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Brooklyn Park staff outline hazard mitigation plan, request land use for county weather station
Summary
Fire Chief Sean Conway and Emergency Management Coordinator Dan Johnson Powers briefed the council on a multi-year emergency management buildout, asked the council to adopt a county-coordinated hazard mitigation plan at next week’s consent agenda, and requested approval to host a 30-foot Hennepin County weather tower behind Inam Farm.
Fire Chief Sean Conway and Emergency Management Coordinator Dan Johnson Powers told the Brooklyn Park City Council that the city is shifting from basic preparedness to a multi-year emergency management program and asked the council to adopt a county-coordinated hazard mitigation plan and approve a land-use agreement for a Hennepin County weather station.
Conway said the city is moving beyond early planning stages and described emergency management as “more than just a program.” He and Dan Johnson Powers outlined what they called core priorities: complete emergency operating procedures, provide National Incident Management System and Incident Command System training across city divisions, exercise a full-scale resident-focused training within roughly three years, and improve local public warning capability.
The briefing emphasized why formal adoption matters.…
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