3 responses to findings and recommendations
R3
– Each city council should: Initiate an annual review of its disaster plan, coincident with the budget cycle, starting with the 2006-2007 cycle. These reviews should include the following tasks as a minimum: • Examine status of the actions from the previous year's review. o Review any tests during the year and any plan changes required as a result of the tests ("no change" is an unlikely outcome). Request detail of any changes to the plan occasioned by known state, national or world emergencies ...
Response: Implemented
Score: 0
- Each city council should: Initiate an annual review of its disaster plan, coincident with the budget cycle, starting with the 2006-2007 cycle. These reviews should include the following tasks as a minimum: • Examine status of the actions from the previous year's review. o Review any tests during the year and any plan changes required as a result of the tests ("no change" is an unlikely outcome).
Request detail of any changes to the plan occasioned by known state,
national or world emergencies that occurred in the review year.
Request detail of any changes to the plan required by directive...
R5
- The Board of Supervisors and each city council, should: Demand that plans be put in place to ensure that all existing employees have been or will be trained in SEMS and the Emergency Recovery Plan for the county, and/or their city. The training should be completed by year-end 2005. Document the reporting steps employees must take as support individuals in the event of a disaster. Endorse that the most effective use of most employees is to focus on business resumption. Response: The Town agrees...
Response: Unknown
Score: 0
The Town agrees in part with this recommendation, relating to the value of ongoing training and reporting documentation for employees. In fact, this training and documentation has already been completed for Town employees. However, as noted below, Town employees will continue to focus initially on the protection of public lives and safety, not business resumption. The Town, in cooperation with the Sonoma County Office of Emergency Services, conducts periodic orientation and tabletop field training exercises in SEMS for all Town
employees. The Town's existing SEMS Plan documents the roles and ...
F10
- The city plans are not consistent in scope and detail. The City of Santa Rosa has a well-structured but dated plan. Cotati's plan is literally a copy of the county plan, Cloverdale is still using the 1989 two volume door-stopper plan that existed before the adoption of SEMS, and Healdsburg's plan is dated 1987. See Exhibit D for a table comparing the format and date of the county and city plans. Response: The Town disagrees wholly with this finding since it can only comment about the scope and...
Response: Disagree
Score: -1
The Town disagrees wholly with this finding since it can only comment about the scope and detail of its own plan and is not in a position to be able to evaluate the scope and content of plans in other cities. Because the Town, County, and other cities have different capabilities, resources, and risk factors, each agency's plan should not be overly similar in scope and detail. The Town, through its contract for police services with the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department, is in the enviable position to have all of the resources of the Sheriff's Department at its disposal for any disaster that ta...
