Focus: Emergency Management, State Focus, Leadership, Case Study, and Discussions. Created and presented by Colorado DHSEM Regional Field Manager Cory Stark

1. COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Cory S Stark
Deputy Director and Field Service Manager (Acting)
Division of Homeland Security
Emergency Management
State of Colorado
“Engaged Employees working together to provide diverse public safety services to local communities and safeguard lives” – Executive Directors Office

2. A little about me and when a
connection was made with emergency
management ~ A Story
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN YOU
My Date Reel
1993, 1999, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
Elbert County hire in April of 2006, entered emergency management in 2009, assumed program responsibility 2010 – 2013, State of
Colorado hire June, 2013
Elbert County, 2011 – Burning Tree
Elbert County, 2012 – EF 2 Tornado
Elbert County, 2012 - CR 102 Fire
Elbert County, 2013 – Black Forest Fire
State of Colorado, 2013/2014/2015 – Colorado Flooding
(DR4145 – DR 4229)
State of Colorado, 2014/2015 – NCR/NER Tornados and Spring Storms,
GOP Presidential Debate, Municipal Water Disasters, Blizzard Response
2016/2017 Wildfires
2017 Hurricane Irma

3. Close Your Eyes and Picture this
An Exercise
WE ARE GOING TO LOOK INSIDE
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

4. These are many of the faces of Emergency Managers
Can You See Your Face

5. LETS ASK ONE IMPORTANT QUESTION FIRST
Why
I want to know your Why
Ready to Start

6. In Your “Why’s”
We found
Health, Relationships, Interest, Spirit, and Work
“I Thought I had to have them in perfect balance”
Think Again… It came via a juggler
STAY OUT OF BALANCE
KEEP THIS IN MIND
Dan Thurmon
Made Me Think

7. AGENDA AND EXPECTATIONS
My Office
So Where Does It All Begin
Emergency Management
Are you Emergency Management Material
State and Federal Support
Bringing Tools to the Problem
Recovery
Questions and Comments
Close

8. OUR OFFICE

9. FIELD SERVICES
Quick Snap Shot of Who We Are
House Bill 12-1283 Moves Emergency Management
to Department of Public Safety =
Report under Director of Emergency Management
State of Colorado
9 Regions Covering 64 Counties
9 Field Managers, Deputy, and Field Services Manager
Support to SEOC or
State Emergency Operations Center

10. 9 Regional Field Managers Cover 9 All-Hazard Regions

11. Dedication to Saving Lives, Property, and the Environment
STATE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER

13. No longer can our Colorado communities operate with the notion “disaster will never
happen at home” Colorado floods impacted every type of community we have in our great
state, fire can happen anywhere, it can always be secondary
Community Emergency Management Offices and personnel are the cornerstone to helping
a whole community begin the process of response, recovery, mitigation, prevention, and
protection
Incident Support Operations to our Incident Responders in an Emergency Operations
Center
Community Preparedness outreach .. Tools for you and I, what we do is up to us
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS

14. CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING WHERE EVER YOU GO
IN PUBLIC SAFETY
Displaced Citizens
Injury and Death
Damaged and Destroyed Property
Loss or Reduction of Emergency and or Essential Services
Loss of Critical Infrastructure
Economic Damage
Health and Environmental Damage
Psychological Trauma and Damage
Animal and Live Stock Issues
Legal Challenges
Public Distrust
Crime

15. Setting The Stage
SO WHERE DOES IT ALL BEGIN

16. FEDERAL LEGAL BASIS FOR INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
Management of Domestic Incidents
HSPD-5
HSPD-8
National Preparedness

17. DISASTER SNAPSHOT
Local Disaster Occurs
Local and Possible State Declaration
Federal Declaration – Robert T Stafford Act
Long Term Recovery Process – Combines Government
and non profit private resources
Look at it 2 ways..

