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�� "� �� <br /> /f9j= *�'0~~^- <br /> , <br /> - , <br /> AGENDA ATTACHMENT 5 ' ! <br /> MANAGERS REPORT <br /> February 2, 1981 <br /> — ! <br /> ^ COUNTY ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS <br /> In 1979 and in 1980 the County entered the NACO Achievement Award Program <br /> and received awards for its Central Communication System (911 number) and its <br /> Consolidated Tax Collection System. While the format of this awards program <br /> seems to have changed significantly from last year we plan to submit four of <br /> Program developed and implemented <br /> our projects this year' 1) the Hypothermia , <br /> 8 l t during last summer s heat <br /> by Health Department Staff and the Program na ys o <br /> wave; 2) the Sheaffer House Program developed by-the Program Analyst nulyst with : <br /> co <br /> - <br /> - <br /> oper ation of the Social Service Staff, the Juvenile Court Staff; 3) renovation <br /> of <br /> abandoned Gra'¢y B'«�n DChool into a human SorYjce complex q uartering the <br /> main staff of all our human-service ayencjes there, and 4) one ' <br /> Recreation Program. The first three of these projects will be written up by <br /> the Program Analyst before she leaves for her new job in mid-February. The <br /> remaining project will b� selected and written by the Recreation Director. <br /> 4 `~ <br /> DISASTER PLANNING <br /> " ' <br /> The early January power outage pointed ou t all too clearly previously <br /> prepared civil emergency plans prepared by the State Office of <br /> Civil Pre- <br /> paredness and the County's Civil Preparedness Officer are too c umbersome to <br /> bring into play for an occasion much short of a national calamity. Since the <br /> reorgbnization plan implemented in January se ts out a County Department of <br /> Emergency Services, of which I have named Bobby Baker head, I have asked him <br /> to look into what happened during is power outage and to determine why our <br /> ) <br /> program did not ac ti va te automatically. <br /> While his investigation is still in <br /> focus progress his preliminary thoughts indicate the ros nf Civil Preparedness has <br /> changed very much in the last two years. The State Agency is now called the <br /> Emergency Preparedness Agency, and their focus is changing from military <br /> es towards more local civil emergencies. Mr. Baker spent a day <br /> preparedness'-- — <br /> in Alamance County last week, looking at their operation w hich has a small <br /> full time staff that works mostly on emergency planning for localized <br /> emergencies involving such things as fire, ice, wind or snow storms and <br /> the like. This group also works on major military oriented projects and <br /> r <br /> � . <br />