Emergency Operations Plan - Park County Government

X. CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS (COOP) / CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT (COG)
The Park County Office of Homeland Security has generated a three-tiered approach to
COOP / COG:
The top tier is the Executive Branch of government, which is guided by the Park County
Emergency Operations Plan, the Wyoming Response Plan, the National Response
Framework, NIMS, and ICS, during significant emergencies. Key agency heads are
assigned to assist the Park County Emergency Management Council at the EOC in
the basement of the Law Enforcement Annex at 1131 Eleventh Street in Cody. Backup
locations are the County Courthouse in Cody, City Hall in Powell at 270 N. Clark Street,
and the Town Hall in Meeteetse at 910 Park Avenue.
The second tier is composed of agencies and personnel needed to manage directives
from the Emergency Operations Center and the Incident Command Post/s. A new calldown
list for all county agencies has been developed, and is composed of the top personnel
in the line-of-succession for each agency. The agency personnel on the call-down list will be
contacted, and they will then determine who from the agency will participate. See Contact
Names and Numbers in the appendices of this plan. Contact numbers are also included
as a last page of each incident in the Incident Annexes portion of this plan.
The third and base level tier is a combination of plans developed by individual County
and Municipal agencies and by the Park County Office of Homeland Security to ensure
continued operations of critical functions within the County / Municipal agencies. Each
agency has been asked to develop back-up plans and locations they will initiate if their
workspace or building is compromised. Data supplied to the Park County Office of
Homeland Security by these agencies will be entered into a database allowing for the
rapid viewing and summarization of the data. * See Itemized List on Next Page*
The objective is to ensure continuity of leadership, direction, and services by local
governments in the event of attack or other disaster, and to assure performance of
essential functions in the event of evacuation. To accomplish this objective, the
following actions are required:
1. establish automatic lines of succession for key functions or government.
2. preserve essential records needed to protect rights of individuals and
conduct emergency operation (i.e.: vital statistics, deeds, corporation
papers, operational plans, resources data, authorities, personnel and
payroll rosters, succession lists, supplies and equipment lists, laws,
charters, and financial records).
3. establish protected, equipped, and supplied emergency evacuation
sites where operations can continue.
4. provide for the full use of government personnel, facilities, and
equipment for defense, emergency, and disaster functions.
5. establish capability to evacuate.
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