This final Assignment is designed to highlight many of the issues addressed throughout the course. Keep in mind that disaster planning is as often about building consensus, predicting future impacts, and empathy as it is about project management, budgets, and logistics. All are essential aspects of modern emergency management. Prepare a 6–8 slide PowerPoint presentation on a disaster recovery plan for Planville, a suburban city with a population of approximately 30,000 residents. Planville has a small industrial park and a community hospital. The community has a significant transportation infrastructure in and around it, including an interstate highway, several state highways, and a rail system that transports passengers and freight. The city was founded about 200 years ago along the Planville River, which has a history of flooding during the springtime, sometimes causing significant damage to Planville and the surrounding area. Planville has a vibrant downtown area with a thriving arts scene and many bars and restaurants that draw visitors in the evenings and on weekends. There is also an active business district with small shops, as well as several banks and gas stations. The Planville Fire Department has a full-time staff of 60, with a normal daily staffing level of 15. KFD also provides EMS for the city. The Planville Police Department and the Department of Public Works are staffed in a similar fashion. You are the full-time emergency manager and you are assigned by the mayor to design a disaster recovery plan. The Planville Disaster Recovery Plan should consider the role of disaster recovery in the context of the comprehensive emergency management cycle. Understanding the frameworks of disaster recovery, the process-driven approach, and how to access operational and financial resources in the short and long term will be important in this Assignment, but having an appreciation for the social impacts a community sustains during disaster recovery is vital too. Further, rebuilding with an eye toward sustainability has become integral to creating resilient communities as the scope of disasters changes. The Planville Disaster Recovery Plan presentation should incorporate the following elements: Use the technical language of disaster recovery Include both natural and technological hazards Include the components of both short- and long-term disaster recovery operations Describe how the recovery phase fits into the comprehensive emergency management process Make connections between disaster recovery and the other phases of emergency management Make recommendations for improving Planville's disaster resilience using a holistic approach and eye toward sustainability Make specific recommendations on mitigation projects (both structural and nonstructural) Factor in the roles and responsibilities of local, state, and federal governments in recovery operations Distinguish between the roles and responsibilities of private sector individ ...

1. This final Assignment is designed to highlight many of the
issues addressed throughout the course. Keep in mind that
disaster planning is as often about building consensus,
predicting future impacts, and empathy as it is about project
management, budgets, and logistics. All are essential aspects of
modern emergency management.
Prepare
a 6–8 slide PowerPoint presentation on a disaster recovery plan
for Planville, a suburban city with a population of
approximately 30,000 residents.
Planville has a small industrial park and a community hospital.
The community has a significant transportation infrastructure in
and around it, including an interstate highway, several state
highways, and a rail system that transports passengers and
freight. The city was founded about 200 years ago along the
Planville River, which has a history of flooding during the
springtime, sometimes causing significant damage to Planville
and the surrounding area.
Planville has a vibrant downtown area with a thriving arts scene
and many bars and restaurants that draw visitors in the evenings
and on weekends. There is also an active business district with
small shops, as well as several banks and gas stations.
The Planville Fire Department has a full-time staff of 60, with a
normal daily staffing level of 15. KFD also provides EMS for
the city. The Planville Police Department and the Department of
Public Works are staffed in a similar fashion.
You are the full-time emergency manager and you are assigned
by the mayor to design a disaster recovery plan. The Planville
Disaster Recovery Plan should consider the role of disaster
recovery in the context of the comprehensive emergency

2. management cycle. Understanding the frameworks of disaster
recovery, the process-driven approach, and how to access
operational and financial resources in the short and long term
will be important in this Assignment, but having an appreciation
for the social impacts a community sustains during disaster
recovery is vital too. Further, rebuilding with an eye toward
sustainability has become integral to creating resilient
communities as the scope of disasters changes.
The Planville Disaster Recovery Plan presentation should
incorporate the following elements:
Use the technical language of disaster recovery
Include both natural and technological hazards
Include the components of both short- and long-term disaster
recovery operations
Describe how the recovery phase fits into the comprehensive
emergency management process
Make connections between disaster recovery and the other
phases of emergency management
Make recommendations for improving Planville's disaster
resilience using a holistic approach and eye toward
sustainability
Make specific recommendations on mitigation projects (both
structural and nonstructural)
Factor in the roles and responsibilities of local, state, and
federal governments in recovery operations

3. Distinguish between the roles and responsibilities of private
sector individuals, organizations, and insurance providers in
recovery operations
Identify potential sources for financing recovery
Describe how rebuilding with an eye toward sustainability has
become integral to creating resilient communities
The PowerPoint presentation should have the following
characteristics:
Designed with a live audience in mind in order to inform your
viewers about the topic
Bullets for your main points
Pictures to support your presentation where applicable
Speaker notes to fully explain what is being discussed in the
slide bullet points as though you are presenting to an audience
A title slide and a references slide
Research from at least two reliable sources to support the main
message,
including graphics. Discuss how you evaluated the credibility of
the sources used.
Information from course readings, the course materials, or other
library
sources incorporated to support your discussion. Properly cite

4. all sources of information by including in-text citations and a
list of references.
Research and visuals cited in APA citation format, both in-text
and on a References slide. You need to quote material taken
directly from a source. The same standards for documenting
sources that apply to an essay also apply to a presentation. Go
to Course Home>Academic Tools> APA Style Central® for a
digital library of APA style quick guides and tutorials to refine
your writing.
Signal phrases are useful in presentations. They help make your
writing flow with one idea clearly leading to the next. It is a
good practice to use signal words and phrases instead of just
inserting quotations abruptly and separately. For more details
on signal phrases, refer to the Writing Center.