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Emergency Management urges standing recovery unit after Palisades fires, warns staffing gap vs. peer cities
Summary
Emergency Management Department leaders told the Budget Committee the city lacks a standing recovery and reconstruction division and said current staff have been reassigned to recovery work; they asked that vacancies be filled when funds permit and requested a phased staffing plan to cover recovery and upcoming large events.
The city’s Emergency Management Department told the Budget Committee it lacks a permanent recovery and reconstruction division and has had to reassign staff to conduct recovery work after this year’s major wildfires.
GM Carol Parks and senior staff said 12 department staff have been pulled into recovery efforts and that the department must build a standing recovery capability aligned with the National Disaster Recovery…
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