Red Hook NY Rising Committee
History of the NY Rising committee and its resiliency plan for Red Hook:
The NYS Governors Office for Storm Recovery (GOSR) created the NY Rising "Community Reconstruction Program" (CRP), an 8-month planning process that kicked off in September, 2013, for 45 areas in the state, including Red Hook, affected by storms Sandy, Irene and Lee. Red Hook, like the other the 45 areas, had to create a plan for the allocated funds by having a state-selected committee of community members work with, and be a liaison between, the community and state-hired consultants. The committee met every two weeks and had multiple public engagement events.
The idea was that the State would provide funding and consultants for communities to develop resiliency plans, bringing planning resources to small communities that usually could not afford them. The Red Hook group, working with some of the top planning and design firms in NYC, was charged with making a neighborhood resiliency plan with a budget of $3 million dollars during a work period from September 2013 to April 2014. The State picked the consultants, the Red Hook people to be on the committee and drove the process (timeline, framework, etc), so there was a strong State hand working with grassroots voices.
The committee continued to meet after completing that State-initiated work in April, 2014.
In February 2017, the committee changed its name to Resilient Red Hook to reflect that its mission was moving beyond the original State-funded plan. At the same time, it began a process to design its own website. More here.
The final CRP plans were rolled out in Albany on April 23, 2013:
Mini brochure summarizing the NY Rising Plan
Executive Summary and full final Red Hook NY Rising plan
The committee blog which covered the 2013-2014 period is at http://redhookcrp.wordpress.com/
Committee members on the blog about the process.
Official NYS webpages
https://stormrecovery.ny.gov/regional-communities/red-hook
http://stormrecovery.ny.gov/nyrcr/community/red-hook
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In Albany, Red Hook committee members Danelle Johnson and Gita Nandan made strong presentations, got great reactions from Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio and delivered strong follow-up answers (see them at 09:16 of video)
http://stormrecovery.ny.gov/community-reconstruction-program
