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From YouTube: City of Charleston Committee on Public Safety 9/13/2021
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City of Charleston Committee on Public Safety 9/13/2021
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B
Of
the
public
safety
committee
meeting
of
september
13th
2021
and
as
a
matter
of
personal
privilege,
I
almost
start
us
off
with
a
moment
of
silence,
as
we
recognize,
of
course,
the
20th
anniversary
that
we
commemorated
this
past
weekend
of
9
11.
and
I'm
certain
that
most
of
us
have
our
personal
reflections
and
personal
stories
that
we
could
probably
share
with
one
another.
B
It's
hard
for
me
to
to
believe.
It's
been
20
years
since
that
fateful
date,
but
there
was
one
thing
of
a
theme
that
came
across
listening
to
all
of
the
commemoration.
Events
was
not
what
happened
necessarily
on
the
11th.
That
would
happen
on
the
12th
of
september
as
this
country
soldier
through
that
very
devastating
and
tragic
date,
and
we
picked
ourselves
up,
dusted
ourselves
off
and
we
move
forward
and
we've
been
moving
forward
for
the
past
20
years
and
just
want
to
express
my
sincere
thanks
to
all
of
our
sworn
officers,
both
police
and
firemen.
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Our
first
responders
are
always
there
on
the
front
line,
and
god
bless
them
all.
This
is
an
event
that
affects
not
just
the
new
york
fire
department
and
the
new
york
police
department.
It
affect
everybody
throughout
the
country
and
every
fire
department
and
every
police
department
throughout
the
country.
So
in
our
moment
of
silence,
let's
just
reflect
upon
what
occurred
20
something
years
ago
I
mean
keeping
our
hearts
those
men
and
women
who
perish
their
families
and
those
survivors.
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E
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Okay,
you
guys
help
me:
okay,
yes,
okay,
good
afternoon,
everyone,
mr
mayor
members
of
the
committee,
thanks
for
the
opportunity
to
review
a
very
important
document
with
you
today.
This
is
the
city's
emergency
operations
plan
updated
revised
january
of
2021.
The
last
one
was
august
of
2015
signed
by
mayor
riley.
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F
We
use
this
as
a
supplement
to
the
state
of
south
carolina
and
charleston
county
emergency
and
berkeley
county
emergency
operations
plan.
So
it's
a
supplement
to
those
and
gets
a
little
bit
more
in
the
weeds
in
terms
of
operations
for
our
city
to
to
assist
us
in
building
out
this
document,
we've
established
relationships
with
alexandria,
virginia
and
denver
colorado.
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So
there's
the
acknowledgement
and
there's
a
signatory
page
that
would
go
to
each
department
head
throughout
the
city
and
then
finally,
a
resolution
that
basically
outlines
nems
of
the
national
incident
management
system,
which
is
the
framework
that
the
city
of
charleston
uses
in
times
of
crisis.
When
you
think
about
you,
know
our
activations,
when
there's
a
declaration
and
how
we
have
city
staff
populate
the
municipal
emergency
operations
center,
we
stand
up
our
incident
command
system
that
is
in
line
with
the
national
industry
standard.
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F
We've
got
a
couple
of
them
completed
already,
and
those
annexes
are
sort
of
the
living
section
of
this
document.
Each
one
of
the
annexes
will
address
a
specific
contingency
or
a
specific
threat
that
the
city
faces.
You
might
guess,
the
ones
that
we've
already
completed
would
be
hurricanes
and
obviously
some
of
the
flooding
protocols
that
we
follow
in
the
city.
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B
Any
other
committee
members
have
a
question
so
shannon
one
of
the
things
that
crossed
my
mind,
and
this
may
be
a
little
bit
off
base
somewhat,
but
while
this
is
deemed
an
emergency
operations
plan
and
which
takes
into
account
coordination
with
other
agencies
and
other
municipalities
and
stuff,
and
I'm
looking
at
councilmember
seeking
sues
mr
cooper
of
a
bridge
run
guy.
Does
this
address
those
kind
of
events
like
the
club
river
bridge
right?
Because
you,
you
kind
of,
are
doing
this?
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F
Yes,
sir,
that's
a
great
question
and,
and
the
the
document
that
I
have
in
front
of
you
right
now
does
speak
in
broad
terms
about
special
events
and
just
generally
how
we
structure
ourselves
and
and
when
there's
a
need
for
you
know
or
potential
need
for
contingency
operations
in
an
event
like
the
bridge
run
where
you're
looking
at
normally
about
40,
000
participants
plus
spectators-
and
you
know
multiple
municipalities
and
and
jurisdictions
from
the
fbi
on
down.
We
do
fall
right
into
the
nems
constructs.
F
So
we're
doing
a
we're
constantly
working
on
this
document,
known
as
an
incident
action
plan,
an
iap
which
is
populated
by
all
stakeholders
to
to
that
that
are
charged
with
supporting
a
major
event
like
that,
and
so
it's
addressed
in
broad
terms
in
terms
of
you
know:
referencing
the
national
incident
management
system
and
and
that
sort
of
thing.
