Anne Coglianese volition analyse vulnerabilities & risks, travel up with policies & projects

Anne Coglianese

Anne Coglianese

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Anne Coglianese, who erstwhile worked arsenic a peculiar adjunct for clime preparedness and resiliency astatine the White House Council connected Environmental Quality, was confirmed Thursday by Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry arsenic the city’s archetypal main resilience officer.

Curry said his squad conducted a nationwide hunt to find the champion candidate, and that hunt led them to Coglianese.

“This presumption is important to our city, our radical and our future,” Curry said. “This presumption is important to our city, our radical and our future. We are a metropolis that is profoundly connected to the h2o done the ocean, the St. Johns River and the galore creeks and tributaries that travel passim our community.”

As portion of her duties, Coglianese volition beryllium tasked with analyzing the city’s vulnerabilities, looking astatine risks and coming up with policies and projects to code those concerns.

“The biggest acquisition successful resilience is that the much you tin bash to get retired successful beforehand of clime threats, the amended you’ll beryllium erstwhile they bash occur,” Coglianese said.

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A cardinal focus, Coglianese said, volition beryllium neighborhoods that are astatine a precocious hazard of flooding, particularly those that straight borderline the St. Johns River -- similar Riverside and San Marco. She said determination are factors to instrumentality into relationship erstwhile it comes to infrastructure that she learned during her clip spent successful New Orleans.

“Although determination was, you know, surely harm aft Hurricane Ida that conscionable swept through, the city’s (New Orleans) drainage strategy functioned precise well,” Coglianese said.

The resilience serviceman said her squad volition beryllium doing a “deep dive” connected the city’s gathering codes and what caller policies mightiness beryllium needed.

Also brought up -- the plan program astatine the erstwhile location of the Jacksonville Landing. As the last program is inactive successful the works, Coglianese said immoderate resilience concerns volition beryllium factored in.

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