the Working Group to sclect two (2) projects on <br />the PPL, for which grant applications will be prepared. Services to be provided in <br />preparing the applications include: meeting with grant applicants and DES staff, <br />reviewing, grant opportunities, selecting the specific grant programs to be pursued, <br />acquiring all needed application materials from the funding agencies, working with the <br />applicants in designing their project proposal, conferring with and securing needed data <br />from all appropriate municipal/county agencies, and other grant matters that may arise <br />during the preparation of the application. <br />Deliverable; Preparation of TWO grant applications. <br />3. Private Sector Involvement. Create a viable, fitnctioning involvement of community <br />businesses and non-profit organizations in the LMS program. Initially, work with the <br />DES staff and members of the business conununity/non-profits that serve on the LMS <br />Working Group to identify a diverse group of individuals that represent a broad cross- <br />section of the private sector that are interested serving on an ad hoc LMS private sector <br />committee. With the list established, personal contact with each, on a one-on-onc basis <br />would be conducted to explain the LMS program and the importance of private sector <br />involvement. <br />The next step will be convening the subcommittee. Under this contract, two meetings <br />will be held. Initial tasks will be defining the mission of the subcommittee and <br />developing an "action" program of activities to be completed by. September 30, 2000. <br />Tire activities will focus on those activities that will raise public awareness of the <br />importance hazard mitigation to businesses, and assist thein in preparing for such events. <br />1 <br />