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Public Works Director and Deputy, Corporation Counsel and/or Deputy, Executive Assistants as assigned; as needed, Finance Director or Deputy, Department of Water Supply Chief Engineer or Deputy, Office of Housing Et Community Development Administrator or Assistant, Department of Parks Et Recreation Director or Deputy. The Mayor appointed the Director of the Department of Research Et Development as the Acting Recovery Officer until the hiring of a Recovery Officer. The Recovery Executive Team coordinates intergovernmentally through a designated Federal Disaster Recovery Coordinator, currently Robert Troy, and a State Disaster Recovery Coordinator, currently Thomas Travis. The Recovery Executive Team coordinates with the community through Hawai'i County Council Members, Recovery Outreach Coordinator, and the Puna Community Development Plan Action Committee. The Intergovernmental Recovery Management Organization for this disaster is shown in Attachment D. The Recovery Officer and members of the Recovery Executive Team will meet bi-weekly with members of the County Council to exchange information, highlight progress on goals, objectives and projects, and identify concerns meriting attention. F. Staffing Recovery requires dedicated, yet evolving teams, to coordinate governmental and community stakeholders, and support implementation of interim and long-term strategies. An intergovernmental Recovery Management organizational chart with responsibilities of Federal, State, and County departments and agencies, with links to community-driven disaster support groups has been developed and is shown in Attachment D. Given that each natural disaster is unique in size, scope, scale, location, and impact, temporary staffing teams to support ongoing recovery efforts will be built accordingly. To support Kilauea Eruption recovery efforts, it is anticipated that temporary personnel will be hired as needed and over the course of administering funded recovery projects and programs. Recovery is transient. Each disaster will have different needs, so it is not realistic to pre- determine temporary civil service positions with fixed job descriptions. Multi-year employment contract hiring, authorized under HRS §127A-12(c)(7) and 576-77(10), allows for expedient hiring, which is necessary for the urgency of recovery needs. It also allows for greater flexibility in scoping responsibilities and adjusting the size and make-up of the team as recovery moves through various phases, requiring changing skill sets. G. Transitional Reconstruction Policies The Recovery Executive Team drafted interim land use and building permit policies to control access in the Lower East Rift Zone during the period when the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory advisory level was at Advisory, reflecting a time of higher potential hazards and risk uncertainty. With HVO's advisory level downgraded to Normal, those policies are no longer in effect. Normal procedures for grading, building, and planning permits currently apply in the absence of an emergency proclamation or moratorium ordinance. All damaged public infrastructure has been documented; requests for funds to rebuild damaged infrastructure has been submitted to FEMA. FEMA is doing its due diligence to determine how much funds will be allocated to support infrastructure rebuild. FEMA will also provide the County with parameters on how the funds can be spent and where, based on risk and vulnerability assessments. Work is being done to review County ordinances and identify opportunities to update to accelerate processes during times of emergency and natural disaster. interintermi RecoveryStrategy August 2019