1500 Hours, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010: The Sussex County Emergency Operations Center invites residents and property owners to attend an upcoming public meeting to offer ideas and submit comments on a federally required update to the County’s All Hazard Multi-Jurisdictional Mitigation Plan.

The meeting, canceled last week because of the region’s most recent blizzard, is now set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010, at the EOC, 21911 Rudder Lane, east of Georgetown. The rescheduled meeting is a follow-up session to another held earlier in the month.

The hazard mitigation plan, first adopted in 2005, is a document that serves as a comprehensive, long-term planning tool used to identify various strategies local emergency planners would use in the event of a disaster. The overall goal of the effort is to reduce or eliminate the loss of human life and damage to property as a result of hazards, both natural and man-made.

Local jurisdictions must update their plans every five years. As part of that process, the public has the opportunity to review the plan, offer input, and help shape the update.

For more information on the all-hazard plan, contact EOC Director Joseph L. Thomas at (302) 855-7801.

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