The Bureau of Preparedness and Response, Community Resilience Unit announces a public meeting of the Functional and Access Needs Workgroup. This workgroup is not a statutorily mandated workgroup. This will be an organizational conference call of the workgroup. The workgroup’s purpose is to assist the department’s Bureau of Preparedness and Response in the identification of disaster related needs of people who have functional and access needs and to assist in problem solving and leveraging resources to ensure the identified needs are addressed in state and local disaster preparedness, response and recovery plans and operations.