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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2016-12-14 | 2 | All: Aye. Elizabeth Kenny: All opposed? Great. Six to zero. Now we have oral communication on non-agenda items for public comment. 3. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS/NON-AGENDA (PUBLIC COMMENT) Kerry Parker: We don't have any speaker slips for this. Oh, and I would like everyone to know there are speaker slips if you want to speak on any of these items. So we can move on to new business. 4. NEW BUSINESS Elizabeth Kenny: First up, we're going to have Captain Sharon Oliver discuss the Alameda Fire Department's Disaster Response Planning. Welcome. Thank you for coming. Sharon Oliver: My name's Captain Sharon Oliver. I'm with the Alameda Fire Department here in town. I have been with the city for 22-plus years. I am currently assigned as the city's Disaster Preparedness Coordinator and Emergency Manager for the city. So what that means is I do planning for the city. I coordinate the planning; I train city staff; I manage the Community Emergency Response Team training, and the broader group that volunteers with us. I work with partner agencies such as yourselves, and I do a lot of sundry things throughout our department that pop up; I seem to get whatever rolls downhill. Sharon Oliver: We're going to talk about preparation planning and resiliency. What we look at in the city as a whole community resiliency. I put up a definition of what resilience means because it actually kind of embodies what we're trying to do here. So I'll just read it aloud. "Resiliency is a noun, the power or ability to return to original form position, etcetera, after being bent, compressed, or stretched. Elasticity, the ability to recover readily from adversity, or the like. And buoyancy." Sharon Oliver: That's the point when we look at being prepared for disaster or anything that comes our way, is that's something unusual, it's not part of our daily activities but we are able to spring back up. The city wants to be able to spring back up. We want to just stand right back up and get back to our normal business operation as soon as we can. That means you can go shopping, and the streets are drivable, and the water flows, and the toilets flush, and everything works. And Public Works handles an awful lot of that. When we say a whole community, having a community that's resilient in the whole community, it means each and every part of our city, not only our infrastructure but our people., so everybody's able to get back to the business of living daily life. We do expect that some buildings may be damaged, but we want to get people back into their homes. We want people to be able to stay in town and be okay. Sharon Oliver: So I'm just going to talk to you a little bit about our planning effort. This coming year in 2017, we're going to be refreshing our Emergency Operation Plan and that's probably going to take the better part of a year. The Emergency Operation Plan is what we work from. It's a document that was adopted by the City Council, and when we go through our revision of this plan, there's a lot to add. Laws have changed and things have changed. For example, we know we have the risk of tsunami inundation now. It's not a very big risk but it's there, so we have to address risks that we've identified. Sharon Oliver: Over 2016, we put together a Hazard Mitigation Plan which is a required document, and we just looked at all our hazards. We looked at our population, we looked at our infrastructure, we looked at diversity, we've looked at many, many things. You might remember having a presentation from Erin Smith from Public Works about that mitigation plan, and SO we have that in | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2016-12-14.pdf |