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Pleasanton updates emergency operations plan, relocates EOC and readies community workshops
Summary
City staff briefed council on updates to Pleasanton's emergency operations plan, an Injury and Illness Prevention Program, a new primary emergency operations center location and exercises; a community preparedness workshop was scheduled for Sept. 23.
Pleasanton staff gave the City Council an update Sept. 16 on emergency-management work including a revised emergency operations plan (EOP), employee safety work under Cal/OSHA requirements, relocation of the primary Emergency Operations Center (EOC), and community outreach plans.
Emergency Services Manager Leo Lopez said the city updated its EOP to clarify roles and decision paths during a disaster and moved the primary EOC from the police briefing room to the Remillard Room at the Operations Service Center to avoid disrupting police operations during activations. The police briefing room remains the city's secondary in-person EOC.
Lopez said the city has trained 196 staff through a Disaster Academy program (about 74% of full-time staff, excluding sworn public safety), held a functional exercise based on the Canyon Fire to test EOC assignments and tools, and ran evacuation drills at multiple city facilities to comply with site-specific emergency action plans.
Staff described ongoing coordination with neighboring jurisdictions and Alameda County Office of Emergency Services on alerting and warning protocols. The city also is improving communications with Pacific Gas & Electric about power outages and is developing preparedness outreach for local businesses with the PDA.
A second annual community workshop on personal emergency preparedness was announced for Sept. 23 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at council chambers; staff encouraged residents to sign up for county alert systems (AC Alert), Genesis Protect mapping, and local Nixle alerts.
Lopez said exercises generate after-action reports and improvement plans; the city used the recent fire-season exercise to form a work plan to address identified gaps. The council and staff also discussed how to maintain timely, vetted public information during incidents to limit the spread of misinformation.
