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Attachment D <br />WORK PLAN <br />FY 2021 Emergency Management Performance G rant <br />Organization: KittitasCou nty Sheriff's Office <br />The purpose of EMPG is to assist with the enhancement, sustainment and improvement of state, local, and tribal <br />emergency management programs. Activities conducted using EMPG funding should relate directly to the five <br />elements of emergenry management: prevention, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation. Washington <br />State does not require a specific number of activities to receive EMPG funding. However. there are required <br />capabilities that must be sustained in order to remain eligible for EMPG funding, including but not limited to the <br />ability to communicate and warn, educate the public, plan, train, exercise, and be NlMS compliant. The Work plan <br />delineates the Emergency Management Organization's emergency management program planning and priority <br />focus for this grant cycle (to include EMpG grant and local funds). <br />I <br />4.7 Communications and Warning <br />Primary Core Capabllity Public lnformation and Warning <br />Secondary Gore Capabil lty,Community Resilience <br />Bullil or Sustain Sustaining/Maintai ning <br />WORK PTANNEO IDENTIFIED GAP/NEED ANTICI PATED PROJECT IMPACT <br />Renew Everbridge, mass notification <br />system <br />This is a sustainment project that <br />supports the County's <br />Comprehensive Emergency <br />Management Plan: <br />A, Purpose <br />1. Thls support function helps <br />organize, develop, and maintain <br />adequate communications <br />capabilities necessary to meet the <br />operational req uirements for <br />Kittitas County emergency <br />operations. <br />2. Provides guidance for the rapid <br />alerting and warning to key officials <br />and dissemination of warning <br />information of an impending or <br />occurring emergency or disaster. <br />3. Provides guidance for providing <br />the public with rapid, accurate <br />information, warnings or alerts <br />before during or after an emergency <br />or disaster. <br />This allows the county and <br />municipalities to be able to send <br />emergency alerts out to the citizens <br />quickly in the event of an <br />emergency. <br />Priority Area H1 <br />DHS-FEMA-EMPG.FY2l Page 32 of 35 Kittitas County Sheriffs Oflice EM, E22-217