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Old 06-03-2014, 11:25 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by Bigtime View Post
Great writeup by Chris Turner on the flood last year, and how city manager (at the time) Owen Tobert laid the groundwork that allowed the city to handle it so well:

http://thewalrus.ca/owens-ark/
Great read. Especially the part about how incumbents get rewarded for managing disastersretroactively versus investing to prevent them proactively. It takes real leadership to do the latter.

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