COE Departmnet of Emergency Management 12/22/2021

City of Everett Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan — 2020 Update Executive Summary Overview The City of Everett Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) explains how the City intends to help prevent, mitigate the effects of, prepare for, respond to, restore services from, and recover from any hazard affecting the City.The intent of this document is to provide a framework during an emergency or major disaster to coordinate response efforts and outline the responsibilities of City departments and other agencies. It also outlines broad prevention, preparedness, mitigation, and recovery approaches. Everett's CEMP is updated every five years as required by the Washington State Emergency Management Division. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, extensions were granted so the next version of Everett's CEMP will be due before the end of 2026.The CEMP can be accessed online here. Highlights of the 2020 Update of the Everett CEMP Plan Structure The most significant change in this update of the CEMP is the overall structure. It consists of a basic plan with general or overarching principles to guide the City. Following the basic plan are several incident- specific and functional annexes.The intention was to make the document more user-friendly when used for a specific incident or type of activity. Incident-Specific and Functional Annexes The annexes that accompany this plan fall into two categories.There are incident-specific annexes that relate to specific hazards and functional annexes that would be used for a type of activity(sheltering, emergency public information, etc.).The annexes include initial action considerations, responsibilities, and messaging templates. We anticipate developing more annexes over time.The annexes will be accompanied by"plays"that lay out details for specific tasks that may be needed (these will continue to be developed). National Preparedness Goal Mission Areas The CEMP aligns with the five mission areas as described by the National Preparedness Goal and used by neighboring jurisdictions.These mission areas include prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. City Department Roles and Responsibilities This plan outlines general emergency and disaster specific roles and responsibilities for City Departments. This will help accomplish objectives in a disaster and guide training and exercise requirements for the City. Changes were also made to reflect the changes in City department organization.The Emergency Operations Center organizational chart was simplified so that it is more clear where departments fit in and also so that it can be flexible and scalable to match the needs of an incident.