Accomplishments 2006

Staff

• JoAnn Jordan was hired in January as the new Public Education Coordinator
• 2 new Public Outreach Specialists (added in this year's budget) were hired in October: Tracy Connelly and Debbie Goetz
• Selected a new Community Mitigation Coordinator, Laurel Nelson who started in January
• Reclassified a vacant position to a Training and Exercise Coordinator position and the selection process has begun.

Community Planning and Preparedness

• District level resource mapping has begun using Dept of Neighborhoods district boundaries
• Over 300 people attended Project Impact workshops regarding seismic retrofit
• Redesigned the former SDART program; Seattle Neighborhoods Actively Prepare (SNAP) is now available to any configuration of group or team as quickly as possible is a variety of formats
• Partnered with Dept of Neighborhoods on rolling out the SNAP program
• Helped launch the Vulnerable Population Action Team with Public Health and serve with them in designing ways to prepare for special needs populations
• Increased the scope of ESF-6's (Mass Cass) sheltering scope from several thousand capacity in Community Centers to a goal of 10% of the total residential population
• Partnered with Seattle Public Utilities in include "Prepare" at all Clean and Green events
• Established/improved working relationships with local hospitals, public and private schools, community colleges, universities, and the Coordinated Assistance Network

Training

• Almost all City Departments have completed their personal preparedness training for employees; several departments (Police, Fire, Libraries, Seattle Center) are awaiting the web-based version. Partnered with North Seattle Community College to produce this web-based tool that will be available to all City employees from now on.
• Completed WebEOC training for EOC responders and Department Operating Center personnel
• Helped design the Executive Level Curriculum (UASI project) for emergency management - a train the trainer will take place in January

Plans

• Updated the entire Seattle Disaster Readiness and Response Plan to be in compliance with the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
• Created plan annexes on Evacuation, Training and Exercise, Terrorism, and Long Term Recovery and Mitigation
• Working on Pandemic Influenza annex
• Created the Situation Unit within the EOC with accompanying annex
• Program was audited by DHS as part of nation-wide catastrophic plan review in April
• Coordinated the implementation of the National Incident Management System within city plans and tracked the training city-wide of critical personnel
• Auxiliary Communications Plan was updated
• Interdepartmental video agreement was developed to share network advantages between SPD, DoIT, SDOT, SFD, and OEM
• An agreement with the Community Colleges for use of facilities in times of disaster is almost finalized
• Participated in updates to the Regional Disaster Plan for Public and Private Organizations in County
• Title IV operations plan was updated for SPD

Exercises - participated in the following:

• Seattle Fire, Seattle Police, and University of Washington deployment of the National Strategic Stockpile in July
• Bank of America and Washington Mutual Bank critical infrastructure in May and June
• Blue Cascades III regional infrastructure interdependency in July
• DHS and Radio and Television News Directors bio-terrorism tabletop in October
• Public Health pan flu leadership exercise in October
• Cities Readiness Initiative medication delivery system full-scale in November

Miscellaneous

• Began construction of the new EOC
• Emergency Management program was realigned within Police Department and in relation to the Mayor's Office
• Administered EMPG, UASI, SHSP grants and operating budget for OEM
• Updated material for our new web-site
• Completed the Project Impact landside hazard mapping in July
• Coordinated landslide information city-wide in January and flooding information in November
• Staff duty officer manual was updated
• Staff participated in national work groups defining target capabilities for Reconstitution of Government Services and Long Term Assistance to Affected Populations
• Disaster Resistant Business Toolkit material developed; a web-based application will be available by March
• Weather station project to provide responders with information on the effect of "urban canyons" almost finished
• Documentation and site visits on former disasters (01 earthquake and 03 winter storms) continues
• Helped developed protocols for new outbound calling warning systems