the times and your job here is the managing of of what happens when these incidents takes place within our city right that's correct and when  disasters start locally and that's where we build our team here within the city of sarasota as we build that local team recently i've been meeting with all the directors and you will see that every employee for the city  sarasota will be and already has been assigned a disaster role in a position you will see that some like our police officers they will still be police officers our utilities personnel they will be working on the utilities but then we can also find some of those other assistants who may be working up in armor and see operations center handling phone calls and working on food and medical issues for responders we also our neighborhood points and distribution teams that when there are those are implemented you will see city of sarasota employees out there working and so the things that i do is i work to train those folks i make sure that we're following the rules of female when it comes to the minimum training requirements for our individuals we work with our city's comprehensive emergency management plan we assisting with neighborhood services with the flood plain management plan so i reach out and i touch a lot of different areas because we're here to work together and then part of that is coordinating with the county on our joint efforts that we do as an example shelters that is a function of the county government but if those shelters that we opened in our disaster are within our city limits we are the ones who are providing the security for those shelters but we need to pushed be prepared to sustain yourself for seventy two hours there may be roads that are out bridges that are out to your neighborhoods and it may be difficult for us to respond to those areas and so we really push that seventy two hours theme will not even come in till the state request and so we have to have enough of an impact in our area that the state needs a certain threshold in order for the federal government to come in and we also were competing with all the other communities if it was a large disaster just how quickly they can get here to respond and are staging areas and becomes  the overall actions that you take on their civilians on women teased to the city and when i say that i'm speaking of people outside of the city who have heavy equipment to augment yes sir we are working with purchasing here at the city as well as the county on developing those database of contractors who are available and of potential volunteers who are available that have that equipment and one of the things that we keep in mind is once a disaster happens and it's this part a set up at the county level that a they call it emergency support function fifteen that is volunteers and donations the county would establish working with us and the other municipalities a volunteer reception center that has these volunteers come in they are credentialed you know to make sure that are really what they're here to do what you know their capabilities and what equipment they have so then we can start to assign them to the to the area that they'll be most helpful instead of them driving around and just saying hey can we help you know that to me is most important especially here in our area we have the same moms in the beaches here but the city is responsible the police in your collaborative effort has to be one that is well organized are there practices are there opportunities to practice  some of the details before you get to a real disaster absolutely there are and that's where we take into a fact that when we have the boat races when we have our parades downtown when it's fourth of july as we were already in the process for planning fourth of july with over racing on saturday and sunday with fireworks saturday night we know that the sheriff's department will be working with fireworks on siesta key and we look at that as a training opportunity for disasters also so the same we see the traffic patterns that we can set up to move those hundreds or thousands of people off the islands those are the same similar traffic patterns that will be able to set up if we have to evacuate for disaster so i seek out those opportunities that there are already doing things that relate to emergency management so that we can say that's another truck training opportunity so we can fine tune our skills for me that everything simply because we have so many instances here in our city were emergency exercise it's there suddenly morial i've already been at their initial planning meeting for that they've got a couple other meetings but there will be sarasota police possibly other organizations within the city  aiding in that aspect we have a great relationship with sarasota memorial hospital their public safety folks we work hand in hand together and working with each other and when we come to the stage a we have here in the state of florida is when the governor will typically sign an executive order prior to any disaster when they write that executive order out it enables our citizens to get an extra prescription because they are well aware that prescriptions may be hard to find another aspect of that wheel is the dialysis centers are required annually to check in with the county emergency management to emphasize we do have our emergency plan we have our vendors in place for these things and then we also here at the city if we come across those individuals during a disaster we have liaisons at the county  who is direct contact with the sarasota county health department representatives and their so we can find out immediately is sarasota memorial taking dialysis patients or are they full if they are full where do we send those individuals you know we will work to help stablished transportation for those individuals if it's necessary or we will be able to guide them to the closest hospital or facility that they need to get to and for me again to there are certain stockpiles i didn't exercise last year with the health department on the medical side of the medical supplies the national stockpile that is a federal stockpile of medications whether it be for immunizations and things like that or whatever we would come across and there is a federal plan that is supported down through the state and local level that we would all work together on those things and it comes with the understanding that there may be a unique person corruption that may be difficult to find but they're working diligently all the time with the health department and we stand contact with them to make sure that in the period that i've been doing this simply because i always feel those assurances that paramount to health wealth and the safety of our community must come to the forefront in some places and for so many of our citizens you as an emergency manager and always in the background you know we don't see you as readily as we see but your responsibility to this citizen and me is probably one of the most important ones of all we pray that the day of disaster for for him at a distance but to know that we are prepared and ready to go at any given moment reassured as to what we can do and how well sarasota has from paris being a proactive city as we are now we just opened a new day facility at county that you too will be working in and out of zachary i in the initial phase say before a hurricane would to make landfall i will definitely be going over to the county facility to do any of the last minute coordination or the initial coordination with we want to make sure that we're on the same page and since we touch longboat key we also or you know our borders touch manatee county we want to maintain coordination with them once we know that that activation is happening we are going to be impacted i will work out of the police department the city's emergency operation center there but we will have to liaison's from the police department at the county we will also have to utility liaison's at the county and then we will have jan thornburg along with a couple other individuals working the joint information center there so we will have a solid contact thought i do want to thank you for having shown up being with the date and as our e e o c manager let me say thank you for your service and thank you for the time that you've been with the city won't you join us again at the next