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[Special City Council on May 24, 2023.]
UNIFORMS MAKES ME FEEL RIGHT AT HOME.MIKE, YOU'RE NOT COME, HAVE TO COME IN UNIFORM.
UH, LET'S CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER MAY 24TH AT 3:00 PM UH, PLEASE JOIN ME FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCES TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.
AND I THINK WE'LL DO A, ANOTHER TAKE ON A MOMENT OF SILENCE AND THE MEMORY OF JOHN SODERBERG.
PLEASE JOIN ME FOR THE MOMENT.
MADAM CLERK, WHERE ARE YOU? UP UNTIL MY LEFT.
ADAM, DEPUTY CLERK, CAN YOU CALL THE ROLE PLEASE? MAYOR JLO.
OKAY, ITEM THREE, SPECIAL BUSINESS AB 29 32.
PRESENTATION DECISION, I'M SORRY.
DISCUSSION REGARDING THE SEDONA EVACUATION AND REENTRY PLAN.
AN APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION ENTERING INTO AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT I G A BETWEEN THE CITY AND COCONINO COUNTY FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF, UH, $83,247 IN GRANT FUNDS TO FUND A PORTION OF THE PLAN.
AND JOANNE, WILL YOU BE, SHOULD I SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT? I WILL, I WILL.
UH, MAYOR AND COUNSEL, UH, JOANNE KEEN, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER.
UM, I'M GONNA START OFF TODAY.
UM, JUST DO KIND OF A QUICK, UH, BACKGROUND ON THE PROJECT.
UM, TURN IT OVER TO, UH, OUR POLICE CHIEF WHO WILL INTRODUCE, UM, MEMBERS OF OUR, OF OUR TEAM THAT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS AND WHO ARE HERE IN THE AUDIENCE.
AND I AGREE, I FEEL VERY SAFE AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE, UM, ASHLEY WITH EM PARTNERS AND WES, UH, WITH COCONINO COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND OUR CONSULTANTS FROM GREEN LIGHT.
ALSO, UM, HERE AS WELL TO DO A PRESENTATION ON OUR, UM, CITY OF SEDONA EVACUATION AND REENTRY PLAN.
SO, JUST TO START, UM, IF, IF YOU RECALL, AND SOME OF YOU WERE ON COUNCIL DURING THIS TIME, UM, I KNOW WHEN I FIRST STARTED WITH THE CITY AND WHEN KAREN TOOK OVER A CITY MANAGER, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT WAS, UM, A TOPIC ON CITY COUNCIL'S MIND.
UM, AND WE KIND OF STARTED RIGHT AWAY WITH OUR FORMER POLICE CHIEF TO REALLY LOOK AT ALL THE PLANS THAT WE HAD IN PLACE AND MADE SURE THAT WE WERE, WE, WE WERE UPDATING AND UPDATED.
WE, UH, FINISHED OUR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN THAT WAS, UH, COMPLETED IN APRIL OF 2022.
WE, UH, PUT TOGETHER THE COMMUNITY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GUIDE, WHICH, UM, YOU KNOW, AS YOU RECALL, ACTUALLY CAME FROM SOME OF OUR, OUR RESIDENTS SUGGESTIONS.
AND WE WORKED WITH, UM, COMMUNITY, A COMMUNITY IN CALIFORNIA TO HELP PUT THAT TOGETHER.
UM, WHICH WE HAVE ONLINE AND WE'VE DISTRIBUTED OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON OUR THRA, AND WE'RE AT A POINT WHERE WE'RE READY TO, UM, SUBMIT THAT.
AND WE'RE WORKING ON, UM, WITH OUR CONSULTANT TO, TO GET THAT DOCUMENT SUBMITTED.
UH, WE'VE DONE, UM, GUIDED EXERCISES, ONE SPECIFICALLY WITH YAVAPAI COUNTY, AND I KNOW OTHERS HAVE HAVE OCCURRED AS WELL.
UM, WE'VE DISTRIBUTED OUR RE READY, SET GO INFORMATION.
THESE ARE THE, THE DOOR HANGERS AND, AND THEN ALSO DONE SOME ADS IN THE PAPER TO GET TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS SIGNED UP FOR OUR READY, SET GO.
AND THEN, UM, WHERE WE ARE NOW IS WE'VE BEEN WORKING, UM, ON THIS EVACUATION PLANNING, UH, PROJECT THAT, THAT CAME TO COUNCIL.
SO JUST TO GIVE SOME BACKGROUND, UM, WHEN WE FIRST DISCUSSED THIS, THIS WAS IN, UM, UH, THE BUDGET RETREAT IN JANUARY, 2022.
AND DURING THAT TIME, COUNCIL GAVE STAFF DIRECTION TO WORK WITH COCONINO COUNTY ON EVACUATION MODELING.
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AND AT THAT TIME IT WAS SPECIFIC TO THE UPTOWN AND BREWER AREAS.UM, WE SELECTED COCONINO, OR WE, UH, WE WORKED WITH COCONINO COUNTY.
COCONINO COUNTY SELECTED EM PARTNERS AND EM PARTNERS, UM, PULLED IN GREEN LIGHT ENGINEERING TO HELP WITH THE TRAFFIC MODELING FOR THAT PROJECT.
WE SIGNED THE CONTRACT APRIL, 2022 TO MOVE FORWARD.
UM, AND THEN WE HAD A KIND OF AN INITIAL KICKOFF MEETING IN MAY OF 2022.
UM, BUT DURING THAT TIME, WE KIND OF QUICKLY REALIZED THAT, UM, THIS PROJECT WAS KIND OF BIGGER THAN JUST THE UPTOWN AND BREWER AREAS.
AND, UM, DURING THE JUNE, 2022 PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL, UM, COUNCIL PROVIDED DIRECTION TO EXPAND THE PROJECT TO INCLUDE THE ENTIRE CITY OF SEDONA.
SO WE BROUGHT A SCOPE OF WORK BACK TO COUNCIL, UM, AND THAT WAS AMENDED IN OCTOBER, 2022.
AND THAT WAS A PROJECT FOR THE ENTIRE CITY, WHICH INCLUDED ALL OF THOSE COMPONENTS, BUT FOR THE ENTIRE CITY.
UM, AND THAT AMOUNT WAS NOT TO EXCEED.
AND WES WILL GO INTO THESE NUMBERS, UM, A LITTLE BIT MORE AS WELL, NOT TO EXCEED $303,247 AND 10 CENTS.
UM, WORKING WITH WES, UM, WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN SOME GRANT FUNDING THROUGH THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF FIRE AND FORESTRY MANAGEMENT.
UM, AND I WILL SAY THEY HAVE BEEN A WONDERFUL AGENCY TO WORK WITH ON THAT FUNDING AND GETTING THAT FUNDING TO THE CITY.
UM, AND THEN JUST RECENTLY WE RECEIVED THE GOOD NEWS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE GETTING SOME FUNDING THROUGH, THROUGH COCONINO COUNTY.
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DID APPROVE THAT THROUGH THEIR CORONAVIRUS STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF 83,247.
AND THAT'S THE ITEM ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA TODAY TO APPROVE THAT I G A WITH COCONINO COUNTY TO ACCEPT THOSE FUNDS.
UM, WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO NOW IS TURN IT OVER TO THE CHIEF TO INTRODUCE, UM, THOSE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM.
SO YOU, YOU KNOW, WHO'S BEEN A PART OF THIS TEAM, AND, UM, WHO'S IN THE ROOM FOR THIS PRESENTATION.
I FIRST JUST WANTED TO SAY, UM, WHETHER YOU KNOW OR NOT, THE DEPUTY CHIEF OR DEPUTY, UM, CITY MANAGER HAS DONE SUCH AN AWESOME JOB, AND SHE PROBABLY WON'T SAY IT HERSELF, BUT SHE IS REALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR GATHERING AND PUTTING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO GET A LOT OF THE GRANT FUNDS TO LOWER THE COST THAT THE CITY INCURRED FROM THIS.
SO I JUST WANNA GIVE THAT QUICK SHOUT OUT BEFORE I MOVE TO THE AUDIENCE AND, AND SAY, BECAUSE, UM, LIKE YOU ALL KNOW, TODAY'S OUR LAST DAY AND I'M DEFINITELY GONNA MISS HER, UM, BEING A PART OF THIS SINCE I DIDN'T START OUT ON THIS PROJECT.
BUT I, UH, CAME INTO IT AND I GOT TO WORK WITH, UH, A LOT OF AWESOME PEOPLE AND BUILD, UM, ADDITIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND UTILIZE THAT TO TRY AND HELP THE CITY HAVE THE BEST PLAN THAT THERE IS.
SO, UH, I'LL GO ON TO INTRODUCING PEOPLE OUT IN, UH, THE AUDIENCE, ALTHOUGH THIS IS MUCH SMALLER THAN LAST NIGHT.
PEOPLE DIDN'T WANNA COME HERE ME, BUT THAT'S OKAY.
UM, SO PART OF THE STAKEHOLDER, AND IF YOU'RE IN THE AUDIENCE, PLEASE STAND.
CAUSE I DO WANNA GIVE YOU THE PROPER RECOGNITION FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE MANY MEETINGS.
AND THERE ARE SOME THAT WON'T BE HERE.
BUT, UH, ANDY DICKEY FROM PUBLIC WORKS, ALSO OUR ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER.
HEY, UH, ASHLEY ALQUIST FROM YAVAPAI COUNTY.
I DON'T THINK I SEE HIM IN HERE.
BRENDAN FULLY, UM, NO RELATION FROM ADOT.
UH, CHAD KER FROM ADOT, UH, THE FIRE CHIEF.
I KNOW YOU'RE OUT HERE, CAN'T MISS HIM.
UH, ALSO JASON COYLE, BUT HE'S NOT IN THE AUDIENCE TONIGHT.
UH, DETECTIVE EVANGELISTA, UH, LIEUTENANT JOHNSON FROM Y Y C S O.
KURT FROM THE CITY LIEUTENANT WALK FROM SEDONA, UH, LAUREN BROWN, WHO I KNOW IS NOT ABLE TO BE HERE.
STEVEN KRAVER FROM WELL USED TO BE US, BUT, AND WHO, UH, SANDRA VICTOR ESTRADA.
UM, SO IF I DID NOT, UH, SAY YOUR NAME, THEN I APOLOGIZE.
WE ALSO HAD SOME CITIZEN REPS, WHICH WERE, UH, TERRY KELLER, POLLY KUEN, RON, SIT AWAY.
JEN FARNSWORTH RONNIE OR LONNIE LILLY AND TOM LAMPKIN.
SO, UH, WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT CAME TOGETHER TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS AND DISCUSS WHAT WE'VE USED IN THE PAST WHERE WE NEED TO GET BETTER.
AND, UM, IT, IT WAS A GREAT TEAM THAT, THAT SHOWED UP FOR A FEW DIFFERENT MEETINGS AND WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE A FEW LAUGHS IN THERE TOO.
SO I'LL TURN IT OVER ACTUALLY.
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ALL, UM, WEST EASTON CO.COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR.
IT'S GOOD TO BE BACK FOR YOU TODAY, MAYOR OF COUNCIL MEMBERS.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TODAY.
UH, I JUST WANNA SPEAK VERY BRIEFLY ON THE CONTRACTING PIECE OF THIS.
UM, WHEN, WHEN THE DISCUSSION CAME UP ABOUT DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN FOR CITY OF SEDONA, UM, IN MY MIND THERE WAS REALLY LITTLE OTHER OPTIONS THAN, UH, EM PARTNERS.
EM PARTNERS IS BASED OUT OF VIRGINIA.
THEY'RE A SMALL FIRM, BUT THEY'RE A VERY GOOD FIRM.
AND THEY HAD A, A COLLECTION OF, UH, UNIQUE SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES THAT DIDN'T EXIST ELSEWHERE, ESPECIALLY COMBINED WITH EXPERIENCE.
SO I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THE EXPERIENCE PIECE, UH, IN THEIR EMPLOYEE WAS, UH, ASHLEY MCCO, UH, WHO I KNOW FROM WORKING WITH HER AT THE STATE.
UH, ASHLEY WROTE THE STATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND RECOVERY PLAN.
IT'S, UH, A VERY DETAILED PLAN THAT DOES THE SAME THING THIS PLAN DOES FOR YOU, AND OUTLINES THE RESPONSIBILITY, THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR STATE GOVERNMENT IN A DISASTER RESPONSE.
UH, THE PLAN RECEIVED, UH, WIDESPREAD ACCOLADES FOR BOTH ITS CONTENT AND ITS QUALITY.
UH, WHEN, UH, JOANNE AND, AND THEN, THEN POLICE CHIEF AND I HAD THE DISCUSSION, UH, THAT WAS, UH, REALLY MY RECOMMENDATION WAS THAT WE MOVED DIRECTLY TO EM PARTNERS AS A SOLE SOURCE.
UH, I, I WORKED THAT THROUGH MY COUNTY TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS ACCEPTABLE.
AND I'LL TELL YOU, THE TIPPING FACTOR WAS THE EXPERIENCE.
THERE IS NOT ANOTHER FIRM IN THE COUNTRY THAT HAS THE EXPERIENCE THAT EM PARTNER DOES FOR ARIZONA AND THAT ASHLEY DOES FOR ARIZONA.
SO THAT WAS KIND OF THE, THE TIPPING POINT.
UM, I THINK IT'S, UH, REALLY IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT THAT THE PROJECT MAINTAINED ITS TIMELINE PERFECTLY THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE TIME, GOING BACK NOW OVER A YEAR, REALLY SINCE THE, THE FIRST CONCEPTUAL CONVERSATIONS, UH, MAINTAINED EVERY TIMELINE SPOT ON, UH, THAT COMES DOWN TO THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BY ASHLEY AND NOT ME.
UH, SHE JUST TOLD ME WHERE TO GO AND I WENT, UH, AND EVERYBODY ELSE SHOWED UP.
SO, UM, AND I, FOR ME, THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE I THINK WHEN WE'RE DEALING WITH PUTTING SOMETHING TOGETHER, ANY PRODUCT FOR, FOR OUR CITIZENS, UH, WE NEED TO DO THE PROCESS RIGHT AS MUCH AS THE FINAL PRODUCT.
THE PROCESS WAS DONE CORRECTLY HERE, STEP BY STEP, UH, ALL THE WAY DOWN THE LINE.
UM, IT IS IMPORTANT TO, TO SAY, AND, AND I I CAN'T GO INTO THE SPECIFIC NUMBERS RIGHT TODAY WITH YOU CUZ WE STILL HAVE A COUPLE MORE STEPS IN THIS PLAN.
UM, THE PLAN IS COMING IN ON TIME AND UNDER BUDGET.
UH, THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S ALSO VERY ATTRACTIVE TO ME ABOUT EM PARTNERS, THEY WORK VERY HARD AT THEIR OWN DETRIMENT, YOU COULD ARGUE, TO BRING PROJECTS IN UNDER BUDGET.
UH, AND THIS ONE IS NO EXCEPTION BETWEEN THE FUNDING THAT WE RECEIVED FROM D F F, WHICH IS ABOUT $175,000 A GRANT THROUGH THE HOUSE BILL THAT THEY HAD PUT FORWARD FOR RECOVERY FROM FIRES AND FLOODS BETWEEN THAT AND THE AWARD NOW FROM COCONINO COUNTY.
UM, AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT NUMBERS THAT SIT HERE, SIT HERE TODAY, BUT THE COST EXPENDITURE BY THE CITY WILL BE VERY, VERY MINIMAL.
UM, I'M NOT SURE, EVEN IF AT ALL, WE'LL HAVE TO SEE HOW THE FINAL NUMBERS WORK OUT.
BUT, UM, IT'S, IT'S BEEN, UH, A GREAT RIDE.
YOU'VE GOT A GREAT TEAM HERE, UH, WORKING WITH JOANNE, UH, WORKING WITH CHIEF FOLEY.
THAT'S ALWAYS FUN WORKING WITH CHIEF FOLEY
UM, YOU'VE GOT A GREAT STAFF HERE WORKING WITH THE PD AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND YOUR CITIZENS.
UH, THE ENGAGEMENT, UH, FROM YOUR CITIZENS WAS SPECTACULAR.
I'LL SHOUT OUT TO JEN AS WE SIT HERE RIGHT NOW.
SHE AND I HAVE HAD MANY EMAILS AND CONVERSATIONS OH, SURE.
AND SHE WAS, UH, A STRONG GENESIS BEHIND THIS EFFORT.
SO, UM, THE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION HERE WAS, WAS, UH, PRETTY REMARKABLE.
SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THROW KUDOS OUT TO IAN PARTNERS FOR, FOR THE FINAL PRODUCT.
UM, YOU OF COURSE WILL NOT SEE THE WHOLE THING.
WE'LL JUST EXPLAIN THAT TO YOU.
YOU, YOU'RE SEEING THE BASE PLAN TODAY OR YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN THE BASE PLAN.
UH, THERE IS CONSIDERABLY MORE BEHIND THAT.
UM, BUT, AND WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT TODAY.
BUT, UH, THANK YOU TO YOU AND THANK YOU TO YOUR STAFF.
IT'S BEEN A GREAT EXPERIENCE AND, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO HOW THIS IS GOING TO GROW.
I CAN TELL YOU THAT CITY OF FLAGSTAFF APPROACHED EM PARTNERS LAST NIGHT AT A CITY FLAGSTAFF MEETING ABOUT AN EVACUATION PLAN FOR THE CITY FLAGSTAFF.
