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2025 Hazard Mitigation Plan <br />Kittitas County, Washington <br /> <br /> <br />Executive Summary 4 <br />must officially adopt the Plan through resolution within one (1) year to be officially recognized by FEMA <br />as being part of the Kittitas County Hazard Mitigation Plan. <br /> <br />The following key elements are included in the 2025 Kittitas County Hazard Mitigation Plan. <br /> <br />• Planning Process: The Core Planning Team, Steering Committee, and planning process are <br />described and documented. <br />• Community Profile: Demographics (including underserved population), social, and economic <br />data, as well as existing and future land use descriptions, are updated to reflect the status of <br />Kittitas County and its jurisdictions. <br />• Hazard Risk Assessment: Outlines the process of measuring the potential loss of life, personal <br />injury, economic injury, and property damage resulting from natural hazards. In this section, the <br />process focuses on the following elements – hazard identification, vulnerability identification, and <br />cost evaluation. <br />• Mitigation Strategy: The mitigation strategy describes how the community will accomplish the <br />overall purpose of the planning process. In this section, mitigation goals and objectives were <br />reevaluated and updated; and mitigation actions were updated, identified, evaluated, and <br />prioritized. <br />• Plan Maintenance: The Hazard Mitigation Plan requires monitoring, evaluation, and updating <br />every five (5) years. This section includes a schedule for annual monitoring and evaluation of the <br />programmatic outcomes established in the Plan and for producing a formal Plan revision every <br />five (5) years. <br />• Appendices: Includes the Kittitas County’s mitigation actions, stakeholder and public <br />engagement details and supporting documentation, and the plan adoption. <br />• Annexes: This Plan includes 15 plan participants – four (4) municipalities and 11 special districts <br />– and each jurisdiction developed its own annex. All jurisdiction specific information and <br />supporting documentation (e.g., hazard vulnerability and impacts, mitigation actions, stakeholder <br />and public engagement) can be found in the respective annexes. <br /> <br />