Snyder emergency‑management coordinator highlights NIMS compliance, mutual aid and recent disaster deployments

SNYDER, Texas — Jay Callaway, Snyder’s emergency management coordinator, gave the City Council an extended briefing on the city’s preparedness work and recent deployments, saying Snyder is now fully compliant with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and has updated mutual‑aid agreements that expand cooperation with nearby counties.

“The city is 100% in NIMS compliant now with FEMA,” Callaway told the council, and he said the city completed work on the state’s new TAPS/ESF system for threat and hazard identification and emergency support functions. He described that the city’s emergency operations plan was updated and approved and that the city has been used as an example in the region for its work on the new system.

Callaway reviewed deployments to large disaster responses, including a full team Incident Management Team deployment to North Carolina following severe flooding. He described the scope of those operations — coordinating urban search‑and‑rescue and air support, setting up Starlink dishes to restore 911 service, and managing hundreds of personnel — and said Snyder staff and partners logged hundreds of training hours: city employees received roughly 150 hours of local emergency‑management training over the past 12 months, while Callaway said he has undertaken roughly 320 hours of outside training.

Councilmembers praised the progress and invited colleagues to visit the emergency management office; staff said the city’s improved compliance and updated agreements position Snyder to be eligible for additional state and federal funding in the event of a disaster.

Callaway closed by encouraging the council to view the program’s operations and training opportunities firsthand.