UM, WE HAVE OTHER COMMUNITIES ACROSS COOK COUNTY THAT ARE CONSIDERING SOME, SOME FORMALIZED EVACUATION PLANNING.
AND, UH, I'VE SAID IT TO YOU BEFORE, BUT AGAIN, THE BOARD IS, IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTED.
UM, THERE IS NO PLACE ELSE IN ARIZONA, PERIOD, HANDS DOWN THAT'S EVEN CLOSE TO THE LEVEL THAT, THAT YOU HAVE PUT FORWARD TO THIS PLANNING.
UM, THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM YOU HAVE FOR THE CITY OF SONSONA AS A WHOLE, BUT SPECIFICALLY EVACUATION PLANNING, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FAIRLY DIFFICULT ANIMAL TO, TO TACKLE.
UH, THERE IS NO PLACE ELSE IN ARIZONA.
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I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, I'M NOT AWARE, AND I'VE BEEN IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT NOW APPROACHING 20 YEARS.I'M NOT AWARE OF ANOTHER SET OF JURISDICTIONS.
AND I SAY THAT THE STATE, THE COUNTY, AND OUR LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES THAT HAVE ACHIEVED WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE ACHIEVED HERE TODAY.
SO KUDOS TO ALL OF YOU AND TO IM PARTNERS AND TO YOUR STAFF.
OH, WAIT, WE'LL MOVE TO GREEN LIGHT TRAFFIC ENGINEERING'S OVERVIEW.
MIKE, IF YOU'RE ON THE LINE, PLEASE GO AHEAD.
HE'LL BE JUMPING IN AS WE GO THROUGH THESE FEW SLIDES.
SO REALLY WANTED TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF THE TRAFFIC STUDY PROCESS AND FOUR KEY COMPONENTS HERE THAT WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT EACH OF THESE, UH, COLLECTING THE DATA AND, AND WHAT DATA WAS USED IN THE, UH, TRAFFIC TIME CRIME ANALYSIS, UH, CREATING A
AND WE'LL HAVE AN EXAMPLE OF THAT TO SHOW YOU, UM, THE SCENARIOS THAT WERE RUN WITH THE MODEL TO COME UP WITH TRAVEL TIMES, AND THEN ULTIMATELY TRAVEL TIMES AND, AND MAPPING OF THE, UH, ROUTES TO USE TO EVACUATE THE CITY NEXT.
SO WORKING WITH THE CITY, THEY SAID, HEY, LET'S, LET'S GET THE PEAK PEAK, UM, TRAVEL TIMES FOR THE YEAR, UH, SELECTED OCTOBER WITH TOURISTS COMING TO TOWN.
AND WE CONDUCTED 24 HOUR TURNING MOVEMENT COUNTS AT 35 MAJOR INTERSECTIONS IN THE CITY, UM, ON SAT TWO CONTE CONSECUTIVE SATURDAYS IN OCTOBER, OCTOBER 8TH AND OCTOBER 15TH OF LAST YEAR.
BUT WE ALSO COLLECTED CENSUS DATA, UH, POPULATION HOUSEHOLD PARCELS.
WE ALSO, UM, OBTAINED SOME ADDITIONAL DATA FROM STREETLIGHT DATA, AND WE CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THE, THE MODELING PROCESS.
BUT BASICALLY, STREETLIGHT DATA USES, UH, BIG DATA, CELL PHONE DATA, UH, OTHER SOURCES OF DATA TO HELP DETERMINE, UM, OF THE TRAFFIC THAT'S OUT THERE IN THESE TRAFFIC COUNTS.
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF IT IS, UM, CITY RELATED HOUSEHOLDS WITHIN SEDONA? WHAT PERCENTAGE OF IT IS A VISITOR AND, UM, UM, TOURIST TRAFFIC.
SO WITH THAT, UM, AND WE'LL TRY NOT TO GET TOO, TOO FAR INTO THE WEEDS, BUT BASICALLY OF THE HOUSEHOLDS IN SEDONA, THE OCCUPIED HOUSEHOLDS JUST UNDER 5,200.
UM, WE, UH, ESTIMATED THAT THERE WOULD BE ABOUT 1.3 VEHICLES PER HOUSEHOLD EVACUATING DURING A, AN EMERGENCY SCENARIO.
AND THAT WAS, UH, DETERMINED BY, UH, OKAY, THE HOUSEHOLDS THAT JUST HAVE ONE VEHICLE, OBVIOUSLY THEY'LL USE ONE VEHICLE.
HOUSEHOLDS THAT HAVE TWO OR MORE VEHICLES, WE USE AN ESTIMATE OF 1.5 VEHICLES PER HOUSEHOLD ANYWAY, WORKED OUT TO ABOUT 1.3 VEHICLES PER HOUSEHOLD WOULD BE EVACUATED, UH, DURING A, A, UH, EVACUATION SCENARIO.
AND THEN FROM THE STREETLIGHT DATA, UH, FOR AN A SATURDAY IN OCTOBER, IT SHOWED THAT OF THE TRAFFIC THAT WAS OUT ON THE, THE ROAD NETWORK, ABOUT 95% OF THAT TRAFFIC WAS NON-HOME BASED TRAFFIC.
IN OTHER WORDS, IT WAS EITHER VISITORS, TOURISTS, FOLKS THAT DIDN'T LIVE IN, IN THE AREA, UH, MADE UP ABOUT 95% OF THAT TRAFFIC.
SO USING THAT VALUE WE CAME UP WITH, IN ADDITION TO THE RESIDENTIAL VEHICLES THAT WOULD NEED TO BE EVACUATED, 6,700, THERE WOULD BE 95% OF THAT ADDED TO IT TO ACCOUNT FOR NON-RESIDENT TRAFFIC THAT WOULD NEED TO BE EVACUATED ON A PEAK SATURDAY IN AN OCTOBER.
SO BASICALLY IN A WORST CONDITION, UH, WORST CASE SCENARIO.
SO USING ON THOSE FACTORS CAME UP WITH ABOUT 13,200 VEHICLES THAT WILL NEED TO BE EVACUATED NEXT.
AND THIS SHOWS YOU THE LIST OF THE 35 MAJOR INTERSECTIONS, AGAIN, WORKING WITH THE CITY TO, TO IDENTIFY THESE.
SO OBVIOUSLY ALL THE STIGMATIZED INTERSECTIONS, THE ROUNDABOUTS, AND OTHER MAJOR INTERSECTIONS WITHIN THE CITY.
UM, THE VM SOFTWARE WAS USED, AND AGAIN, WE'LL SHOW AN EXAMPLE OF THAT HERE IN A MINUTE.
UH, WE, THE CITY WAS BROKEN INTO 12 ZONES.
AGAIN, THE CITY PROVIDED THOSE ZONES TO US, AND THOSE ZONES WERE THEN USED TO, UH, LOAD TRAFFIC ONTO THESE 35 MAJOR INTERSECTIONS.
AND OBVIOUSLY IT WAS ASSUMED THAT THE MAJOR STATE ROUTES WOULD BE THE, UH, THE KEY EVACUATION ROADWAY.
SO STATE ROUTE 89 A, UH, HEADING NORTHEAST OUT OF THE CITY AND WEST OUT OF THE
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CITY, AND THEN STATE ROUTE 1 79, TAKING IT TO THE SOUTH.NEXT, WE ANALYZED THREE DIFFERENT SCENARIOS.
THE FIRST ONE, UH, BEING THAT ALL 12 OF THOSE ZONES WITHIN THE CITY WOULD BEGIN THE EVACUATION AT THE, AT THE SAME TIME AND ALL ROUTES ARE OPEN.
THE SECOND SCENARIO, ASSUME THAT THE NORTHBOUND SR 89 A, UH, WAS CLOSED.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE, MAYBE THE, UM, THE HAZARD WAS UP THERE IN, IN THAT PART OF, OF THE CITY.
SO THE ONLY EVACUATION ROUTE AT THAT POINT WOULD BE TAKING 1 79 SOUTH OR OR 89 A, UM, SOUTH AND WEST OUT OF THE CITY.
AND THEN SCENARIO THREE, AGAIN, 89 A NORTH WAS, WAS ASSUMED TO BE CLOSED, BUT INSTEAD OF EVACUATING ALL ZONES AT THE SAME TIME, SCENARIO THREE USED A STAGGERED EVACUATION, UH, EVACUATING THE UPTOWN AREA FIRST AND THEN WORKING, WORKING BACK THROUGH THE OTHER ZONES.
SO OVERALL, UH, TRAVEL TIME IS SHOWN HERE IN, IN THIS, UM, THIS TABLE FOR THOSE THREE SCENARIOS TO EVACUATE 90, 90% OF THE CITY.
HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE IN HOURS AND MINUTES? AND THEN HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE TO GET EVERY LAST PERSON THAT'S IN THE CITY OUT? BECAUSE THAT LAST 10% REALLY, UH, PUSHES THE ENVELOPE IN TERMS OF HOW LONG IT TAKES TO GET A HUNDRED PERCENT EVACUATION.
SO WITH THOSE THREE SCENARIOS THAT THEY ACTUALLY COME OUT PRETTY SIMILAR IN TERMS OF TIME, BUT THEY'RE ALL JUST UNDER THREE HOURS.
SO TWO HOURS AND 45 MINUTES FOR SCENARIO ONE TO EVACUATE 90% OF THE TRAFFIC.
WHEN YOU GO THAT, UH, FULL A HUNDRED PERCENT, YOU'RE ADDING ANYWHERE FROM 45 MINUTES TO AN EXTRA HOUR, UH, TO GET THE, THE, UH, ENTIRE CITY EVACUATED.
SO YOU'RE PUSHING THREE AND A HALF, UH, CLOSE TO FOUR HOURS TO GET THE ENTIRE CITY EVACUATED AT THAT POINT.
AND THEN THIS SHOWS THE 12 ZONES AND THE, UH, THE MAJOR ROUTES IN INTERSECTIONS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.
UH, WE'VE ALSO GOT SOME TRAILS ON THERE.
SO, UH, BASICALLY SHOWING WHERE THE, THE INDIVIDUAL ZONES WOULD BE LOADING TO GET DOWN TO 89 A AND 1 79 NEXT.
AND I THINK THE NEXT ONE'S GONNA BE OUR, UH, GO THROUGH THE, THE DEMO SO YOU CAN SEE REALLY WHAT THE, THE MODEL DOES.
AND, AND JUST A COUPLE THINGS AS, AS SCOTT'S GETTING READY TO, TO RUN THAT AND TALK ABOUT IT.
THE, THE TRAFFIC COUNT DATA IS KEY TO THIS MODEL.
UH, UH, THE MODEL'S ONLY AS GOOD AS, AS THE DATA YOU PUT INTO IT.
SO WE PUT THE, THE ACTUAL SATURDAY TRAFFIC COUNT, PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC DATA, WHICH THE PEAK HOUR WAS TWO 30 TO THREE 30 ON THOSE SATURDAYS.
UH, IN ADDITION TO THAT HOUSEHOLD DATA THAT I TALKED ABOUT, SCOTT.
SO ESSENTIALLY WHAT THIS IS, IT IS WHAT'S KNOWN AS A MICRO SIMULATION MODELING SOFTWARE.
SOFTWARE IS PRETTY WIDELY USED IN TRAFFIC ENGINEERING AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING.
AND IT HELPS US SIMULATE VARIOUS TRAFFIC SCENARIOS AS WELL AS EVALUATE, UM, THE PERFORMANCE OF, UH, REALLY ANY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM THAT WE, UM, PUT A MODEL MODEL TOGETHER FOR.
IT'LL ALLOW TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONALS TO UNDERSTAND JUST THE DRIVER BEHAVIORS, THE INTERACTIONS WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF VEHICLES, BE IT PASSENGER CAR VEHICLES, UM, SINGLE UNIT TRUCKS, LARGE ARTICULATING TRUCKS AND PEDESTRIANS, UM, ALL WITHIN THE, THE ROAD NETWORK USERS OF THE VICTIM SOFTWARE CAN, CAN ESSENTIALLY CREATE WHAT'S, UM, I GUESS BOTTOM LINE IS A DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK AND THE TRAFFIC WITHIN THAT NETWORK.
UM, THAT WOULD INCLUDE ALL THE INTERSECTIONS, ALL THE LANES, TRAFFIC SIGNALS, AND ANY OTHER ELEMENTS THAT MIGHT BE OUT ON THE ROADWAY SYSTEM.
IT GIVES YOU A VERY, UM, UNABLE SYSTEM WHERE YOU CAN BASICALLY ADJUST ALMOST ANY PARAMETER FOR THE MODELING SOFTWARE.
UM, SO IT'S, UH, IT'S A VERY ROBUST AND DETAILED TOOL THAT DOES TAKE A LOT OF TIME TO, UM, CODE AND UPDATE.
BUT WITH THAT IT'S VERY ACCURATE IN TERMS OF MODELING.
BOTH EXIST EXISTING CONDITIONS AND ANY OTHER SCENARIOS THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO THROW AT.
UM, IT ALLOWS YOU TRAFFIC SEE ARE THE, THE VEHICLES RUNNING ON THE ROAD HERE, UM, CAN PUT IN PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENTS AND IT WILL BASICALLY SHOW YOU THAT IS OPERATING ON THE ROADWAY NETWORK ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO KIND OF ASSESS AND OPTIMIZE TRAFFIC SIGNAL
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TIMINGS EVALUATE THE IMPACTS OF DIFFERENT TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN.AND FOR THE PURPOSES THAT WE USED IT, IT ALLOWED US TO LOOK AT WHAT EVACUATION TRAVEL TIMES WOULD BE WITHIN THE CITY OF SEDONA.
THAT'S A PRETTY HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF WHAT THIS SIM DOES.
I GUESS I'M HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN QUESTIONS.
THIS IS NOT SEDONA AND I, I KNOW YOU DIDN'T PURPORT IT TO BE, BUT HOW DOES THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WOULD WE SEE, YOU KNOW, IN SEDONA AND HOW DO THEY ACTUALLY HIT OUR INTERSECTIONS? CAUSE WE HAVE THE Y WHICH IS A PRETTY EXTENSIVE INTERSECTION AND A CHALLENGE, YOU KNOW, IF THERE WAS AN EMERGENCY.
SO WHAT WOULD WE SEE THAT'S DIFFERENT, UH, IN SEDONA AS OPPOSED TO THIS GRAPHIC OR THIS VIDEO? SO YEAH, THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION.
SO IN SEDONA, YOU, WHAT YOU WOULD SEE WOULD BE AN EVACUATION PLAN.
SO YOU SEE TRAFFIC GOING TWO WAYS ON THIS PARTICULAR ROADWAY.
AND THE EVACUATION PLAN, MOST OF THE TRAFFIC IS GOING TO BE HEADING OUTSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS OF SEDONA.
UH, YOU WOULD SEE ALL THE CONGESTION THAT WOULD OCCUR OVER TIME, UM, WITHIN THE CITY AS TRAFFIC STARTS TO LOAD AND AS PEOPLE MAKE THEIR WAY DOWN TO THE MAIN ROADS WITHIN THE CITY AND EXIT THE CITY.
AND YOU WOULD SEE BASICALLY, UH, I GUESS THE FOURTH DIMENSION BEING TIMED AND SPACE OF WHERE THOSE VEHICLES ARE AT THROUGHOUT THE EVACUATION BASED ON THE SCENARIO YOU'RE WATCHING.
UM, YOU, YOU SAID YOU GOT DAILY VISITOR VEHICLE DATA ON VISITORS VERSUS RESIDENTS FROM THE STREETLIGHTS.
UM, WITHOUT GOING INTO THE WEEDS, WAS THAT JUST READING LICENSE PLATES? I MEAN, HOW, WHAT WAS THAT BASED ON? SO HE USED THAT TOOL CALLED, IT'S CALLED STREETLIGHT DATA.
SO THE, THE DATA ISN'T NECESSARILY FROM THE STREET LIGHTS, I KNOWS FAIRLY CONFUSING STREET LIGHT DATA.
SORRY, WAS THERE A QUESTION? THE QUESTION WAS WITH IF YOU COULD EXPLAIN WITHOUT GETTING INTO THE WEEDS, HOW YOU DIFFERENTIATED BETWEEN A LOCAL AND SOMEONE WHO WAS A VISITOR, HOW DID THAT PROGRAM DIFFERENTIATE? SURE.
SO I GUESS IT'S ANOTHER HOPEFULLY HIGH LEVEL DISCUSSION ON STREET LIGHT DATA.
SO THEY'RE BASICALLY A TRANSPORTATION DATA ANALYTICS COMPANY, AND THEY SPECIALIZE IN COLLECTING A PROCESSING, ANALYZING, UH, TRANSPORTATION DATA.
THEY'VE USED BIG DATA AS MIKE HAD NOTED BEFORE.
SO THE WAY THAT DATA IS COLLECTED IS FROM A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PROVIDERS.
THEY GET DATA FROM GPS TRACKING SYSTEMS, UM, MOBILE DEVICES, UM, THEY HAVE DATA FROM TRANSPORTATION AGENCIES THAT'S FED INTO THEIR, UM, DATA SET THAT CAN ALSO USE VEHICLE FROM OEM MANUFACTURERS, UH, THE ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS LIKE FORD, TOYOTA, SOME OF THE NEWER VEHICLES HAVE.
UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE I AM NOT UNDERSTANDING ANYTHING YOU'RE SAYING AND, AND CLEARLY THIS IS NOT AN ANSWER I CAN GET WITHOUT WEEDS.
I DON'T WANT HER TO LEAVE THAT QUESTION DATABASE.
