Good morning, MitFLG partners –

We know it’s a very busy time of the year but wanted to flag the following opportunity on this very important topic.

In advance of the summer season and underscoring the Biden-Harris Administration’s focus on community resilience to address climate change, FEMA will host a virtual and in-person Extreme Heat Summit series focused on understanding extreme heat impacts and defining actionable ways to combat and prepare for these increasing risks across the country. Well ahead of the start to summer, January through March 2024 clocked in as the fifth-warmest start to a year in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 130-year climate record. NOAA predicts odds for above-normal temperatures across the midwestern, western and southern lower 48 states during the summer 2024 season.

In honor of Earth Month, the two-part series kicks off with a virtual summit on April 26, 2024, featuring remarks from Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell and roundtable discussions examining federal, state and local initiatives to combat extreme heat risks. Speakers include representatives from the U.S. Fire Administration, the National Park Service, Occupational Health and Safety and the Department of Health & Human Services.

“Extreme heat is becoming a more aggressive threat to well-being across the country,” said Administrator Criswell. “We want to arm our emergency responders—and communities across America—with the health and safety information needed to stay healthy when the temperatures soar. Just this week, we saw temperatures in the 80s and 90s over larger parts of the country. The time to be summer ready is now.”

FEMA’s Extreme Heat Series concludes with an in-person summit hosted in Chicago on May 21, 2024. Building on the lessons learned from FEMA’s 2023 Extreme Heat Summit, this engagement is open to government leaders and resilience focused private sector, nonprofit and academic organizations. FEMA will offer opportunities for discussion, networking and cross-collaboration between all levels of government and community partners. Presentations and panel discussions will be led by subject matter experts, local emergency managers and climate resilience practitioners. Speakers will focus on raising awareness of the increasing frequency and severity of extreme heat events, highlighting mitigation best practices across the country, and discussing ways of communicating extreme heat risks and implications to communities and stakeholders.

Attendance to the virtual and in-person extreme heat summits are open to the public. Register for the April 26 virtual summit at #SummerReady Extreme Heat Summit | FEMA.gov and register for the May 21 in-person Chicago summit at cvent.me/Z8lAk3.

For questions or additional information about the Extreme Heat Summit series, please contact FEMA-extreme-heat-summit@fema.dhs.gov

To learn more about extreme heat preparedness, visit FEMA’s Ready.gov. Please feel free to forward to interested colleagues, stakeholders, and partners.  

Thank you,

Aly Briscoe

MitFLG Secretariat

We are excited to announce a significant milestone in our communications toolkit, the launch of our new MitFLG Logo! As we continue to evolve and grow as an interagency organization, we believe it's crucial to refresh our visual identity to better reflect our mission. This logo was developed with careful consideration and represents our commitment to collaboration as an interagency coordinating structure.

We will begin implementing the new logo on all of our materials, especially as we begin updating the MitFLG webpage. This new visual identity marks an exciting chapter for the MitFLG, and we appreciate your support as we continue to drive meaningful change in our communities and beyond.

Thank you all for your continued partnership!

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Microsoft Teams meeting with FEMA - American Samoa Mitigation Consultation and Plan to Action Planning Call on Jan. 3, 2024.

 

Territorial Hazard Mitigation Council and Stakeholders
We encourage all departments and agencies to prepare their applications for the "Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC)" and "Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA)" grant funding opportunities. Please submit your list of projects that you are submitting for these funding opportunities before our meeting to ensure timely submission. Below are recorded guidance webinars for the funding opportunities.

  1. BRIC AND FMA FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2023 NOTICES OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES (NOFOS) – View At: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rrhEoDy23g

  2. BRIC AND FMA FISCAL YEAR (FY) 2023 NOTICES OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES (NOFOS) FOR TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS – View at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QraKMX_x_q0

We appreciate your time, value your participation and look forward to a productive meeting. Please feel free to contact our office if you have any further questions. Thank you for your continuous support.

Best Regards,

Sandi Tonumaipea

State/Territorial Hazard Mitigation Officer

UPCOMING CALENDAR EVENTS

April 17: Flag Day 2024

May 14-17: Territorial Climate and Infrastructure Workshop

May 15: FEMA Region 9 Quarterly Partners Meeting

May 27: Memorial Holiday

Jul. 4: Independence Day

Jul. 16: Manu’a Cession Day

Aug. 21: FEMA Region 9 Quarterly Partners Meeting

Sept. 2: Labor Day Holiday

Oct. 14: Columbus Day Holiday

Nov. 11: Veteran’s Day Holiday

Nov. 28: Thanksgiving Holiday

Dec. 25: Christmas Holiday

Jan. 1: New Years Day

 
 

Group picture of 2024 Expanded Quarterly Partners Meeting (EQPM) in Las Vegas, NV.

2024 EQPM Day 2: Flood Mitigation project site visits.

Tahiti, March 1 , 2024 – A delegation from Samoa is currently in Polynesia. After Hawaii last year, Tahiti was chosen this year for the annual meeting of American Samoa oil operators. They took the opportunity to visit the Pacific Energy depot in the port of Papeete.

Every year, American Samoa oil operators choose a destination “on neutral ground” but always in the Pacific or in the United States to hold their meeting. After Hawaii last year and San Diego the year before, it was in Tahiti that this meeting took place this time, with a delegation of six people including three members of the government of American Samoa.

Pacific Energy is one of the two suppliers in American Samoa and they therefore took advantage of their presence in Polynesia to visit the storage depot of Albert Moux's company which also received them at its premises in Faa'a. “We manage a deposit in American Samoa on behalf of the government, but we are also a distributor ,” explains Xavier Baronnet, CIO of Pacific Energy South West Pacific in Fiji, who specifies that “each year, the two suppliers meet with the authorities of the American Samoa to discuss oil supply, depot operations, the future. Decisions are made on investments and on major market trends because there is a lot of bunkering activity” (resupplying, Editor’s note).

The next meeting is expected to be held in Australia.

Written by The editorial staff on Friday March 1, 2024 at 1:03 p.m. | Read 2300 times

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