| Iberia Parish Goals |
| Environmental |
- Integrate planning, investment and ecosystem management decisions into sustainable coastal landscape restoration by adopting an environmental master plan for Iberia Parish in the next 12 months.
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| Housing and Community Development |
- Rebuild 1000 storm damaged or distressed homes for residents over the next 36 months in alternate sustainable locations or by incorporating mitigation measures in current locations.
- Demolish and clear more than 200 homes destroyed by Hurricane Rita in the next 60 days.
- Construct 500 new homes for all income ranges in sustainable locations over the next 36 months.
- Train inspectors and permit staff, and develop a building code department in the next 90 days.
- Develop inventory of at-risk properties (i.e., built below ABFE) within next 6 months.
- Plan and zone land in the parish according to hazardous mapping, planned infrastructure capacity and community vision, over the next 18 months.
- Within three months, establish a parish planning organization to coordinate recovery activities and apply for recovery-related grants.
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| Economic and Workforce Development |
- Release all stranded shrimp boats within 90 days.
- Restore Twin Ports Canal through dredging within 3 months.
- Recruit and/or train 300 skilled tradesmen over next six months to ensure there is sufficient labor available for rebuilding housing stock and other critical facilities.
- Provide temporary housing over the next 12-24 months for workers recruited for reconstruction work in the oil and gas industry.
- Initiate one public marketing campaign to restore confidence so that residents stay/return and visitors/investors return in the next six months and extending over the five year rebuilding cycle.
- Repair and enhance parish infrastructure to support the economy and emergency operations.
- Increase Iberia Parish's appeal as a “must see” cultural, historic, and environmental destination in the next 2 years.
- Assess opportunities to leverage existing medical facilities as a strategy to diversify the economy in the next six months.
- Establish a workforce education program to support critical local industries with the goal of generating 50 graduates within the first year.
- Within 12 months, assess the damage to agricultural assets and determine the long-term viability for crops currently under production in Iberia (including sugar cane, rice and crawfish).
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| Public Health and Healthcare |
- Provide health care services, facilities and workforce training in order to support a health care system that meets the changed needs resulting from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, by 2012.
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| Transportation and Infrastructure |
- Expedite water and sewage infrastructure development to enable new construction, within next 18 months.
- Protect existing facilities from flood and wind damage, and install emergency power for essential equipment, allowing for continuous operations within the next six month.
- Develop parish transportation plan tied to regional circulation and land use plans within 18 months.
- Create a unified drainage plan and revised storm water management plan in the next 18 months.
- Establish a wastewater treatment plan for the parish within 12 months.
- Ensure Port and Airport facilities have improved access to 90/I-49 for emergency evacuation and intermodal exchange within the next 36 months.
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| Education |
- Ensure public education facilities are safe havens and properties are secure from further storm damage over next 36 months.
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| Public Safety |
- Establish safe harbors and shelters of last resort for all towns within the next 18 months.
- Provide emergency generators for essential service providers, including water/sewer, medical facilities, police, fire and shelter providers.
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| Flood Protection and Coastal Restoration |
- Repair, restore and re-vegetate hurricane damaged mile-long marsh breach along northern shoreline of Vermilion Bay , completing the project during the next 12 months.
- Re-create marsh habitat destroyed by hurricane storm surge by creating 325 acres of interior emergent marsh habitat during the next 24 months.
- Reduce soil erosion and replace lost soil along northern Bay shoreline by creating 211 acres of brackish marsh during the next 12 months.
- Re-invigorate natural land building capability of the Atchafalaya River by re-directing sediment flow, dispersing and trapping sediment at the junction of Commercial Canal and Weeks Bay during the next 12 months.
- Reduce the risk of flooding through adoption of Iberia Parish Master Drainage and Flood Control Plan during the next 12 months.
- Stabilize Vermilion/Weeks Bay with dredged material and vegetative plantings within six months.
- Complete the restoration of 10 miles of north Vermilion Bay and stabilize an additional 5 miles of shoreline with intensive vegetative plantings during the next 6 months.
- Complete feasibility and design stages for comprehensive hurricane protection measures within 24 months.
- Within 24 months, initiate shoreline restoration and stabilization projects.
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