Council adopts Ivins Disaster Response Plan as addendum to city emergency management plan

Ivins City Council voted to adopt the Ivins Disaster Response Plan as an addendum to the city’s emergency management plan, formalizing neighborhood disaster hub boxes and community response roles.

Mayor Hart and the chief of public safety explained the community component of disaster response that the plan is intended to fill: the city’s existing emergency operations plan covers incident command and agency response, while this document describes how neighborhood volunteers, hub boxes and public information channels extend response and situational awareness across the city in large‑scale events (when phone lines and dispatch may be overwhelmed). The plan lists hub‑box contents, responsibilities for first arriving volunteers, and reporting procedures for city public safety and public works.

Council asked for operational clarifications (for example, the plan’s blue and red clipboards and the testing schedule). The chief noted the document will be a living supplement and that staff will maintain it, run periodic tests, place QR‑code links on hub boxes and post the manual prominently on the city website. The council motion adopted the plan as an addendum to the city’s emergency management plan with direction to the chief to oversee revisions and publish the final draft.

What’s next: Staff will finalize the final draft, include the small clarifications requested by council (e.g., clipboard color references), and publish PDFs and a web‑accessible version; the chief will integrate the addendum into existing emergency operations procedures and schedule periodic reviews and public tests.