18. INCIDENT COMPLEXITY AND CHANGING CONDITIONS
Incident Complexity Resource Needs ICS Structure
Complexity

19. Life cycle of a disaster

20. State Focus
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

21. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
A system that provides for management and coordination of prevention,
mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery activities for all hazards.
The system encompasses all organizations, agencies, departments, and
individuals having responsibilities for these activities
Coordination across public and private sectors
Information Management
Resource Management
Liaison between local government and State
Planning, Training, Exercising and Operational Support

22. EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTERS
The EOC’s provides a central location from which government at any level can provide
interagency coordination and executive decision making in support of the incident response and
stabilization priority

23. TOP PRIORITIES
Operational Support and Coordination
Public Information _ Prepare and release coordinated public messaging regarding all
aspects of response and recovery elements. Engaging the public in a variety of ways,
including social media and the internet.
Alert and Warning _ Early Warning Notifications
Resource Mobilization
Executive and Elected Policy Considerations

24. STATE FOCUS ON
PRE DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLANNING
Building a program and making sure it can run
Making sure the legal basis for emergency management is in place
Identifying hazards and mitigation possibility
Building in prevention and long term protection
Preparedness
Resource Management
Warning Programs
Training and Exercise

25. STATE FOCUS DURING A DISASTER
Operational considerations and support
Emergency Operations Center Management
Key decision making
Public Information Management
Financial Considerations
Declaration of Emergency process

26. STATE FOCUS POST DISASTER
Recovery Planning
Short and Long Term Recovery
Emergency Manager and Recovery Coordination
Recovery Support Functions
Community Recovery and Resiliency
National Recovery Framework
Community Planning – Economic – Health and Social Service – Housing – Infrastructure
Natural and Cultural Resources

27. STATE ON RESILIENCY
The ability of communities to rebound and positively adapt to or thrive amidst
changing conditions or challenges..
Includes disasters and changes in climate to maintain quality of life, health and
sustainable growth, economic vitality, durable systems, and conservation of
resources for present and future generations
Lessen impacts for the next disaster possibility
Understand risks and vulnerabilities

28. PREPAREDNESS HIGHLIGHTS
Planning
Getting to know your community and writing plans that meet the intent of the program
Emergency Operations Plan, Recovery Plan, Continuity of Operations, Hazard Mitigation
Planning, Threat and Hazard Identification
Recourse Mobilization
Understanding Systems of System approaches
Mechanisms, Financials, Authority, and Agreements
Warning Systems
Alerting the community
Alerting management staff
Training and Exercise
Build it and they will come..

29. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS
Program Management – Making it Run!
Laws and Authorities – Legal and Policy for program implementation
Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment – What pressures life safety, property, and
environmental concerns
Hazard Mitigation – Eliminating hazards and reducing risk
Resource Management – Human and Physical resources to a given problem
Mutual Aid – Formal agreements for jurisdictions to work together
Planning – Information collection for the purpose of plan development
Communication and Warning – Alerting and warning the public and organizations
Operational Procedures – Implementing plans and procedures in exercise and real world
Training and Exercise – Putting it all together
Finance and Administration – administration of financial practice and procedure

30. ARE YOU EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MATERIAL

31. UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE
When you hit the market, learn how and where the function lives
Be willing to wear many different hats
Be willing to put yourself out in front and take a position and support your partners
Become the collaborator _ Learn how to bring people together
Understand the roles and responsibilities of legal and policy level leadership
Understand your community _ Know how and when to communicate with them
The power to build relationships is a must to succeed in leading programs

32. LEADERSHIP IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Participation Rules
Collaborator
Encourager
A Coach
An Optimist
An Innovator
A High Performer
Morales, Art., On the Court or in the Stands, 2013

33. ROAD TO EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
Remain teachable _ Always be open to new ideas
Always self reflect to make sure you are not contributing to problems
Accept that not all news is good _ Remain resilient
Lead where you to will go _ Be willing to remain out front
Always be compassionate and caring to the challenges _ Community and Organization
Morales, Art., On the Court or in the Stands, 2013

