2024-018 - Emergency Operations Plan

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City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan Part 1 Basic Plan CITY REFERENCES • Santa Ana Municipal Code, Chapter 2, Article IV, Division 15: Emergency Services • City Resolution adopting the City's Emergency Operations Plan • City Resolution adopting the Master Mutual Aid Agreement 1.7 Americans with Disabilities Act and Persons with Disabilities or Access and Functional Needs The City of Santa Ana strives to incorporate the whole community perspective in its emergency planning, By planning for the whole community, complexities in the diversity of Santa Ana are assimilated into the City's emergency planning strategy, specifically including persons with disabilities or access and functional needs. The City of Santa Ana adopts the Orange County Operational Area definition of Disabilities and Access or Functional Needs: "Populations whose members may have additional needs before, during and after an incident in functional areas, including but not limited to: maintaining independence and the ability to perform the activities of daily living, communication, transportation, supervision, and medical care. Individuals in need of additional response assistance may include those who have disabilities; who live in institutionalized settings; who are elderly; who are children; who are from diverse cultures; who have limited English proficiency or are non-English speaking; or who are transportation disadvantaged. " Having recognized the need to be inclusive in its emergency planning, the Orange County Operational Area (OA) formed the Orange County Disabilities and Access and Functional Needs Working Group in 2011 to strengthen partnerships with the disability community and those with access and functional needs. This team includes representatives from county agencies, local jurisdictions and nonprofit organizations serving people with disabilities and those with access and functional needs in Orange County. This group's instrumental efforts have turned the OA towards more inclusive emergency planning for the whole community. All OA emergency plans are reviewed by this Working Group to ensure input from and accommodation of the needs of the disabilities community. The City of Santa Ana participates in this Working Group and develops its emergency plans from those reviewed and approved by this group. Furthermore, the City and Operational Area are committed to maximizing compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and providing the most effective service to all residents and visitors. As such, the City adheres to the guidelines outlined below: • Disability will not prevent access to services or facilities provided by the City. • The City will not exclude or deny benefits of any sort based on a disability, access or functional need. • The City will work to accommodate people with disabilities or access and functional needs in the most integrated setting possible. • During all phases of disaster response, the City will make reasonable modifications to policies, practices and procedures, if necessary, to ensure programmatic and architectural access to all. • The City will shelter people with disabilities or access and functional needs with their families, friends and/or neighbors as feasible in the most integrated setting possible. 1.8 Plan Development, Approval and Revision The development of an Emergency Operations Plan is a cooperative effort among all City departments and agencies that have an emergency role. This EOP is developed from prior versions of the Plan, existing plans of nearby or similarly -situated jurisdictions (including the County of Orange and Orange CoLmty Operational Area EOP), and from current state and federal EOP-development guides and checklists, adopting the best practices, current techniques and required elements from each. The planning process is