Have a voice in Nashville’s Future! Attend a Long Term Recovery Discovery Open House near you.

These public meetings are for everyone in Davidson County who cares about the future of our neighborhoods, our economy, and our quality of life. Join us whether or not you were directly impacted by the flood. Your ideas for our long term recovery over the next five to fifteen years are important.

Nashville united in response to the flood. Now is the time to unite again to make sure we emerge even stronger in the years to come!

DISCOVERY OPEN HOUSES
Come in to share your ideas anytime between the hours indicated.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 11:00 am to 1:30 pm
Downtown Nashville
Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, 37203

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
North West Davidson County:
St. Paul’s AME Church, 3340 West Hamilton Avenue, 37218

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
South East Davidson County: 

Lighthouse Ministries, 5100 Blue Hole Road, Antioch, 37013, Meeting in Sanctuary.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 11:00 am to 1:30 pm
Nashville Farmers’ Market, 900 8th Avenue North, Nashville, 37208

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
North East Davidson County:
Pennington United Methodist Church, 2745 Pennington Bend Road, Donelson, 37214

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
South West Davidson County:
Belle Meade United Methodist Church, 1212 Davidson Road, 37205, Meeting in Fellowship Hall.

If you can’t make a meeting, please visit us at the Long Term Recovery Plan Storefront at 300 Eleventh Avenue South or www.nashvillerecovery.com.

For More Information:

  Metro Launches Long Term Flood Recovery Plan Effort

Public meetings will collect input from residents about city’s strategy for the future

 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Residents of Davidson County have a unique opportunity to help shape the future of Metro Nashville after the devastating flood in May of this year.

Mayor Karl Dean’s Office of Flood Recovery has initiated the development of a Long Term Recovery Plan and the first round of public meetings to gather residents’ input will start later this week.  Metro Nashville is already becoming a national model for flood recovery.  The Long Term Community Recovery Plan process will help Metro Nashville define what needs to be done over the next five or ten years to ensure the community successfully recovers and emerges as a stronger city.

“This is an important opportunity for us as a city to translate the disastrous effects of the flood into transformative projects and programs that will make our neighborhoods, our economy, our environment, and the entire Metro Nashville community stronger in the years ahead,” Dean said. “I strongly urge everyone in Davidson County, whether you were affected by the May flood or not, to attend and participate in one of these meetings.  You have a voice in Nashville’s future, and this is a chance to share your ideas.”

The Office of Flood Recovery will oversee the Plan’s development along with a team of consulting firms with extensive disaster recovery and community planning experience, most notably for 27 parrishes in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and the City of Greensburg, Kansas, which was devastated by an F-5 tornado in May 2007.

That wealth of experience in developing recovery plans for other communities will be drawn upon to create Nashville’s own roadmap to flood recovery, beginning with a series of community events designed to solicit input from those who survived the May flood and everyone else with ideas to share. 

From Thursday, Oct. 7, through Tuesday, Oct. 12, “Discovery Day Public Meetings” will be held in different parts of the county, and are open to everyone who lives or works in Metro Nashville.  People of all ages, backgrounds, and interests are encouraged to attend, recognizing that Metro Nashville will need to continue to unite as a community to recover and emerge stronger than ever.

Opportunities to participate in the Long Term Community Recovery Plan process do not end there.  On Oct. 23, Community Planning and Design Workshops (a.k.a. charrettes) will be held to assess the needs of flood impacted neighborhoods and develop workable solutions that will help to stabilize and strengthen these communities.

Finally, in November, there will be a communitywide recovery public meeting to prioritize the projects that are emerging from the planning process. These priorities will form the basis of the final plan and the projects that Metro Nashville – in coordination with other government, nongovernment, civic, business, and community partners – will implement in the years ahead.

The process at the public meetings is designed to be inviting, accessible, and comfortable, so participants can freely share their ideas. Participants will work individually or in small groups with facilitators. 

According to the Office of Flood Recovery, the Long Term Recovery Plan will be similar to the East Nashville R/UDAT recovery plan developed a year after the April 1998 tornado. 

