Reno,
Nevada - What actions would the
Washoe County School District ‘s Emergency
Incident Response Team (Code 33
Team) have to take during
a school emergency incident? Why
should they be required to learn
the Incident Command System (ICS)?
Today,
Visual Imagry's training team introduced
District administrators to the importance
of emergency preparedness during
her workshop entitled, Introduction
to Emergency Management. The
course also included an intensive
tabletop exercise.
The
workshop was designed to provide
District Personnel that are assigned
to the Code 33 Team, an executive
level response team, with an introduction
to the ICS principles and how they
are applied to a District level emergency
response. The emergency preparedness
workshop also introduced participants
to their potential emergency response
roles during a major incident and
allowed them to examine their decision-making
roles and responsibilities. The Tabletop
Exercise was designed to allow participants
to consider the overall logistics
associated with managing a real-life
emergency situation that may occur
at one of the WCSD school sites.
“Emergencies
occur every day somewhere in the
United States and each incident requires
a response,” said Dee Beaugez. “Emergency
preparedness is critical to emergency
management. Preparedness is implemented
through a cycle of planning, training,
and equipping, exercising, evaluating
and taking action to correct and
mitigate."
Police
Chief Mike Mieras said that Tabletop
Exercise and emergency management
training were designed to introduce
the District’s Code 33 Team
members to the importance of ICS
training for administrators and he
hopes it will provide the ground
work for the District to develop "an
integrated, community-wide approach
to emergency planning."
The tabletop exercise was also designed to introduce the participants to the
importance of adopting Incident Command System (ICS) as standard procedures for
responding to any future school emergency incidents.
Members
of the District's Code 33 Team who
participated in the three-hour intensive
emergency response training and tabletop
exercise were:
Paul Dugan, Superintendent;
Ken Grein, Superintendent of Operations;
Mike Mieras, WCSD Chief of Police;
Dana Balchunas, Director of Student
Health Services; Chris Smith, Director
of Emergency Preparedness; James Means,
Director of Transportation; Dale Sanderson,
Administrator of Plant Facilities;
Eddie Bonine, Director of Student Services;
Rick Borba, Senior Director of High
Schools; Steven Mulvenon, Director
of Communications and Community Outreach;
Lisa Noonan, Superintendent of Elementary
Education & RCTL; Kelly Jesch,
Program Coordinator of Counseling;
Debbie Cylke, Superintendent of Secondary
Education; Mike Supple, Co-Director
of Nutrition Services; Kirk Turner,
Senior Director of Information Technology;
Gary Kraemer, Chief Financial Office
of Business & Finance; Tom Marshall,
Risk Manager; Ron Cooney, Communications
Specialist; Craig Falconer, Assistant
Director of Transportation; Dale Richardson,
WCSD Police Lieutenant; Tina Cotter,
Nursing Manager; John Albrecht, Legal
Counsel; Kris Christiansen, Assistant
Superintendent of Student Support Services;
Dale Christiansen, Senior Director
of Area 2 Elementary Education; Eileen
Grein, Senior Director of Area 3 Elementary
Education; Rick Harris, Director of
the Principals Academy / Senior Director
of Middle Schools; Kelly Humphreys,
Coordinator of Psychological Services;
Barbara McLaury, Senior Director Elementary
Education; Kendyl Depoali, Superintendent
of Public Policy, Accountability and
Assessment; Jim Barclay, Senior Director
of State / Federal programs and Area
4 Elementary Education; Laura Dancer,
Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources;
Jerry Holloway, Assistant Superintendent
of Student Support Services; Susan
Rusk, Counseling Coordinator; Charlie
Hoope, Director of Plant Facilities;
Joan Munckton, Co-Director of Nutrition
Services; and Tom Ciesynski, Chief
Accountant of Business and Finance.