But
when
you
talk
about
multiple
jurisdictions,
we
would
go
to
the
county
eop
and
the
state
eop.
For
that.
For
that.
F
That's
right,
sir:
it's
it's
it's
just
being
put
in
front
of
you
to
let
you
know
that
it's
being
worked
on
right
now,
we're
at
a
place
where
what
we've
got
in
front
of
you
is
I'm
confident,
that's
an
industry
standard
and
then
plan
is
to
from
here.
You
know
you
all
give
me
your
feedback
on
it
and
then
at
another
at
another
meeting,
we'll
take
a
vote
to
move
it
through
the
remainder
of
city,
concurrent
clearance
and
then
make
it
a
live
document.
At
that
point,
okay,.
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All
right
well
see,
there's
no
other
questions
and
there's
no
action
to
be
taken
on
this.
We'll
move
on
to
item
number
four,
thank
you
shannon
and
your
staff
for
the
wonderful
work
and
putting
this
together.
This
just
makes
good
common
sense.
I
think
we're
trying
to
accomplish
here
appreciate
it.
Thank
you
thank
you
and
thank
you
chief
corey,
for
letting
me
use
your
seat.
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D
I'm
here
to
speak
on
that
one
councilman
okay,
and
so
I
can
speak
to
the
two
items
for
seaboard,
which
are
the
safe
boat
and
the
digital
x-ray
systems,
so
the
the
safe
boat
actually
was
it's
the
same
boat
that
was
purchased
two
years
ago
on
the
port
security
grant.
We've
had
a
large
increase
in
requests
for
assistance
from
the
u.s
coast
guard
with
security
zones
and
safety
zones
and
the
safe
boat
that
we
currently
have
is
currently
the
only
boat
capable
of
operating
in
inclement
weather
conditions.
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D
Perfect,
so
the
two
digital
x-ray
systems
will
be
used
when
dealing
with
explosive
devices
related
incidents
on
any
vessels
or
port
property.
This
will
allow
the
packages
to
be
x-rayed
with
a
quick
identification
system
and
not
require
returning
to
land
to
develop
the
x-rays.
This
grant
would
budget
for
two
systems.
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E
Very
quickly
on
the
agenda,
there's
a
comma,
that's
missing!
So
there's
two
projects
from
the
fire
department
on
there:
it's
updating
the
technology
on
the
hazmat
response
unit
and
it's
also
providing
marine
firefighter
training.
So
I
wanted
to
make
sure
that
it's
clear
that
there's
two
projects
from
fire
in
there.
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D
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B
Because
we,
we
are
going
sort
of
to
count
on
sheila's
question.
We
are
going
beyond
just
the
city
limits,
we're
helping
other
jurisdictions
and
potentially
other
state
owned
state-run
facilities.
Potentially
you
talk
about
the
state
support
authority
would
be
involved
in
this.
I
just
questioned
so
yeah
chief.
You.
E
So
so,
just
to
add
to
that
just
last
week,
some
of
the
area
fire
chiefs
met
with
the
u.s
coast
guard,
and
it
was
just
to
talk
about
the
the
threats
in
the
port.
The
threats
up,
you
know
going
up
towards
north
charleston
and
past
north
charleston
into
berkeley
county
and
the
fact
that
it's
speaking
strictly
for
the
charleston
fire
department,
you
know
we
are
equipped
to
handle
distressed,
boaters
and
small
incidents.
E
If
there
is
something
of
a
larger
magnitude,
say,
there's
an
issue
on
a
container
ship
that
is
coming
into
the
port,
that
that
is
a
situation
that
exceeds
the
capabilities
of
all
area
first
responders,
combined
to
use
jacksonville
florida
as
a
recent
example.
They
had
a
fire
in
a
ship
and
they
they
were
required
to
put
about
150
first
responders
on
scene
within
about
15
or
20
minutes.
B
Makes
sense?
Okay,
thanks
for
that
update
chief
in
that
explanation,
in
further
discussion
of
comments,
call
for
the
vote.
All
those
in
favor
of
item
number
six
signify
by
saying
hi
any
opposed
eyes.
Have
it
right
item
number
seven:
is
the
approval
to
accept
an
award
for
an
elder
advocate
and
resource
specialist
for
the
cpd
victim
services
unit?
B
A
A
A
B
A
A
B
B
D
I'm
sorry,
I
dropped
off,
I'm
glad
it
wasn't
just
my
screen
because
it
was
my
item,
so
this
is
for,
I
think
it's
about
the
fifth
year
that
we've
had
this
grant
for
two
positions
in
our
family
violence
unit.
One
is
the
elder
victim
advocate
and
the
other
is
our
resource
specialist.
Both
carry
a
caseload.