EMERGENCY

APRIL 8- 9, 2020

SPRING CONFERENCE

MANAGEMENT

Crowne Plaza Columbus North - Worthington 6500 Doubletree Avenue, Columbus, OH 43229

CrownePlaza.com/ColumbusNorth 614.885.1885

Conference Registration: To register for the conference please visit Ohio Department of Public Safety Training Campus (PSTC) https://trainingcampus.dps.ohio.gov/cm/cm710/pstc/pstc.html search for “OH-200”. Due to turnover and interim directors, county EMA directors should register for the conference on their own. Registration questions should be directed to David Nunley at 614.799.3677 or dbnunley@dps.ohio.gov.

County EMA Director Lodging: County directors or designees living or working more than 45 miles from the conference venue are eligible for one complimentary night of lodging on April 8, 2020. The cutoff date to make a room reservation is March 31, 2020. If you miss this deadline you will not be able to secure a room at the hotel and Ohio EMA will not be able to cover the cost of your room. To register for lodging email David Nunley at dbnunley@dps.ohio.gov with the following information; Name, Position and County EMA you are representing

Other Lodging Information:

Check In/Out: Check in time is 4:00 p.m. on April 8, 2020 and check out time is 11:00 a.m. on April 9. Early check in is determined on day of arrival and is not guaranteed.

Credit Card: Everyone will need to provide a credit card to the hotel for incidentals upon arrival.

Cancellation: In the event you need to cancel your room please contact David Nunley no later than noon on April 7th. Once the cancellation cutoff deadline has passed Ohio EMA cannot cancel your room and a bill will be sent to your agency.

County EMA Director Pictures: In an ongoing effort to have professional portraits of all county directors, a photographer will be available to take your picture between noon and 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 9 in the Capital Room (directly behind sign-in). If you are a new director or need an updated photo, please take advantage of this opportunity.

Food: Ohio EMA will provide coffee on Thursday, April 9th in the morning from 7:30 – 9:30am. Lunch is on your own, but the hotel does have a breakfast/lunch buffet on site at a cost of $12.95 plus tax.

Note on Availability of Program Offices: Ohio EMA staff from the Mitigation, Recovery, Training/Exercise, Radiological, Planning, Grants, Geographic Information System (GIS), Web Emergency Operations Center (WebEOC) Interconnectivity and Watch Office sections will be in the Cardinal Room and hallway directly outside this room the entire day of April 9th to provide assistance and answer questions about their programs. There will also be representatives from Ohio Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (OHWARN), Ohio Mortuary Operational Response Team (OMORT), Ohio Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), Ohio 2-1-1, The American Red Cross, Ohio Public Private Partnership (OP3), Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS) and the National Weather Service (NWS).

Other: Wi-Fi: Free Wi-Fi will be available within the Crown Plaza. Connect to Conference Rooms & Guest Rooms: “Crowne_Conf”

and “Crowne_Guest” once connected, open a browser and it will auto connect to a page. Once you accept the terms it will automatically connect you to the internet.

Parking: Free parking on site.

Presentations: Conference presentation will be uploaded to the Ohio EMA website within two weeks post conference at: https://ema.ohio.gov/DirectorsConference.aspx.

Feedback: Ohio EMA appreciates receiving feedback on these conferences to continually approve. A survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2020OhioEMASpringConference.

Recess Day 1

Ohio EMA coordinates activities to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters.

