Mission Statement
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The Oakland Flood Control Commission is charged with the mission to advise the Mayor and Borough Council on matters of flood control that will affect the Borough:
- To pursue whatever means necessary to alleviate, curtail, solve or prevent problems relating to flooding within the Borough and to recommend policy and practice to the Borough Council to effectuate these purposes;
- To confer with appropriate municipal, county, state and federal and private agencies concerned with programs regarding flooding for the purpose of improving the scope and efficiency of flood control within the Borough;
- To coordinate with the Borough Administrator to contact any individual or public or private agency for the purpose of securing any funds that may be deemed necessary or convenient for the carrying out of flood control within the Borough;
- To identify properties available for purchase within the flood plain and their potential for acquisition as established by policy of the Borough Council;
- And to report its activities and recommendations to the mayor and council.