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The California Emergency Services Association is proud to announce the

2014 CESA State Awardees



Senator Nicholas C. Petris Award
In honor of the memory of Senator Nicholas C. Petris and his great life work and contribution in
support of emergency management. This award is presented to an organization or individual for
outstanding service in the field of emergency management. This award is the highest level of
recognition from the organization.
Sidney Reade, Monterey County Office of Emergency Services
Sidney Reade has been an emergency planner for the Office of Emergency Services in
Monterey County since 2009. She has reshaped the preparedness planning vision for the
Department through outreach, education and collaboration. She embraces just what whole
community inclusiveness means, by targeting the most vulnerable communities and
populations. Sidney has coordinated over 220 community outreach programs with emphasis on
vulnerable populations.

Ms. Reade has created the access and functional needs program for the county and incorporated
communities, and ensured that FAST teams are trained and equipped, and distributed access and
functional needs shelter equipment to all American Red Cross mobile trailers.

She has serves as the coordinator for the Central Coast CERT program and ARES which has trained
over 500 citizens as CERT members since its inception. She coordinated the Disaster Service
Worker training requirements, and served as Chair for the Citizen Corp Council for 2 years.

Ms. Reade has been instrumental in integrating United Way Monterey County assets into the
emergency planning and EOC operations, including developing the United Ways role in managing
Emergency Volunteer Centers.

She served as primary planner for all UASI Regional Catastrophic Planning Grant planning efforts in
the county. She has been champion for all of the Storm Ready and Tsunami Ready programs
throughout the county.

Through her coordination, collaboration, organization and passion, her efforts have set forth the very
foundation for community resiliency throughout Monterey County.



Gold Awards
Awards issued from this category will be awarded to private sector organizations or public sector
organizations or individuals who have shown exceptional efforts in the field of emergency
management.
City of Mill Valley
Mill Valley is a city of 14,700 located in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), where responding to a
wildfire and evacuating the community during such an event a major challenge.

In an effort to educate our community about the threat and their responsibility for personal
preparedness, and in an effort to test public safety response policies, we have been conducting
annual evacuation exercises.

The City has conducted seven exercises. Five of these exercises targeted specific areas of the
community as defined by our Mutual Threat Zone Response Plan. Historically we have pre-identified
the exercise area, market the exercise to the community in that area and establish objectives to
support public safety, community interface, CERT integration, EOC support, etc. The day of the
exercise we activate the reverse 9-1-1 phone system, activate local sirens, place fire department
resources in the exercise area, deploy law enforcement resources to simulate evacuation and traffic
control, integrate CERT teams to support fire and law enforcement.

Residents are asked to participate by voluntarily evacuating to a pre-established collection point by
car, foot, bike. We ask them to utilize alternate routes such as our citywide system of steps, lanes and
paths. Historically we have obtained approximately 20% community participation.
Another of these exercises occurred in our flood-prone area, and that exercise involved shelter-in-
place, rather than evacuation.
The 2014 exercise was a citywide event rather than a targeted area. One of the goals of this years
exercise was to encourage residents to camp out in their back yards simulating being displaced by an
earthquake. Residents were encouraged to use disaster supplies and previous training and practice
before the actual event.

Recognizing that not everyone has a backyard conducive to camping we encouraged neighbors to
partner and share their yards and resources. We also partnered with the Recreation Department and
hosted a city-sponsored campout at our Community Center. A web site and marketing campaign was
developed similar to the California Great Shakeout. We created a sign-up page for members of the
community who were camping at home to register and for people to sign up to spend the night at the
Community Center.

On Saturday J une 7, 2014 we hosted approximately 100 residents at our community center. CERT
Teams, Fire, and Recreation staff also spent the night. A CERT rodeo of skills was set up including
sidewalk CPR, utility shutoff, communications and medical triage. As part of the campout event we
hosted a BBQ by our Volunteer Firefighters, had several camp games, a magician, fire rings with
SMORS, and campfire song time.