12:00 – 1:00 PM Registration Ohio EMA Training Section Staff

1:00 – 1:15 PM

Welcome

Presentation of Colors Pledge of Allegiance

Sima S. Merick, Executive Director

Ohio National Guard Sima S. Merick, Executive Director

1:15 – 1:30 PM Opening Comments Thomas Stickrath, Director Ohio Department of Public Safety

1:30 – 2:00 PM FEMA Update James K. Joseph, Administrator FEMA Region V

2:00 – 2:15 PM Break

2:15 – 2:45 PM Emerging Trends in Providing Weather Support

National Weather Service

2:45 – 3:00 PM Break

3:00 – 4:00 PM Ohio Resources – Panel Discussion Pete Minges, OMORT Commander and Evan Schumann, Program Manager Ohio Task Force 1

APRIL 8, 2020 – DAY 1

Time Presentation Speaker

Adjourn Conference

7:00 – 8:00 AM Registration Ohio EMA Training Section Staff

8:00 – 8:45 AM Ohio Cyber Response – Facilitated Panel Discussion

Colonel Teri D. Williams, Ohio National Guard; Matthew J. Ortiz, Enterprise Vulnerability Manager Ohio Department of Administrative Services; & Major Kevin T. Mamula, Ohio National Guard

8:45 – 9:00 AM Break

9:00 – 10:00 AM Break Out Session (1) (see next page for choices and details)

10:00 – 10:15AM Break

10:15 – 11:15 AM Break Out Session (2) (see next page for choices and details)

11:15 – 11:30 PM Break

11:30 – 12:15 PM The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Emergency Response

Daniel Swingle, Director of Safety & Security

12:15 – 1:30 PM Lunch (Columbus Zoo and Aquarium will have some special visitors 12:15 – 1:15)

1:30 – 2:30 PM Agroterrorism: Interagency Coordination and Joint Investigations

U.S. Special Agent Richard Maier, FBI Cincinnati, Weapons of Mass Destruction Coordinator

2:30 – 2:45PM Break

2:45– 4:00 PM Before and After - Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia

Allison Farole, Emergency Management Administrator for the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan & Maribel Street, Acting Emergency Management Coordinator for the Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle Office of Emergency Management

4:00 – 4:30 PM Closing Remarks / Open Q & A Sima Merick, Executive Director Ohio Emergency Management Agency

APRIL 9, 2020 – DAY 2

Time Presentation Speaker

BREAKOUT DETAILS

Break Out “A” Break Out “B”

Threats From Space Debris Management:

Overview and Lessons Learned

Room: Main Ballroom Room: Salon B & C

Seating Capacity: 100 Seating Capacity: 75

Presenter(s): Professor Barbara Ryden, The Ohio

State University

Presenter(s): Brock Metzger, Ohio EMA and

Hilary Browning, Management Analyst City of Dayton

Description: This breakout session will describe

threats to the Earth, and to human society, from asteroid impacts and solar storms. We will examine practical ways in which damage from these threats can be mitigated (if not always eliminated).

Description: This breakout session will discuss key

concepts of debris management operations to include: debris management planning, utilizing FEMA’s debris estimating field guide, establishing a temporary debris storage and reduction site, integrating technology into debris monitoring and obtaining reimbursement for debris operations.

Break Out “C” Break Out “D”

Ohio EMA Leadership Round Table Planning with Core Capabilities

Room: The Buckeye Room Room: Salon E & F

Seating Capacity: 50 Seating Capacity: 75

Presenter(s): Ohio EMA Executive Director Sima

Merick, Ohio EMA Administrators and additional leadership

Presenter(s): Ohio EMA Planning Section

Description: This round table will provide county EMA’s and partners with Ohio EMA program updates from the executive team. There will also be plenty of time for questions and answers.

Description: This breakout will provide an overview of the FEMA Core Capabilities and provide attendees with a means of integrating these capabilities into local emergency operation plans.

*** Please note that breakouts are limited to the amount of seating listed. If a room is a full the room attendant will close the room and incoming attendees will need to choose another break out.

Pete Minges

Dir. Evan Schumann

Admin. James Joseph

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTIONS:

DAY 1

FEMA Update James K. Joseph, FEMA Region V Administrator, will provide an update on the 2019 disaster season and how the Agency is supporting ongoing local and state recovery efforts across Ohio, Region V and the Nation. He will also discuss the Agency’s progress toward its strategic goals—including the latest information on training, FEMA Integration Teams and the expansion of pre-disaster mitigation—along with FEMA’s priorities in the year ahead.

