CIP
Update
April
10, 2006
This newsletter is for cities, counties and communities involved
in public-private partnerships for joint emergency preparedness, planning and
prevention.
Please go to: www.cip.msu.edu for more information
about the program.
Participating
Communities
Allentown, PA / Annapolis, MD / Bethlehem, PA / Brooklyn, OH / Carroll
County, MD / Casa Grande, AZ / Clark County, NV / Evansville, IN /
Hoover, AL
/ Libertyville, IL / Marquette County, MI / Milwaukee, WI / Monroe County, MI /
Northampton County, PA / Oakland County, MI / Perkiomen
Valley, PA /
Redmond, WA
/ Racine, WI / Richmond, VA / Rockville, MD / Sandy City, UT
We are currently working with 21
communities and will work with another 23 cities, counties or communities over
the next couple of years. Of the 23 available CIP Programs, we are in contact with 10
communities. Is there a location in the nation that you think may be interested in building a public-private
partnership for joint emergency preparedness?
On April 4th
By the end of the workshop the group identified 17 next step
ideas/recommendations. They wanted to meet on a regular basis, initiate
marketing to other agencies and businesses, create joint exercising
opportunities for businesses and agencies, bring in key stakeholders to future
meetings, send out a press release to the media on what was accomplished during
the workshop, inform various local organizations of the group’s existence, look
at creating a regional training/meeting forum, encourage participating
businesses to spread the value of public-private partnerships throughout their
organizations and networks, expand safety training by public safety agencies to
businesses, and provide a list of threats/risks to businesses that are unique
to the Libertyville area. The group discussed other ideas, as well, and
is off to a strong start.
Please welcome
Credentialing
– Public & Private Integration
Here is a scenario that happens in communities across the
nation. A business is evacuated by the local authorities and told that it
may be eight to twelve hours before employees are allowed back in. Yet,
there are business processes crucial to the company to maintain, which include
payroll, legal processes, computer work, equipment operation, and much
more. The cause for the evacuation is not immediate
life-threatening. The inability of the member employees to enter their
facility affects the bottom line, which eventually could lead to a loss of
customers and related problems, including a reduction in tax revenues to the
local authority.
Communities are responding to this challenge by instituting a
credentialing system that allows pre-approved employees under certain
circumstances to pass through a police/fire line to enter the business to
handle critical business functions. Moreover, communities are using this
system to help businesses recover faster in the event of an emergency or
disaster, including damage assessments.
The Milwaukee CIP group, along with the Southeast Wisconsin
Homeland Security Partnership group are working together to introduce
credentialing in the
A
community who initiated their own system is the city of
According
to their website the credentialing of businesses will provide planned response,
relief, recovery, and restoration activities (http://www.stlouiscityema.com/BusinessEmergencyAccessProgram.html).
Free Video on
Creating a Public-Private Partnership for Joint Critical Incident Management
Here is
a reminder for those who could use a resource that illustrates how to create
partnerships. MSU developed a video that is used in the CIP Program,
which profiles a community in
The
video is available free of charge and can be downloaded from our website.
Enter the “CIP Information Exchange” website, which is located at: https://angel.msu.edu/home.asp
and submit your user Net ID and password. If you do not have them,
please use ours. Enter msu.msu@angel in the user Net ID box and the
word partnership in the password box and log in. On the next web page,
click on CIP and it will take you to the main menu where the different folders
are located. Open the folder titled “CIP Video” which contains two (2)
videos. One is 14 minutes and the other is a cut-down version that is 11
minutes long.
Feel
free to utilize these video’s in your CIP Program.
A Midwest Summit titled “Economics of Disaster”, which will
enhance critical incident preparedness through public/private partnerships, is
scheduled for May 3-4, 2006 in LaCrosse, WI.
For more on the conference, please go to: www.midwestsummit2006.com
Creating
successful public-private partnerships is an essential key in identifying,
addressing, and resolving issues concerning preparedness and continuity in
today’s business world. The Midwest Summit will provide opportunities for
innovation and investment in resilience and economic sustainability for both
private businesses and government infrastructure. This two-day seminar
will focus on establishing formal coordinated agreements, networking,
information sharing, crime prevention, resource sharing, training, legislation,
operations, establishing regional information command centers and coordinating
the flow of information regarding infrastructure in an effort to promote crisis
preparedness and homeland security.
MSU staff from
the CIP Program will be presenting at this conference.
Profiling a
Public-Private Partnership on Sharing Information
Through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is the Secure
Homeland Access and Reporting Environment program, which was developed to share
potential terrorist incidents, including information between the public and
private sectors. The state of
The PUSH program encourages private sector security officers to
report potential terrorism-related incidents. Additionally, the PUSH
portal provides critical infrastructure directory, emergency response
directory, sample emergency plans, research tools and the Daily Open Source
Update.
A
Guide to Emergency Preparedness and Response
Recently, the CIP staff came across a Government Accountability
Office (GAO) report that discussed emergency preparedness and response.
The report states that government entities try to answer four basic questions
(GAO-06-467T), which includes:
1. What is important or
what are our priorities?
2. How do we know what is
important (e.g., risk assessments, performance standards)?
3. How do we measure,
attain, and sustain success?
4. On what basis do we make
necessary trade-offs, given finite resources?
When reviewing these questions, one can see that they have
universal application too both the public and private sectors. Further,
one could use the same questions as a guide in his/her own department, unit, or
division. How do you address these questions? By instituting the
following measures:
1. Develop a strategic plan
with clear goals, objectives, and milestones;
2. Develop performance goals
that can be used to set desired performance baselines;
3. Collect and analyze
relevant and reliable data;
4. Assess the results of
analyzing those data against performance goals to guide priority setting;
5. Take action based on
those results; and
6. Monitor the
effectiveness of actions taken to achieve designated performance goals.
Recent
Postings to CIP Information Exchange Website
To enter the "CIP Information Exchange" website, please go to https://angel.msu.edu
and enter your user/password ID (or use msu.msu@angel in
the User/NetID and "partnership" as the
password to log in). Click on CIP, which launches to the main menu.
Located in the folder "Bulletin Board - Information for all
Communities" are just a few of the following postings:
“The CIA
World Fact Book is Online”
“Morgan Stanley and Others Offer Testimonials”
“Power in Numbers – Building More Effective Teams through Training”
“Hurricane
Katrina Task Force - American Bar Association”
There are numerous other resources located on the website.
To locate a specific topic, use the "search" function, which can be
found on the main menu page on the right-hand side in the green task bar.
Starting
a CIP Program
Feel free to make a referral to the MSU staff about possibly
starting a CIP Program elsewhere in the
Past
Newsletters
If
you are interested in viewing past CIP Update
newsletters, please go to www.cip.msu.edu and select “Newsletters”
from the main menu.
Closing
If you have any topics and/or ideas for a future CIP
Update newsletter, please contact Brit Weber at weberbr@msu.edu or
(517) 355-2227 or other MSU staff
members. About every three weeks you
will receive this newsletter via email. If you no longer want to be on
this list, please reply to this email.
Sources
Government
Accountability Office. (February 23, 2006). Emergency Preparedness and
Response – Some Issues and Challenges Associated with Major
Emergency Incidents. GAO-06-467T. Retrieved on
April 8, 2006 from: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06467t.pdf
City of
http://www.stlouiscityema.com/BusinessEmergencyAccessProgram.html.
Brit
Weber
Work:
(517) 355-2227 Cell: (517) 206-1640
Visit
our website at http://www.cip.msu.edu