The feedback from the residents was overwhelmingly positive. Not only did this event move the
needle by increasing awareness of personal responsibility for preparedness, but the community of
campers, ability to camp locally, be in a safe and friendly location all contributed to the overall
success of this event.
San Bernardino County Fire Department, Office of Emergency Services
Development of a resource named the ROPE FOG: Responders Organized for Pass Emergencies
(ROPE) Field Operations Guide (FOG). Designed for the coordination of Federal, State, County,
Municipal and Private Sector emergency organizations responsible for restoring critical utility and
transportation infrastructure in the Cajon Pass/Interstate 15 (I-15) corridor, the ROPE FOG is a 11 x
17 full color laminated spiral bound guide containing Interoperable communications guidance and
templates, Cajon Pass maps, ICS forms and more. The ROPE FOG is the result of a two year
planning process which involved over 100 representatives of all the stakeholder agencies and private
sector partners. It was tested in September 2013 on a 200 acre fire in the Cajon pass where it was a
valuable resource in the Command Post.

Raquel Vernola, City of Norwalk
Raquel Vernola has been the Emergency Services Manager for the City of Norwalk since 2006. In
that role she developed many preparedness and disaster training programs in her City. Three of
those programs were identified as her most innovative:
o Disaster Preparedness Youth Program, designed for grades 6 to 8 students in the City
which includes a classroom workshop as well as role-play exercise and at-home
activities.
o Project SPIRIT School Preparedness Inter-Community Readiness Interagency
Training: Designed to enhance the emergency response capabilities of elementary
schools by assisting with planning activities, developing resources and training, and
community education workshops and exercises.
o Camp at Home: This is a post-earthquake recovery program that encourages stay-at-
home community resilience, and neighbor-helping-neighbor collaboration.

San Ramon Valley Emergency Preparedness Citizens Corps Council (SRVEPCCC)
Residential Care Facility Evacuation Training Program: Residential Care Facility Evacuation
Training Six (6) Residents or less . This instruction video targets first responder and residential
care facility administrators and staff. The video demonstrates the special circumstances and
challenges that are present to evacuate residents and it gives staff the needed tools to take action
during an emergency.

Special Recognition
The Association Board creates Special Recognition Awards for unique contributions.
Sharron Leaon, California Volunteers
Sharron Leaon is recognized for her longtime support and dedication to CESA.


The California Emergency Services Association is proud to announce the
2014 CESA Inland Chapter Awardees

Butte County OES and PIO: OES Manager J ohn Gulserian, Office Assistant Cindy Dunsmoor and Casey Hatcher
County PIO Butte County, in partnership with other County Departments and the private sector, worked
together to provide drought materials and education about disaster preparedness for individuals and animals
at three preparedness fairs. Numerous agencies were involved such as County Developmental Services,
County Water Recourses and Conservation, Cal Fire/County Fire, Public Health, Paradise Irrigation District, South
Feather Water and Power, Cal Water and from the private sector, Home Depot. As part of the outreach nearly
300 water conservation kits were given out to the public as part of the effort to teach about saving precious
water.
The California Emergency Services Association is proud to announce the
2014 CESA Southern Chapter Awardees

Silver Awards
Silver Awards are presented to private or public sector organizations or individuals who have shown
exceptional efforts in the field of emergency preparedness or in response to a specific event.
San Diego County and Target Incentivize Preparedness: San Diego OES formed a partnership
with Target to conduct campaigns encouraging residents to prepare for disasters by offering 2 person
tents to those residents that took preparedness tips. Target provided 5,000 two-person tents as
incentives for preparedness campaigns which included registering cell phones with the Countys
emergency mass notification system; installing the SD Emergency smartphone application; and
completing a Family Disaster Plan. Two separate campaigns in September 2013 and J anuary 2014
were an overwhelming success, realizing around a 700% increase in AlertSanDiego registrations and
over a 400% increase in SD Emergency installs. Over 3,200 people claimed a tent and presented
their completed Family Disaster Plan.

Claudine Jaenichen Chapman University: A Professor and design researcher at Chapman
University in Orange County, Claudine researched and produced Tsunami information brochures
especially designed for ten coastal cities in San Diego county. Each city-specific brochure included
maps, evacuation routes, contacts and social media links and was made available at no cost to the
County. The County would then pay to have the brochures printed and mailed to each resident and
business within the impacted zones.

