2020/12/30 Council Agenda Packet

Program Area #2 4.4 Operational Planning and Procedures Primary Core Capability Secondary Core Capability WORK PLANNED Operational Coordination Planning WHY THE WORK IS BEING DONE RESULT OF THE WORK Develop and exercise a Disaster Transportation Plan for the City of Everett, and other partners, to get to and from work and home in a disaster. In a major catastrophic disaster, normal routes of transportation may be impacted or interrupted. It is important to response and recovery for employees to get to work, but also to get home to rest between shifts and care for their families. The Disaster Transportation plan would provide a way for City e mployees and partners' e mployees to get to work using alternative routes and modes of transportation. The ability for e mployees to work will enable key personnel to solve problems and contribute to the response and recovery of the incident. Distribute the updated Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP), build upon its annexes and exercise those elements in conjunction with regional exercises. Exercise and train Transit Services staff to conduct damage assessments and windshield surveys after a major disaster. The CEMP has been updated and will be shared and trained on. Additional annexes will also need to be developed to address new and continuing emergency management topics. Following a major disaster, it is important for situational awareness and resource allocation to have a widespread assessment of what the damage is across the City. While some departments have their own resources they plan to assess, Transit operators and staff could be used to collect information on a broader scale. They are already spread out across the City and are familiar with the roadways. The training on the CEMP and continuing build -out of the functional annexes will build resilience and operational capacity. By training and exercising this group to conduct damage assessments and windshield surveys, the EOC can more quickly get information they need to begin setting priorities and objectives. If Transit staff are conducting these assessments, it will clear up other departments with more immediate responsibilities. Prepare and exercise non -city structural engineers to function on behalf of the City in regard to post -earthquake building damage to a degree above ATC- 20. After a major earthquake, buildings in Everett will have varying degrees of damage. Without a proper evaluation, it would be hard to determine whether or not a building was safe for reentry. Everett's Building Department is small and, on its own, it would take a significant amount of time to evaluate even just the most critical buildings. Having an identified, trained, and credentialed group of engineers to evaluate buildings for the City will help the Building Department to assess more buildings in less time. This allows people to reenter buildings sooner in response and recovery efforts and mark unsafe buildings sooner to prevent potential injury. Exercise and train Parks staff with Disaster Mobile Shelter operations. Inventory and assess components, supplies, and equipment. Replace or repair any necessary items. It's anticipated these will include additional shelter tent(s), additional types of shelf - stable emergency food and water supplies. During the last full activation exercise of the City's Disaster Mobile Shelter, a few components of the soft -sided shelter tents were found to be deteriorating. Last year, an inventory was done of the shelf -stable food, water, and other supplies which are stored in the Disaster Mobile Shelter trailers. By conducting a thorough assessment of the Disaster Mobile Shelter components, supplies and equipment, identification of which items, if any, are in need of repair, replacement, replenishing, etc. so that the Disaster Mobile Shelter is constantly ready to deploy. DHS-FEMA-EMPG-FY20 Page 22 of 36 City of Everett OEM, E21-161