MUNICIPALITIES MUST GET CREATIVE TO FUND RESILIENCY IN A TIME OF BOTH GREATER NEED AND REDUCED FEDERAL FUNDING
The Resilience Authority of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County was created as the first multi-jurisdictional organization of its kind in the country.
Matthew Fleming, the authority’s
director and a 25-year veteran of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources,
said it very much aims to be a national model.
“We may not have the big high-impact
storms like hurricanes, but the constant erosion, the sunny day flooding, the
infrastructure being inundated — we’re 520 miles of shoreline, peninsulas and
creeks and these communities were getting cut off by flooding,” Fleming said.
“Approaching things from a regional
context makes sense.”
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