AND THEY HAVE A PLATFORM WHERE WE CAN QUERY OUT OF THAT PLATFORM WHERE, UM, VEHICLES ARE HOUSED SO WE KNOW ROUGHLY WHERE VEHICLES ARE AND WHAT VEHICLES ARE HOME VEHICLES.
SO WE CAN RUN VARIOUS QUERIES WITHIN THE CITY'S LIMITS AND IT WILL TELL US, UM, HOW MANY VEHICLES WERE IDENTIFIED WITHIN THE NETWORK AND WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THOSE VEHICLES, ANY QUESTIONS BASICALLY LIVE IN SEDONA.
AND WHAT PERCENTAGE OF VEHICLES ARE NOT FROM ORIGINATING IN SEDONA.
SO THAT COMES OUT TO ROUGHLY 95% ON SATURDAY IN OCTOBER, 95% OF THE VEHICLES IN THE CITY DURING ANY A GIVEN DAY.
UM, 95% OF THOSE ARE VISITORS AND 5% OF THEM ARE LOCAL VEHICLES.
SCOTT, BEFORE YOU MOVE ON, UH, COUNSEL FURMAN HAS A QUESTION, I BELIEVE ON THE SAME TOPIC.
I ACTUALLY WANTED TO FOLLOW UP ON YOUR QUESTION OH, OKAY.
AND JUST, CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHY YOU CHOSE NOT TO SHOW THE SEDONA VIDEO FROM THE EXECUTION OF YOUR MODEL? UH, AND NOT THAT I WANTED TO SIT THROUGH THREE, THREE HOUR VIDEOS, BUT IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE, YOU KNOW, A SAMPLE OF WHAT OUR DATA LOOKS LIKE.
I WASN'T GONNA GO DOWN THAT DEEP, BUT I APPRECIATE IT.
I THINK WES IS GONNA RESPOND TO THIS.
COUNCIL MEMBER, THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION.
AND WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS.
UM, THE DATA THAT'S COLLECTED AND THE DATA THAT'S PROVIDED AND THE INFORMATION
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THAT'S EXTRACTED FROM THAT PROVIDES YOUR PUBLIC, YOUR PUBLIC, UH, SAFETY OFFICIALS, YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, YOUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, YOUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT WITH IMPORTANT DATA THAT THEY CAN USE FOR PLANNING.THIS IS A PLAN, RIGHT? WE NEED TO PLAN HOW TO PROTECT THE CITIZENS AND VISITORS OF SEDONA.
THE INFORMATION THAT'S GATHERED IS INFORMATION THAT COULD EASILY BE EXPLOITED BY SOMEBODY WHO WISHES TO DO SOMETHING BAD.
HERE IN THE CITY OF SEDONA, UH, THE INFORMATION IS, HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS F FO UO IN THIS PARTICULAR PLAN.
UM, THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CRITICAL TACTICAL OPERATING POINTS THAT MAYBE A POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS IN THEIR PLAN FOR EVACUATION IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE EXPLOITED BY, UH, MALICIOUS ACTORS.
SO IT IS PRETTY COMMON KNOWLEDGE AND PRETTY COMMON PRACTICE TO PROTECT POLICE PLANNING, FIRE PLANNING, UH, FOR THINGS THAT ARE, UM, ABOUT MOVING AND PROTECTING PEOPLE.
UH, THE THE FACT IS, IS THAT THIS IS NOT A TRAFFIC STUDY ABOUT TRAFFIC MOVEMENT OR CONGESTION.
THIS IS A TRAFFIC STUDY ABOUT MOVING PEOPLE IN AN EMERGENCY.
YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT'S GONNA HAVE VERY SPECIFIC PLANS FOR THAT.
THEY'RE GONNA TRAIN TO IT, THEY'RE GONNA EXERCISE TO IT.
SO WE ASKED, UM, UH, WE ASKED GREENLIGHT TO USE A GENERIC DEMONSTRATION TO SHOW YOU THAT THERE WAS A TOOL USED.
THIS IS THE TOOL THAT WAS USED TO ANALYZE THE DATA THAT GAVE US THE GROUND TRUTH INFORMATION THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE PLAN.
SO WE WANTED TO PROTECT THAT INFORMATION FROM, UH, THE POSSIBILITY TO BE EXPLOITED.
SO MAYOR, I HAD SOME FOLLOW UP.
I'D LIKE TO KAREN, ASK SOME ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OF THIS, BUT I WONDER IF WE SHOULD STICK TO, I HAVE THAT NOTE.
I WAS GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT AT A LATER POINT, PERHAPS AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION.
I THINK WE CAN ENGAGE, WE'LL GO BACK TO THOSE GENERAL COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS AND THEN WHAT'S, WHAT'S YOUR DESIRE HERE FOR QUESTIONS NOW? SHOULD WE BE ASKING ANY QUESTIONS WE HAVE ON THE TRACK THIS TRAFFIC MODEL, OR DO WE WANNA WAIT? WELL, I THINK WE WEST WAS VERY CLEAR.
I DON'T KNOW IF I, I, I UNDERSTAND IT.
I'LL, I'LL ACCEPT IT FOR NOW, BUT, UH, WHY DON'T WE MOVE FORWARD? I, I THINK WE'RE DOING NO, I, I'VE, I COULD ASK, I'M TRYING NOT TO ASK VERY MANY WEEDS QUESTIONS, BUT I, THERE'S A COUPLE THAT I DO HAVE THAT ARE RELATIVE TO THE MODEL TO THE, TO THE, TO THE, TO THE MODEL.
BUT I JUST DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE APPROPRIATE NOW OR LATER OR WHAT BEING, I DON'T KNOW THE QUESTION, SO I, YOU KNOW, BUT IF IT'S ON THIS, UH, THIS WAY WHEN WE, WE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK TO THIS.
SO WHY DON'T WE DO THAT? WE'LL COME BACK TO IT LITTLE BIT.
YEAH, I'D RATHER KEEP THIS MOVING AND KEEP IT UNDER TWO HOURS.
I JUST HAVE A QUICK, THIS IS A REALLY QUICK QUESTION.
IT, THE CHIEF FOLEY TO ANDY DOES 95, DOES THAT RING TRUE TO YOU THAT 95% OF THE VEHICLES ON THE, ON THE, ON THE ROADS OR VISITORS, CAN, COULD I, CAN I MAYBE ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THAT? SO YEAH, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE ARE, WE'RE CURRENTLY UNDERGOING, UM, A PURSUIT OF DATA AROUND TOURISM MM-HMM.
AND THE WAY IT WAS EXPLAINED TO ME WAS THAT UP UNTIL APRIL OF 2022, GREEN LIGHT DID HAVE A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THEIR DATA WAS BASED ON CELL PHONE USAGE, WHICH CAN GIVE YOU THOSE PATTERNS OF MOVEMENT IN APRIL OF 2022, BASED ON CHANGES IN PRIVACY, CONCERNS ABOUT TRACKING CELL PHONE DATA, THEY TRANSITIONED TO USING THE VEHICLE DATA.
SO CHEVYS AND FORDS, AS IT'S EXPLAINED TO ME, LATE MODEL, HAVE THE CAPABILITY BUILT INTO THE, THE VEHICLE ITSELF TO BE ABLE TO TRACK THEIR MOVEMENT.
SO THEY'RE USING THAT AS OF APRIL 22 AND NO LONGER USING THE CELL PHONE DATA.
BECAUSE THE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION ABOUT USING GREEN, GREEN LIGHT DATA TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS WAS IT CANNOT ANYMORE.
WE CAN GO BACK TO 2019, WE CAN COMPARE IT TO 2021, BUT MOVING FORWARD, IT'S AN EXTRAPOLATION OF PEOPLE DRIVING LATE MODEL CHEVYS AND FORDS
SO I AM ALSO JUST A LITTLE BIT, AND KAREN, YOU'RE REFERRING TO STREET LIGHT, NOT GREEN LIGHT.
YEAH, THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION.
YOUR QUESTION AND SOUNDS MORE LIKE GASLIGHTING, BUT SOME OF, SOME PEOPLE SORT OF ANSWERS IT, WHICH IS IT'S,
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IT IS WHAT THEY USE.IT'S NOT NECESSARILY COUNTER COUNTING PEOPLE.
SO THE KATHY FOLLOW UP TO THAT IS, SO WHAT IS THE LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE IN THAT NUMBER? IS IT A, THE 95%? IS THAT WE THINK 60% ACCURATE, 80% ACCURATE.
I MEAN, I, I DON'T KNOW THE LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE IN THAT NUMBER.
I IT FOR THAT NUMBER TO MEAN SOMETHING.
I HAVE TO KNOW HOW REAL IT IS WASN'T CALIBRATED TO ANYTHING ELSE THAT, BECAUSE THAT SORT OF ANOTHER CONVERSATION IS ABOUT WHATEVER THE DATA IS, CALIBRATING IT TO SOMETHING TO TEST ITS REASONABLENESS.
AND I THINK IF I CAN JUMP IN, I MEAN, OUR PUBLIC WORKS TEAM DID LOOK AT THAT DATA THAT CAME FROM GREEN LIGHT.
SO PERHAPS IN THE STREET LIGHT.
I DON'T KNOW IF KURT'S HERE, WERE WE LOOKING AT IT FOR HOW MANY ARE RESIDENTS VERSUS VISITORS? OR WERE WE LOOKING ABOUT THE REASONABLENESS OF THE TOTAL TRAFFIC COUNTS? YEAH, WE'RE MORE LOOKING AT THE TRAFFIC, UM, VOLUME.
THE VOLUME, VOLUMES, VOLUMES, STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO WE'RE CONFIDENT WITH THE VOLUME NUMBER, IT'S LEVEL MM-HMM.
SO IF IT WAS 30%, I'D BE WORRIED THAT THERE WERE MORE VISITORS AND THAT MORE CARS, THIS IS A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CARS THAT THEY PROJECT.
AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT GIVES ME MORE CONFIDENCE THAN THAT, IS THAT THE EVACUATION CAN ONLY GET EASIER, UH, WITH FEWER CARS.
AND THIS IS A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CARS.
AND, AND WE WERE VERY CAREFUL.
WE, WE, WE GATHERED GROUND TWO DATA AT 35 INTERSECTIONS ON TWO SATURDAYS, WHAT ARE CONSIDERED TO BE YOUR PEAK SEASON.
UM, THAT'S WHEN YOU'RE GONNA HAVE MOST OF YOUR VISITORS HERE.
UH, I BELIEVE IT WAS, UH, EARLY AFTERNOON IS THE TIME THAT THE, THAT THE COUNCIL WERE TAKEN.
SO, UM, THE, THE ESTIMATE AND THOSE DATES WERE PICKED IN CONJUNCTION WITH, UH, YOUR CITY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT BECAUSE OF KNOWN DATA WHEN YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE YOUR PEAK TOURIST TRAFFIC.
UM, BUT TO THE COUNCILMAN'S COUNCIL, UH, WOMAN'S POINT CAN ONLY GET BETTER FROM THERE.
SO THAT'S A VERY GOOD WAY TO PUT IT.
SO WES, I I'M GONNA TAKE A TURN HERE.
UM, LET'S GO TO REAL LIFE SCENARIO BECAUSE YOU, YOU CAN'T GO DISCUSS ANY OF THIS ACTUAL DATA BECAUSE IT'S CONFIDENTIAL.
10 YEARS AGO, WE ALL KNOW THAT THERE WAS A SLIDE FIRE AND IT TURNED OUT PERFECT.
IF EVIDENCE GONNA, WE EVER GONNA HAVE A FIRE THAT WAS THE BEST, BEST FIRE TO HAVE BECAUSE NOBODY GOT HURT AND NO HOMES WERE LOST.
AND IT, FROM WHAT I REMEMBER, EVERYTHING WAS DONE SEAMLESSLY.
BUT IF THAT WAS TO HAPPEN TODAY UNDER THIS SCENARIO AND YOU WERE GOING TO BLEED UPTOWN OF RESIDENCE, I'M SURE YOU WOULD STOP THE TRAFFIC GOING EASTBOUND ON 89 A DIVERT THEM DOWN TO 1 79.
IS THAT A REALISTIC, TO KEEP PEOPLE AWAY FROM THAT, TO GET, TO PULL EVERYBODY OUT OF ONE OUT OF 89 A NORTH? SO I THINK THE, THE BIGGEST THING IS, AND UM, I'M NOT A BIG SPORTS ANALOGY PERSON, BUT NEVERMIND, IF WE SHARED TRULY OUR PLANS, THEN SOMEBODY CAN USE THEM AGAINST US.
I'M JUST GONNA, WHAT WAS DONE BACK THEN, BACK TO THE SLIDE FIRE.
I REALLY DON'T, I DON'T REMEMBER.
YOU KNOW, NEITHER DO I, THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING THE QUESTION TO IT.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S HARD TO, TO SHARE EVERYTHING THAT WOULD GO ON BECAUSE I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING.
I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 95% OF THE VEHICLES ARE VISITORS MM-HMM.
AND THAT WOULD MAKE, 5% WOULD BE RESIDENTS.
IT SHOULD, NO, IT'S 90%, 95% OF THE VOLUME OF THE TRAFFIC, UM, OF RESIDENT TRAFFIC.
WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT'S, IT'S DIFFERENT THAN THE RESIDENT'S OVERALL NUMBER, CORRECT? YES.
I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT OF THE TRAFFIC.
SO, BUT IF YOU, IN THAT SCENARIO, WHAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED ON THE SLIDE FIRE? SO I WOULD THINK IT WOULD MAKE A LITTLE BIT EASIER FOR, FOR RESIDENTS TO GET TO EVACUATE.
ARE THESE THE WINDS WE'RE TRYING TO AVOID?
I TOTALLY GET, AND I DON'T WANT TO, YOU KNOW, DAMAGE ANY CONFIDENTIALITY, BUT, UM, I'M THINKING THE RESIDENTS WOULD WANT TO KNOW TO SOME HIGH LEVEL DEGREE.
I MEAN THAT 95% TO ME IT'S, DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT.
AND MAYOR, IF I CAN JUST JUMP IN PLEASE.
WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH THE PLAN AND THEN THE SCENARIOS AND THEN SOME OF THE TOOLS THAT, THAT WE HAVE TO ADDRESS SOME OF THESE
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QUESTIONS.AND I THINK WE'LL GET, GET TO THEM IN THE PRESENTATION.
UH, VICE MAYOR, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU WANTED? I THOUGHT YOU WOULD, UH, SOMETHING CAUSE YOU WON'T HAPPEN.
MARION COUNSEL, ASHLEY MCCO WITH IEM PARTNERS.
I'LL GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THE EVACUATION AND REENTRY PLAN NEXT.
SO THERE'S SEVERAL COMPONENTS TO THE PLAN.
UM, THE PUBLIC FACING PORTION OF THE PLAN IS THIS FIRST BULLET, THE FIRST TWO BULLETS HERE, THE BASE PLAN AND THE COMMUNITY ZONE EVACUATION MAPS ANNEX.
THAT'S WHAT WE PRESENTED TO YOU.
UM, AND THESE ARE THE FOUNDATIONAL, UM, STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF THE EVACUATION AND RE-ENTRY OPERATIONS, AS WELL AS THOSE SPECIFIC ZONE EVACUATION ROUTE MAPS FOR EACH OF THOSE 12 COMMUNITY ZONES.
UM, AND THEN IN ADDITION, UM, WE HAVE OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS.
ANNEX, WHICH IS F O UO, THAT INCLUDES A LOT OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND KEY RESOURCES INFORMATION, A LOT OF LOCATION INFORMATION, UM, THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, FIRE DEPARTMENT PUBLIC WORKS, UM, HAVE DISCUSSED THAT WE'VE COMPILED TO, UM, BE A USEFUL TOOL FOR THEM IN PREPARING FOR AND PLANNING FOR EVACUATION AND RE-ENTRY OPERATIONS.
UM, AND THEN THAT TRAFFIC STUDY REPORT IS THE OTHER F O UOP PIECE, AND I'LL PASS TO THE CHIEF FOR COMMENTS ON THAT.
AND IT'S SIMILAR TO WHAT WE'VE ALREADY DISCUSSED.
UH, A LOT OF THAT GOES INTO THE CRITICAL TACTICAL AND OPERATIONAL SIDE OF CONSIDERATIONS OF, YOU KNOW, TELLING PEOPLE THAT MIGHT HAVE BAD INTENTIONS, WHAT OUR PLANS ARE SO THAT THEY PREPARE.
UM, SO THAT'S REALLY THE, THE BIGGEST REASON WHY WE HOLD BACK ON SOME OF THE ACTUAL PLANS OR, OR ROADS OR SOME OF THOSE PROCESSES IN, IN BIGGER DETAIL BECAUSE, UM, WE WOULDN'T WANT SOMEBODY TO USE THAT AGAINST US, UM, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, A NATURAL DISASTER OR SOMETHING THAT'S PLANNED.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S PLAN B AND C WITH THAT.
SO, UM, THE OTHER THING IS WITH THE TRAFFIC STUDY, THERE IS IF NEEDED RAW DATA THAT COULD BE, UM, YOU KNOW, GIVEN OUT FOR, FOR THAT.
BUT THERE ARE PARTS THAT WOULD BE HELD BACK AS FAR AS SOME OF THE MORE IN-DEPTH PLANNING.
SO THIS GRAPHIC YOU SEE HERE IS SOMETHING WE CALL THE PLANNING UNIVERSE.
