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AGENDA ATTACHMENT 24 <br /> MANAGERS REPORT <br /> February 2, 1981 <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 /> our projects this year. 1) the Hypothermia Program developed and implemented <br /> by Health Department Staff and the Program Analyst during last summer's heat <br /> wave-,, 2) the Sheaffer House- Program developed bitheProgram Analyst with :co- <br /> operation of the Social Service Staff, the Juvenile Court Staff0) renovation 01 <br /> , <br /> abandoned GraAy Brown Chool into a hum4nserViCe complex 4ncrqu4rtering the <br /> main staff of alT our humairservicq Apncies 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 be selected and written by the Recreation Director. <br /> DISASTER PLANNING <br /> The early January power outage pointed out all too clearly previously <br /> prepared civil emergency plans prepared by the State Office of Civil Pre- <br /> paredness and the County's Civil Preparedness Officer are too cumbersome to <br /> bring into play for an occasion much short of a national calamity. Since the <br /> reorganization plan implemented in January sets 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 this power outage and to determine why our ; <br /> program did not activate automatically. While his investigation is still in <br /> progress his preliminary thoughts indicate the focus of 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 /> preparedness towards more local civil emergencies. Mr. Baker spent a day <br /> in Alamance County last week, looking at their operation which 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 likp. This nrnun also works on major military nripntpd nrniprtc and <br />