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DISCUSSION DRAFT Memorandum of Understanding Between American Flood Coalition and City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)sets forth the terms and understanding between the American Flood Coalition and the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida ("Municipality")to undertake a Flood Adaptation Assessment. Background As a member of the American Flood Coalition, the Municipality has been provided with the opportunity for a no-cost pilot project to conduct a Flood Adaptation Assessment using the City Simulator Tool developed by Atkins("Firm"). The Atkins City Simulator Tool builds a virtual model of a community including buildings and infrastructure, based on the available GIS data. Once the virtual"city" is built, users simulate the"city' growing over time. The tool incorporates rainfall forecasts, sea level rise projections, and other disaster modeling to assess the vulnerability of the municipality to different types of flooding over time. Beyond inundation depth, trained users can select metrics such as productivity and dollars lost due to flooding, number of commutes affected, impact on natural assets, and more. From there, the tool enables users to explore specific adaptation measures including policy and planning changes, physical countermeasures, and general infrastructure improvements. For example, an adaptation planning measure may consist of raising the required Finished Floor Elevation (FFE) in certain areas to 2 feet above the Base Flood Elevation (BFE)or raising a section of coastal roadway. The American Flood Coalition will work with the Municipality to decide on the set of adaptation measures to test. Municipalities will build an adaptation scenario, consisting of a series of these measures, which will be compared to a "do nothing" case across the selected metrics. Based on this analysis, the municipality will be able to view a set of high-level options to address flood risk, along with a sense of relative effectiveness. The output of this tool will be provided in an agreed- upon format and constitutes the Flood Adaptation Assessment. This assessment will provide a foundation, from which the Municipality can undertake later efforts to engage the community and develop a roadmap to adapt to changing flood risks. Roles For this project, the Municipality and the American Flood Coalition will each designate a representative, who will interact in the manner described below. The Firm will be responsible for the analysis and creation of final deliverable. • Role of American Flood Coalition.The selected representative for the American Flood Coalition will serve as the Project Manager coordinating team members, ensuring deadlines are met, and acting as the central point of contact for the project. This representative will also work with the Municipality to decide exposure thresholds, metrics, and the set of adaptation measures to test. This selected representative will be Dr. Alec Bogdanoff for the American Flood Coalition.