AND WE'VE CREATED THIS WITH WES AND HIS TEAM IN DEVELOPING THEIR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN.
AND I SHOW THIS TO YOU TODAY TO SHOW YOU WHERE SEDONAS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT EFFORTS FIT IN THE BIGGER PICTURE.
UM, SO IN DEVELOPING YOUR EVACUATION AND REENTRY PLAN, IT WASN'T DEVELOPED IN A SILO.
THERE WAS A LOT THAT WE TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION FROM LOCAL, COUNTY, STATE AND FEDERAL EXISTING PLANNING DOCTRINE AND GUIDANCE THAT'S OUT THERE.
UM, AND THIS REPRESENTS THAT RELATIONSHIP THAT THESE, THAT ALL OF THESE JURISDICTIONS HAVE OPERATIONALLY, UM, WITH AN INCIDENT BEGINNING AND ENDING LOCALLY.
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THAT TERM MANY TIMES.
LOCAL JURISDICTIONS REALLY OWN AND MANAGE THE INCIDENTS.
UM, BUT THEY HAVE THAT SUPPORT OF COUNTY, STATE, AND FEDERAL LEVELS.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT THIS REPRESENTS HERE, UM, TO SHOW THE OVERALL EFFORT AND THE SUPPORTING RELATIONSHIPS THAT THE CI CITY OF SEDONA HAS.
UM, AND THE, THE LOCAL, UH, PLANETS THAT YOU SEE THERE REPRESENT THOSE WITHIN COCONINO COUNTY THAT ARE MA MAINTAINING THEIR OWN, UM, STANDALONE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLANS.
UM, AND SO THIS IS JUST ANOTHER TESTAMENT TO THE GREAT WORK THAT SEDONA HAS DONE WITH THEIR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AND OVERALL EFFORTS, UM, AND BEING THE FIRST IN ARIZONA TO DO, UH, A FULL COMPREHENSIVE EVACUATION AND REENTRY PLAN.
BACK TO THAT, UH, I'M SORRY, I'D LIKE ONE QUICK POINT HERE.
SO THE RELATIONSHIP THAT ASHLEY'S EXPLAINED, RIGHT? YOUR EVENT STARTS LOCALLY, IT, IT REVERBERATES OUT IF NECESSARY TO A FEDERAL SUPPORT LEVEL AND THEN IT REVERBERATES BACK AND IT EVENTUALLY COMES BACK AND YOU AS THE COUNCIL OWN THAT EVENT, RIGHT? YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR COMMUNITY.
UH, I WILL SAY THIS PARTICULAR DOCUMENT WAS USED IN MY BRAND NEW COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN THAT EM PARTNERS ALSO AUTHORED.
I WOULD HAVE TO, I JUST WANT TO ADD, AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT WHEN YOU SEE COCONINO COUNTY THERE, YOU'VE GOT THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVING ANOTHER GROUP IN THERE.
AND THAT'S YAVAPAI COUNTY'S EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
UM, ASHLEY AND I WORK VERY WELL TOGETHER.
SO YOU HAVE SOME ADVANTAGES, IT ADDS A FEW COMPLICATING FACTORS TO IT, BUT I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT FOR YOUR VISUALIZATION HERE, YOUR COUNTY YABA PIKE COUNTY'S PLAN IS ALSO, UH, IN THIS, UH, RELATIONSHIP IN UNIVERSE AND IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE.
SO I'LL GO OVER SPECIFICALLY A FEW OF THE PLANNING, GUIDANCE AND OTHER EXISTING PLANNING ITEMS THAT WE USED IN ORDER TO INCORPORATE INFORMATION AND REFERENCE APPROPRIATE INFORMATION.
WHEN WE DEVELOPED THE EVACUATION REENTRY PLAN, UM, FIRST STARTING WITH THE CITY OF SEDONA, WE TIED BACK, UM, TO YOUR EMERGENCY
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OPERATIONS PLAN.THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF INFORMATION AS FAR AS THE OVERALL CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS AND THE STRUCTURE AND THE HIGH LEVEL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OUTLINED IN YOUR E O P THAT TRANSLATE OVER INTO THE EVACUATION AND REENTRY PLAN JUST IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL.
SO WE'VE TIED BACK APPROPRIATELY TO THAT E O P, UM, AND IT AGAIN, IN MAKING AN EFFORT TO ALIGN ALL OF THESE DOCUMENTS AND MAKE THEM SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE SO THAT THERE'S NO CONFLICTING INFORMATION ACROSS YOUR EM PROGRAM DOCUMENTS.
WE'VE ALSO TIED BACK TO THAT COMMUNITY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GUIDE AND REFERENCED THE IMPORTANCE OF CITIZEN PREPAREDNESS AND THEM OWNING THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY PLANNING AND PREPAREDNESS EFFORTS IN SUPPORT OF ALL THAT THE CITY HAS PUT OUT WITH THESE, THESE DOCUMENTS.
AND THEN AT THE, THE COUNTY LEVEL, AS WEST MENTIONED, BOTH COCONINO AND YAVAPAI COUNTY EOPS WERE CONSIDERED IN DEVELOPING THIS PLAN AND CONSIDERING HOW THE COUNTIES WOULD SUPPORT THE CITY OF SEDONA DURING AN EVACUATION AND REENTRY OPERATIONS.
AND WE'VE TIED BACK TO THOSE PLANS APPROPRIATELY.
WE'VE ALSO TIED BACK IN DOING THAT WITH THE ARIZONA STATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND RECOVERY PLAN.
AGAIN, JUST MOVING ACROSS THE LINE OF GOING FROM LOCAL TO COUNTY TO STATE AND TO FEDERAL SUPPORT SHOULD AN EVENT OCCUR.
AND THEN THERE WERE SEVERAL FEMA DOCUMENTS, UM, THAT WERE PLANNING GUIDANCE FOR THIS PROCESS.
FIRSTLY, LOOKING AT THE FEMA PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS DOCUMENT FOR EVACUATION AND SHELTER IN PLACE.
IT'S A VERY HURRICANE CENTRIC DOCUMENT AS YOU CAN PROBABLY IMAGINE, BUT THERE WAS VALUABLE INFORMATION THERE FOR US TO TAKE IN, IN CONSIDERATIONS FOR, UM, DEALING WITH VARIOUS, UH, ASPECTS OF AN EMERGENCY EVACUATION OPERATION, WHETHER THAT BE TRANSPORTATION, TRAFFIC CONTROL, UM, ACCESS AND FUNCTIONAL NEEDS CONSIDERATION.
SO THERE WAS A LOT OF VALUABLE INFORMATION THAT INFORMED OUR DISCUSSIONS AND INFORMED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLAN.
AND THEN FINALLY, THAT FEMA COMPREHENSIVE PREPAREDNESS GUIDE 1 0 1, THAT CPG 1 0 1 DOCUMENT IS THE FEDERAL DOCUMENT THAT IS, UM, THE, THE KIND OF OVERARCHING PLANNING DOCTRINE FOR EMERGENCY PLANNING.
AND SO THAT GUIDED THE PLANNING PROCESS THAT WE USED.
AS WES MENTIONED, WE USED A VERY, UM, PLANNED OUT PROCESS IN ORDER TO CONDUCT ALL OF OUR DATA COLLECTION, CONDUCT OUR PLANNING WORKSHOPS WITH THE TEAM AND DEVELOP THE PLAN.
AND SO THAT GUIDED NOT ONLY THAT PROCESS, BUT ALSO THE COMPONENTS THAT ARE IN THE BASE PLAN AS FAR AS JUST HAVING BASIC COMPONENTS OF AN EMERGENCY PLAN THAT ARE ALIGNED WITH ALL OTHER EMERGENCY PLANS, UM, THAT YOU, WE'VE DISCUSSED ALREADY.
AND THEN THIS GRAPHIC HERE REPRESENTS A LITTLE BIT OF A CLOSER LOOK INTO THE CITY OF SEDONAS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM OVERALL AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE DOCUMENTS.
SO, UM, ON THE TOP LEVEL, YOU SEE THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLANS, BOTH YOURS AND THE COUNTY E EOPS THAT ARE INFORMING AND SUPPORTING YOUR OVERALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM EFFORTS.
UM, AND THEN THAT FEEDS INTO HOW WE'VE BUILT INTO EVEN FURTHER DETAIL THE SPECIFICS OF THE EVACUATION AND REENTRY PLAN WITH THAT SUPPORTING PIECE OF THE TRAFFIC STUDY REPORT AND THE OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS.
AND SO THIS IS REALLY JUST TO SHOW YOU, AGAIN, THIS IS A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH THAT YOU'RE TAKING IN DEVELOPING THESE PROGRAM ELEMENTS FOR YOUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM.
THIS DOCUMENT ISN'T, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST, UH, IT HAS A LOT OF TIES BACK TO, UM, ALL OF THE OTHER EFFORTS THAT ARE BEING DONE WITHIN THE CITY AND WITHIN BOTH OF THE COUNTIES AS WELL.
AND THIS SLIDE HERE SHOWS YOU A BIT OF KIND OF STATISTICS ABOUT OUR PLANNING PROCESS.
SO WE BROUGHT TOGETHER A PLANNING TEAM.
YOU HEARD, UH, THE CHIEF GO THROUGH SOME OF OUR PLANNING TEAM MEMBERS.
UM, WE HAD 22 UH, MEMBERS ON OUR STAKEHOLDER TEAM AND THAT COVERED CITY, COUNTY, AND STATE PARTNERS.
AND WE ALSO HAD OUR SIX CORE CITIZEN REPRESENTATIVES THAT WERE A PART OF OUR PLANNING PROCESS.
AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAD SEVERAL PLANNING WORKSHOPS.
WERE INVITED EVEN MORE, UM, CITIZEN REPRESENTATIVES IN AS WELL FOR EACH OF THE AREAS OF THE CITY IN ORDER TO GET THEIR FEEDBACK.
AND SO WE HAD A REALLY, UM, COMPREHENSIVE, UH, GROUP OF FOLKS THAT WERE ABLE TO BRING IN PERSPECTIVES AND GENERATE A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS PLANNING PROCESS.
UM, AND SO THAT WAS A REALLY VALUABLE, UH, PIECE OF THIS PROCESS.
AND THEN WITH THAT, IN ADDITION TO SOME OF THE INITIAL KICKOFF MEETINGS THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED, WE HAD SEVEN STAKEHOLDER PLANNING WORKSHOPS.
AND THAT WAS REALLY THE MEAT OF THIS PROJECT WHERE WE, WE BROUGHT ALL THE, ALL OF THESE STAKEHOLDERS TOGETHER AND DISCUSSED ALL OF THE VARIOUS OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS WITH ALL OF YOUR, UH, CITY AND, AND COUNTY AND STATE OFFICIALS.
AND THEN ALSO TALKING WITH THE CITIZENS ABOUT THEIR SPECIFIC EXPERTISE AND KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR COMMUNITY AND THEIR SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOODS AND CONCERNS THEY HAVE THAT MIGHT LEND TO, UM, THE CITY BEING ABLE TO SAFELY MOVE PEOPLE IN CARS IN AN EMERGENCY.
AND SO WE HAD A LOT OF REALLY, UM, GREAT DISCUSSIONS IN THOSE SEVEN WORKSHOPS IN ORDER TO GATHER DATA TO BUILD THIS PLAN.
WHAT YOU'VE COME OUT OF THIS WITH IS A 58
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PA PAGE EVACUATION AND REENTRY PLAN AND AN 108 PAGE TRAFFIC STUDY REPORT.UM, AND THAT INCLUDES THOSE 35, UH, TRAFFIC COUNTS, UH, THE 35 INTERSECTION TRAFFIC COUNTS, THAT GREEN LIGHT CONDUCTED.
UM, AND THEN THE PRODUCT ULTIMATELY BEING THOSE 12 COMMUNITY ZONE EVACUATION ROUTE MAPS.
AND THOSE ARE THE BEST ROUTE EVACUATION MAPS, UNDERSTANDING THAT WE CAN'T PLAN FOR EVERY POSSIBLE SCENARIO, BUT GIVEN WORST CASE SCENARIO AND THE GROUND TRUTH DATA THAT WAS COLLECTED, UM, THOSE ZONE MAPS REPRESENT THE BEST ROUTE EVACUATION.
UM, AND THEN FINALLY, WE HAVE TWO COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS THAT FOLLOWING PLAN ADOPTION, UM, WILL BE COORDINATING WITH THE CITY FOR A PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO PUSH THIS PLAN OUT TO THE CITIZENS OF SEDONA.
ALRIGHT, SO AS FAR AS OVERALL PLAN HIGHLIGHTS, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS WE REALLY EMPHASIZE TO THE POINT OF EVEN PUTTING IT ON THE COVER PAGE OF YOUR PLAN IS THAT THIS IS AN ALL HAZARDS LIFE SAFETY RESPONSE PLAN.
SO I'LL BREAK THAT DOWN A BIT.
OF COURSE, WE UNDERSTAND LIFE SAFETY RESPONSE.
THAT'S THE ULTIMATE GOAL HERE, RIGHT? IS TO MAKE, UH, SEDONA A SAFER PLACE FOR CITIZENS AND VISITORS.
AND SO THAT'S OUR, THE MAIN GOAL HERE.
BUT ALL HAZARDS WHEN WE SAY THAT THIS IS NOT A WILDFIRE EVACUATION PLAN, IT'S NOT A FLOODING EVACUATION PLAN.
WE BUILT THIS PLAN, UM, TO MATCH THE FEMA AND STATE AND COUNTY EFFORTS TO PLAN IN AN ALL HAZARDS ENVIRONMENT AND PLAN FOR CAPABILITIES RATHER THAN SPECIFIC HAZARDS AND FOCUS ON THOSE HIGH LEVEL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF ALL OF YOUR CITY OFFICIALS AND PARTNERS INVOLVED IN A POTENTIAL EVACUATION OPERATION.
SO, UM, YOU'LL SEE BUILT INTO THE PLAN, THE REFERENCE TO ALL HAZARDS AND WHAT THAT MEANS IN PLANNING FOR ANY POSSIBLE SCENARIO THAT MIGHT, UM, NECESSITATE THOSE EVACUATION AND REENTRY OPERATIONS.
AND THEN REALLY KEY HERE IS THAT THIS PLAN WAS BASED AROUND THE GROUND TRUTH DATA AND THOSE EVACUATION MAPS, UM, WITH THE BEST ROUTE EVACUATIONS ON THAT WE GOT FROM GREEN LIGHTS TRAFFIC STUDY REPORT.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S REALLY SETS THIS, UH, PROJECT APART FROM OTHER EVACUATION PLANS WE'VE SEEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN THAT WE HAD THAT GROUND TRUTH DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS OCCUR WITH THIS PROJECT.
AND ULTIMATELY WHAT WE WANTED THE GOAL TO BE WITH THIS PLAN IS THAT IT WOULD BE A CLEAN AND CONCISE DOCUMENT THAT COULD ACTUALLY BE OPERATIONALIZED BY YOUR CITY OFFICIALS.
SOMETHING THAT THEY WOULD ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO USE TO GUIDE THEIR OPERATIONS, TO GUIDE THEIR PLANNING, TRAINING, AND EXERCISE ACTIVITIES.
UM, THIS, THIS PLAN IS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT WILL BE ABLE TO BE USED CONTINUING WITH THE TRAINING AND EXERCISE PROGRAM THAT THE CITY IS CONDUCTING TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO HAVE A DYNAMIC AND UP TO DATE PLAN AND CONTINUE TO FIND AREAS TO IMPROVE.
AND SO EVEN JUST IN THIS PROCESS, THERE'S ALREADY BEEN EFFORTS, UM, THAT HAVE BEEN MADE TO IMPROVE THINGS AND ACQUIRE, UH, VARIOUS EQUIPMENT TO IMPROVE EVACUATION AND REENTRY OPERATIONS.
AND WES IS GOING TO SPEAK TO THAT A BIT SO EARLY ON AND, AND THERE'S A COUPLE POINTS THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT ON THIS SLIDE.
SO, UM, YOU CAN, YOU CAN BE THANKFUL THAT YOU HAVE ONE PLAN TO READ.
UM, NOT TOO LONG AGO, FEMA WAS MORE INTERESTED IN, YOU NEED A HURRICANE PLAN, YOU NEED A FIRE PLAN, YOU NEED A FLOOD PLAN, YOU NEED ALL THESE DIFFERENT PLANS.
UM, AND, AND REALLY THE REALITY WAS THAT INSTEAD OF READING ALL THOSE PLANS, SAY YOU'RE READING ONE ALL HAZARDS PLANNED BECAUSE IT REALLY DOESN'T REALLY, DOESN'T MATTER THE THE THREAT OR WHAT'S APPROACHING YOUR COMMUNITY, YOU'RE GONNA CALL THE SAME PEOPLE.
YOU'RE GONNA CALL CHIEF FOLEY, YOU'RE GONNA CALL THE FIRE CHIEF, YOU'RE GONNA CALL THE SAME PEOPLE.
SO IT, IT BECAME A REALIZATION WITH FEMA PROBABLY ABOUT 10 OR 12 YEARS AGO NOW, THAT THE ALL HAZARDS WAS A BETTER APPROACH BECAUSE IT MADE SENSE.
UM, YOU, YOU, UH, ASHLEY TALKED ABOUT CLEAN, CONCISE, UH, AND USABLE DOCUMENT.
UM, THE, UH, COCONINO COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN THAT WAS JUST COMPLETED AND REWRITTEN AND RESTRUCTURED BY EM PARTNERS PRIOR TO THEIR ENGAGEMENT WAS 780 PAGES LONG.
