Council launches Resilience Blueprint Project

In these times of increasing risks and disasters associated with a changing climate, we need better ways of protecting what matters. That is why Yass Valley Council is part of the Resilience Blueprint Project for South East NSW.

Coordinated through the Canberra Region Joint Organisation and delivered through local government, the Resilience Blueprint works with all levels of government, emergency services, researchers, risk analysts, businesses and communities to embed resilience in decision making.

The Resilience Blueprint provides all hazard risk assessments of threats to what we most value, along with the tools and links to resources to protect them.

It will help integrate resilience thinking into day-to-day decisions, build skills through training and deliver high-value, regionally significant resilience projects.

The Yass Valley demonstrates its resilience in all that it has achieved during all the challenges we have faced over the past few years. Through the Resilience Blueprint, we will further embed resilience into all that we do.

“The Resilience Blueprint is a road map for protecting what is important to the people of Yass Valley Council,” said Yass Valley Council General Manager, Chris Berry.

“We are in the first stage of the project – involve and inform. We want to hear from you about what you most value, your capacity and capabilities to protect these things, and what impacts your decisions about protecting them. As a Council, we are asking ourselves these same questions,” said Mr Berry.

“Our collective responses will inform the Resilience Blueprint and help define the collective actions needed to make us more resilient to a changing climate.”

The Resilience Blueprint Community Survey is now open. We invite you to have your say. Click here to visit Council’s website to view the survey and more information on the Resilience Blueprint.

“The Yass Valley is a resilient community. We are furthering our resilience by developing new approaches and tools to better prevent, prepare, respond and recover from disasters, events and cumulative climate change impacts,” said Yass Valley Mayor Allan McGrath.

“We invite you to find out more about the Resilience Blueprint, take the Resilience Survey and let us know what you want for your future. We look forward to being on this journey with you as we confidently navigate our resilience journeys.”

2 2022

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