Item 26 - Adoption of the City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan

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City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan Part I Basic Plan 1. Deputy Director of Emergency Services/Chief of Police 2. Assistant City Manager 3. Deputy City Manager 4. Director of Public Works 5. Director of Finance and Management Services 6. Director of Planning and Building The Director of Emergency Services is responsible to City Council or to the City Manager when the City Manager designates another official to fill that role in a specific event. The Director of Emergency Services is responsible for implementing the Emergency Operations Plan and for overall management of the response effort, through: • Organizing, staffing and operating the City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) • Assessing/analyzing the needs of the community and implementing appropriate responses • Directing overall operations and planning for the emergency, and providing authority to act • Providing information and guidance to the public, including alerting and warning the public • Maintaining information on the status of City resources, services and operations • Collecting, evaluating and disseminating damage assessment and other essential information • Obtaining support for the City and providing support to other jurisdictions, as required • Providing status reports, damage estimates and other information to the Operational Area The official acting in the capacity of the Director of Emergency Services may executive the emergency powers and authorities as they are delineated in Section 3.8.1 below under Proclamations of a Local Emergency. City Council works closely with the Director of Emergency Services during and following a major emergency. While the DES maintains primary authority over the City's emergency response, City Council may be called upon for policy guidance or to provide additional legal authority to act through ordinances or resolutions. City Council may serve as a conduit between government and the public as well as between the City and elected officials at county, state and federal levels or other local jurisdictions impacted by the event. City Council may also proclaim a local emergency or ratify, extend or terminate the emergency proclamation of the DES (see Section 3.8). The remainder of the City's Emergency Organization is a collective representation of how City departments and agencies fulfill implementation of ICS/SEMS/NIMS essential functions in an emergency. 3.4 Direction, Coordination and Control 3.4.1 City of Santa Ana Direction, Coordination and Control The City of Santa Ana is a political subdivision of the State of California and this Emergency Operations Plan is considered an extension of the State of California Emergency Plan. The City's Emergency Organization will be the first level of response in an emergency, but is supplemented by the additional organizational levels and layers of response provided by the State of California Standardized Emergency Management System and the federal National Incident Management System. The City of Santa Ana manages emergencies with the ICS, SEMS and NIMS systems detailed above in Section 3.2. During significant emergencies, the City has primary responsibility to direct and coordinate emergency operations at the field response and local government levels. At the field level, all City departments and agencies with a field -response role will use the Incident Command System to standardize the emergency response and will manage the response under the direction and control of Incident Commander(s). The Incident Commander(s) report incident -related information to the City Emergency Management Organization in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), whose responsibility is to provide support and coordination for Incident Commanders in the field and to manage and implement higher -level or citywide policies and objectives. 3.4.2 Operational Area, Region and State Direction, Coordination and Control Under the authority of the California Emergency Services Act, the County of Orange leads the Orange County Operational Area, with responsibility to support all Operational Area jurisdictions in identifying and prioritizing needs and coordinating resources throughout the Operational Area and communicating with regional and state 120