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Washington County emergency manager: one‑person office overwhelmed by floods, asks for added FTE
Summary
Emergency Management Coordinator Dustin Lofi told the Public Safety Committee that the Office of Emergency Management is staffed at 1 FTE, supported incident response for 10 municipalities during recent floods, and requested an additional full‑time position to sustain planning, response, and recovery work.
Dustin Lofi, Washington County Emergency Management Coordinator, told the Public Safety Committee in August that the county’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is staffed by a single full‑time equivalent and was stretched thin during recent severe weather and flooding that affected roughly 10 municipalities.
Lofi said the office is responsible for hazard assessment, planning, grant deliverables, training and exercises, and incident resourcing, and that “the bandwidth of 1 county emergency manager does not effectively allow the mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery activities needed to support the community.” He gave a recent example: he logged about 70 hours over a recent week supporting municipal…
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