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FAIRFIELD — William Harper and Robyn Stanicki have joined Kennebec Valley Council of Governments as community resilience coordinators.
Harper and Stanicki will work to deliver technical, planning and administrative assistance to municipal and regional entities, small businesses, nonprofits and other stakeholders. The new positions have been made possible for the next two years through CARES Act funding KVCOG received through the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
New programming under their direction will include individual consultations and workshops on topics such as disaster recovery and strategic innovation. The positions are responsible for planning and providing emergency preparedness, response, and recovery coordination services to KVCOG and the community to build resiliency and be better prepared to plan, respond to and recover from emergency events.
“I’m excited to be joining KVCOG at such a pivotal time,” Harper said. “However, amid this pervasive uncertainty is a compelling invitation for change. My ambition is to focus my skills and those of my colleagues towards affirmative resilience, adaptation, and transformation opportunities in our municipalities and across the region.”
“Since the beginning of the current pandemic, I have been looking for ways to insert myself into conversations on recovery and to contribute to these efforts in my own community,” Stanicki said. “I believe that we can use this global event to spur change and ideas that allow us to bounce forward rather than bounce back, and to envision recovery and define what it means to move forward in new and exciting ways. KVCOG is ideally positioned to work with its member communities to come up with a vision for economic recovery and even, prosperity in the years to come. I’m so glad to have a chance to be part of it.”
Laura Cyr, KVCOG executive director, said, “I am thrilled to have William and Robyn join the KVCOG team in this capacity. They both bring with them expertise and experience and their work together will help to prepare the region to move forward from this pandemic in a meaningful way” said Laura Cyr, Executive Director, KVCOG.
KVCOG is a private, nonprofit organization that provides a coordinated approach for planning and economic development at the local and regional level. It serves 62 municipalities and several unorganized territories in Kennebec, Somerset and western Waldo counties. Visit www.kvcog.org or follow KVCOG on Facebook and Instagram.
