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■ A management -level rep from each City department or outside agency w/ a role ■ To develop emergency plans and procedures, training requirements, EOC staffing ■ Provides consensus and commitment, rather than the PD deciding for everyone ■ Provides technical expertise the Emergency Coordinator may not have • Team members form a core of EOC staffing Santa Ana Municipal Code ■ Santa Ana Municipal Code sections exist establishing: • A Disaster Council, its members and powers • The Emergency Organization for the City • The process for developing Plans and Procedures • City Responsibilities and Authorities in disaster • We don't currently follow any of these (not uncommon, most cities don't) • We are missing a Disaster Service Worker (DSW) policy for employees (a gap under state law) and for volunteers o Hazard Analysis ■ An up-to-date analysis and ranking of the disaster threats or hazards potentially impacting the City forms the basis for: • Emergency Operations Plan • Hazard Mitigation Plan • Staff training • Community education and outreach Differing versions exist in different documents, and few if any current staff were involved Emergency Operations Plan • Most recent version found is 2007 ■ Standards suggest revision every 2-5 years ■ Outdated format, outline, procedures and terminology ■ Missing significant current tools (WebEOC, AlertOC) ■ No record of adoption by City Council (state law) ■ Few current City staff gave input or were involved • Emergency Management Program Budget ■ Created 61 specific Individual Objectives to fulfill ■ EM program is new so no budget exists ■ Expenses now covered piecemeal from other parts of the budget o Proposed EM Program Budget • Primary budget areas: ■ CERT and Community Education CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 20 MAY 5, 2015