Broward County, Florida Board of County Commissioners Emergency - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Emergency Management Contingency Consulting Services

Broward County, Florida

Board of County Commissioners

Donald Kunish, CEM – Deputy Director, Post Disaster Services

• Certified emergency manager with 19 years of industry experience
• Provides multiple communities with support to utilize U.S. Government grants to respond,

recover and mitigate to natural and manmade disasters across the country

• Former Deputy Bureau Chief for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, responsible

for managing Florida’s Hazard Mitigation Planning and Grant Programs, Statewide Emergency Management All-hazards Planning and Training and Exercise Programs

Kerri O’Dell – Director, Emergency Management

• Serves as high-level project manager for Tetra Tech with over a decade of disaster

preparedness, emergency planning, and disaster response and recovery experience

• Has assisted numerous local, state and private sector businesses with active shooter

assessment; emergency operations planning; continuity of operations planning (COOP); exercise design, implementation and evaluation; and recovery planning

• Broward County resident with extensive familiarity assisting South Florida communities

Danny Hinson – Senior Planner

• Former county Emergency Management director with over 12 years in the field.
• Former Regional Domestic Security Task Force Planner working with law enforcement and military

conducting exercises and planning

Introductions

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Firm Overview

• Founded in 1966
• 400 offices worldwide - 20,000 employees
• $2.6 billion in revenues - FY17
• Over 20 years of disaster recovery and emergency

management support

• Local presence – multiple offices in South Florida
• State-level FEMA PA experience in the State of Florida
• Over $6 billion of experience in post-disaster grant

application, administration, and program management

• 250+ full-time staff dedicated to security, disaster

recovery, and emergency management

• One company, countless services

Firm Overview – Tetra Tech, Inc.

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Overview of Staff

• Tetra Tech has provided the County with a dedicated project team

Overview of Staff

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Past Project Success

• Our team has supported Volusia County for many

years and was available to assist prior Hurricane Matthew’s landfall, and in the immediate aftermath

• Mobilized a team within hours and began the

process of supporting debris removal monitoring and operations

Volusia County, Florida – Hurricane Matthew

• Grant management specialists assisted with FEMA project worksheets for

reimbursement claims estimated at $30 Million

• PW’s covered all categories of work, including improved projects, alternate

projects, and 406 hazard mitigation

• Also providing Technical Assistance to the County in regards to other post-disaster

federal grants including USDA, HUD, and FHWA-ER.

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• Tetra Tech assisted the County immediately after the flood to perform a

comprehensive needs assessment of the County followed by a strategic analysis of available grant funds

• $26.5 million in HUD CDBG-DR grant funds was subsequently awarded to the

County

• Tetra Tech assisted the County with preparation of an Action Plan that was

approved by HUD in five days

• Our team provided comprehensive grant implementation services, including
• utreach, case management, and management of permanent home repairs, and

economic development projects

▪ Repair of over 270 roads and bridges ▪ Well testing & disinfection program ▪ Debris removal ▪ Long-Term recovery workshops ▪ CDBG-DR management & oversight; HMGP grant applications

Richland County, South Carolina – 1,000 Year Flood

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• The Tetra Tech team has been supporting multiple

emergency management efforts for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s (MARTA) since 2010

• MARTA initially appointed our team to develop a

threat and vulnerability assessment (TVA) and continuity of operations (COOP) plan

• Over the last 8 years, our team of emergency

management personnel have conducted the following projects for MARTA:

Metro Atlanta Regional Transit Authority (MARTA)

▪ Continuity of Operations Planning ▪ Security and Emergency Preparedness Planning ▪ Emergency Operations Planning ▪ FTA, TSA, and State Regulatory Compliance ▪ SOP Development ▪ Training and Exercise Program ▪ HSEEP-Compliant Exercise Program Development, Facilitation and evaluation ▪ After Action Report/Improvement Plan Development ▪ Emergency Operations Training ▪ Incident Command System (ICS) Training

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Flood Mitigation Bundle Justice Center

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Additional Information

• Deployed in 4 states and 2 US Territories in 2017-18

Ongoing Projects

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Enhanced Grant Technology – Data Management

RecoveryTracTM Site Data (Tablets) SharePoint Cost Rollups & Documents SQL Server Database

Data Ingestion and Cleansing

Site Data in cloud RecoveryTrac™ Data Extraction SharePoint Data Extraction

Data Collection

Quality Control and Review

PW Formulation and Reporting

Project Worksheet Formulations Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Annual Reporting and Detailed Status SharePoint Data in cloud

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Why Choose the Tetra Tech Team?

• Engineering support for Emergency Management
• Enhanced GIS Based Technology
• Experience helping communities prepare for, and respond to, all

types of disasters

• Experience providing federally funded grant management and

administration services to state-level applicants

• Assisted our clients with obtaining and managing over $6 billion

in post-disaster grants

• Local presence and familiarity with Broward County
• Full-service disaster recovery firm

Why Choose the Tetra Tech Team?

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Questions & Discussion