Emerging Trends in Providing Weather Support The National Weather Service will provide an update on emerging trends in providing weather support to Emergency Management and other public safety officials. Weather support for hazardous weather events, outdoor events and HAZMAT incidents will be discussed. Useful tools for monitoring the weather will also be covered.

Ohio Resources Panel Discussion Montgomery County Tornado & State Urban Search & Rescue Response: Program Director Schumann will speak to the process used for the Montgomery County Tornado Search and Rescue (S&R) response following the Memorial Day tornados that include the EF-4 and EF-3 tornados that affected a number of the communities in the northern part of the county. He will focus on the initial response of the Ohio Homeland Security Region III Regional Strike Team, the initial impact assessment, the process for requests for additional Regional Strike Teams from Regions IV and VI, the process for request and activation of OH-TF1 as a FEMA NIMS Type III US&R Task Force, and the unified, operational engagement of the three regional strike teams and OH-TF1. Evan will also speak to other response capabilities that OH-TF1 can support in the State. He will also speak to other potential services that the Task Force can provide to County EMA directors and county police and fire leadership beyond just disaster response. Finally, he will speak to current work efforts with the Ohio EMA, the EMAO, and the OFCA. Ohio Mortuary Operational Response Team (OMORT) 101: This portion of the panel discussion will detail the history of the Ohio Mortuary Operational Response Team from its humble beginnings to present day. We will also discuss the core capabilities of the team (Recovery, Victim Identification Center and Morgue Operations), team member experiences, deployment protocols, workers comp and limited liability coverage as well as cost to the requesting county.

Allison Farole

Maribel Street

DAY 2

Ohio Cyber Response

This presentation by Colonel Williams and Major Mamula of the Ohio National Guard and Matthew Ortiz from the Department of Administrative Services Office of Information Security and Privacy will provide information on cyber response at the state level and the process for engaging state resources during an incident. They will also present available resources useful before and during an incident to include pressure testing of systems and training. Major Mamula will also discuss the Ohio Cyber reserves core and their evolving role in responding to a cyber-event within Ohio.

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Emergency Response

This presentation on Emergency Response at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, will discuss the mission, vision and goals of the Zoo and how the safety and security department fits into that framework. Some of the main topics discussed will include:

High-Level overview of the campus-wide emergency response plan

Requirements of the AZA and USDA as they relate to emergencies

Environmental and Operational challenges

Internal and external partnerships

How we have adopted the incident command structure within our organization

The added dynamic of emergency response involving dangerous animals

Continued improvements and the future

Agroterrorism: Interagency Coordination and Joint Investigations

This presentation will hit the highlights of the Animal/Plant Health Joint Criminal – Epidemiological Investigation Course held at the Ohio Department of Agriculture last May. Some of the key take ways from this presentation will include:

Understand law enforcement and animal -plant health agency roles, responsibilities, and authorities during an outbreak of an unusual, suspicious, and/or high consequence animal or plant disease incidents.

Law enforcement threat assessments, intelligence, and criminal/terrorism investigations.

Animal/Plant Health (veterinary and plant disease unusual disease incident epidemiological investigations).

Determine if disease introductions are accidental, natural, or intentional (criminal-terrorism-espionage) incidents.

Identify assets and capabilities for each discipline.

Demonstrate types of information collected by law enforcement & animal/plant health experts & how/when to share it.

Best practices for conducting a joint threat assessment, joint investigations, joint interviews, and evidence collection.

Develop inter-professional relationships between law enforcement and animal/plant health experts.

Before & After – Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia The Unite the Rally on August 12, 2017 turned into a deadly event that heavily impacted the small community of Charlottesville, Virginia. The Office of Emergency Management staff utilized these lessons learned to ensure the Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle community was ready for the anniversary of these tragic events in 2018 & 2019. A discussion of how collaboration, coordination, and training can make a difference.

Col. Teri Williams Matthew Ortiz Major Kevin T. Mamula

Danny Swingle

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