Interim EMA director asks for modest staff and equipment increases to maintain emergency coverage
Wade Evans, interim EMA director, asked the committee to fund part-time pay increases, a mobile-EOC radio and modest hazmat-equipment replacements, and described staffing at two people versus a prior four-person office.
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Wade Evans introduced himself as the interim director of Emergency Management and framed his first full budget cycle as focused on staffing and operational readiness. He said the EMA has gone from four staff to two and requested a $10,500 increase for a radio to have a dispatcher capability at the mobile EOC. “That is for one radio for the EOC office…this would give us capabilities,” Evans said.
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