Draft Community Recovery Plan – Chapter One Summary

Our Community Recovery Plan is a work in progress. Over the next few weeks, we will be progressively put out chapters of the Plan for your thoughts and comments. Normally, we would have had community workshops and meetings to work through ideas. COIVD-19 has prevented this so we have to do things ‘back to front’.

Hence the Plan is in draft form pending community endorsement. Plan chapters will be disseminated by email link to our website (madrecovery.com) and hard copies will be available at the Recovery Hub and the Genoa Pub for those not connected to the internet.

Comments can be submitted via the MADRA suggestions boxes outside the Post Office and Genoa Pub or by email to mallacoota.district.assoc.2020@gmail.com.

Chapter One is now available.

Some thoughts before summarising Chapter One …

In addition to our community, the Plan has been written with a number of audiences in mind. This includes our elected political representatives, government agencies and philanthropic organisations. In other words, those entities which have a major role in funding and helping deliver our recovery priorities.

The Plan therefore contains a LOT of detail, so these groups fully understand our circumstances. To this end, Chapters One to Four provide background and analysis to set the scene and build the case for our recovery priorities.

The ‘rubber hits the road’ in the following chapters which detail projects and preferences. There will be many investigations into what happened during the fires. Our role is not to pre-empt investigation outcomes but focus on the best possible recovery outcomes for community.

What’s in Chapter One?

In Chapter One we:

• Outline the purpose and content of the Recovery Plan.

• Describe what happened during the fires and in the aftermath.

• Provide a history of MADRA and the desire for community led recovery.

• Describe our Mission (why we exist) and our Vision (what we want to achieve).

• Look at our stakeholder groups – those people and organisations affected by the fires or who have a role to play in our recovery.

• List current MADRA subcommittees and working groups.

• Describe our communications platforms.

Is it too late to send in our ideas? As we work through recovery issues, we are learning all the time. The Plan is a dynamic document and will change over time as projects are completed and new ideas emerge. So please don’t think it’s too late to share your ideas. You know where to send ‘em!

Thanks,

MADRA