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Jefferson County emergency managers outline FEMA reform changes and urge residents to sign up for alert system
Summary
County emergency management staff summarized provisions of HR 2308 on FEMA's proposed independent status, noted likely shift to locally controlled/state managed/federally funded disaster response, and urged residents to register for the county's Lookout Alerts reverse-911 system after low signup rates were reported.
Nate Whittington, a Jefferson County emergency management official, briefed the Board of County Commissioners on proposals in HR 2308, the FEMA Independence Act, and on local emergency communications on July 22.
Whittington said HR 2308 would move FEMA out of the Department of Homeland Security into an independent, cabinet-level agency, create four deputy director posts, keep 10 regional offices and transfer FEMA staffing, funding and legal authorities to the new agency. “The information I’m giving is coming out of the HR 23 0 8, which is the FEMA independence act,” he said. He summarized that leadership would be “locally controlled, state managed, federally funded.”
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