IF YOU'D LIKE IT, I'D BE HAPPY TO SEND IT TO YOU SO YOU CAN HAVE SOME SATURDAY AFTERNOON READING.
UH, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY EVER READ IT, MYSELF INCLUDED.
IT WAS NOT A FUNCTIONAL DOCUMENT.
UH, I USE A TERM ORNAMENTAL VERSUS OPERATIONAL.
IT WAS A GREAT DOORSTOP, IT WAS REALLY COOL ON THE SHELF BEHIND MY DESK, BUT IT WAS USELESS.
UH, THIS PLAN IS CLEAN AND CONCISE.
UH, ALL OF YOUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS CAN FLIP TO THEIR PAGE, THEY CAN DIVE INTO THEIR ANNEX, THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND IT'S, AND THEY'RE GOOD TO GO.
AND THEN ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS HERE, AND AND YOU'LL SEE THERE'S A HIGHLIGHT BOX THERE AND, AND WE'LL REACH OUT TO THE FIRE CHIEF CUZ THAT'S HIS QUOTE.
I DON'T KNOW IF HE RECOGNIZES IT OR NOT, BUT, UH, HE'S FAMOUS NOW.
UM, THIS WHOLE PROCESS THAT WAS INITIATED THROUGH YOUR GUIDANCE AND THROUGH YOUR CITIZEN'S, UM, INTEREST REALLY
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GENERATED A LOT OF CONVERSATION.UM, ONE OF THE OTHER CONVERSATION PIECES THAT IS STILL OUT THERE AND UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT FURTHER IF YOU'D LIKE, IS THE ADDITION OF ADDITIONAL LAYER.
SO AS ASHLEY TALKED ABOUT ALL THE COMPONENTS THAT YOU'VE GOT IN YOUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLAN, ONE OF THE LAYERS THAT WAS SPOKEN OF SEVERAL MONTHS AGO BACK TO THE BEGINNING WAS THE ADDITION OF A POTENTIAL SIREN SYSTEM IN PARTS OR ALL OF SEDONA.
UM, AT THAT TIME WE WERE SPEAKING PRETTY MUCH ABOUT UPTOWN SEDONA BEFORE THE PLAN WENT CITYWIDE.
UM, UH, I HAVE ADVISED YOUR CITY, UH, LEADERSHIP THAT THERE IS SOME FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR THAT.
UM, COIO COUNTY WAS AWARDED A CONGRESSIONAL EARMARK AWARD IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET, UH, THAT WOULD ALLOW ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE A SIREN SITE OR TWO SITES.
WE'D HAVE TO DO A STAT, WE'D HAVE TO DO A, A STUDY TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY HOW MANY SITES YOU NEED, AND IT WOULD HAVE TO BE IN KAINO COUNTY ONLY BECAUSE OF THE, UH, FUNDING AWARD.
UM, EACH ONE OF THOSE INSTALLATIONS IS ROUGHLY $50,000, AND THAT INCLUDES THE STUDY, THE CONSTRUCTION, THE PLACEMENT, UM, ALL OF THAT INFORMATION.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IF UPTOWN FOR EXAMPLE DECIDED IT WANTED OR TWO SIRENS ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ROUGHLY, AND PLEASE DON'T QUOTE ME ON THOSE DOLLARS, BUT THAT'S FROM EXPERIENCE ROUGHLY WHERE WE'D BE IN THE, IN THE, IN THE PRICE LINE.
UM, THAT FUNDING IS AVAILABLE.
I DON'T HAVE THE DOLLARS AND CENTS IN THE BANK YET.
I'M STILL GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS WITH CONGRESS AND WITH, UH, FEMA TO, UM, TO HAVE THAT AWARD GIVEN TO US.
IF THAT IS SOMETHING, AND THAT IS A CONTINUING CONVERSATION WITH YOURSELVES OR WITH YOUR CITIZENS, UH, I'M CERTAINLY GLAD TO CONTINUE TO ENGAGE IN THAT.
SO I'LL GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT IS ALL INCLUDED IN THE BASE PLAN AND THE PURPOSE OF EACH OF THESE COMPONENTS.
SO FIRST, IN THE INTRODUCTION, THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF INFORMATION IN THE INTRODUCTION SECTION OF THE PLAN, COVERING THE PURPOSE AND THE SCOPE OF THE PLAN, UM, AND THE PURPOSE, LIKE I MENTIONED BEING THAT ALL HAZARDS, LIFE SAFETY RESPONSE AND ALSO BEING, UM, IDENTIFYING ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF YOUR CITY OFFICIALS IN ORDER TO GUIDE THEIR OPERATIONS.
UM, BUT THERE'S ALSO QUITE A BIT OF THE, THE BASELINE STUDY INFORMATION AND PLANNING ASSUMPTIONS IN THIS SECTION OF THE PLAN.
AND I WANTED TO CALL OUT A COUPLE OF THE PLANNING ASSUMPTIONS THAT I THINK ARE SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IN BUILDING A PLAN LIKE THIS.
UM, AND FIRST IS, IS THE UNPREDICTABLE NATURE OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
UM, IF YOU READ THROUGH THAT, YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE'S QUITE A BIT THAT YOU CAN PROBABLY IMAGINE ANY TYPE OF, UH, EXAMPLE THAT YOU CAN'T PLAN FOR EVERY SINGLE THING THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DO IN AN EMERGENCY.
UM, BUT WE CAN PLAN FOR WORST CASE SCENARIO, WE CAN USE THE GROUND TRUTH DATA, UM, AND WE CAN, WE CAN PLAN FOR AND A VARIATION OF CONSIDERATIONS THAT CAN BE USED.
UM, AND THAT'S WHAT WE REALLY GET INTO IN THE MEAT OF THIS PLAN.
BUT WE'VE CALLED OUT THAT THAT REALLY THAT UNPREDICTABLE NATURE OF WHAT PEOPLE WILL DO IN AN EMERGENCY AND JUST UNDERSTANDING THAT, UM, AS A BASELINE FOR BEFORE YOU DIG INTO THE CONSIDERATIONS OF THE PLAN.
UM, AND ANOTHER ONE HERE IS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CITIZEN PREPAREDNESS PIECE.
UM, SO WITH THIS PLAN, GIVING THE CITY OFFICIALS ITS GUIDANCE AND FOR, AND OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS DURING EVACUATION AND REENTRY, IT ALSO SERVES TWOFOLD TO GIVE, UH, TO GIVE PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION TO CITIZENS AND VISITORS IN THE CITY AS WELL.
AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT CITIZENS OWN THEIR PERSONAL AND FAMILY PREPAREDNESS IN ORDER TO HELP FACILITATE EVEN MORE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT OPERATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY.
SO THOSE ARE JUST TWO OF THOSE REALLY KEY PIECES THAT WE BUILT THIS PLAN AROUND.
AND A LOT OF THAT IS, UM, SEEN ALSO IN THE REFERENCE TO YOUR COMMUNITY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GUIDE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CITIZEN'S UNDERSTANDING AND, AND USING THAT GUIDE TO HELP GUIDE THEIR OWN PREPAREDNESS EFFORTS.
UM, YOU ALSO SEE THE ORGANIZATION AND ASSIGNMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES.
THIS IS THE HIGH LEVEL RESPONSIBILITIES SECTION, UM, OUTLINING KEY OFFICIALS AND ENTITIES AND WHAT THEIR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ARE DURING AN EVACUATION AND REENTRY OPERATION.
AND THIS TIES DIRECTLY BACK TO THOSE HIGH LEVEL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN YOUR EOP AND IN THE COUNTY'S EOPS AS WELL.
UM, SO THAT ALIGNMENT IS FIT INTO THAT PIECE.
UM, AND THEN ALSO IN YOUR CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS, THIS IS BASICALLY YOUR GENERAL STRUCTURE AND APPROACH TO EVACUATION AND REENTRY OPERATIONS.
AND WE BREAK THAT DOWN INTO THREE MAIN PHASES, AND THAT'S YOUR PUBLIC INFORMATION AND WARNING, YOUR OPER YOUR EVACUATION OPERATIONS PHASE AND THE RE-ENTRY PHASE.
AND SO WHAT YOU'LL SEE WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THAT PORTION OF THE PLAN FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION WARNING, WE'VE OUTLINED AND A INCLUDED LINKS FOR EASE OF ACCESS TO BOTH THE CITY'S NICKEL AND BOTH OF THE COUNTY EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS RAIDED FOR COCONINO COUNTY AND EVERBRIDGE FOR YAVAPAI COUNTY, SO THAT CITIZENS HAVE THE EASE OF ACCESS FOR, UM, I,
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UH, REGISTERING FOR THOSE PUB PUBLIC, UH, ALERT AND WARNING SYSTEMS. THEN WITH YOUR EVACUATION PHASE CONSIDERATIONS, THIS IS WHERE WE REALLY BREAK DOWN THE MEAT OF THE, THE GUIDANCE FOR CITY OFFICIALS AND PARTNERS DURING EVACUATIONS WITH TRAFFIC CONTROL, UM, TRANSPORTATION ACCESS AND FUNCTIONAL NEEDS, GENERAL MASS CARE, UM, AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS THAT THE CITY OFFICIALS WILL TAKE BASED ON A PARTICULAR, UH, EVACUATION SITUATION.AND THEN SIMILARLY FOR REENTRY, LOOKING AT THE VARIOUS DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS THAT MAY OCCUR, IDENTIFYING UTILITIES AND BEING TURNED ON, UM, AND VARIOUS THINGS PHASING A RE-ENTRY OR ALLOWING HOW WE CONTROL ACCESS AND RE-ENTRY.
SO YOU'LL SEE THE BREAKDOWN OF ALL OF THESE VARIOUS OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THAT SECTION OF THE PLAN.
AND THEN FINALLY, THAT PLAN DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE PIECE, THAT GETS BACK TO THE TRAINING AND EXERCISE.
SO THIS PLAN IS CONSIDERED A LIVING DOCUMENT, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE CITY WILL AND ITS PARTNERS WILL CONTINUE TO USE IN ORDER TO CONTINUE TO BUILD THEIR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AS THEY CONTINUE TO DO DRILLS OR TABLETOP EXERCISES OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, AND TRAIN THEIR STAFF ON THE PLAN.
UM, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IN FOLLOWING WITH THE PREPAREDNESS CYCLE, UM, WE'LL KEEP THIS PLAN DYNAMIC FOR THE CITY.
SO THE COMMUNITY ZONE EVACUATION MAPS, ANNEX INCLUDES, UH, BREAKDOWN OF EACH OF THE ZONES, THE 12 ZONES THAT WERE IDENTIFIED EARLY ON IN THIS PROJECT IN WORKING WITH THE CITY TO, UH, CREATE 12 ZONES WITHIN THE THREE POLICE DEPARTMENT BEATS.
SO YOU'LL SEE, UM, THE WEST BEAT INCLUDES ZONES ONE THROUGH FIVE.
ROBERT BEAT IS SIX AND SEVEN, AND THEN EAST BEAT IS EIGHT THROUGH 12.
AND THAT'S HOW THAT WAS BROKEN UP FOR ANALYSIS AND FOR EASE OF UNDERSTANDING.
UM, AND JUST FROM THE OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF HOW THE CITY MIGHT GROUP DIFFERENT, UH, SECTIONS FOR AN EVACUATION.
FOR EACH OF THE 12 ZONES, THIS ANNEX INCLUDES THIS PAGE WITH THE BREAKDOWN OF THE, THAT BEST ROUTE EVACUATION MAP AND INFORMATION FOR CITIZENS TO ACCESS THOSE EMERGENCY ALERTS FOR THE CITY, FOR YAVAPAI COUNTY AND FOR COCONINO COUNTY, AS WELL AS READY, SET, GO INFORMATION.
THAT'S A REALLY KEY THING HERE THAT WE'RE EMPHASIZING, IS THAT NOTHING IN THIS EVACUATION PLAN IS CHANGING WHAT YOU ALREADY DO WITH READY, SET, GO.
IT'S JUST, UM, AMPLIFYING IT AND, AND REALLY ADDING ANOTHER LAYER TO HELP YOUR, YOUR CITY OFFICIALS IMPLEMENT, READY, SET, GO IN A MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT WAY.
AND SO WE REALLY WANNA EMPHASIZE THAT NOTHING WITH, UH, THIS PLAN, UH, CHANGES, READY, SET, GO IN ANY WAY, BUT RATHER ACCOMPANIES IT.
UM, AND SO WHAT WE'VE BUILT, THESE, THESE PAGES AND THIS ANNEX TO BE, IS TO REALLY BE A PUBLIC AWARENESS PIECE, UM, THAT THE CITY WILL USE IN THEIR PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN IN PUSHING OUT THIS PLAN.
AND WE'VE BUILT THESE TO BE PRINTABLE PAGES THAT FOLKS CAN PRINT OUT, PUT ON THEIR FRIDGE, OR KEEP IN THEIR OFFICES, KEEP IT, UM, WHEREVER THEY MIGHT NEED TO ACCESS THIS INFORMATION READILY.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE A QR CODE HERE THAT BRINGS YOU TO AN OVERALL EVACUATION MAP, WHICH WES WILL GO OVER THAT THE COUNTY IS MAINTAINING.
UM, BUT THESE ARE SUBMIT TO BE, UM, USEFUL PAGES FOR THE COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THEIR ZONES ARE, AND THEN IN YELLOW THERE TO KNOW THEIR ROUTE AND OWN THEIR PLAN.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE'LL EMPHASIZE AS PART OF THE PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN, IS TO HAVE FOLKS KNOW THEIR ROUTE, OWN THEIR PLAN, OWN THAT PREPAREDNESS FOR THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY PLANNING, UH, FOR EMERGENCIES.
AND, UM, I'LL PASS TO WEST TO DISCUSS THE COUNTY'S EFFORTS ON THE OVERALL EVACUATION PLAN.
YEAH, SO BACK TO WHAT I SAID EARLIER.
UM, YOU KNOW, THIS PART, A LOT OF CONVERSATION.
UM, AS I MENTIONED, CITY FLAGSTAFF IS NECESSARY TO CONSIDERING A PLAN.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO DO AS A RESULT OF THIS WAS LOOK AT HOW WE ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT, UH, EVACUATIONS.
UH, LAST YEAR DURING THE TUNNEL FIRE, UH, UNFORTUNATELY WE EXPERIENCED HEADWINDS, UH, APPROACHING 70 MILES AN HOUR IN THAT FIRE.
WE LOST, UH, IN THAT PARTICULAR FIRE, WE LOST 31 HOMES IN 58 STRUCTURES.
THAT FIRE WAS MOVING FASTER THAN MOST OF THE FIRE TRUCKS COULD PHYSICALLY MOVE.
UM, THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND, AND, UH, COMMANDER BECK IS HERE, AND I WOULD WELCOME ANY COMMENT THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO ADD.
UH, THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND, AND ALL THE PUBLIC OFFICIALS THAT WORKED ON EVACUATION, UH, WERE, UH, UH, MIRACULOUS.
WE HAD NO LOSS OF LIFE IN THAT EVENT.
AND, UH, THAT BACK TO WHAT ASHLEY SAID EARLIER, IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL.
SO WE WANTED TO LOOK AT HOW TO BETTER IMPLEMENT EVACUATIONS.
SO THIS IS MORE OF AN OPERATIONAL TOOL, NOT A PLANNING TOOL.
SO I WANNA DISTINGUISH, THIS IS NOT PART OF YOUR PLAN TODAY MM-HMM.
UH, THE CHIEF CAN USE IT, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT CAN USE IT.
THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, UM, LIEUTENANT JOHNSON IS IN THE BACKGROUND.
UM, THIS WAS DESIGNED SO THAT WE COULD
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IDENTIFY ZONES AND, AND THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK THAT WENT INTO IDENTIFYING EACH ZONE, THE SIZE, THE COMPLEXITY, AND THE MAKEUP.UH, THERE'S A LOT OF CONSIDERATIONS ON HOW THOSE ZONES WERE PICKED.
YOU'LL NOTICE, UH, AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS MAP, UH, IF WE CAN SCROLL UP, UH, SEDONA IS ZONES ONE THROUGH 12.
THE CONVERSATION THAT YOU AND YOUR CITIZENS GENERATED WAS A VERY STRONG, UH, FORCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PLAN, OR THIS, EXCUSE ME, THIS TOOL.
UM, THE WAY THIS WILL WORK, AND IT IS OPERATIONAL NOW, IT HAS BEEN INTRODUCED ACROSS ALL OF COCONINO COUNTY.
WE'RE STILL WORKING WITH THE ABU PIKE COUNTY AUDIT, BUT IT IS OPERATIONAL IN COCONINO COUNTY.
AND RATHER THAN, UM, THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT OR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN YOUR CASE SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO GO TO THIS STREET AND THAT STREET IN ORDER TO THAT STREET AND UP THIS STREET, AND WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO EVACUATE AND TO NOTICE THOSE PEOPLE AND NOT OVER NOTICE OR UNDER NOTICE HOW TO MAKE THAT PIECE HAPPEN IS, UH, VERY COMPLICATED.
I'M GLAD TO ANSWER MORE FOR YOU LATER, BUT IT'S A COMPLICATED PROCESS THAT REALLY IS A ZERO FAIL MISSION, BECAUSE IF WE UNDER NOTICE, WE PUT PEOPLE AT RISK.