Neighborhoods in East Nashville were particularly hard hit, and the R/UDAT plan for the long term recovery of East Nashville has been a valuable part of redefining and revitalizing the future of this community.  The Long Term Recovery Plan currently underway can do similar things for Metro Nashville and Davidson County.

The recovery planning expert team is led by PEER Consultants P.C., a Maryland-based environmental and civil engineering firm involved in creating the plan for post-Katrina redevelopment in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward district.  The team also includes BNIM, an architectural and planning design company in Kansas City, Missouri, which developed the “Greensburg Sustainable Comprehensive Plan” to rebuild Greensburg, Kansas, and Nashville-based EDGE, a planning and landscape architectural firm.

More information about the Long Term Recovery Plan and the complete meeting schedule is available at http://www.nashvillerecovery.com/ .

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Southeast Nashville Flood Recovery (SNFR) is a partnership of faith communities that arose from the devastation along the Mill Creek watershed. On the Monday following the Mill Creek flood on May 2-3, representatives from area congregations began walking the streets of Antioch to discern community needs, hand out needed supplies, and to begin the work of cleanup. As various churches began to reach out in all sorts of ways, it became clear to many that there needed to be a coordinated effort of offering relief, and a meeting was called of pastors, community leaders, area councilpersons, and state officials to talk about how the various groups could be brought together in a more efficient manner. At that meeting, on the Tuesday following the floods, with guidance from leaders of Hopeforce International (a disaster recovery organization), the group decided to form a single entity, focusing on supply distribution and cleanup operations. 

This new organization, known as Southeast Nashville Flood Recovery made it their mission to assist homeowners in the restoration of their lives seeing  that victims of the flood are able to get back into their homes by providing not only an economical re-construction but with loving care, emotional and spiritual support. 

Based on a consortium of many experienced people in disaster relief in these types of disaster rebuilds, this program will allow the home owner rebuild at a reasonable cost.

By providing an organization with the proper experience and staff, this process can be accomplished. Most of the staff would consist of proven volunteers so that the necessary monies to support this effort would be passed onto the home owners, where necessary.

 The application deadline for FEMA and SBA Loans is July 6^th. Many of our neighbors that were significantly impacted by the flood still lack proper information and have not completed their applications. Due to this quickly approaching deadline, an army of volunteers is being assembled for a Phone Call Campaign this Saturday, June 26^th at 10:00 a.m. This very important effort will enable those in our community to receive the financial assistance that will be required in re-establishing their homes following the May flood. 

 If you are able to help, please join us at Christ Church Nashville this Saturday, June 16^th at 10:00 a.m. in the Main Sanctuary. Phone call training and scripts will be provided. We do ask that volunteers use their own cell phones to assist in the phone calls. Spanish speaking volunteers are greatly needed.

 For more information regarding the Phone Call Campaign or any of our flood relief efforts, please contact us at (615) 834-6171.

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You Are Invited to a Complimentary Shopping Extravaganza

A Servolution team from Ohio came and worked all day preparing a home in Bellevue for mold remediation. Thanks to the New Beginnings Ministry for coming to Nashville to bless others.

A truckload of items were taken from Christ Church to help the families in North East Nashville area. Clothes, water, Gatorade, food, desks for home offices, along with lots of love and care, were delivered.

Currently our greatest need is for skilled workers. If you work in any field of skilled labor and would like to volunteer and/or train others in the basics of your field, please call us this week.

Benefit Dinner/Concert with Silent Auction
tomorrow – June 8th
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Preschool Portables Flooded!

A benefit concert/dinner with silent auction will be held on June 8, 2010 at Christ Church to aid in the rebuilding efforts. The dinner will begin at 5:00 PM with the Concert following at 7:00 PM.

• Artists to Perform include;
    • Natalie Grant
    • The Katinas
    • Clay Cross
    • Michael O’Brien
    • Nicole C. Mullins
    • and more…

  • Dinner will cost $20.00 per person
With a maximum price of $60.00 per family.
The Concert is free, but a love offering will be taken.
Be prepared for an amazing auction as area retailers and entertainment venues have provided a vast array of items for bidding.

• Where: CHRIST CHURCH – 15354 Old Hickory Blvd., Nashville, TN Phone:(615) 834-6171 Directions