WA ST Military Department 1/8/2021

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