IF WE OVER NOTICE, WE, WE PUT CITIZENS IN OTHER HOMES THAT WE DON'T WANT AND WE, THAT WE DON'T NEED TO DO, AND WE DON'T WANNA DO THAT.
SO THAT REALLY IN CONCEPT, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS, FOR EXAMPLE, CHIEF FOLEY MIGHT SAY TO EITHER MY OFFICE, IF I'M MAKING THE NOTIFICATIONS, OR YOU, YOU HAVE A PI COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, I NEED TO EVACUATE ZONES.
THAT'S, THAT'S THE ENTIRE CONVERSATION.
I HAVE THOSE ZONES PRE-PROGRAMMED IN MY EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.
UM, I BELIEVE THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT'S WORKING ON SOMETHING SIMILAR.
WE GO IN AND CLICK THESE THREE ZONES, WE PUSH THE BUTTON AND WE SEND IT OUT.
WE CAN DELIVER THAT, THAT MESSAGE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES.
AND WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A, A FIRE, SOMETHING LIKE WHAT WE HAD WITH THE TUNNEL FIRE LAST YEAR, SECONDS REALLY, REALLY, REALLY COUNT.
WE DELIVERED 12 EMERGENCY MESSAGES TO OUR RESIDENTS IN THE TUNNEL FIRE AREA.
WE DELIVERED 12 MESSAGES IN JUST UNDER 20 MINUTES.
AT ONE POINT, WE DELIVERED A, UH, SET MESSAGE.
THREE MINUTES LATER, WE DELIVERED A GO MESSAGE WITHIN THREE MINUTES.
THAT PROCESS IS WHAT CAUSED US TO TAKE A FURTHER LOOK.
WE WANTED TO BUILD A TOOL BEHIND YOUR PLAN AND BEHIND OUR EVACUATION PLANS TO BETTER IMPLEMENT, READY, SET, GO, WHICH YOU'LL NOTICE.
AND IF YOU CLICK ON ANY ONE OF THE ZONES, WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS, UH, ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN, JUST CLICK IN THE MIDDLE OF ANY OF THE ZONES.
UM, ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, YOU WILL SEE SOME VERY BASIC INFORMATION.
IT'S REALLY NOT IMPORTANT AT THIS POINT, BUT YOU'LL SEE THAT IF YOU CLICK ON THAT PDF, PLEASE, CHIEF AT THE BOTTOM, YOU WILL SEE EXACTLY WHAT ASHLEY GAVE YOU.
EACH ONE OF THOSE ZONES HAS ITS OWN MAP.
SPECIFIC TO THAT ZONE, THE CITIZEN IS FREE.
AND WE ENCOURAGE THE CITIZEN TO PRINT THEIR MAP AND MAYBE THE MAP FOR THE ZONES AROUND THEM, RIGHT? IF ZONE ONE IS BEING EVACUATED OR IS ON SET STATUS, ZONE TWO, ZONE THREE SHOULD PROBABLY BE PAYING ATTENTION AT THIS POINT, RIGHT? WE'RE ASKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
THE QR CODE IS AGAIN, DESIGNED FOR THEM TO TAKE THEM RIGHT BACK TO THE MAP, TO THE MAIN MAP.
IF THEY WANNA KNOW ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THEIR, THEIR FAMILY'S SITUATION, MAYBE IN UPTOWN, THEY CAN CLICK RIGHT BACK TO IT ON THE MAP AND GET BACK AND GET INFORMATION ABOUT THAT.
UM, THE CITY OF FLAGSTAFF JUST ADDED THEIR ZONES, UH, ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.
SO THE ENTIRETY OF COCONINO COUNTY, SECOND LARGEST COUNTY IN THE COUNTRY, ABOUT 19,000 SQUARE MILES.
ALL OF OUR URBAN INTERFACE HOUSES, RESIDENTS, NEIGHBORHOODS ARE INCLUDED IN HIS OWN.
THE ENTIRE COUNTY IS NOT INCLUDED IN HIS OWN.
WE HAVE A LOT OF FOREST, WE HAVE A LOT OF AREA, WE DON'T HAVE RESIDENTS.
OKAY? IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO DO THAT.
WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT LIVE WITHIN HIS OWN.
ONE OF THE THINGS WE EMPHASIZE TO THEM IS, OKAY, SO PICK THE ZONE CLOSEST TO YOU AND PAY ATTENTION TO THAT ONE, BACK TO RIGHT.
KNOW YOUR ZONE, OWN YOUR PLAN.
THAT'S REALLY, REALLY A CRITICAL PIECE.
UM, I, I, I WILL JUST CONCLUDE BY SAYING THIS ENTIRE EFFORT WAS BUILT, UM, CONCURRENT TO YOUR PLAN.
YOUR PLAN WAS, UH, UH, A MAIN, UH, DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THIS.
SO AGAIN, THANK YOU TO YOU AND THANK YOU TO YOUR CITIZENS FOR THIS.
WE HAVE SHARED IT WITH ALL OF OUR AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO HAVE, UH, JURISDICTION WITH, UH, EXCUSE ME, EVACUATION AUTHORITY.
WE'VE ALSO SHARED IT WITH THE US FOREST SERVICE.
WE WILL ALSO SHARE WITH ANY OF THE INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAMS THAT WE'VE ALL COME SO FAMILIAR WITH IN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS WHO MIGHT COME IN TO WORK A PARTICULAR FIRE.
THIS WILL BE THE MODEL THAT WE USE FOR EVACUATION NOTIFICATIONS.
I WILL SAY, IF SOMETHING HAPPENS THAT IS
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FREAK THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T PREDICT SITTING HERE TODAY, WE ARE STILL ABLE TO DEVELOP FREEHAND POLYGONS.WE CAN DRAW A LINE ON A MAP THAT LOOKS DIFFERENT THAN THIS AND MAKE A NOTIFICATION IF NEED BE.
UM, I WILL TELL YOU
UH, AGAIN, THEY WERE VERY INTENTIONALLY DESIGNED, AND I'D BE GLAD TO ANSWER QUESTIONS PERHAPS LATER IF YOU WISH, ON HOW THEY WERE DESIGNED.
AND, UH, IT IS OPERATIONAL AND IT WAS A GREAT ADDITION AND A GREAT SUPPORT TO YOUR PLAN.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I'M THE EMERGENCY MANAGER FOR THE YAPA COUNTY OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
AND I MEAN, THERE'S NOT A LOT THAT I CAN SAY THAT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN SAID, UH, BUT I DO WANNA ECHO WES' SENTIMENTS AND JUST SAYING THANK YOU FOR YOU GUYS TAKING THIS INITIATIVE TO CREATE SUCH A PLAN WITH EVACUATION ZONES.
HAVING THAT EVACUATION REENTRY PLAN IN PLACE IS HUGE.
AND AS I MENTIONED, IT'S THE FIRST IN THE STATE.
UM, MY OFFICE, AS WELL AS WES' OFFICE, IS A PART OF A STATEWIDE, UH, WORK GROUP INITIATIVE BEING LED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS TO BRING EVACUATION ZONES TO ARIZONA.
AND SO THEY, AS WELL AS MANY OTHERS HAVE HAD EYES ON THIS PROJECT.
AND TO SEE IT COME TO FRUITION HAS BEEN FANTASTIC.
AND THIS PLAN HAS ALSO ALLOWED ME, YOU KNOW, MUCH LIKE WES HAS BEEN ABLE TO GO BACK AND IMPLEMENT EVACUATION ZONES AND, AND COCONINO COUNTY, WE'RE HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS FOR YA BY COUNTY AS WELL.
AND I, I'VE BEEN ABLE TO ENGAGE IN MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR, UH, MUNICIPAL PARTNERS.
UM, I, I KNOW THERE'S SOME EFFORTS BEING TAKEN PLACE RIGHT NOW IN AREAS LIKE COTTONWOOD.
I KNOW CAMP VERDE IS LOOKING TOWARDS IT AS WELL AS AT THE COUNTY LEVEL TO IMPLEMENT SOMETHING SIMILAR.
UM, BECAUSE SEEING SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS, IS HUGE.
AND, UM, IN MY PREVIOUS LIFE, I'VE SENT A LOT OF EMERGENCY NOTIFICATIONS.
UM, AND SO HEARING WES TALK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE LAST YEAR AND HOW JUST DAUNTING IT WAS TO GET THOSE NOTIFICATIONS OUT IN A TIMELY MANNER WHEN THEY DIDN'T HAVE TIME, REALLY JUST RESONATED WITH ME.
UM, BUT IT REALLY JUST SOLIDIFIED THAT BELIEF FOR ME.
AND SO DEFINITELY A THANK YOU.
YOU GUYS SHOULD BE SO VERY PROUD OF THE EFFORTS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE YOUR, YOUR RESIDENTS HAVE DONE.
AND NOT ONLY FOR THIS PLAN, BUT THE ENTIRE SUITE OF PRODUCTS THAT YOU HAVE.
UM, BUT WITH THAT BEING SAID, WITHIN YOU HAVE IT BY COUNTY.
WE DO HAVE AN INFORMATION HUB.
UH, IT'S AN EMERGENCY INFORMATION HUB WHERE WE SHARE INFORMATION DURING A, A CRITICAL INCIDENT.
TYPICALLY, IT'S WHERE WE HAVE THE POLYGONS AND THE SHEET FILES FOR AN EVACUATION OR IF THERE'S A SET STATUS WHERE SHELTERS ARE AT, ET CETERA.
AND WE DO HAVE THE, UM, THE EVACUATION ZONES ON THAT.
NOW, I WILL KIND OF WARN YOU, OUR WEBSITE'S NOT EXACTLY PRETTY.
IT'S, IT'S YAVAPAI AZ.GOV/PUBLIC WORK SLASH EMERGENCY HYEN MANAGEMENT
UM, SO IF YOU CAN MANAGE TO REMEMBER THAT.
BUT THE GOOD NEWS WITH THAT WAS THIS, UH, LAST OR MOST RECENT BUDGET CYCLE, MY OFFICE WAS APPROVED TO GET A SUB-SITE.
SO IN THE COMING MONTHS, ONCE THE NEW FISCAL YEAR STARTS, WE ARE GONNA BE EMBARKING ON GETTING A WEBSITE THAT'S A LITTLE BIT EASIER TO REMEMBER AND DIGEST, AND OF COURSE HAVE THAT INFORMATION AVAILABLE, UM, TO RESIDENTS.
AND WES AND I ARE ALSO KIND OF WORKING ON BEHIND THE SCENES IF THERE'S LIKE A MAGIC WAY GIS.
CAUSE THEY SPEAK A MAGICAL LANGUAGE.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND TO CONNECT THOSE MAPS FOR YAVAPAI AND COCONINO COUNTY.
SO IT'S JUST THE ONE PRODUCT THAT WE BOTH SHARE.
UH, WOULD YOU LIKE COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS AT THE SAME TIME TO EXPEDITE, UH, THE PROCESS? IS THAT OKAY? YES, SIR.
COUNSEL, YOU FEEL THE SAME? OKAY.
IS THERE PUBLIC, UH, COMMENTS? UH, WE COULD DO THAT FOR, WOULD YOU RATHER DO THAT FIRST BEFORE YOUR, YOUR, CAUSE I KNOW YOU DIDN'T ASK ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE DISCUSSION.
AND MAYOR, I ALSO, JUST A REMINDER, WE DO ALSO HAVE THE, THE ACTION ITEM TO APPROVE THE, THE IGA.
YEAH, NO, THAT, THAT WOULD BE LAST.
JEN, ARE YOU ANYWHERE IN THE US? YES.
SO WE'RE GONNA OPEN THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.
AND JEN FK, UH, I THINK YOU KNOW THE DRILL.
MY NAME IS JEN FARNSWORTH, AND I'M A RESIDENT OF SEDONA.
I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY MANAGER, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, OUR CHIEF OF POLICE, AND THE ENTIRE TEAM FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT OF THIS IMPORTANT PROJECT.
AND I THINK SO MANY RESIDENTS ARE JUST THRILLED TO SEE THIS HAPPEN.
AND I ESPECIALLY WANNA THANK WES AND ASHLEY FOR THEIR LEADERSHIP THROUGHOUT THESE PAST MONTHS, YOU'VE BEEN HIGHLY ORGANIZED, EXTREMELY COLLABORATIVE, INCLUSIVE, AND ACCESSIBLE.
YOU'VE ANSWERED EVERY SINGLE QUESTION THAT
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I AND OTHER RESIDENTS HAVE HAD FOR YOU.AND YOU'VE EAGERLY EMBRACED US AS MEMBERS OF YOUR TEAM.
AND IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH YOU BOTH.
AND BECAUSE OF YOU AS ASHLEY AND OTHERS HAVE JUST SAID, THE CITY NOW HAS ONE OF THE BEST ALL HAZARDS, ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES, EVACUATION DOCUMENTS FOR THE STATE.
THIS PLAN WILL SERVE AS THE FOUNDATION FOR MORE PROJECTS FOR MANY MORE YEARS TO COME.
AND I HOPE AND CONTINUE TO WORK WITH BOTH OF YOU.
OH, I, SO CAN WE CLOSE OUT THE PUBLIC? WELL, IT'S TO JEN.
JEN, IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU, THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED.
THANK YOU FOR TOLERATING US FOR ALL.
SO NOW WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, AND NOW BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL.
UH, BRIAN, WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU, MAYOR.
THANKS, UH, TO EVERYBODY THAT THAT'S HERE AND PRESENT AND THAT'S PARTICIPATED IN THIS.
I MEAN, THIS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST SCALE INITIATIVES OF, OF PROFESSIONALS AND RESIDENTS THAT, UH, HAVE WORKED ON ANYTHING, AND IT'S VERY IMPRESSIVE.
SO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE.
AND YOU KNOW, JEN, I KNOW YOU WEREN'T THE ONLY RESIDENT THAT CARED ABOUT THIS, BUT YOU'VE CERTAINLY BEEN, UH, A FOCAL POINT, UH, FOR WELL OVER A YEAR NOW THAT I'M AWARE OF.
AND IT'S PROBABLY BEEN CLOSER TO TWO YEARS OR MORE, I SUSPECT.
UH, BUT THANK YOU FOR, YOU KNOW, LEADING THE CHARGE AND RAISING THE LEVEL OF VISIBILITY FOR ALL OF US.
UH, I DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF QUESTIONS.
UM, AND SOME OF 'EM MIGHT BE ONES THAT YOU CHOOSE NOT TO WANT TO ANSWER FOR F O U O PUR, UH, PURPOSES.
BUT, UM, WHEN, WHEN WE'RE INTO FULL SCALE EVACUATION MODE, UM, ARE YOU USING LIKE BOTH DIRECTIONS OF THE ROAD TO GET PEOPLE OUT AT THAT POINT? IS THAT SOMETHING YOU CAN KIND OF TALK ABOUT? SO POTENTIALLY THAT IS A STRATEGY WE WOULD USE DEPENDING ON, UH, STAFFING AVAILABILITY AT THAT TIME.
UM, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH PLANNING CAN GO INTO IT AND PREPAREDNESS OF IS IT AN EVENT THAT JUST HAPPENED AND REQUIRES IMMEDIATE OR IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE KNEW WAS COMING AND WE ALREADY CAN GET PARTNERS TO OUR AREA TO ASSIST.
SO ABSOLUTELY USING BOTH SIDES WOULD BE SOMETHING WE WOULD CONSIDER.
IT ALSO DEPENDS ON WHERE IN, IN THE CITY THAT THAT COULD BE MORE IDEAL THAN OTHERS.
UM, SO, UM, JUST TO SAY IN GENERAL TERMS, 1 79 MIGHT NOT BE AS GOOD AT CERTAIN AREAS OF WHERE THE ROUNDABOUTS ARE TO DO THAT BECAUSE OF THE, THE SHEER AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT COULD COME OUT FROM DIFFERENT AREAS INTO SOME OF THOSE, UM, LARGER, I, YOU KNOW, AREAS WHERE YOU HAVE A FEW IN A ROW.
UM, SO THAT MIGHT NOT BE IDEAL THERE, BUT AS YOU GET FURTHER OUT, THEN YOU MIGHT DO THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE LIMITING THE SIDE ROAD ENTRY.
AND SO THE BEST THING I COULD SAY IS THAT POTENTIALLY IS A STRATEGY.
AND COUNSEL, IF, IF I MAY ADD TO THAT VERY QUICKLY, SIR.
CONTRAFLOW HAS BEEN STUDIED VERY, VERY HEAVILY.
UM, IT IS ENORMOUSLY STAFF INTENSIVE, ENORMOUSLY STAFF INTENSIVE.
YOU ESSENTIALLY HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY AT EVERY DRIVEWAY, AT EVERY ALLEY, AT EVERY INTERSECTION.
IT IS CERTAINLY, I THINK, UH, A VIABLE OPTION HERE BECAUSE YOU DO HAVE, UM, SOMEWHAT OF CONTROL THAT YOU, YOU HAVE SOME LIMITATIONS, UH,
ASHLEY MENTIONED THE, THE STATE PLAN THAT'S UNDERWAY.
UM, AND IT WAS REALLY DETERMINED TO BE, UM, VERY MUCH UNLIKELY IF WE WANTED TO DO CONTRAFLOW, FOR EXAMPLE, IF THERE WAS AN EVACUATION FROM CALIFORNIA, UH, THE ESTIMATE WAS ABOUT 3000 OFFICERS JUST TO CONTROL THE FREEWAYS.
THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS OFF THE FREEWAYS, RIGHT? SO VERY, VERY STAFF INTENSIVE, BUT IT IS CERTAINLY A VIABLE OPTION.
