Hello,

We’ve held dozens of informal, neighborhood-style meetings across the county in an effort to capture important lessons learned from the 2013 Flood.

We know not everyone could attend the meetings so we want to invite you to share your experiences and input too. Please take a few minutes and fill out our questionnaire. Click here to answer the questions.

Your comments will help in the following ways:

• BoCo Strong will develop Resilience Best Practices that will be available to all residents of the county.
• BoCo Strong will present the findings to community leaders from all sectors (government, business, nonprofit, faith, education, etc.) identifying what we should work on to enhance our resilience.
• BoCo Strong will display the findings at the Flood Commemoration Week Kickoff event on September 7, 12-4 p.m., at Gateway Park Fun Center, 4800 28^th St., Boulder.

You can learn more about resilence in a short video: http://www.bocostrong.org/community.html.

We hope to build on our strengths so that individuals, neighborhoods and towns/cities can thrive in the long haul – no matter what hits!

Thanks,

Garry Sanfacon

(I’m wearing a different hat on this effort!)

BoCo Strong Committee Chair, Long Term Flood Recovery Group

www.bocostrong.org

720-564-2642

BoCo Strong      Mission

The mission of BoCo Strong is to coordinate a process of individual, business, neighborhood, community and countywide resilience that integrates action across Boulder County in ways which increase the effectiveness of our existing collective capacity of all sectors, respects the unique character of each town and city and leverages additional resources, participation and leadership.

Background

Following the 2013 Flood, a wide variety of Boulder County residents and organizations from all sectors of the county have come together to form the Long Term Flood Recovery Group of Boulder County (LTFRG). In addition to identifying and addressing individual unmet needs, the LTFRG has learned from other communities hard hit by disaster the importance of engaging all parts of the community about how to rebuild stronger and better, including all hazard mitigation, cultural landmarks, economic development, nonprofits, parks and other public infrastructure. BoCo Strong was formed as a subcommittee of the LTFRG to champion community engagement and build community resilience. The Long-Term Flood Recovery Group (LTFRG) is partnering with the City of Boulder, Boulder County, Lyons, Jamestown, Longmont, nonprofits, the education and business community and faith based groups to launch BoCo Strong – a series of community conversations to help Boulder County strengthen its resilience following last year’s floods.