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Regional Readiness - collaboration and cooperation - EDMA Changes

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How to be a liaison officer - what does this look like?

Sharing information from partners - province, what are key things we should know, how do we have tools in place when someone isnt available.

Exercise being a liaison officer.

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Updating emergency management plans. Templating plans, standardizing, and updating.

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Learning best practices for collaboration across regions, standardization.

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Strengthening relationships with neighbouring communities with ESSDs

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Strengthening relationships with neighbouring communities with ESSDs

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Facilitation, contacts, introduction

Regional ESSD committee, support for taking on administrative scheudling/minutes

unique for Metro Van, so having a specific focus on the region would be helpful; more focused discussions

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Identifying gaps within our emergency management

developing public notification and evacuation route planning

Fuel management for the upcoming season

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Leveraging the decision making model.

CAOs and EM planning staff - what would activate the use of the model. Wasnt used in the pandemic.

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evacuation planning x2

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HRVA - pending regulations updating. Creating a regional risk assesment.

Conduct for the top 20 and then can be adpated.

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collaborative emergency management training

Regional workshops

Cultural sensitivity training

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Priority is to develop a business continuity plan and developing an emergency response plan.

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Supporting exercises/workshops that bring teams together

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Supporting exercises/workshops that bring teams together

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ESSD exercises/ comms exercise

Group lodging exercises

Giving volunteers exposure to other volunteers/different contexts/cities

Shift changing leadership roles/ giving opportunities to see how others lead/observing exercises

CAO exercises, activating that model/exercising the model more frequently

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Organization of in person JIBC training opportunities. ex. Running EMRG-1330 EOC Operations. Sometimes local gov't won't have enough people to fill a course but if we have a regional option each community could send 1 - 2 people. 

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Organization of in person JIBC training opportunities. ex. Running EMRG-1330 EOC Operations. Sometimes local gov't won't have enough people to fill a course but if we have a regional option each community could send 1 - 2 people. 

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Opportunity to bring cultural sensitivity training.

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Where are we with EDMA. What regulations already exist and what are coming. Then from that what gaps/opportunities can IPREM help with (or REPC as appropriate)

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one of the outcomes from previous training was this is a gap in Metro Van/ not a lot of experience/capacity

Regional coordination around alternates to group lodging

Looking at group lodging for different scenarios/training staff/networking in advance of events

Training on group lodging

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sub-regional collaboration instead of regional.

Region is so diverse

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Table top exercises have been very helpful. Meeting in person is great for networking. In-person event.

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How do we leverage past IPREM work - like the diaster debris.

MoTi - disaster routes

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Walk through of e-divisions: pacing of what they do. FIFA will affect whole region. FIFA table top?

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It would be really useful to have a 12 month rolling calendar of dates for IPREM plus REPC and any other relevant meetings/orgs as needed (sorry, new!). That aids with planning and understanding how things fit together. Plus maximise attendance and learning.

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separate climate action groups - does not align with EM

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ESS contingency planning

Joint Information Centre coordination

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Heat preparedness / response / mitigation

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Heat preparedness / response / mitigation

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EMCR downloads the info. How do we instill it down to the regional level?

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Facilitation of inter-municipal/IGB coordination required by EDMA in development of ERPs

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Table top exercise: topic involving different cities. Information sharing, filling in information gaps. Large-scale table top.

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seismic microz - lots of info. How do we better digest all of this data down into the region.

Include GIS.

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AI - what does AI look like and what can it be done for EM

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Public alerting - best practices, coordinated messaging, common platform?

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Appreciates the idea of doing a regional HRVA. Still refers to IPREM's 2010 document. Bridges and supply lines cross jurisdictions. Financially, it'd make sense to do together.

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Other areas need more of a EM training? Official community plan.

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vulnerable populations. People, places and a thing.

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Understanding what Metro and the Province are doing around HRVAs

Explore on a regional level/see if there is opportunity to share

hazard specific toolkits for local governments

one-pagers on where to start on specific hazards

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Supporting information sharing on ongoing provincial and regional projects

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Supporting information sharing on ongoing provincial and regional projects

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would like to see shared platform for information sharing

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Starting with individual municipalities, run a common exercise in parallel over a given period to compare learnings, outcomes, and differing approaches. Then move to joint exercises between partnering municipalities, then finally one focused on leveraging policy groups and exercising EDMA regulations and powers. Outcome being sharing processes, procedures, identifying common friction points and collaborating on how to address these issues.

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Recovery workshop.

BCP.

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ESS programs and volunteer management vs contracting vs internal city staff. Who uses what, what works well/what doesn't, what can we learn from each other?

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ESS programs and volunteer management vs contracting vs internal city staff. Who uses what, what works well/what doesn't, what can we learn from each other?

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EOC Activation and operational processes, templates, reference sheets, etc. How to manage EOC staffing, training, and readiness

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Collaborative work process for integrating EDMA into plans (beyond engagement) - Streamlined guidance from EMCR.

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Idea sharing

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Sharing of organizations and non-profits to support emergencies (translation, dietary needs, fundraising, etc). Within the region and beyond.

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Idea sharing around structuring EOC branch working with organizations. Skillsets that exist in local government. Training beyond ops to form relationships beyond response.

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Touchpoints on alerting, previously a subcommittee (REPC)

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ESSD vs. REPC

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Drinking Water Provision was tabled. Raising with the new Minister. Questions posed again to the Province. The work has been table. Is this what the CAOs ask? Unpreparedness for delivering drinking water. A problem across the province (compounding consequence). Suggest to have all water supplier contact. (Won't be enough to provide)

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HRVA, worth not duplicating work. Regional risk assessment in a coordinated way.

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Opportunity to answer questions.

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Challenges in capacity.

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Building EPCs. Multijurisdictional response to an emergency event. Evacuation or transportation related. Resource allocation. Regional mutual aid.

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Public evacuation planning, capacity strategic planning to train folks. Working with ESS FN (15 Nations on emergency management).

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Regional evacuation planning. Recognizing % of those living in Burnaby travel for work. Possibility folks are evacuating elsewhere. Hwy 1 in liquefaction zone. EVs. Strategic transportation frameworks. Assets considering hardening. MOTI working on critical roads. Pilot did all planning in isolation. Guide effective evacuation decision-making

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EPCs exercise needs to be with CAOs guiding decision-making. Opportunity to collaborate, seeing the work of EPCs. Front of mind: full scale exercise in 2027 an incident at Burnaby Mountain. Top of mind: simulated plume.

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What happens when cell towers go down?

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Provincial guideline. Metro Vancouver has a radio protocol. Upgrading in 2026. Monthly tests. Simulated it being used. MVRD would be open for its use during a live exercise.

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Testing EComms and contingency if 911 goes down.

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Indigenous Relations and IER implementations. Burnaby chairs that group. Mixed conversation with that group and the nations feeling the capacity crunch. What are we doing? Where have we been successful/gaps? Forums for getting Nations in Metro Vancouver. Inviting to attend. MVRD engagement. Opportunity for collaboration. Important for each community to have relationship with Nations. Need for 1:1 time and introducing yourselves in person relationship building. IPREM table at disaster resilience fairs (e.g. Leqamel).