AND, AND COULD YOU PULL UP THE SLIDE THAT SHOWS THE ESTIMATED TIMES FOR EVACUATION BY ZONE? WAS THAT ONE? OR EVEN YEAH, EVEN THAT'S FINE.
SO, UM, SO IF, IF WE'RE EVACUATING THE ENTIRE TOWN AT ONE TIME, WOW,
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE THINK WE CAN DO.
AND JUST LIKE FROM A PRACTICAL, PRAGMATIC STANDPOINT, ARE WE SUPPOSED, I MEAN, I JUST DUNNO, ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT? OR ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE KIND OF GOING YIKES, OR HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FEEL? UM, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE EVACUATING THE ALL OF SEDONA, FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE NOT FEELING GOOD, RIGHT? IT'S A BAD DAY,
UM, BUT, BUT YOU KNOW, SIR, I WOULD SAY IF YOU COULD EVACUATE YOUR ENTIRE CITY IN LESS THAN FOUR HOURS AND GET THEM OUT OF HARM'S WAY, LET'S FACE IT, WE'RE PROBABLY TALKING ABOUT A WILDFIRE SCENARIO THERE, RIGHT? SOMETHING LIKE WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN, IN CALIFORNIA IN PARADISE OR CAMP, UM, THE CAMPFIRE IN CALIFORNIA.
UM, IF YOU COULD GET ALL YOUR CITIZENS AND VISITORS OUT AND VISITORS,
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REMEMBER THIS IS WORST CASE SCENARIO ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON, IF YOUR POLICE CHIEF AND THEN COULD ACCOMPLISH THAT IN, IN SOMEWHERE NEAR FOUR HOURS.I THINK YOU SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF THAT.
SO, LIKE MY FELLOW COUNCILMAN, THIS IS AN AMAZING PIECE OF WORK AND I, UM, CAN'T IMAGINE THE NUMBER OF HAIRS THAT HAVE TURNED GRAY OR BEEN PULLED OUT WHILE YOU WERE DOING IT.
I KNOW AT LEAST YOU HAVE SOME.
UM, I, ONE OF THE THINGS I DO APPRECIATE IS THE FACT THAT THERE IS AN EMPHASIS ON YOU OWN YOUR OWN SAFETY AND YOU OWN THE SAFETY OF YOUR AREA, YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
THESE ARE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE PEOPLE, WELL, YOU MIGHT KNOW THEM IF YOU'RE ME.
WELL, YOU KNOW, I DON'T LIKE PEOPLE, SO I DON'T KNOW MY NEIGHBORS.
BUT, UM,
WE CANNOT RELY ON OUR, UM, OUR EMTS OR OUR POLICE OR ANYONE ELSE TO HELP US HERE.
AND MY QUESTION I'M GOING TO BE SHARING RIGHT OVER HERE, SO THIS IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION THAT'S COMPLEX TO TRY AND DISSEMINATE TO OUR SOMETIMES RANDOM PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY PLANS YET ON HOW YOU MIGHT BE DISPERSING THIS INFORMATION? I'D LOOK OVER HERE AT JOANNE IF SHE'S LEAVING
SO THERE, THERE IS SOME SUBSEQUENT WORK THAT ASHLEY AND, AND WES AND TEAM ARE GOING TO BE DOING IN TERMS OF OUTREACH TO THE COMMUNITY.
SO THE FIRST STEP WAS TO, YOU KNOW, GET YOU ALL ON BOARD WITH WHAT WE'VE DONE.
UM, AND WHEN YOU BUY INTO IT AND SIGN OFF ON IT, THEN THEY CAN GO OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
I THINK WE HAVE TWO SORT OF LARGE COMMUNITY MEETINGS PLANNED.
SO FOLKS CAN COME IF, IF IN, UM, COUNSELOR DUN, YOU MAY NOT, THIS MAY HAVE PREDATED YOUR TERM ON THE COUNCIL, BUT, UM, WE HAD ALSO PUT TOGETHER SOME READY, SET GO GUIDES, A COMMUNITY INFORMATION PIECE THAT HAD A LOT OF THE SAME KIND OF INFORMATION AROUND TAKING RESPONSIBILITY, PROVIDING THE, THE DIFFERENT TOOLS AND ACCESS AND RESOURCES FOR FOLKS TO BE ABLE TO BE PREPARED.
SO WE STILL HAVE, WE HAVE THOSE MATERIALS ALSO TO DISTRIBUTE.
AND CERTAINLY I THINK AS PART OF A, A FOLLOW UP WE CAN GET WITH LAUREN HAS BEEN PART IN OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM, HAVE BEEN PART OF THIS ENTIRE TEAM, THIS, UH, SO I KNOW THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON SOME COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES TO KEEP THEM ENGAGED, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT REALLY IS A RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERY RESIDENT TO PROACTIVELY SEEK OUT SOME OF THIS, RIGHT? WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO BE CHRONICALLY OUT THERE SPOONFEEDING IT.
SO I THINK SOME OF THE MESSAGING IN HERE AROUND, YOU KNOW, KNOW YOUR PLAN, OWN YOUR, OWN, YOUR PLAN, KNOW, KNOW THIS MATERIAL AND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND YOUR ZONE AND EVACUATION INFORMATION AND WHERE TO FIND IT IS GONNA BE SOMETHING THAT, UM, IS GONNA BE IMPORTANT.
AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO EMPHASIZE THAT PART OF IT.
AND, UH, ANOTHER RELATED QUESTION.
SO WE HAVE SEVERAL NGOS SORT OF HAVE IN TOWN THE COMMUNITY CENTER WITH THEIR, LIKE MEALS ON WHEELS, UM, FRUITY VALLEY CAREGIVERS COALITION.
SO WE HAVE NGOS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE AWARE OF PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BE LESS CAPABLE OF EITHER HANDLING THE INFORMATION OR MOVING THEMSELVES WHEN IT COMES TO, UM, AN EMERGENCY SITUATION.
IS THERE BEEN ANY THOUGHT, OR YOU'VE ALREADY WORKED WITH THESE NGOS, UM, OR PLANS TO WORK WITH THESE NGOS TO SEE HOW WE CAN BRING THEM IN AS, UM, PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP, UH, MOVE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO HAVE ISSUES? I, I READ THE PIECE ABOUT BUSES AND CHURCHES AND ALL STUFF, AND THAT'S WHAT SORT OF INITIATE, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, I ACTUALLY READ THE DOCUMENT.
UM, BUT THAT MADE ME THINK ABOUT THESE, THESE, UH, ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE FAMILIAR WITH PEOPLE WHO MIGHT NEED EXTRA ASSISTANCE IN ORDER TO GET, AND THEY MAY NOT EVEN GET NICKEL.
THEY MAY HAVE NO IDEA THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY HAPPENING.
SO I WAS JUST WONDERING IF THERE WAS ANY THOUGHTS.
SO, UM, COUNCILOR DUNNA, I'LL, I'LL TAKE A STAB AT THAT.
UM, YOU SAW EARLIER REFERENCE TO WHOLE COMMUNITY MM-HMM.
UM, IT IS JUST A BASE PREMISE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN MY OFFICE WITH YOUR EMERGENCY STANDARD TEAM
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WITH ASHLEY'S OFFICE.UM, EVEN WITH OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, THE WHOLE COMMUNITY TEAM IS AN ACTUAL THING.
UM, YOU KNOW, I I I FREQUENTLY MAKE REFERENCE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOESN'T ALWAYS GET IT RIGHT, IN MY OPINION.
THE CONCEPT OF WHOLE COMMUNITY IS REALLY DRIVEN FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL, UM, POLICY DIRECTOR THAT KIND OF GUIDES ALL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS.
AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT, AND I, I, I THINK I WILL ECHO, I THINK ACTUALLY WILL ECHO, I TALK TO MY NGOS AS MUCH OR MORE THAN I DO.
MY POLICE, MY LAW ENFOR, MY LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MY FIRE BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
MY NGOS, MY UNITED WAY, ALL THESE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, THERE'S SO MANY OF 'EM OUT THERE, UM, ARE AT LEAST IN COCONINO COUNTY, AND I KNOW FOR A FACT IN THE EVER BAY COUNTY ARE HEAVILY ENGAGED.
UM, I AM VERY CONFIDENT THAT IF THERE IS ASSISTANCE NECESSARY AND DESIRED AND DESIRED AS A KEY PIECE, THAT IT IS AVAILABLE.
UH, I, I BELIEVE THAT VERY CONFIDENTLY, AND WE SAW THAT AGAIN LAST YEAR, UM, WITH THE FIRES THAT, THAT WE HAD THE TUNNEL FIRE AND THE PIPELINE FIRE.
UH, WE SAW THAT IF, IF PEOPLE NEED AND WANT ANY KIND OF ASSISTANCE, WHETHER IT'S PHYSICAL MOBILITY OR, OR WHATEVER THE NEED MAY BE, UH, THERE ARE MECHANISMS TO ADDRESS THAT.
AND, UH, AGAIN, OUT OF MY OFFICE, WE, WE VISIT WITH OUR, OUR NGOS AND OUR BOW ADS, UM, MULTIPLE TIMES A WEEK OFF SEASON OR NOT.
SO I, I'M VERY CONFIDENT AND I BELIEVE IT'S THE SAME HERE.
THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS, MS. MAYOR.
THANK YOU, MELISSA, VICE MAYOR.
UH, MAYOR, I ALSO HAVE BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION BECAUSE WE ARE A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY WITH AN AVERAGE AGE IN THE SIXTIES OF OUR RESIDENTS.
AND I KNOW FROM ORGANIZATIONS THAT I'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE NOT TECHNOLOGICALLY COMPETENT.
AND SO THEY'RE NOT DOWNLOADING, YOU KNOW, A GUIDE.
AND I BELIEVE WE'VE NOT PRINTED THESE FOR THE ORIGINAL GUIDE THAT WE WE PUBLISHED HASN'T BEEN PRINTED, RIGHT? I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
WE HAVE IT AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE.
I I DON'T THINK THAT'S SUFFICIENT.
AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US THINK ABOUT WHEN WE HAVE MEETINGS AND OUR SERVICE CONTRACT PROVIDERS AND OTHER AVENUES THAT HAVE PUBLIC INTERACTION ON A DAILY BASIS THAT WE PROVIDE PHYSICAL COPIES, IS I, I JUST DON'T THINK THEY'RE GONNA DOWNLOAD THEM.
I DON'T EVEN THINK PEOPLE HAVE PRINTERS IN THEIR HOUSE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
AND OBVIOUSLY SOME PEOPLE DO, BUT NOT A COMMUNITY WHERE, NOT ACROSS THE COMMUNITY WHERE HELP MAY NEEDED MORE WITHIN THOSE HOUSEHOLDS THAN OTHER HOUSEHOLDS.
SO WE'D REALLY ENCOURAGE US TO DO THAT.
AND DO YOU THINK THAT TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS ARE SUFFICIENT? AND MAYBE TO START WITH, BUT MY OTHER QUESTION IS WHO, WHO IS GOING TO BE THE POINT PERSON? IS THAT YOU CHIEF OR SOMEBODY ELSE FOR THE ONGOING REQUIREMENTS? I MEAN, IS THAT YOUR OFFICE? YEAH, I THINK, UM, ONCE JOANNE, UM, TOMORROW, YEAH, TOMORROW
UM, AND YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE, YOU KNOW, REQUIREMENTS TO HOW OFTEN WE'RE GONNA REVIEW IT AND, AND TRY AND DO, YOU KNOW, THE TABLETOPS AND THINGS, SO YES.
WE'LL, AND THE CHIEF HAS BEEN KIND OF LOCK STEP ON THIS ENTIRE PROJECT, SO IT'LL BE SEAMLESS.
ARE YOU GONNA ASSIGN A PARTICULAR OFFICER OR SOMEONE? I HAVE NOT YET.
BUT YOU KNOW, WE ARE GONNA DO A LITTLE, UH, MINI RETREAT WITH MY, UH, NEW, UH, COMMAND STAFF LEADERSHIP TEAM.
SO WE'LL BE DISCUSSING SOME OF THAT
THEY LOOK THROUGH, I SEE SOMEBODY RAISING THEIR HAND IN THE BACK THERE, SEE THEM LEAVING
NOW,
IT, IT REALLY REQUIRES, AND LAUREN AGAIN, HAS BEEN PLUGGED IN.
IT REQUIRES A VERY ROBUST PUBLIC INFORMATION PIECE ONGOING, IT'S NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, THE MONTHLY, THE FIRE SEASON.
UM, WE HAVE JUST PUT OUT OUR FIRST COUPLE, UM, MEETING RELEASES HERE LAST WEEK.
THE CITY IS PUTTING THEIRS OUT STARTING ON THE 30TH.
UM, I CAN CERTAINLY SEE SOME COLLABORATION THERE.
UM, THERE ARE MATERIALS THAT WE'RE PRINTING THAT YOU'RE ALL VERY WELCOME TO.
SOME OF IT DOES REQUIRE TECHNOLOGY, SOME OF IT DOES NOT.
UM, BUT THE SHORT ANSWER IS NO, MA'AM, THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT ENOUGH.
IT WILL BE AN ONGOING CONTINUED EFFORT
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THAT APPARENTLY CHIEF FOLEY WILL BE IN CHARGE OF STARTING TOMORROW.AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
CHIEF AND WES, THANK YOU FOR STEPPING UP AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE LEAD ON THIS, UH, EFFORT.
AND, AND TO THE POINT ABOUT THE SIRENS, I THINK WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT THAT.
UH, IF THERE'S GRANT MONEY AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE ONE OR MORE SIRENS, COULD WE PUT THAT ON? HOW DO YOU WANNA DO THAT, MAYOR? OH, I WAS JUST ENJOYING THE CONVERSATION.
UH, I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN BRING UP ON AT OUR ONE-ON-ONES WITH THE CITY MANAGER.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO DISCUSS WITH AND SEE IF THERE ARE OPTIONS.
BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW.
AND WELL, WE KNOW THERE'S MONEY, WE KNOW THAT.
RESIDENTS HAVE THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA.
I'VE BEEN IN DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT A LONG TIME FROM LOCAL TOWNS TO CITIES TO STATES, YOU KNOW, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN.
SO I WANNA THANK EVERYBODY WHO WAS PART OF THAT COLLABORATION, BUT TO THOSE WHO HELPED BRING THIS COLLABORATION TOGETHER, AND I REALLY THANK YOU.
UM, THIS IS A, A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF
UM, I DO HAVE A A, A SCATTERED AMOUNT OF QUESTIONS.
I'M SORRY, THEY'RE, THEY'RE ALL OVER THE MAP, NO PUN INTENDED.
BUT, UM, BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO DIGEST THIS A LOT TO DIGEST, BUT I'M GONNA START WITH THE ONE JUST FOLLOWING UP.
UH, THE VICE MAYOR'S QUESTION ABOUT THE TWO MEETINGS.
AND, AND, AND WES YOUR RESPONSE ABOUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH, AND I WOULD AGREE, BUT WHAT TYPE OF MEETINGS? BECAUSE HOW DOES THAT TIE IN WITH ONGOING CITIZEN PARTICIPATION? BECAUSE IN ORDER TO KEEP THIS FRESH, UM, AND TO BE AWARE OF HOW PEOPLE MOVE, THEY CHANGE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LEAVE THE COMMUNITY FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
UM, HOW DO WE KEEP ABREAST OF THAT? HOW DO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SORT OF TAKING OWNERSHIP IN A NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, STAY ON TOP OF THAT? I MEAN, WHAT'S THE ONGOING PROCESS? BECAUSE EVEN, EVEN THE DOCUMENT ITSELF IN THE INTRODUCTORY LANGUAGE SAYS IT'S A LIVING DOCUMENT AND THERE'S EVEN A, A, A PAGE FOR THE RECORD OF CHANGES.
I MEAN, WE ANTICIPATE CHANGES.
SO CHANGES NEED TO BE KEPT FRESH.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN ANSWER THAT.
I MEAN, THAT'S CERTAINLY NOT A QUICK ANSWER, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT.
AND JUST TO GET SOME PRELIMINARY RESPONSE, I, I THINK THAT THAT ANSWER WILL DEVELOP AND EVOLVE.
BUT I WANNA GET IT ON THE TABLE AS A QUESTION.
SO I'LL, I'LL START WITH THAT.
AND THEN, BELIEVE ME, I GOT MORE COUNSELOR.
I'LL START WITH ANSWERING THE QUESTION ABOUT THE LIVING DOCUMENT AND KEEPING IT UP TO DATE.
SO WE'VE WRITTEN INTO THE PLAN MAINTENANCE, UH, AND DEVELOPMENT SECTION THAT THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEAM WOULD BE CHIEF FOLEY AND HER TEAM WOULD BE REVIEWING THE PLAN AT LEAST ON AN, AT A MINIMUM, ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, BUT AS NEEDED AS EVENTS, EMERGENCIES, OR, UM, EXERCISES OCCUR AND LESSONS ARE LEARNED AND UPDATING AS NEEDED WITH THOSE EVENTS AS THEY OCCUR.
UM, AND COORDINATING THE REVIEW WITH THE REVIEW OF THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN TO THE POINT ABOUT THE TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS.
SO WE'LL COORDINATE WITH THE TEAM AND WITH LAUREN BROWN, UM, TO DO PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS OF THIS PLAN, BASICALLY TO SET THE STAGE FOR THE ONGOING EFFORTS THAT WILL BE CONDUCTED.
