EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. The Department will work collaboratively with the County to ensure that the County's Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) will be in compliance with ADA requirements. The touchstone for compliance with ADA requirements relating to emergency management is Chapter 7 of the Department's ADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Government (ADA Tool Kit), which addresses in detail key ADA obligations that apply to all aspects of emergency management, including planning, preparedness, evacuation, shelters, medical and social services, lodging and housing programs, recovery, and rebuilding. The County is committed to compliance with the ADA requirements as described in Chapter 7 of the ADA Tool Kit. Within 60 days of the effective date of this Agreement, the County will revise its EOP so that it conforms with Chapter 7 of the ADA Tool Kit, and the County will provide a copy of its revised EOP (including supporting documents) to the Department. The Department will review the revised EOP to ensure compliance with title II of the ADA and its implementing regulation. If the County contracts with another entity, such as the American Red Cross or another local government, to provide its emergency preparedness plans and emergency response services, the County will ensure that the other entity complies with the following provisions on its behalf. Within three months of the effective date of this Agreement, the County will implement and report to the Department its written procedures that ensure that it regularly solicits and incorporates input from persons with a variety of disabilities and those who serve them regarding all phases of its emergency management plan (preparation, notification, response, and clean up). Within three months of the effective date of this Agreement, the County will implement and report to the Department its written procedures that ensure that its community evacuation plans enable those who have mobility impairments, vision impairments, hearing impairments, cognitive disabilities, mental illness, or other disabilities to safely self-evacuate or be evacuated by others. Some communities are instituting voluntary, confidential registries of persons with disabilities who may need individualized evacuation assistance or notification. If the County adopts or maintains such a registry, its report to the Department will discuss its procedures for ensuring voluntariness, appropriate confidentiality controls, and how the registry will be kept updated, a...
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. 32. If the County contracts with another entity, such as the American Red Cross or another local government, to provide its emergency preparedness plans and emergency response services, the County will ensure that the other entity complies with the following provisions on its behalf.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. 23. The Department will work collaboratively with the City to ensure that the City’s Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) will be in compliance with ADA requirements. The touchstone for compliance with ADA requirements relating to emergency management is Chapter 7 of the Department’s ADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Government (ADA Tool Kit), which addresses in detail key ADA obligations that apply to all aspects of emergency management, including planning, preparedness, evacuation, shelters, medical and social services, lodging and housing programs, recovery, and rebuilding.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. 35. The County’s Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) must comply with the ADA. The County will use Chapter 7 of the Department of Justice=s ADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Government (ADA Tool Kit) to address ADA obligations of emergency management, including planning, preparedness, evacuation, shelters, medical and social services, lodging and housing programs, recovery, and rebuilding.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. 27. Denver’s Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) must comply with the ADA. Denver will use Chapter 7 of the Department of Justice’s ADA Best Practices Tool Kit for State and Local Government (ADA Tool Kit) to address ADA obligations of emergency management, including planning, preparedness, evacuation, shelters, medical and social services, lodging and housing programs, recovery, and rebuilding.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. 30. If the City contracts with another entity, such as the American Red Cross or another local government, to provide its emergency preparedness plans and emergency response services, the City will ensure that the other entity complies with the following provisions on its behalf.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. 15. Within one month of the effective date of this Agreement, the County will request in writing that the owners and operators of the Tillamook County Fairgrounds will remove the noted barriers to access for persons with disabilities. The request will specify that the remediation be completed within one year of the effective date of this Agreement. The County will simultaneously send a courtesy copy of the request to the Department:
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. Trinidad’s Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) must comply with the ADA. Trinidad’s EOP shall include the following, and is subject to the approval of the United States: procedures to solicit, receive, and use input from people with a variety of disabilities on its emergency management plan (preparation, notification, response, and clean-up). community evacuation plans to enable people who have mobility disabilities, are blind or have low vision, are deaf or hard of hearing, have cognitive disabilities, mental illness, or other disabilities to safely self-evacuate or be evacuated by others. if Trinidad’s emergency warning system uses sirens or other audible alerts, then procedures to effectively inform people who are deaf or hard of hearing of an impending disaster. a requirement that emergency shelters have a back-up generator and a way to keep medications refrigerated (such as a refrigerator or a cooler with ice). Access to back-up power and refrigeration at such shelters will be made available to people whose disabilities require access to electricity and refrigeration, for example, for using life-sustaining medical devices, providing power to motorized wheelchairs, and preserving certain medications, such as insulin, that require refrigeration. The written procedures will include a plan for notifying people of the location of such shelters. procedures ensuring that people who use service animals are not separated from their service animals when sheltering during an emergency, even if pets are normally prohibited in shelters. The procedures will not segregate people who use service animals from others but may take into account the potential presence of people who, for safety or health reasons, should not be in contact with certain types of animals. plans for providing equivalent opportunities for accessible post-emergency temporary housing to people with disabilities. Trinidad will ensure that information it makes available regarding temporary housing includes information on accessible housing (such as accessible hotel rooms within the community or in nearby communities) that could be used if people with disabilities cannot immediately return home after a disaster if, for instance, necessary accessible features such as ramps or electrical systems have been compromised.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. 32. Emergency management is loosely coordinated by the County’s Director of the Office of Emergency Services. However, each of the twenty municipalities within the County has primary responsibility for emergency and disaster prevention, management, notification, and mitigation. The Red Cross is chartered by the State to provide mass care sheltering during times of emergency.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. 21. Within sixty (60) days of the effective date of this Agreement, the City will ensure that the City’s Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) complies with the ADA, and will provide a copy (including supporting documents) to the United States for review and approval. Within ten (10) days of receiving comments from the United States, the City shall incorporate in its EOP any additions or modifications proposed by the United States that bring the EOP into compliance with the ADA. The City’s EOP will include the following:
