Hazard Mitigation Plan 2019 – An Update

At the Hinsdale Select Board Meeting on December 13, 2023, Jamie Caplan, a Hazard Mitigation Consultant, provided an overview of the process used to update The Town of Hinsdale's 2019 Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP). Caplan spoke from her office in Northampton, MA. Every municipality in Massachusetts is required to update its HMP every five years. The draft is then reviewed by the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), revised in response to MEMA's suggestion, and then submitted to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for approval. After the plan is approved at the federal level, the Massachusetts Town's Select Board votes to adopt the plan in accordance with M.G.L. c. 40. Hinsdale's Board established an ad hoc Hazard Mitigation Planning Committee to work with Caplan to update the plan in FY24, for more click here.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8EHuOVzXPQ