The “Resilient Community” Partnership:

1. The “Resilient Community” Partnership: Building Disaster Resilient Communities Presented by Herbert Cole

2. Herbert Cole Emergency Management Consultant herbert.cole@sbcglobal.net http://herbertcole.wordpress.com/ http://twitter.com/herbertcole

3. Today’s Talking Points • Why we need Resilient Community Partnerships • Define the Resilient Community Partnership • Identify the Partners • Establish the Partnership • Roles and Responsibilities of the Partners • Maintaining the Partnership • Working together in a Disaster Environment

4. Disaster a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction; broadly : a sudden or great misfortune or failure Merriam-Webster Dictionary

5. Resilience an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change Merriam-Webster Dictionary

6. Resilience is NOTResistance. • Disaster Resistance is a function of Mitigation and a component of Resilience • Disaster Resilience is a function of the Emergency Management Cycle as a Whole.

7. Resilience Requires a Shift in Perception • The new normal. • This is how I live pre incident • This is how I live post incident Nothing will ever be the same as it was pre incident and to try and hold on to “what was” is a waste of time and resources. Embrace the new normal and build from there.

8. Community a unified body of individuals: as b : the people with common interests living in a particular area; broadly : the area itself Merriam-Webster Dictionary

9. Partnership a relationship resembling a legal partnership and usually involving close cooperation between parties having specified and joint rights and responsibilities Merriam-Webster Dictionary

10. Why Resiliency Partnerships? Responsibility for what happens prior to, during, and after a disaster is no longer the solitary purview of government. They don’t have the budgets They don’t have the person power

11. Why Resiliency Partnerships? Government provides infrastructure, and services to the overall community that attract businesses and citizens.

12. Why Resiliency Partnerships? Businesses provide jobs that generate salaries, which in turn drive consumption and generate taxes that support governments‟ ability to function.

13. Why Resiliency Partnerships? • In the U.S. there are 30 Million Small Businesses • 80% of American Businesses are Small Businesses • Generate over $2 Trillion in Taxable Revenue • In the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia, WA Combined Statistical Area • 264,711 “Non-employer” Small Businesses • $12 Billion in Taxable Revenue in 2008 Data from: US Small Business Administration; US Census Bureau

14. The Domino Effect When businesses fail or leave after a disaster: • Tax Revenue is lost through: • decrease in employment, consumption, and income taxes necessary for funding government • Employees lose their jobs • increased need for social services • population flight • change in the socioeconomic fabric of the community

15. The Domino Effect Unprepared businesses and residents: • Put added strain on government services • Become part of the problem and not part of the solution. • Shift responsibility and accountability for their plight to government, which in turn impacts the whole community.

16. The Resilient Community Partnership “A cooperativeand integrated approach to implementing the Emergency Management Cycle within a community that promotes economic viability, continuity of government, and social stability following a disaster.”

17. It All Begins with… The Emergency Management Cycle provides the framework and foundation for building community resilience.

18. The Partners COMMUNITYRESILIENCE Government has the legal and constitutional responsibility to insure that the public good is looked after during times of emergency, disaster, and war. Government

19. The Partners COMMUNITYRESILIENCE Businesses provide jobs that generate salaries, which in turn drive consumption and generate taxes that support the governments ability to function and carry out it’s legal and constitutional responsibilities. Government Business

20. The Partners COMMUNITYRESILIENCE Ordinary Citizens are the reason government exists. They provide businesses with employees, and oftentimes have specialized training and skills that government cannot provide. Government Business Ordinary Citizens

21. The Concept COMMUNITYRESILIENCE Bring government, business, and ordinary citizens together as partners in furtherance of Community Resilience . Leverage Strengths, supplant weaknesses, and build a solid foundation of cooperation and integration prior to, during, and after disaster. Government Business Ordinary Citizens

22. Establishing the Partnership • Identify the players • Establish a Disaster Council made up of core players • Joint Planning • ICS Integration

23. Identify the Players • Government • Public Safety • School Districts • Public Works • Transportation • Utilities • Business • Chamber of Commerce • Trade Groups & Associations • Individual Businesses • Transportation • Utilities • Banking • Citizens • Residential Homecare • Private Schools • Volunteers (Citizen Corps., Ham Radio, Social Media) • NGO’s (Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc…)

24. Establish a Disaster Council • Core Members • Public Safety • School Districts • Public Works / Utilities • Chamber of Commerce • Volunteer Groups and NGO’s • Joint and Cooperative Planning • Hazard Mitigation Plan (Mitigation Phase) • Emergency Operations Plan (Preparedness and Response Phase) • Post Disaster Recovery Plan (Recovery Phase)

25. Mitigation Partnerships • Regulation by Government is the most prevalent form of community mitigation. • Building Codes • Fire Codes • Seismic Safety Codes • Business can mitigate against interruption by: • entering into leases that require the property be usable for business • establish alternate suppliers and service delivery methods and locations • business insurance and loss of income • Citizens can mitigate against disaster by: • securing doors, cabinets, and heavy objects • retrofit older homes to meet current codes • homeowners or renters insurance

26. Preparedness Partnerships • Government • Community Planning • Hazard Mitigation Plan • Emergency Operations Plan • Post Disaster Recovery Plan • Business • All Threats Mitigation Plan • Emergency Operations Plan • Business Continuity Plan • CERT Training • Citizens • CERT Training • Family Hazard Mitigation Plan • Family Emergency Operations Plan • Family Post Disaster Recovery Plan Everyone Builds a 7-10 Day Disaster Cache

27. Response Partnerships • Government • Incident Command System • Public Safety Response • Information • Business • Specialized skills and equipment • ICS Liaison • CERT • Citizens • NGO Support • CERT, Ham Radio, Neighborhood FRS Nets • Social Media

28. Recovery Partnerships • Government • Fast Track Permitting and Inspection process • Joint Recovery Office • Joint Post Disaster Recovery Plan • Business • Proper and adequate insurance • Joint Recovery Office • Joint Post Disaster Recovery Plan • Citizens • Proper and adequate insurance • Joint Post Disaster Recovery Plan

29. Partnership Maintenance • Regular Disaster Council Meetings • Regular and Joint updates of: • Hazard Mitigation Plan • Emergency Operations Plan • Post Disaster Recovery Plan • Regular and Joint Training (ICS Integration) • Quarterly Table Tops • Semi Annual Drills • Annual Exercise

30. ICS Integration The Incident Command System provides the perfect tool for integrating community partners into Response and Recovery Phase Activities as outlined in the Emergency Operations Plan and Post Disaster Recovery Plan.

31. ICS Integration A Business Group Liaison can interact with business groups and individual businesses that can provide specialized equipment, materials, and skill sets. By giving business a role in the ICS, they are more likely to implement the emergency management cycle into their business continuity planning. Businesses can be included in the Emergency Support Function Annexes and EOP Appendices.

32. ICS Integration A Volunteer Branch such as CERT frees up first responders. CERT’s are a force multiplier in the field and easily integrated into the ICS.

33. ICS Integration Amateur Radio can provide real time intelligence from the field in areas where first responders are not currently working. EmComm can also take advantage of GMRS Neighborhood Nets that feed into Amateur Radio Nets expanding the intelligence gathering capability in the field

34. ICS Integration Social Media

35. ICS Integration

36. A Resilient Community: Builds Partnerships using the Emergency Management Cycle as a Framework. Integrates Government, Business, and Ordinary Citizens into a joint cooperative for the purposes of planning and execution. Focuses on the future, not the past.