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Virginia Beach emergency management plans mobile EOC, EOC modernization and school preparedness in FY26 budget
Summary
Virginia Beach Director of Emergency Management Thomas Topazinski presented a roughly $2 million FY26 operating budget and outlined EOC modernization, a new deployable mobile EOC, and expanded community preparedness and exercises.
Virginia Beach Director of Emergency Management Thomas Topazinski presented the department’s FY26 operating budget and outlined initiatives for community preparedness, training, and emergency‑operations improvements.
Topazinski said the department operates with nine FTEs across two divisions — emergency management and security — and a total operating budget of just over $2 million. The security division’s larger share pays for third‑party security contracts that cover municipal facilities and the newly reopened Building 3. Topazinski said staff reduced three vacant FTEs to cover…
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