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Emergency management seeks modest FY26 budget, highlights Everbridge expansion and regional training
Summary
Russ, the town's emergency management lead, briefed the Board of Finance on FY26 operating items and recent accomplishments including expanded use of Everbridge for town communications, FEMA disaster recovery work, school reunification planning, regional active-threat and mass-casualty exercises, and the Motorola radio maintenance contract.
Russ, the town's emergency management lead, presented the FY26 emergency management operating request and summarized the office's accomplishments and capital needs to the Board of Finance committee.
Russ described leveraging the existing Everbridge system to expand townwide communications and said he built templates and self-service tools so department heads (public works, police, fire, health department) could send alerts and newsletters. He reported about 2,000 Everbridge signups from roughly 7,000 households in town and called that an above-average level of resident engagement.
Russ reviewed recent incident work, including coordination of response and recovery after flooding that led to a presidential disaster declaration and local damage at Valley Road and…
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