1. RPC Involvement in the Recovery of Vermont’s
Transportation Network after Tropical Storm Irene
NADO Rural Transportation Presented by Katharine Otto, Southern Windsor County RPC
Peer Learning Conference
2012, Burlington VT on behalf of the Vermont Association of Planning and Development Agencies
8. Traditional Role of
Vermont s
Vermont’s RPCs
Coordinated
regional planning
Transportation
planning
Local land use
planning & zoning
Emergency planning
E l
& preparedness
Natural resource
planning
GIS mapping &
analysis
9. What was our task?
VTrans requested assistance from Vermont’s 11
Vermont s
RPCs
Specific tasks
Mapping & data collection
Resource matching
Communications
Technical assistance
FEMA PA assistance
10. Strengths
g
Pre established
Pre-established relationships with municipalities
Transportation
GIS mapping and infrastructure inventories
Pre-established working relationships and
partnerships with state agencies and volunteers
Inter-RPC mutual aid assistance – less impacted
RPCs help more impacted RPCs
11. Areas for improvements
p
No pre-defined role for RPCs to assist VTrans in the
pre defined
manner requested
Not all RPC staff had adequate knowledge and/or
training for tasks
Communications challenges
Continuously changing expectations
Collecting too much information
12. Picture from Town of Weathersfield facebook page
Thank
Th k you
Contact:
Katharine Otto kotto@swcrpc org
kotto@swcrpc.org
Pam Brangan pbrangan@ccrpcvt.org
Michele Boomhower mboomhower@ccrpcvt.org
Catherine Dimitrik cdimitruk@nrpcvt.com