Global consulting and digital services provider ICF has won a 3-year contract with the city of Columbia, South Carolina, to develop the city’s first-ever disaster management Community Development Block Grant Mitigation Action Plan.
ICF will coordinate the city’s public engagement efforts and design its mitigation needs assessment. The contract also calls on the company to help develop the city’s CDBG-Mitigation programs. The work includes devising policies and procedures, leading training and technical assistance, providing quality assurance and quality control tools and establishing measures to control waste, fraud and abuse.
“Each year, more communities are at risk from increasingly intense events, and well-conceived, well-executed mitigation programs are the only way to break the cycle,” said Andrew LaVanway, ICF senior vice president and disaster management division lead.
“Whole-community mitigation is much more than moving dirt and re-routing water. It’s purposefully planning for the unexpected to reduce long-term risk to life and property. We look forward to helping Columbia in these critical planning efforts,” LaVanway said.