34. COMMON PERFORMANCE AND COLLABORATION
CHALLENGES
Lack of funds
Limited resources
Lack of time
Lack of qualified personnel
Lack of leadership support
Lack of understanding
Fear of embarrassment or failure
To many external commitments

35. Solution Driven
Offensive and Active
Actively Engaged
Encouraging
Fully Engaged
Listening and Understanding
Positive and Alert
Commanding and Articulate
Innovative
Disempowered _ Victim
Defensive and Passive
Disengaged
Critical
Minimal Investment
Argumentative
Negative
Difficult
Pursues Status Quo
COLLABORATION CHALLENGE COMPARISON
Collaboration Challenged The Essential Emergency Manager

36. HOW DO YOU SEE DEVELOPING A CENTER
OF INFLUENCE
Hierarchy of Influence

37. HIERARCHY OF
INFLUENCE
Goal
Charisma
/ Inspire
Commitment /
Respect
Compliance /
Incentives
Command / Authority
Coercion / Pressure
Control / Force

38. DO YOU WANT TO SAVE A LIFE TODAY

39. Wildfire
Flood
Hurricane
Blizzard
Earthquake
A CASE STUDY
We are going to deduce the common and critical factors in managing disaster

40. STATE AND FEDERAL SUPPORT

41. STATE AUTHORITIES
Colorado Disaster Emergency Act (CRS 24-33.5-701)
State Emergency Operations Plan
Resource Mobilization Plan
Local and interjurisdictional disaster agencies and services (CRS 24-33.5-707)
Local Authorities by Municipal Code, Ordinance, and Resolution

42. STATE ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE WITH A STATE DECLARATION
If a municipality determines that their
resources will be exhausted, they can ask
the county for assistance through a
declaration.
If the county exhausts their resources, they
can declare a county emergency or disaster,
asking the governor for assistance.
The Governor can then declare a state of
emergency if State or Federal support is
needed.
The State declaration will be in support of
the local jurisdiction’s express needs.
A State declaration has two effects:
Activate the State Emergency
Operations Plan
Provide authority for the mobilization
and deployment of resources to
include National Guard resources
The declaration will authorize State funds
for the payment of State provided
resources

43. PROCESS TO A PRESIDENTIAL DECLARATION
There are several steps which must be taken at both the state and
local levels before the President can issue a Presidential Disaster Declaration
1. Following the disaster, an Initial Damage Assessment
is performed by the local jurisdictions to assess the
impact of the disaster.
2. State and Federal officials then conduct a joint
Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA)
which estimates the extent of the disaster and
its impact on the community.
3. This PDA is included with the Governor’s request to the
President to show that the disaster is of a significant size,
and is beyond the capabilities of the State and local levels.
Let’s look at IDA/PDA

44. DAMAGE ASSESSMENT
Initial Damage Assessment
Preliminary Damage Assessment
Working Toward Financial Indicators
Debris Management
What do the numbers tell us?

45. FINANCIAL INDICATORS
A snap shot of financial value associated to damages within the county
3.56 per capita at the county
1.41 per capita at the state
2010 Census _ Congress
Adams 441,603 - $1,572,107.00
Boulder 294,567 - $1,048,659
Denver 600,158 - $2,136,562
Clear Creek 9,088 – $32,353.00
Elbert 23,086 - $82,186.00
Gilpin 5,441 - $19,370.00
State of Colorado
$7,200,000.00

46. BRINGING TOOLS TO THE PROBLEM

47. RESOURCE MOBILIZATION ANNEX
An All Hazards tool to support resource support beyond local government capability
Provides mobilization, tracking, allocation, prioritization, and demobilization support
Colorado Revised Statues 24-33.5-705.4
Requested by;
County Emergency Manager
County Sheriff
County/Tribal Executive Body
Municipal Emergency Managers with populations over 400,000
Incident Commanders
Approved by;
Regional Field Managers
Fire Management Officers
State Emergency Management Director

48. REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE
State OEM
DHS/FEMA
Local OEM
Incident Command
Other States
Other Cities &
Counties
State Agencies
Federal Agencies
Local Agencies
Local Disaster
Declaration
State Disaster
Declaration
Federal Disaster
Declaration

49. RECOURSE MOBILIZATION PLAN ELEMENTS
System of Systems Ordering
Incident Management Teams
Complexity Analysis
Delegations of Authority
Emergency Management Assistance Compact
State Emergency Operations Center Support
State Unified Coordination Group

50. STATE RESOURCE CONSIDERATIONS
Colorado National Guard
5 Incident Management Teams _ T3 / Orders to Federal T1/2
Colorado State Patrol _ Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Division of Fire Prevention and Control
Colorado Department of Transportation
Search and Rescue Support
Department of Ag
Department of Corrections
Public Health and Environment _ Human Services
Department of Education
Division of Local Affairs
Department of Natural Resources
Personnel and Administration _ Veterans Affairs
American Red Cross _ Salvation Army

51. MANAGE DONATIONS AND VOLUNTEERS
Determine adequacy of local resources and whether outside assistance is needed for a
volunteer reception center
Obtain technical assistance from the State Donations Volunteer Coordination Team and
Colorado Volunteer Organizations Active in Disasters (COVOAD)
Establish a policy and process for accepting and dispensing cash donations

52. Communities attempting to bring their impacted area back to pre-disaster
condition or a new normal conditions. This process can take days, weeks or
years depending on the scale of the incident
RECOVERY

53. TYPES OF FEMA ASSISTANCE
Individual Assistance: Aid to individuals and households.
Public Assistance: Aid to public entities for certain emergency
services and the repair/replacement of disaster-damaged
public facilities.
Hazard Mitigation Assistance: Funding for measures designed
to reduce future losses to public and private property.

54. REPAIR PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES
Determine level of insurance coverage
for damaged public facilities
Identify alternate facilities to continue
government operations
Develop a strategy for the permanent
restoration of utilities and facilities
Coordinate with utility providers to determine
restoration priorities

55. IDENTIFY HAZARD MITIGATION OPPORTUNITIES
Use the Hazard Mitigation Plan to define a
strategy
Seek funding for this strategy
Evaluate the adequacy of existing building
and zoning codes based on the disaster
impact
Modify any codes or regulations as needed
to facilitate recovery for residents,
businesses and public entities.

56. RECOVERY PLANNING
Include government, private sector,
non-profits, academia, religious
organizations and other stakeholders
Make it consensus based and identify
short/long term goals
Address short and long-term recovery
and unmet needs
Identify potential interim and
permanent housing strategies and
rebuilding options
Develop community recovery strategies
Develop and update the Disaster
Recovery Plan
Establishing a Recovery Planning Committee is an important
pre-disaster step which will improve the speed and effectiveness
of your community’s post-event response.

57. RECOVERY ISSUES
Providing mass care, including shelter, food, water and other essential items for those displaced
Providing disability related assistance/functional needs support services
Conducting damage assessments of homes, businesses and critical infrastructure
Clearance of debris
Repairing major transportation systems, communications systems and interrupted utilities
Establishing safety measures for first responders
Manage public expectations and public information flow
Stabilizing hospital-EMS-health networks
Staffing and management of a Disaster Recovery Center
Re-entry planning
Ensuring community-wide participation in recovery policies and decisions
Restoring community tax base and retaining businesses and employers
Providing case management and behavioral health

58. Prepare Yourself
This world will change your life
IN CLOSE

59. THANK YOU!
Cory Stark
North Central Region Field Manager
Colorado Department of Public Safety
Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
9195 E Mineral Ave, Suite 200 Centennial, CO 80112
Office - 720-852-6618
Fax - 720-852-6750
Cell - 720-737-4315
cory.stark@state.co.us
DHSEM.state.co.us
LinkedIn @ www.linkedin.com/in/corystark