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Emergency-management staff outline COOP, incident communications and neighborhood preparedness program
Summary
Emergency-preparedness staff described the office's role, the city's continuity (COOP) and emergency-operations framework, coordination with county and state partners, mobile EOC capability, and a neighborhood preparedness program to be rolled out through neighborhood associations.
Rachel Holford and Mallory Wilson presented Boise's emergency-preparedness work, describing how the small office coordinates citywide planning, exercises and incident response.
Holford said the office's vision is to partner across city, county and state resources to prepare, respond, mitigate and recover from disasters and that the office focuses on preparedness, stakeholder engagement, response support, training and grant research. She emphasized making plans usable in an incident and highlighted the city's continuity-of-operations…
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