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Commission Memorandum
REPORT TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commission
FROM: Patrick Lonergan, Staff Captain / Emergency Manager
REVIEWED BY:Jason Shrauger, Fire Chief
SUBJECT: Authorize Mayors signature on Gallatin County Emergency Management
Plan.
MEETING DATE: August 22, 2011
AGENDA ITEM TYPE: Consent
RECOMMENDATION: Authorize Mayors signature on Gallatin County Emergency
Management Plan.
BACKGROUND: For many years the City of Bozeman has been a stakeholder in the
Gallatin County Emergency Management Plan. The old plan had not been revised in many years
and did not accurately reflect current standard operating procedures used in local jurisdictions in
Gallatin County.
The new Emergency Management Plan has been developed to ensure that local jurisdictions,
including the City of Bozeman, continue to be eligible for state and federal assistance through
compliance with MCA 10-3-401 (local and inter-jurisdictional disaster and emergency
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management plan distribution). To remain compliant, the Basic Plan and each of the annexes
will need to be signed by the Mayor. In subsequent years, approximately one fifth of the plan
will be under revision annually, resulting in a complete revision of the plan every 5 years.
As the entire document is over 600 pages long, the Basic Plan and all annexes contain an
executive summary. These summaries will assist you in reaching a basic understanding of the
entire document. For your convenience, the Basic Plan Executive Summary is attached to this
commission memo.
UNRESOLVED ISSUES: None
ALTERNATIVES: As suggested by the City Commission.
FISCAL EFFECTS: The City will remain eligible for state and federal assistance in future
disasters should they occur.
Attachments: Gallatin County Emergency Management Plan
Basic Plan Executive Summary Page
Report compiled on: August 8, 2011
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Gallatin County Emergency Management Plan
Executive Summary – Basic Plan
Mitigation Preparedness Response Recovery
ReadyGallatin.com
The Gallatin County Emergency Management Plan is designed utilizing the
concept of an “all hazard” approach. This means that Gallatin County
approaches all incidents using the same procedures and resources
regardless of the type of incident. To accomplish this the plan is written
using what is known as a “traditional format” plan consisting of an
overarching Basic Plan and functional annexes.
The Basic Plan outlines our overall approach to emergency management.
It contains high level concepts about how agencies in Gallatin County
function with each other. Roles and responsibilities are also delineated
and assigned in this section.
Specific information regarding functional roles, responsibilities,
procedures, and resources are contained in the following 20 function
specific annexes. Each annex is essentially a standalone document that
supports the Basic Plan. Each annex is adopted by the Principal
Executive Officer of each adopting jurisdiction as well as agencies with
primary responsibility for that annex.
Compliance with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 requiring the
local adoption of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) is
contained in this section. All signatories to this document are certifying
their compliance with NIMS.
We recognize that everything is always in a state of change and as such
the Gallatin County Emergency Management Plan (EMP) will always be in a
state of revision. The EMP is setup on a 5 year complete revision cycle
with one fifth of the plan being reviewed annually.
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