To: Board of County Commissioners
Through: Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff
Prepared By:
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Nathan Fogg, Director, Office of Emergency Management
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Presenter: Nathan Fogg
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Subject:
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2:00 PM *Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) between Arapahoe County and the City of Littleton to Consolidate Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Functions
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Purpose and Request:
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The Sheriff's Office requests the Board of County Commissioners authorize Sheriff Tyler Brown to sign an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) between Arapahoe County and the City of Littleton to consolidate Office of Emergency Management (OEM) functions and authorize the Sheriff's Office to add 1 full time employee (FTE) to the Office of Emergency Management in the Sheriff's Office.
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Background and Discussion: The ACSO OEM provides emergency management services to the residents of unincorporated Arapahoe County and current contract municipalities. Three municipalities provide their own OEM services, in theory: Littleton, Glendale, and Greenwood Village. This largely consists of promulgating an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) based on the Arapahoe County EOP. The City of Littleton approached the OEM in 2022 to begin discussing the feasibility of the City receiving OEM services from Arapahoe County. The City recognized the importance of having access to professional emergency managers.
During the discussions with the interim City Manager and Police Department, the parties realized that an IGA was needed where the City would pay for an Arapahoe County 0.5 FTE that would meet the City's needs while unifying the plans, concepts, and operations of Emergency Management organizations within the county. This unification of planning, organizing, equipping, training, exercising, and responding serves to simplify disaster response and recovery and is expected to yield increased efficiencies as the program matures. The City, as noted in the IGA, will pay fo...
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