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/!"}*ur*", TDAITAGEfrIEMTVrtrntascouNTY KITTITAS COUNW CEMP APPROVAL AND IMPLEMENTATION "To protect all people, keep the peace, and uphold the Constitution of the United States." It is the responsibility of the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office to oversee all Emergency Management functions in unincorporated Kittitas County, and participating towns, to ensure operations are in alignment with the above stated mission of the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office. When a disaster threatens or strikes Kittitas County, county and city governments will take the lead in management of emergency pu blic health, safety, and welfare services. The response will be widespread, extending beyond the usual boundaries of departments providing emergency services and requiring cooperation of govern mental and private sector units that do not normally respond to disaster mitigation, response, and recovery, the leadership of the legislative authorities is of critical importance. The purpose of the Kittitas County Sheriff's Office Emergency Management's CEMP is to estaOtish policies, procedures, roles and responsibilities, and an organizational structure for responses to a major emergency. The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office Emergency Management CEMP incorporates operating procedures from the National lncident Management System (NIMS) and incident Command System (lCS) for handling emergencies resulting from various potential disasters that could impact the Kittitas County citizens. This plan establishes a uniform set of processes and procedures that emergency responders at all levels of government will use to conduct response operations. The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office Emergency Management CEMP has been designed as a strategic plan to provide the administrative procedures necessary to cope with most County emergencies. Kittitas Gounty Emergency Management 5- DateDirector November 2024 1 BASIC PLAN Page 2 o'f 62