# Presentation: 024268

## Disaster Resistant California Community CollegesA Hazards Vulnerability and Risk Assessment ProjectCraig E. Zachlod, Ed.D., C.E.M.Emergency Manager for the California Community College System

## Background

- CCC has received a Grant from OHS
-  Grant Objective: Hazard Assessment
- New Opportunities for Preparedness
- CCCCO survey of colleges and districts (100% return)
- Conduct hazard vulnerability assessments of 111 college sites and 58 districts.

## Bad things happento Schools Including Community College Communities

## Campus Emergencies

**Campus Emergencies**

**Northridge Earthquake**
**Columbine**
**Virginia Tech**
**Loma Prieta, Beslan, Russia, New Orleans, etc., etc.**

## CCC Grant Goals and Objectives

**Vulnerability assessments of districts and college sites**
**Identify and apply for $ **
**Assist college personnel**

## Objectives (continued)

- Implement System wide SEMS/NIMS compliance
- Improve communications with colleges and districts through creation of a system-side website
- Create System-wide taskforce
- Create regional/zone task forces or mutual aid groups
- Create System-wide procedures and practices that can be implemented with effect

## Support provided to help us prepare and comply

**$500,000 in 2007 Additional**
**Additional expected in 2008**
**Public and private partners **
**New program development**
**EM System coordinator for CCC**

## Questions for Discussion

**How to organize regionally and statewide ?**
**How do we determine task force members?**
**What do we need to conduct hazard vulnerability assessments of 109 sites on limited funds?**
** ****NFPA 1600 identifies three areas of hazards/ vulnerabilities–natural, man –made, technological-How do we balance our multi-hazards approach?**
**How do we get colleges and districts to comply?**
**What new programs can help us achieve our goals ?**

## Phase 1 Action Plan

- Risk Assessment
- Executive and Leadership Education
- Identify Best Practices at CCs
- Risk Assessment Workshops Statewide
- NIMS/SEMS Compliance Workshops
- Statewide CEO and CBO Conference
- Statewide DRCCC Regional Mutual Aid Groups
- New Program Development

##  Are community colleges ready for emergencies and how can development of new EM programs help overall preparedness?

## Summary

**Assess readiness and problems**
**Determine needs**
**Broaden approach to community based**
**In a major emergency who is responsible?**
**School Personnel**
- Administrators, teachers, staff, students, community
**Risk Management Groups**
- Emergency management in campus safety
- Financial planning needs to includes risk management
**First responders**
- Fire, police, public health, city, county and state agencies
**Governor’s Office of Emergency Services**
***“******We have been too confident about our ability to fend off harm ******in the future******.”***
**    **- USGS Scientist

## Annual District and Colleges Emergency Plan: It’s the Law

**Education and Legislative Codes **
**Ed Code Sections 35294.2, 32282, 335296, 42140**
**Petris Bill**
**Katz Bill**
**Field Act**
**AB 166**
**SEMS and NIMS mandates**

## The Bottom Line Campus Personnel are Accountable

**Districts and Campuses are required to:**
- Establish and exercise disaster plans/procedures
- Inform staff that all public employees are disaster service workers during local, state and national emergencies
- Establish procedures to train administrators, teachers, staff, students
- Establish ERCM/NIMS teams
- Ensure safe ingress and egress procedures
- Establish mutual aid and sheltering agreements
- Develop procedures to ensure a safe and secure environment
- Questions of Risk, Liability and Competence

## Plan for the worst.but, hope for the best.

## For More Information Contact

- New Website to be developed for CCCCO specifically on Emergency Management

- Craig Zachlod
- CCC Foundation
- _[czachlod@foundationccc.org](mailto:czachlod@foundationccc.org)_
- 707-467-5025