Resilient Counties Luncheon: Supporting Disaster Preparedness

On August 7, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that the Disaster Relief Fund had become depleted, forcing the agency to transition to Immediate Needs Funding and halting more than $6.1 billion in recovery activities across the country.

NACo President James Gore joins the County News Podcast to talk about what brought him to county government, the challenges Sonoma County, Calif. has faced while he has been a member of the Board of Supervisors and and how he views county government.

Disinformation campaigns by foreign adversary bots, rumors flying on neighborhood message boards, increasingly partisan politics all play a part in making for a more unsafe world for county officials.