EMERGENGY MANAGEMENT
Annual Report July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015
Summary of Activities and Accomplishments:
A. Grants: We currently have four operational grants and one special funding project. These grants are as follows in the table below.
Operational Grants Emergency Management Performance Grant Emergency Management BASE Grant State Homeland Security Grant Proqram Hazard Analysis Grant
Grant Amount
Time Frame July 2014 - June 2015 July 2014 - June 2015 October 2014 September 2016 September 2014 Julv 2015
$42,365.00 $105,806.00
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$16,000.00
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$1,206.00
Special Fundinq Proiect EOC Building
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July 1 ,2012 Mav 15,2015
$5,000,000.00
The Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) and (EMPA) funds provided by the State, are yearly operational funds that support day to day operations for Emergency Management. EMPG funds are required to be matched by the County. The State Homeland Security Grant Programs funds have not been used. We were going to purchase WebEOC but ran out of time before we could get things in order. We will try to conduct a couple FEMA NIMS training classes this year at the new EOC. This grant maybe used to conduct these classes. The current Hazard Analysis Grant has been completed. All required Section 302 facilities were inspected and CAMEO database information updated and confirmed per grant requirements. This grant will be receiving a closeout letter from the state on or before July 1 5,2015. All grants that undenruent onsite and desk monitoring audits by the Florida Division of Emergency Management and passed review. "
B. Certifications We would like to welcome Marisa Shivers to the Glades County Public Safety TEAM. Marisa is a graduate of FGCU with a Bachelor's of Science Degrees in Criminal Justice & Criminal Forensic Science. Currently the following Cerlifications are held by Emergency Management. A copy of certification and recertification requirements are available upon request.
Staff Member Anqela S. Goleqrove
Marisa Shivers
Certification Emerqencv Medical Technician (DOH) Florida Professional Emergency Manaoer IFEPA) lnternational Associate Emergency Manaqer (IAEM) Workinq on her FAEM
Angela received her Advanced Professional Series Cerlificate from FEMA December 2014. To receive this certificate you must complete five mandatory state classes and five elective classes. Marisa received her Professional Development Series Certificate June 201 4. To receive this certificate you have to complete seven online classes. Angie submitted her recertification papenruork for lnternational Emergency Managers Association Certification to be submitted in 2015 for 2016 recertification. She was also appointed to the FEPA Certification Committee, and the IAEM Finance Ad Hoc Committee.
C. Shelters: We requested to add the Ortona and Washington Park Community Centers as host shelters not primary due to the construction of the buildings.
We requested to add the Department of Health Building as the primary Person's with Special Needs Shelter and use the Muse school as a backup.
Hendry County uses our PSN shelter and the DOH building would be a central location for Clewiston and LaBelle. DOH operates this shelter. FDEM will evaluate all shelters in the county this year. This could help us add more shleters.
D. Public Outreach The 2015 All Hazard Guides have been printed and are being dispersed throughout the County to businesses, churches, community centers, labor camps and RV Parks. Spanish guides were available this year so we ordered 500 this year.
We had booths with information at the Buckhead Ridge Catfish Festival, Cane Grinding, Sour Orange, Honey Festival, Moore Haven Elementary Open House, and DOH Back to School Awareness Day.
All hazard and hurricane preparedness presentations were conducted for the Community Summer Programs, and Friends of the Library meeting. Our office updated the liaison and emergency support function contact information with the Florida Division of Emergency Management. Also, we maintain a synched advisory list for faster public information and media releases through various types of media. " We participated in the creation and distribution of the Kids Safety Books from Kids Safety Net to Moore Haven and West Glades Elementary students. Glades County Public Safety continues to promote public safety on Social Media sites Twitter and Facebook. Training classes, and safety information can be distributed to residents and visitors of Glades County who friend our sites. Currently our Facebook has 395 followers. Our Twitter is currently at 546 followers. We started MailChimp (a free service) for our new advisory list. We have 78 people registered as of July 1 ,2015. This will give everyone the opportunity to only receive what they would like to see. Anyone can register on myglades.com via the Emergency Management page.
E. Training and Exercises *
We share and distribute all training and exercise information to appropriate agencies and departments and participate in training that is pertinent to our office. Our office participated in the 2015 *Statewide Hurricane Exercise, Statewide Tornado Drill, multiple Nuclear Drills, Southwest Regional Evacuation Tabletop Exercise meetings, Region 6 training and exercise meeting, Courthouse Fire Drill December 16,2014. We submitted our after action reports to the state in Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) formatting.
