Oakville Recovery Task Force Will Meet to Develop Community Recovery Projects 

Release Date: October 10, 2008
Release Number: 1763-194

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OAKVILLE, Iowa -- The Oakville Recovery Task Force will conduct an all-day workshop, October 18, 2008, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Oakville Community Center to develop recovery projects for Oakville, Eliot and Huron townships and the surrounding area.  Members of the public are welcome to stop by to observe the process.

The workshop will be hosted by the Oakville Community Vision Committee. Staff members from the Rebuild Iowa Office (RIO) and FEMA's Long-Term Community Recovery program (LTCR) will be on hand.  Volunteer professional architects, landscape architects and planners as well as architecture and landscape architecture students from Iowa State and the University of Iowa will provide technical support and on-site sketching of project concepts. The project summaries and sketches will be displayed for public comment during a Community Open House October 23, 2008 from 6-8 p.m. (at the Oakville Community Center).

The Oakville Task Force is composed of five focus groups:  Community Safety and Community Affairs, Sustainable Transportation and Infrastructure, Economic Development (Business and Agriculture), Community Planning and Housing, and Oakville Alternative Futures.

Each focus group will work together to develop four project concepts, assisted by a facilitator, a volunteer design professional and a design student.

The City of Oakville is being supported by RIO and FEMA's Long Term Community Recovery program to help them through a community-driven process to explore what their future can be.  This exploration results in an LTCR Plan that can serve as a roadmap to their recovery from the disaster.

The LTCR process aids the community in developing its recovery plan which expresses its post-disaster vision of the community, identifies LTCR projects and programs that can achieve that vision and collectively addresses the prioritization of limited resources to the recovery effort. 

FEMA coordinates the federal government's role in preparing for, preventing, mitigating the effects of, responding to, and recovering from all domestic disasters, whether natural or man-made, including acts of terror.

Last Modified: Tuesday, 14-Oct-2008 09:20:01