City Council
Emergency
Management
Training
City Council’s Role in a Disaster
9/11/2023
Megan Stephenson
Risk and Emergency Manager
Agenda
Why are we doing this training?
Emergency Frameworks
Actions for City Council Members:
Before, During, After
Continuing Education and Trainings
Tabletop Exercise
Why are we doing
this training?
• Emergency Management vs. Everyday Emergencies
• A structure very different from our everyday coordination • San Leandro has various threats that could interrupt
government operations
San Leandro
Threats
Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP)
San Leandro’s threats and mitigation priorities are outlined in our LHMP include:
earthquakes, Chabot dam failure, urban wildland fire, flooding, levee failure, landslides, sea level rise, drought, and extreme heat.
Earthquakes
Storms and Floods
Dam breaks and Tsunamis
Landslides
Heatwave and Drought
National Incident Management System
(NIMS)
Standardized Emergency Management System
(SEMS)
Incident Command System (ICS)
Emergency Operations Center (EOCs)
Framework: Rules
and Regulations
California Emergency Services Act
California Emergency Services Act allows us to
proclaim a local emergency to enable special
emergency policies, mutual aid, gives special powers
to the Governor, volunteer programs and protections,
planning requirements and more…
California Emergency Services Act (CESA)
EOC
Components of the Emergency
Operations Center
Command Staff- EOC Director
Operations
Planning/Intelligence
Logistics
Finance and Administration
Leads it EOC Director
You are
here
BeforeDISASTER
DuringDISASTER
After DISASTER
Walk yourself through
a scenario
Have a plan with your
family and supplies
Situational Awareness
Promote
Preparedness in your
district and CERT
Stay connected to
EOC Director and
Stay safe
Proclaim State of
Emergency and
Setting Policy
Speak with one
voice
Work with EOC
Director on
ongoing
messaging
Council Steps: Before, During, and After
Get
Connected
ACALERT Must sign-up online
NIXLE: Text zip codes to 888
-777
• 94577, 94578, 94579 • Sign-up online • Let’s try it together! News/TV
Nextdoor
Sanleandro.org/media
Youtube
Facebook Local Alerts
Instagram
Twitter/X
Interested in
learning more?
FEMA Online Courses
TEEX Training for Elected Officials
CERT
Considering the earthquake and where
you’d be on a Sunday morning. What are
the first actions you would want to take?
What City staff would you reach out to?
What information do you think you need
from the City’s Emergency Operations
Center?
Tabletop Exercise
Earthquake
Today is Sunday, December 10, 2023, you are awoken
by a strong early morning earthquake. It is daylight,
clear, but cold. You checked on your family, then your
neighbors. You turned on 106.9 KCBS am radio news
and hear about:
• Power Outages
• Phone Outages
• Wireless Outage
• Water issues Note: Take guidance from the EOC Director on messaging, requests for assistance
Answers
You are naturally
going to want to do
more!
Some different ideas
• My first actions would include checking-in on my family and neighbors. Then text the EOC Director, the City
Manager for example, to let them know that I’m ok and
request a status update from the EOC. I’d also let them know what I’m hearing and seeing.
• Let’s assume someone in my family is having a medical emergency- I’d try to call 911 and tend to that situation first, and then alert the EOC Director of my status.
• I’d be interested to learn from the EOC how many
people are displaced, who has power/internet, and are
we setting up a shelter, and what are our priorities.
• I think I’d ask the EOC to help with a getting water to my community, places to charge our phones, and see
where I could send interested volunteers and
donations.