Emergency ManagementMAPA assists Mills County and Pottawattamie County with pre-disaster and hazard mitigation planning under Federal Emergency Management Agency's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). Such planning requires the active participation of local planning committees, in-depth reviews of past disasters and/or near-disasters, and a series of goals and objectives to meet in order to make region jurisdictions as disaster-ready as possible. MAPA has prepared plans for each community in Mills and Pottawattamie Counties and for the counties themselves. MAPA also has working relationships with Nebraska and Iowa-member Emergency Management Agencies and regional quasi-governmental organizations. |