Teleconferences will update emergency, state and local government authorities on a regular basis, said Jamie Turner, director of Delaware's Emergency Management Agency.
Even before Sept. 11, New Jersey had been trying to update emergency plans that had served well in natural disasters like Tropical Storm Floyd but needed to take into account a response to terrorism.
To procrastinate, Michael makes Ryan Howard (B.J. Novak) update emergency contact information of the staff.
When an updated emergency plan was sent out in 2010, nobody from FirstEnergy passed it along to him, he says.
On 21 of them, the administration has "completely or made significant progress," Biden will say, pointing to new money for gun violence and mental health research, greater data sharing between federal and state agencies, and updated emergency management plans.
In a referendum on the ballot during the 2012 general elections, 52percentt of Michigan voters cast ballots against Public Act 4 — but politicians then pushed through an updated emergency manager law named Public Act 436, which is the law currently on the books.
According to respondents, less than one-third of companies had updated emergency shutdown procedures for equipment (30%), informed hospitals and others about potential health threats from plant-specific exposures (23%), updated their emergency response plan for the community (21%), or added procedures to inform the community about an emergency (15%).
The system includes aerial and internal photography of all the schools, walkie-talkies for some 70 teachers and administrators who are assigned to the emergency planning committee, doors numbered with reflective tape on both sides, and constant updating of emergency numbers for students and their families.
In March 2011, Michigan passed Public Act 4, updating the emergency manager law and making Parker's work somewhat easier; the law grants extraordinary powers, including the ability to overrule or dismiss elected officials.
