Amanda, emergency management staff for Cass County, presented a multi‑part update on planning, training, exercises and outreach tied to the county’s 2025 preparedness cycle.

Amanda said an integrated preparedness planning workshop held with Fargo and West Fargo gathered input from more than 50 stakeholders representing 40 agencies and produced priorities for the 2025 cycle: mass gatherings, active assailant response, severe weather and cybersecurity. She said the county’s Integrated Preparedness Plan (IPP) was updated to reflect local risk assessments and after‑action insights and had progressed to the next review phase with state and FEMA partners.

On training and exercises, Amanda described work supporting a three‑day active shooter/hostile event response training planned for this summer at Fargo North High School, integrated multi‑agency exercises including a tornado tabletop for NDSU, the annual airport emergency plan review, a sheriff’s office cybersecurity tabletop, and a tabletop exercise for a downtown street fair that included CISA and city partners. Amanda said exercise feedback rated the street‑fair tabletop 4.7 out of 5.

Amanda also described community engagement such as collaboration with First Link for 988 coordination, credentialing for amateur radio volunteers for backup communications, and staffing an event operations center for the Fargo Marathon to support multi‑agency coordination. She noted the office lost space at the Fargo Public Safety Building and moved temporarily to the annex building.

Amanda requested no formal action; the update was informational and focused on aligning training and exercise work with identified capability gaps.