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Upon request, the City is available to answer questions about financial assistance
grants available to individual property owners interested in mitigating the negative
effects of flooding.
V. FLOOD INSURANCE PROMOTION (ACTIVITY 370)
As discussed above in Step 2, the City has completed an assessment of the current
level of flood insurance coverage and identified opportunities to improve the level of
coverage. Efforts underway to boost the acquisition of flood insurance include the
promotion of NFIP flood insurance on its Stormwater Master Planning and Flood
Information web pages as well as on social media. Information about flood insurance
has also been distributed via direct mailing campaigns to repetitive loss areas and
homes and businesses in the SFHA. The Know Your Flood Risk fact sheet, which
includes the promotion of flood insurance, has been distributed both online and in
paper format at public meetings. The City is also aiming to distribute this fact sheet
at City Hall.
Beyond the local efforts noted above, the City is a supporting locality of the regional
outreach campaign, GetFloodFluent.org, spearheaded by the HRPDC to encourage
area residents to purchase flood insurance.
Figure 11. X (formerly known as Twitter) post about
purchasing flood insurance.
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