Portsmouth staff review Basic Emergency Operations Plan ahead of council's next adoption

Deputy Emergency Management Coordinator Anna McCray told the Portsmouth City Council at its work session that the city's Basic Emergency Operations Plan is written from an all-hazards perspective and provides guidance for how city departments, partner agencies and community stakeholders should prepare for, respond to, recover from and mitigate large-scale incidents.

The plan's basic requirements, McCray said, are driven by state law. "We are required by state code under Section 44-1-46.19(e)" to have a locally adopted basic EOP and the plan "has to be adopted every four years," she said. The document is organized as four volumes: the basic EOP that will come to council for adoption, functional annexes addressing the eight FEMA community lifelines, hazard-specific annexes built on a THIRA/HVA process, and a volume of supporting plans and…