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Napa County unveils draft post-disaster recovery plan; seeks board direction before final annex to emergency plan
Summary
Sheriff's Office and Office of Emergency Services staff presented a draft Recovery Operations Plan May 20 that would make a recovery coordinator part of early response and set out recovery support functions, stakeholder roles and training attachments. The plan will be finalized as an annex to the county Emergency Operations Plan.
Napa County presented a draft post-disaster Recovery Operations Plan (ROP) to the Board of Supervisors on May 20 and asked for high-level direction before staff finalizes the document as an annex to the county Emergency Operations Plan (EOP).
Sheriff'9s Office staff said the ROP is intended to give county leaders and partner organizations a coordinated framework for short-, intermediate- and long-term recovery after disasters such as wildfires, floods or public-health emergencies. "The word recovery, honestly, is a foreign language sometimes to us first responders," the sheriff said, arguing that a written playbook will help county staff and community organizations move from response into recovery with less delay.
Consultant Mike Cooper of SenseMakers described the plan as a framework rather than a step-by-step manual, saying it gathers local input and reference materials so agencies can act quickly. "The plan itself isn't necessarily a how to at every step ... it is a framework for those operations," Cooper said. The county reported the draft was built with input from 15 stakeholder groups and 10 stakeholder meetings and incorporated more than 60 comments from local agencies and nonprofit partners.
Key features of the draft include a designated recovery coordinator embedded in the EOC during response, a process for transitioning to a Recovery Operations Center (ROC) for intermediate recovery activities, and a structure of Recovery Support Functions (RSFs) to identify which departments and partners will handle areas such as debris management, housing, economic recovery and health services. The plan anticipates heavy involvement by community organizations such as Napa Valley COAD for long-term recovery and outlines training modules, templates and attachments (including FEMA and Small Business Administration guidance) to support action planning.
Staff told the board the ROP is intended to be a living document with periodic review and updates; they plan to present the EOP with the ROP annex later this summer. Supervisors praised the stakeholder outreach and recommended additional attention to vulnerable populations and equity considerations in recovery planning.
Ending: County staff asked the board for high-level feedback and will incorporate suggested changes before returning with a final annex to the Emergency Operations Plan later in the summer.
