Well.

Today, the Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force gathered in Frankfurt for the last meeting of the interim session.

The group made its recommendations to the Kentucky General Assembly ahead of the 2026 legislative session, which begins in January.

We've got more on their top priorities as we continue tonight's legislative update.

The number one thing, is to establish a state resilience office.

Like I said, many states have this already.

It would be a coordinating body for preparedness, resilience and mitigation efforts.

It would, focus initially primarily on data.

I think data is a key word that we've heard all over the country and the world.

In regard to this, as far as tracking, mapping history.

Projections.

Creating a new division of government always makes people a little uneasy.

But when you're looking at the cost of rebuilding time after time, the, the cost of preparation and resiliency will save our commonwealth so much money in the long run.

We had, a speaker from, maybe Pew Charitable Trust, some nonprofit that came and spoke to us.

And for every dollar we spend, I believe it was something like $13, will be saved.

In, in.

Yeah, in response to these things.

You see, evacuations, occur after these disasters sometimes.

And what that does, it has a lot of impact on school systems and and other infrastructure.

And it might it's harder to attract a replacement population and business.

So there's a big fiscal side of this that affects the bottom line.

Since 2020, the billions of dollars of damage that has been done.

And if we can invest a little bit of money and a lot of effort, I think we can do a lot of things to help Kentucky and help the people here.

Senator Robin Webb also recommended that the Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force be continued in some capacity, whether as a regular committee or as a task force.

She said the General Assembly needs to be involved when it comes to budgeting for and managing natural disasters.