WHEN:
Sunday, October 29th, 2017, 10:00AM
WHERE:
End of West 12th Road, Broad Channel, NY
WHAT:
Press conference to present the Flood Insurance Working Group’s asks on legislative
re-authorization priorities to the national Congressional delegation
WHO:
re-authorization priorities to the national Congressional delegation
WHO:
Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Broad Channel)
Other community leaders and electeds from the Flood Insurance Working Group
Other community leaders and electeds from the Flood Insurance Working Group
This Sunday, October 29th, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato (D-Broad Channel) and a working group she convened, including local, state and Federal leaders, will mark the five-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, with a list of legislative recommendations for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The NFIP is slated to be reauthorized by Congress in late November or early December (and would otherwise expire on December 8th). NFIP reauthorization was already slated to be one of three major legislative items of the current session of Congress before Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria made international news and threw the urgency of securing America’s floodplain into stark relief. Over half of all Americans live in a county adjacent to coastline, and climate scientists expect flooding issues to worsen worldwide over the next several decades, making legislative steps taken in the near future potentially decisive to the success or failure of securing the floodplain.
Sandy was one of the earliest contemporary “super-storms,” and New York City and State’s successes and failures during the recovery period have been used as case studies for how America must address the flooding crisis from here on out. Pheffer Amato and the Working Group, composed of stakeholders from impacted communities in South Queens as well as representatives of Congressman Gregory Meeks and Borough President Melinda Katz, note that their input is singularly valuable to the national debate, informed as it is by the successes and shortcomings of the existing NFIP applied to the United States’s largest city, plus five years of follow-up action to rebuild in the storm’s aftermath.
Sandy was one of the earliest contemporary “super-storms,” and New York City and State’s successes and failures during the recovery period have been used as case studies for how America must address the flooding crisis from here on out. Pheffer Amato and the Working Group, composed of stakeholders from impacted communities in South Queens as well as representatives of Congressman Gregory Meeks and Borough President Melinda Katz, note that their input is singularly valuable to the national debate, informed as it is by the successes and shortcomings of the existing NFIP applied to the United States’s largest city, plus five years of follow-up action to rebuild in the storm’s aftermath.
Please come down to West 12th Road this Sunday morning to show your support for the Councilwoman's efforts in this extremely important issue in an attempt to keep flood insurance fair and affordable.
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