This Tsunami Inundation Zone Mailing Project was the first-ever County effort to proactively target the
homes and businesses that would potentially be affected by a tsunami with local evacuation routes
and information about how to prepare for and respond to tsunamis. Because of the efforts of Claudine
J aenichen, the San Diego region is now significantly better equipped to prepare for, respond
to and recover from a tsunami.

Special Recognition Certificates
San Bernardino County Emergency Strategic Plan: The San Bernardino County Operational Area
(OA) consists of 24 incorporated Cities/Towns and the County of San Bernardino, including the San
Manuel Band of Mission Indians as an associate member. Due to the complexity and variety of its
stakeholders the San Bernardino County OA was in need of a coordinated and strategic planning
framework. Working with FEMA support, a series of planning workshops was held in 2013 and 2014,
resulting in the creation of the Emergency Management Strategic Plan. The finished Plan allows for
the coordination and alignment of Emergency Management planning efforts to achieve overall
consistency across the OA, and promises a resilient future through partnerships committed to saving
lives and reducing the impacts of disasters.


Carl Hankey Elementary School, Mission Viejo: Global Engage, an annual event where
International Baccalaureate (IB) schools worldwide unite through a challenge, is a series of lessons
woven around a globally significant common theme. Carl Hankey K-8 School, the only public (IB)
candidate school in Southern Orange County, kicked off its Global Engage: Disaster Reduction
challenge on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. This was the first Global Engage event to be held in
Orange County.

The California Emergency Services Association is proud to announce the
2014 CESA Coastal Chapter Awardees

Bill Singer Award
Tami Bartolomei, OES Program Manager for Mendocino County

Coordination of the State's first county drought task force and working with a multitude of
partners, support to MCSO following an officer killed on duty, support of CERT and obtaining
supplies to support remote communities, delivering out-reach presentations, coordinating a
disaster planning workshop and all in her first year.

John Fetz Award
Dave J effries, J effries Public Safety Consulting, CESA Coastal Chapter President

Dave was elected onto the Coastal Chapter Board as President without prior experience
serving on a CESA Board. He has worked tirelessly to keep the Coastal Chapter organized,
encourage membership, and ensure successful quarterly work-shops. In addition, he serves
as the State Association Treasurer and has set up a renewed structure for reviewing and
organizing CESAs finances for smoother ongoing management.

Diamond Award
Kim Cox, Emergency Services Manager, Contra Costa Health Services

Kim actually received two separate nominations. Both nominations focused on her efforts in
leading the team with a focus on peoples with disabilities and the elderly, development of a
Medical Needs Shelter Operations Manual, developing and conducting a table top exercise
to test that manual, worked with durable medical equipment providers to support these
efforts, and developed procedures and partnerships to support sheltering or sheltering in
place of these vulnerable populations.

Silver Awards
Cindy Henderson, Emergency Services Manager, Del Norte County Office of Emergency
Services

While recognized generally for her whole community efforts and for being a strong force in
emergency management in her area, she was specifically recognized for her efforts in
leading her team through a full scale EOC exercise with We-bEOC integration for the
Cascadia Zone exercise and in developing her communities towards resiliency. Not helping
enough on the job, Cindy also works as a life flight EMT and maintenance of her own
emergency management website.

Paula Doubleday, Board Member, Dominican Black Canyon Neighborhood Association

Paula was recognized for her neighborhood efforts in San Rafael. She is a trainer in CERT, Get
Ready 5th Grade and Get Ready and has worked with her neighbors to develop resiliency
through social media, websites, newsletters, lawn signs and banners while recruiting block
captains, developing information sharing processes and developed simplified preparedness
steps for her community.

Alameda County GIS in Disasters Initiative

This effort resulted in the integration of real time incident data into existing GIS layers
prepopulated with hazard, geological, structural, infrastructure and demographic
information that aid EOC Sections in visually observing and managing re-sponse and
recovery efforts.

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