We attended the 2014lnternational Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Conference, *Current lssues in Emergency Management 2014,2015 Governor's Hurricane Conference (GHC), and 2015 Florida Emergency Preparedness Association (FEPA) Annual meeting and 2014 FEPA Mid-Year. We have attended meetings with the *Local Emergency Planning Council (LEPC), *FDEM Region 6, *Functional Needs Shelter Support Services, Persons with Special Needs, Region 6 CERT meeting (Marisa), Risk Assessment & Gap Analysis Meeting (Marisa), American Red Cross, Heartland Healthcare Coalition meetings, Glades County Safety Committee, Regional Community Healthcare Coalition, Regional Radiological Taskforce, FEPA Legislative Committee (Angela), FEPA Annual Meeting Committee (Angela), IAEM Finance Ad Hoc Committee (Angela), .Monthly FDEM Directors Conference Calls, Army Corps of Engineers Dam Safety, Glades County Healthcare Coalition (Angela), .LMS meeting, United Way Allocation Committee (Angela), EOC building meetings, FPL Critical lnfrastructure meeting, Hendry/Glades Ebola meetings, FEMA Flood map meeting and community awareness, DOH Accreditation Committee (Angela), and FEPA Certification Commission (Angela was appointed to this year). Training attended this year: Hurrivac & Slosh training July 10,2014 (Angela), Public Risk Management of Florida Supervisory training July 23, 2014 (Angela), G-358 Evacuation & Re-Entry, L962 Planning Section Chief (Angela), L-950 lncident Commander (Angela), L-964 Situation Unit Leader (Angela), Safety Officer (Angela), Emergency Management Directors I Key Staff (Angela), Maximizing Your Disaster Cost Recovery (Angela), G-1 10 Emergency Management Operations Course (Angela), FL-603 Public Assistance Grant Program (Angela & Marisa), G-202 Debris Management (Marisa),235.b Emergency Planning (Marisa), 240.b Leadership and lnfluence (Marisa), G- 300 lntermediate lncident Command and System for Expanding lncidents (Marisa), Continuity of Operations Planner's Workshop (Marisa), lS- 775 EOC Management and Operations (Marisa), COOP Train the Trainer (Marisa,
received COOP Excellence Series- Level 1 Professional Continuity Practitioner Certificate from FEMA (Marisa), CAMEO (Marisa). We also hosted three Advance Professional Series classes in Glades County: G270.4 Recovery from Disaster: The Local Government Role, G-557 Rapid Needs Assessment, and G-272 Warning Coordination.
F. Emergency Plans
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We submitted Points of Distribution and Debris Staging Area Site Plans to the Florida Division of Emergency Management and all sites and plans have been approved. We have reviewed all new and updated plans for Home Health Care Agencies, Florida Power and Light and Glades Electric. The CEMP, COOP and LMS plans will be coming up for review and update in 2015116. We are in the process of updating them now.
G. Debris Management * The Department of Environmental Protection has approved our predetermined debris sites for 2015. Also, the debris plan was updated this year. The BOCC will vote on the new debris company from the RFP's that were ranked and submitted to the board. This will complete our Debris Plan and approval from FDEM so it can be submitted to FEMA for review and approval. We will work on the debris monitoring companies next.
H. Volunteers We have a few Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) and HAM/RACES volunteers. They continue to be a great asset to our department and our community but most of the people that volunteer for one thing volunteer for multiple organizations. We have been working with the American Red Cross to bring more classes and trainings to Glades County. We are setting up monthly meetings so we can do a community wide recruitment.
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Events
We have carried out tasks of incident command, rehab, food and sheltering, Working multiple motor vehicle crashes, hazmal spill, brush fires, structure fires, wind event, and coordinated, received and delivered donations to those in need. Emergency Management was contacted and/or responded to some of the following calls (some afterhours & weekends)
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One (1) Wind Related One (1) Tornado/Funnel Cloud Two (2) Wildland Fires Two (2) Structure Fires Four (4) Vehicle Accidents Two (2) Hazmat Spill One (1) Fire/Explosion in a structure We were fortunate not to have any Tropical Storm or Hurricane threats this past year.
J. Other We were able to purchase new HAM/RACES radio and antenna equipment for our volunteers to use year round for the new EOC Glades County is now recognized as a Weather Ready Nation Ambassador as of April 23, 2015. We were also recognized as a Storm Ready County by the National Weather Service. Bob Kosiba, our Planning Section Chief during an activation, was awarded the Governor's Hurricane Conference Distinguished Service Award for his many contributions to Glades County Emergency Management and DOH. Glades County EM in coordination with Hendry/Glades Florida Depaftment of Health nominated him for the award.
Summary of Goals for Next Year: Next year we would like to explore the possibility of getting a countywide notification system to ensure the citizens get proper warnings in a timely manner.
Look at buying Web EOC for future events. This allows easier tracking, procurement, and distribution of resources during a disaster. This would create
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real-time link between us, our region and the state. We are the only county in Region 6 that does not have WebEOC at this time. Over the next year we plan to continue to monitor for new grants that become available. Over the next year we will continue to monitor any retrofit funding that becomes available, seek out potential shelter sites, and look at those which may have pet friendly options. We will continue to closely monitor and assess the impact of any changes to sheltering requirements made by American Red Cross and/or Florida Division of Emergency Management.
We will continue to search for ways to provide better information to the public in the timeliest, cost effective, and user friendly ways. We will continue to attend yearly conferences as mandated by our Scope of Work and take training that will be beneficial to us as well as the residence of Glades County. We will also work to bring training locally to responders, employees, and residents to help better prepare for and respond to disasters. Work on updating all of our plans to be more streamlined and allow for better comprehension and implementation. Over the next year we will continue to recruit volunteers for our programs as well as hold training classes to increase our number of volunteers. The new EOC will be a big help for our increased training. Also look at appointing a volunteer coordinator to help manage and keep volunteers active and more efficient.
lncrease our social media followers by a total of 15%. We have researched the stop sign evacuation zone collar program and what it will take to implement for all communities in the County. At this time no one in the county knows an exact count for stop signs. Add the shape file to the county website page with the evacuation zones on it. *Denotes items that are required per our Scope of Work.
