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Findlay committee presses for documented emergency plan, police benchmarking and command-trailer readiness
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Summary
At a strategic planning meeting, the Findlay committee asked staff to provide written emergency operations plans (including the EOC at Fire Station 4), pursue police benchmarking and maintain CALEA accreditation, and confirm the command trailer’s readiness for incidents.
The Findlay Strategic Planning Committee asked staff to provide formal documentation of the city’s emergency operations procedures and to confirm readiness of the command trailer after an update to the strategic plan highlighted emergency preparedness as a priority.
"The whole purpose of it is just to go through [the] strategic plan," Chair (Speaker 2) said, framing the committee’s role as the funnel that guides proposed projects to the right council or staff body. The Chair identified establishing an emergency operations center (EOC) as a completed or near-completed strategic objective and said Fire Station 4 is set up with dispatch capability and that committee members will tour the facility.
Committee members asked for copies or an accessible location for the documented plan so they can review operational responsibilities and staffing expectations in emergency scenarios. "When it's done or if it is documented somewhere that we have access to it, just tell us where it is so we can go read it ourselves," one committee member (Speaker 3) said.
The group also discussed policing priorities tied to the strategic plan. Chair noted the city maintains accreditation and is pursuing peer-community benchmarking to identify gaps and best practices. "We're trying to align ourselves with similar cities," the Chair said, describing a performance-measurement process for police operations.
Members raised equipment and facilities as part of that review, noting recent updates to a command trailer and the need for improved dispatch and body-camera workstations. Staff confirmed a facilities assessment program runs annually for all city-owned buildings and recommended tying those assessments to capital planning for police and other departments.
Committee members flagged coordination with Hancock County and regional FEMA representatives for larger disasters and asked staff to list county and regional partners and their roles. The committee requested that police and fire chiefs provide an update on how the EOC, mobile assets and mutual-aid agreements would function during incidents.
Next steps: staff were asked to (1) provide a copy or access point for the documented emergency operations plan, (2) schedule a tour of Fire Station 4 and the command trailer for committee members, and (3) produce an outline of peer benchmarking and CALEA-related progress for the committee’s follow-up meeting.
