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At present, the role and responsibilities of the Emergency Managers are governed by Mass General Laws, Executive Orders, and the 55 year old “Act of 1950”. And these laws are not clear, especially to town leaders. The Emergency Management position is treated by municipalities only on an as needed basis and the position gets attention only when an incident occurs (Spare Tire Syndrome). However, most of the Emergency Managers in small communities are being tasked with larger and larger tasks and responsibilities by the Federal and State governments while the position, at the Municipal level is being treated as volunteer, and the position is usually minimally funded. The Emergency Management Director’s position is usually unpaid. Which is probably why most town Emergency Managers that meet at the regional Emergency Management meetings at MEMA appear to be between the ages of 55 and 65. As for the tasks and responsibilities, there are the traditional hurricanes and winter storms, Hazardous Materials, and the like, but now Emergency Managers have to deal with the non-traditional threats such as Homeland Security issues like Maritime Security, Anthrax, foreign and domestic terrorism and public health issues such as an expected Avian Flu pandemic. The expected roles and responsibilities for Emergency Managers have become much more professional in nature. It also appears that the Federal and State governments now expect that the Emergency Manager will act as an incident information coordinator between involved departments and between the state and the town. Although these new threats require an Emergency Management presence during the incident, because this position is treated as an “as needed” service at the Municipal level, other agencies do not consider them to be partners and thus the Federal and State expectations are not being met. If the Federal and State Governments want the Emergency Manager to be able to fulfill these new responsibilities that are being required of them by the Federal and State Governments, then the state is going to have to change the present perception of the Emergency Managers Roles, Responsibility and Authority among the appointing officials, and the Incident Responders. What can the Office of Congressman Delehunt do to solve this problem? Introduce legislation that would empower Emergency Managers at the local level Update and define the rules and laws governing the role and responsibilities of the local Emergency Manager Mandate minimum training and accreditation for the position of a local Emergency Manager Publicize the role of the local Emergency Manager Chuck Cotnoir, Director Dukes County Emergency Management Agency Chuck Cotnoir is the County Emergency Management Director for Dukes County. He is the current, acting chairperson of the Dukes County Emergency Management Directors Association, which is comprised of 5 of the 6 towns. He is the primary point of contact between the state and the participating Emergency Managers for informational matters. Operational matters are handled by the individual town Emergency Managers. He is the Dukes County Health & Homeland Alert Network (HAN) administrator, which is the State’s preferred method of informing and alerting responders during heath and other crises. He holds a Company Security Officer Certificate, Maritime Secutity Act of 2002, from Mass Maritime (2005) e He hHHHHe has worked for both FEMA and MEMA as liaison to the former Regional Director of FEMA and the former Operations Manager at MEMA headquarters in Framingham. He has been in the Emergency Management field since 1992. Dear Sir, The biggest need of Dukes County, and the towns that comprise it, is for an Island-wide EOC. The easiest way for us to accomplish this is not to build an actual building, but instead to build a virtual EOC, one that exists on the Internet. I am asking you to help us build a virtual EOC to be operated by the County with a subsite located on one of the other towns (the most advanced, in terms of emergency management, is West Tisbury). Later, the other towns could be added, if they wished to participate. The County site would be connected to the town EOC, which in turn would connect to sites at the Police Department, the Fire Department, the Ambulance dept, and the Highway Dept. How it works. The town Police Department, the Fire Department, the Ambulance Department, and the Highway Department each have an Internet site on the Internet, into which they log information as it is happening. The town EOC, under the management of the town Emergency Manager, views each of these logs, collects the information, decides what is important to other departments within the town and posts it on a site that can be viewed by each of the town departments and the selectmen). This information is divided by category (ie: Police information, Fire information, Ambulance information, Highway information). The town site also decides what is important to the other towns and posts it on the site that connects to the County EOC. This information is also divided by category (ie: Police information, Fire information, Ambulance information, Highway information). The County EOC views the information and coordinates with other towns, the hospital, State Police, State Highway Department, and MEMA. The County Emergency Manger’s Office has bookmarked several of these virtual EOC (VEOC) for review. The island’s second biggest need is for a satellite phone. The phone cost isn’t the problem, it’s the subscription cost. The reason we need at least one satellite phone is because we’re geographically isolated and in a worse case scenario, we can’t depend on any one means of communication. In a wide-spread long-term power or communication outage, it might be our best or only means of communication with the outside world. Chuck Cotnoir, Director, Dukes County Emergency management Agency Chuck Cotnoir is the County Emergency Management Director for Dukes County. He is the current, acting chairperson of the Dukes County Emergency Management Directors Association, which is comprised of 5 of the 6 towns. He is the primary point of contact between the state and the participating Emergency Managers for informational matters. Operational matters are handled by the individual town Emergency Managers. 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