Location
Building Resilience, Reducing Flood Damage, and the Community Rating System, A League of Women Voters Educational Event.
Recording: Building Resilience, Discounting Insurance Through the Community Rating System link
A LWVLee Educational Event to increase understanding of public policy issues, engage citizens in the decisions that impact their lives, and to influence public policy.
Speaker, Lori Lehr, assists communities to achieve their goals in the CRS by helping to implement programs to improve public safety, economic vitality, environmental sustainability, and NFIP compliance, along with cost-effective floodplain management programs. https://lorilehrinc.com/
The importance of flood insurance and its role in shaping local-level resilience is non-disputable. Communities now are increasingly seeking innovative ways of solving both the physical and economic toll of flooding. One way of addressing these issues is by using the CRS. FEMA created the CRS as a way to diminish the rising cost of flood insurance in at-risk communities. In CRS communities, flood insurance premium rates are discounted to reflect the reduced flood risk resulting from the community’s efforts that address the three goals of the program:
- Reduce and avoid flood damage to insurable property
- Strengthen and support the insurance aspects of the National Flood Insurance Program
- Foster comprehensive floodplain management