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Commerce City emergency manager recommends removing EOP from municipal code to allow faster updates
Summary
Emergency Manager Kurt Dominic told the City Council that the city's Emergency Operations Plan is overdue for revision and should be maintained as a living operational document under the city manager's designee rather than codified in Chapter 23 of the municipal code.
Kurt Dominic, the city's emergency manager, told the Council that a multi-department revision of the city's Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) has identified capability gaps and new operational annexes and that keeping the entire EOP codified limits the city's ability to respond and adapt.
"This is a living document," Dominic said, describing annexes added for shelter operations and severe winter weather and outlining new requirements such as NIMS training for full-time staff. He also noted infrastructure changes since the last substantive rewrite: "As we gain…
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