LTC 451-2016 Business Resilience Workshop MIAMI BEACH
OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
NO. LTC # 451-2016 LETTER TO COMMISSION
TO: Mayor Philip Levine and Members of he City • '•mmission
FROM: Jimmy L. Morales, City Manager
DATE: October 25, 2016
SUBJECT: Business Resilience Workshop
I am pleased to announce that the City of Miami Beach has been selected to pilot a
Business Resiliency workshop. This is a significant event to identify and integrate key
issues with economic resiliency into the Miami Beach Rising Above Resiliency Strategy.
This effort also compliments our 100 Resilient Cities Resiliency Strategy, underway with
our Greater Miami and the Beaches partners.
The workshop, entitled "City-Business Collaboration on Resilience Planning in Miami
Beach," will be held all-day on November 3, 2016. Participants will discuss how the
community can increase its resilience to extreme weather events, a changing climate,
and other natural hazards. This interactive workshop will bring together key stakeholders
from the civic and business community to learn about existing resilience planning and
assess how it addresses their organization's needs. Featured presenters include key
agency heads and representatives from the City of Miami Beach, including the areas of
Resilience, Finance, Communications, Emergency Management, and Environment. Key
invitees includes representatives from the City of Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce,
hotels, restaurants, building management, finance, utilities, environmental and civic
groups, healthcare, and transportation.
The goal of the workshop is to encourage discussions between city planners and the
business community and to plan together for a resilient Miami Beach. The workshop
uses the UN Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities developed by IBM and AECOM
as a framework for discussion and to identify Miami Beach's current capacity to respond
to extreme weather events.
The workshop is being facilitated by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
(C2ES), an independent, nonpartisan, non-profit organization committed to forging
practical solutions to our climate and energy challenges. It is being held by C2ES in
partnership with the City of Miami Beach and the Miami Beach Chamber Advocacy
Council. C2ES is regularly ranked among the top environmental think tanks in the world,
since its founding as the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in 1998.
Please contact Susanne M. Torriente, Assistant City Manager/ Chief Resiliency Officer
with any questions regarding the event.
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CITY-BUSINESS COLLABORATION ON RESILIENCE PLANNING IN MIAMI BEACH
The Shelborne Wyndham Grand
November 3, 2016
8:00—8:30 a.m. Breakfast & Networking
8:30—9:00 a.m. Welcome, Introductions, and Framing of Workshop Objectives
Speaker.
Janet Peace, Senior Vice President, C2ES
9:00—9:45 a.m. Planning for a Resilient Miami Beach
City officials will provide an overview of current resilience planning in the city,
including the role of the CRO in city government, how climate scenarios are incorporated
into city planning processes, and how the city finances resilience activities.
Speakers:
Susanne Torriente, Chief Resiliency Officer, City of Miami Beach
Amy Knowles, Deputy Resiliency Officer, City of Miami Beach
Allison Williams, Chief Financial Officer, City of Miami Beach
Cintya Ramos, Budget Director, City of Miami Beach
9:45— 10:15 a.m. Introduction to the Climate Resilience Scorecard
The Climate Resilience Scorecard is a tool for establishing a consensus-based baseline
score of Miami Beach's resilience planning process.
Speakers.
Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, IBM
10:15— 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30— 11:30 a.m. Climate Resilience Scorecard, Essentials 1 and 3, Plenary Session
Essential 1 covers City Organization for Resilience. Participants will complete Essential
1 in a plenary session. Essential 3 covers financial capacity for resilience planning.
Facilitator.
Peter Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Big Green Innovations, IBM
11:30 a.m.— 12:15 p.m. Working Lunch: Resilient Urban Planning and Natural
Environments
City officials will summarize how resilience activities are financed in the city; how urban
development plans account for climate change impacts, and how natural ecosystems are
included in these plans.
Speakers.
Thomas Mooney, Planning Director, City of Miami Beach
Betsy Wheaton, Environment& Sustainability Director, City of Miami Beach
In Partnership with the City of Miami Beach and the Miami Beach Chamber Advocacy Council
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12:15— 1:15 p.m. Climate Resilience Scorecard, Essentials 2,4, and 5, Breakout Sessions
Essential 2 covers risk scenarios and how they are used by the city. Essential 4 covers
resilient urban development. Essential 5 covers protective functions of natural
ecosystems. Participants will complete Essentials 2, 4, and 5 in breakout groups and then
discuss their assessment with the full group.
Facilitators:
Jon Philipsborn, Climate Adaptation Practice Director, AECOM
Janet Peace, Senior Vice President, C2ES
Ashley Lawson, Senior Fellow, C2ES
1:15— 1:30 p.m. Break
1:30—2:00 p.m. Emergency Planning in Miami Beach
City officials will provide an overview of current emergency planning in the city and how
climate change risks and response are communicated to diverse communities.
Speakers:
Charles Tear, Emergency Manager, City of Miami Beach
Melissa Berthier, Public Relations Manager, City of Miami Beach
2:00—3:00 p.m. Climate Resilience Scorecard, Essentials 6 and 7, Breakout Sessions
Essential 6 covers the city's institutional capacity for resilience. Essential 7 covers
societal and cultural resilience. Participants will complete Essentials 6 and 7 in breakout
groups and then discuss their assessment with the full group.
Facilitators:
Jon Philipsborn, Climate Adaptation Practice Director, AECOM
Janet Peace, Senior Vice President, C2ES
Ashley Lawson, Senior Fellow, C2ES
3:00—3:15 p.m. Break
3:15—4:15 p.m. Climate Resilience Scorecard, Essentials 8 and 9, Breakout Sessions
Essential 8 covers resilient infrastructure. Essential 9 covers disaster response.
Participants will complete Essentials 8 and 9 in breakout groups and then discuss their
assessment with the full group.
Facilitators:
Jon Philipsborn, Climate Adaptation Practice Director, AECOM
Janet Peace, Senior Vice President, C2ES
Ashley Lawson, Senior Fellow, C2ES
4:15—5:00 p.m. Essential 10 and Wrap-up, Plenary Session
Essential 10 covers resilient recovery after an event. Participants will complete Essential
10 in a plenary session and review the full Climate Resilience Scorecard assessment.
In Partnership with the City of Miami Beach and the Miami Beach Chamber Advocacy Council
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