Resilient DeKalb connects the County’s plans, policies, projects and performance under one governing framework.
DeKalb was among the first ARC Green Communities certified jurisdictions in 2009. This program builds on that foundation and advances the county toward Platinum with documented evidence.
Leadership: Chief Resilience Officer
Coordination: Office of Resilience
Evidence: Countywide operational baseline
The administration is not starting with aspirations. It is starting with records, audits and assets already under review.
1 plan. 1 scorecard. Named initiatives that carry the work, and instruments that make it stick.
Operational efficiency. 1 measurement frame means we fix causes, not symptoms.
Accountability. Results compare across departments because they are measured the same way.
Fiscal responsibility. The baseline comes before the budget ask.
Collect the evidence once, and use it everywhere it is asked for.
1 prefix, and the system writes itself. New work gets a home under an existing flagship instead of a new silo.
The Countywide Baseline Audit is the gate. Until it closes, every future performance target remains provisional and is labeled accordingly.
Every performance target, every payback claim, and every capital figure. A number we cannot back up is a number somebody else gets to take apart. Holding them until the work is done is not caution. It is credibility.
The proposed ordinance establishes the public obligation. Administrative policies direct the work of executive-branch departments.
Targeted for Board consideration by October 31, 2026.
Issued by the Office of the CEO on October 1, 2026. They direct our own departments and do not require Board action.
Two certification programs ask a lot of the same questions. The county answers them once.
Gathering the evidence once and filing it to both rubrics means no duplicate work, and only 1 version of every number in circulation. Fix a number in 1 place and it is fixed everywhere it appears.
The next 18 months, then the horizon.
Awards are benchmarks, not the mission. Progress means leaving DeKalb stronger than this administration inherited it, with stronger communities, better lives and a more resilient county.