IT'LL BE AN OVERVIEW OF THE PLAN, MUCH LIKE WE'VE DONE TODAY, BUT DIGGING INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL ON THE PERSONAL PREPAREDNESS SIDE OF THINGS AND WHAT SOME OF THE EFFORTS ARE, UM, ON FROM OUR VARIOUS PARTNERS.
UM, AND REVEALING THOSE, UH, ARE RELEASING THOSE, UH, EVACUATION ZONE MAPS AND HOW THEY, THE CITIZENS CAN USE THOSE.
SO THAT THOSE TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS, UM, WHILE NOT ENOUGH AS HAVE BEEN MENTIONED, THAT'S JUST WHAT WE HAVE WITHIN EM, PARTNERS SCOPE OF WORK TO HELP SET UP AND, AND FACILITATE TO BASICALLY KICK OFF THE ONGOING EFFORTS THAT THE CITY WILL CONTINUE WITH.
COUNSELOR, IF I CAN ADD TO THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS NEEDS TO BECOME PART OF YOUR CULTURE.
IT JUST DOES, TO YOUR POINT MM-HMM.
UM, WORKING WITH YOUR BUSINESSES WHO CHANGE, THEY COME AND GO WORKING WITH YOUR AB, AIRBNB AND VRBO OS THOSE PEOPLE ARE, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT ATTEND THERE, THAT ARE IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR VISITOR BASE.
THEY'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS.
THEY'RE NOT GONNA SCAN THIS AND HAVE IT ON THEIR PHONE.
AND THERE'S SOME DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THAT IN, UP IN CORNO COUNTY ABOUT HOW WE WORK WITH THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR VISITORS ARE KEPT INFORMED, RIGHT.
BUT IT NEEDS TO BECOME PART OF YOUR CULTURE.
AND I THINK, UM, YOU, THAT'S A QUESTION THAT'S FOR YOU TO DECIDE TO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO THAT.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN, IN, IN THE METROPOLITAN AREAS IN FLAGSTAFF
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IS I'D LIKE TO SEE THE ZONES ADD TO THE STREET SIGNS.SIGN, RIGHT? I'M IN ZONE 12, I'M IN ZONE 11.
UM, AGAIN, IT'S MAKING A PART OF THE CULTURE, RIGHT? IS EVERY SINGLE PERSON GONNA NOTICE THAT AND, AND WRITE IT DOWN? PROBABLY NOT, BUT SOMEBODY WILL.
SO IT NEEDS TO BECOME PART OF YOUR CULTURE AND AND TO ACHIEVE WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR.
I THINK THAT WAS VERY WELL SAID ABOUT BEING PART OF THE CULTURE.
UM, SO EVERY 10 YEARS THE UNITED STATES DOES A CENSUS, AND THEN THEORETICALLY IT TAKES THE INFORMATION FROM THE CENSUS TO DESIGN DISTRICTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN AN ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE PLAN THAT MAYBE AFTER AN ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE PLAN, THERE BE AN ANNUAL MEETING OF, OF ABOUT THE PLAN OR SOMETHING? I MEAN, I, I, I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S A DIRECTION WE WANNA GO IN.
BUT I MEAN, THESE ARE THINGS THAT I THINK KEEP IT FRESH.
AND PART OF CULTURE IS WHEN, WHEN THERE'S SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS, UM, WITH SOME REGULARITY OR FREQUENCY ABOUT UPDATES OF INFORMATION OR SOMETHING.
KAREN, I THINK YOU, YOU'RE LOOKING TO RESPOND TO THAT OR NO? I'LL TRY.
UM, SO I, I DO THINK AN, AN ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE PLAN, I, WE CERTAINLY CAN PROMOTE, I'M SURE LAUREN HAS BEEN WORKING ON A COMMUNICATION STRATEGY, BUT I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT MM-HMM.
THE AUDIENCE IS FILLED WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS AND THE TEAM THAT, HEY, WE'RE ALL RESIDENTS PLAN TOGETHER,
UM, SO NOW, SO WE ALSO OFTEN GIVE ISSUES THE ATTENTION THAT THE COMMUNITY IS ASKING FOR.
AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE DON'T HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW ABOUT THINGS THAT THEY SHOULD CARE ABOUT, THAT MAY NOT BE ON THEIR RADAR.
AND WE WILL DO OUR BEST GIVEN THE RESOURCES WE HAVE.
YOU KNOW, ASHLEY SAID TWO MEETINGS ARE IN THEIR SCOPE.
THIS IS A $300,000 EFFORT MM-HMM.
SO WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT RESOURCES AND ABILITY TO BE OUT THERE CONSTANTLY OR COMMUNICATING INFORMATION IN A VARIETY OF WAYS, CHRONICALLY GIVEN THE SCOPE OF EVERYTHING THE CITY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR IN EVERYTHING WE HAVE TO COMMUNICATE TO RESIDENTS, I THINK WE JUST ALSO NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT.
AND I THINK THAT YOU'VE ALREADY GIVEN ME SOME, UM, COMFORT IN THAT IT'S ON YOUR RADAR IN TERMS OF, YOU ALREADY TALKED ABOUT WHAT I THINK I GUESS WOULD'VE COME LATER, WHICH IS PUSH COMMUNICATION, THAT YOU DO ANTICIPATE THAT THERE WILL BE SOME PUSH COMMUNICATION COMING OUTTA THE CITY.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT FORM THAT TAKES, BUT I KNOW THAT SOME SORT OF PUSH COMMUNICATION IS GONNA HAVE TO BE A PART OF IT.
SO AS LONG AS WE'RE ALL THINKING ABOUT THAT, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, NARROW THAT DOWN LATER.
UM, BUT IT, THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A PART OF IT.
AND FUNDING FOR ANY PUSH COMMUNICATION, WHETHER IT'S ONCE A YEAR, WHETHER IT'S 10 TIMES A MONTH, WHATEVER IT IS, IS, IS ALL SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO BE FIGURING WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BUDGET AND GOING ON AND ONGOING EFFORTS.
SO, BUT YOU YES, YOU'RE, YOU ANSWERED THAT, SO THANK YOU.
UH, THE OTHER QUESTION IS, THERE'S A, ON THE, WHICH PAGE IS IT THE, ON THE PLAN APPROVAL PAGE? I'M SORRY, THIS KEEPS POPPING ON THE PLAN APPROVAL PAGE AND ONE OTHER PLACE IN THE DOCUMENT.
AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, UM, CHIEF FOLEY BEINGS FROM TOMORROW ON, SO THE POINT PERSON ON THIS, BUT DOES THAT ALSO MAKE THE CHIEF, THE CITY EMERGENCY COORDINATOR? BECAUSE ON THE, ON THE PLAN APPROVAL PAGE, IT HAS THE CHIEF AND THEN A TO TO BE DETERMINED EMERGENCY COORDINATOR FOR THE CITY OF SEDONA.
SO WHO DO WE ANTICIPATE IS THE EMERGENCY COORDINATOR? UM, IS THIS A REDUNDANT POSITION? I, I, I JUST WANNA, I JUST WANT THAT CL CLARIFIED.
UM, SO COUNCIL MEMBER, WHEN, WHEN WE ORIGINALLY HAD THE, THE INITIAL DISCUSSION ON, ON OUR PLAN, CITY OF SEDONA EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN, THE EMERGENCY COORDINATOR WAS FIRST IDENTIFIED IN THAT, UM, IN THAT PLAN TO BE THE ONE WHO KIND OF HELPS FACILITATE EDITS TO THE PLAN AND MAKE SURE THINGS ARE, ARE FRESH AND UPDATED.
UM, WE HAD IDENTIFIED SOMEBODY INTERNAL.
WE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE, UM, A LOT OF FOLKS IN PD AT THAT TIME THAT COULD TAKE THIS ON.
SO, UH, CHIEF HUSTED AND I ACTUALLY SPOKE TO ALICIA PECK, WHO HAS SOME EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, UM, BACK HAD EMERGENCY
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MANAGEMENT BACKGROUND IN THE MILITARY.SO SHE WAS ACTUALLY DESIGNATED AS OUR EMERGENCY COORDINATOR TO KIND OF BE THE ONE WHO COULD JUST, YOU KNOW, TAKE THAT ON WHEN WE NEEDED SOMEBODY TO KIND OF STEP IN AND MAKE THOSE EDITS.
I THINK WHAT THE, THE CHIEF HAS REFERENCED WITH HER, HER TEAM THAT SHE'S BRINGING TOGETHER NEXT WEEK, I THINK PART OF THAT IS IDENTIFYING WHO ON HER TEAM CAN BE THAT EMERGENCY COORDINATOR.
AND THEN ALSO ON THAT SAME VEIN, THE, UM, SORRY YOU'RE GOING OFF, BUT AS PART OF THE TEAM, THEY'LL STILL BE DEPUTY MA, UH, MAYOR OF THE DEPUTY MANAGER WILL BE PART OF IT NOW ONGOING, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
UM, A QUESTION ON THE EVACUATION TIMES, WHICH GREAT.
I I'M FOUR HOURS, THAT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING GREAT AND YOU NEVER WANNA BE THERE.
I GET THAT, BUT I'M JUST WALK ME THROUGH THIS UNDERSTANDING IT BECAUSE IT'S, I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S THE SAME TIMES DEPENDING ON THE THREE SCENARIOS BECAUSE LIKE ZONE ONE
IF WE COULD JUST SPEND A LITTLE TIME ON THAT, I'D APPRECIATE IT.
MIKE OR SCOTT, WOULD ONE OF YOU TAKE THAT QUESTION PLEASE? UH, SURE.
SO, UM, AND MAYBE IT WOULD'VE BEEN HELPFUL IF WE SHOWED THE ZONE, UH, EVACUATION TIME AS OPPOSED TO THE TOTAL EVACUATION TIME.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, THE, THE, WHAT YOU JUST SAID WITH THE, UM, ZONE ONE IN SCENARIOS ONE AND TWO, SCENARIO ONE BEING ALL ROUTES ARE OPEN, SCENARIO TWO BEING, UH, 89 8 NORTH IS CLOSED.
UM, ZONE ONE, IT, UH, TAKES AN HOUR AND 25 MINUTES TO EVACUATE MM-HMM.
SO IT, IT DEPENDS ON SEVERAL FACTORS THERE, WHERE THE ZONE IS LOCATED IN TERMS OF THE, THE PRIMARY ROUTE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO USE.
IF THEY'RE CLOSER TO A PRIMARY ROUTE, 89 A IN THIS INSTANCE THAT'S CLOSED, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO TAKE A DIFFERENT ROUTE.
SO AGAIN, THERE'S, IT, IT PROBABLY MAKES MORE SENSE.
UH, AND IT'S IN THE REPORT TO SHOW THE ZAL EVACUATION TIMES.
UH, WE, WE JUST SHOWED FOR THIS PRESENTATION, THE EVACUATION TIMES FOR THE ENTIRE CITY.
BUT, BUT IN THE DOCUMENT THAT I'M LOOKING AT UNDER THE THREE SCENARIOS, ZONE ONE IS LIKE ALWAYS FASTER THAN ZONE FOUR.
AND I DON'T WHEN, EVEN WHEN THE SCENARIOS CHANGE.
SO I DON'T, I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT WELL IN ZONE ONE, JUST SOME OF THE, THE THINGS TO CONSIDER ARE WHAT ARE ACTUALLY IN THAT ZONE.
SO I'M NOT SURE IF ANY OF YOU, UM, IN THIS ROOM LIVE IN THAT AREA, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF HORSE PROPERTY AND SOME OTHER THINGS THAT GO INTO IT.
AND SO THERE MIGHT NOT BE AS MANY HOMES IN SOME OF THE OTHER LOCATIONS, BUT YOU ALSO HAVE TO CONSIDER, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY HOMES ARE IN THERE, WHAT ROADS DO THEY HAVE.
THERE COULD BE A COUPLE OF EXIT POINTS FROM ZONE ONE THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN SOME OF THE OTHER ONES AS WELL.
UM, SUCH AS LIKE THUNDER MOUNTAIN OR GOING DOWN TO BOYNTON CANYON.
I MEAN, SO THERE'S, THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT FACTOR INTO THOSE THAT IN EACH OF OUR WORK SESSIONS OR WHAT WE DISCUSSED WHEN GOING THROUGH IN EVEN MORE DETAIL, UM, WHAT EACH ZONE PRESENTS FOR EVACUATION, EITHER CHALLENGES OR, UM, OBSTACLES, WHATEVER, UH, YOU WOULD LIKE TO, TO THINK OF FOR THAT.
SO EACH ONE IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT BASED ON WHAT IS IN THAT ZONE ITSELF.
JUST, THAT DOES HELP ACTUALLY.
UM, AND I KNOW WHAT THE KIND OF THINGS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT REFERRING TO.
I WENT TO A COUPLE OF THOSE MEETINGS AND OF COURSE I MISSED THE ONE FOR THE Z ZONE IN WHICH I LIVE.
BUT, UM, BUT IT WAS INTERESTING THE TIME SOME THINGS THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT.
SO THOSE, THE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION THEN IS BASICALLY IT'S THE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTIC OF THE ZONE THAT MAKE MORE OF A IMPACT THAN ACTUALLY IT'S PROXIMITY TO 89 A OR 1 79 OR SOMETHING.
AND, AND I THINK THEY KINDA WORK HAND IN HAND A LITTLE BIT TOO TO, TO THE PROXIMITY OR HOW MANY OUTLETS YOU HAVE, BUT YES.
UM, AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ON THAT FOUR HOUR, UNDER FOUR HOURS TO EVACUATE THE WHOLE CITY, TO EVACUATE THE CITY TO WHAT POINT TO THE EDGES OF THE CITY? TO THE CITY LINE OR TO I 17, OR JUST WHAT, WHAT DO WE MEAN BY EVACUATION OF THE WHOLE CITY?
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YES.IT WOULD BE, UH, TO JUST OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS.
THAT WAS, THAT WAS CONSIDERED EVACUATION OF THE CITY.
SO FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN ZONE NINE VERSUS ZONE TWO, THEY WOULD'VE, DEPENDING ON THE SCENARIO, THEY WOULD HAVE DIFFERENT POINTS THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED WHERE THEY WOULD BE CONSIDERED EVACUATED.
SO YEAH, IF THEY'RE FARTHER AWAY FROM, FROM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MAIN EVACUATION ROUTES, YEAH, IT'S GONNA TAKE THEM LONGER TO GET TO THE CITY LIMIT BASED ON THE SCENARIO MM-HMM.
BUT, BUT THE HUNDRED PERCENT EVACUATION, UH, TIME WOULD BE FOR ALL, UH, RESIDENTS AND, UH, VISITORS TO BE COMPLETELY OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS.
AND MAYOR, UM, AS WE SAID, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT SIRENS LATER AS WELL AS A CONVERSATION.
I ALSO, IF WE COULD ADD TO THAT, TALKING ABOUT, JUST TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE, HOW IT FACTORS IN WITH THE EMERGENCY SERVICES AND THE WATER ISSUE UP THERE.
IS THAT COMPLETELY SEPARATE OR IS THAT SOMETHING THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED UNDER THIS CONVERSATION? BE KURT, UH, WOULD THAT BE AGEN PART OF THE DISCUSSION? BECAUSE IT'S NOT IN THE, THE ACTUAL REPORT THAT I, THAT I'VE SEEN AND WE ARE RUNNING AT A TIME.
I MEAN, I BELIEVE IT'S REASONABLY RELATED.
AND YOU COULD JUST, UH, TOUCH ON THAT.
IF WE COULD JUST TOUCH ON IT LATER THEN.
WHEN, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SIRENS AND STUFF AS WELL.
AREN'T YOU JUST TALKING ABOUT THAT TODAY? WELL, WE'RE ABOUT TODAY.
OH, I, I MISUNDERSTOOD THAT BEFORE WHEN THE VICE MAYOR RAISED.
I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA TOUCH ON IT TODAY.
I GUESS WE, IT IS PART OF IT WAS MENTIONED, SO, OKAY.
SO I JUST, YEAH, WE CAN GET TO THOSE SORT OF, OF ANSWER.
LET'S GET ISSUES LATER AND THEN WE CAN WELL, THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO SAY, CUZ I'LL WAIT ON THOSE.
AND THE, UM, JUST ONE, ONE MORE QUESTION ON THE, THE EVACUATION TIMES AND THEN I HAVE A SEPARATE QUESTION.
UM, THE MOBILIZATION TIMES THAT ARE NEEDED FOR THE SERVICES, HOW DO THOSE FACTOR INTO THE EVACUATION TIMES AS WELL? I MEAN, IS THAT, IS, IS THIS CONSIDERED EVERYTHING'S MOBILIZED AT ONCE OR IS THIS A MOBILIZATION? IS MOBILIZATION PER ZONE IN THESE SCENARIOS AS WELL? I JUST SO I UNDERSTAND IT.
SO, SO WE USE AN UM, A TYPICAL EVACUATION RESPONSE THAT BASICALLY SAYS FROM, FROM THE TIME THE EVA EVACUATION NOTICE IS GIVEN UNTIL THE LAST RESIDENT OR VISITOR HAS GOT IN THEIR CAR AND AT LEAST ENTERED THE NETWORK, THAT'S AN HOUR.
AND, AND THERE'S PERCENTAGES THAT ENTER.
SO 10% OF THAT TRAFFIC ENTERS IMMEDIATELY ONTO THE NETWORK STARTING TO EVACUATE.
ANOTHER 15% ENTERS IN THAT NET IN THAT FIRST 15 MINUTES.
THEY WAIT A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THEM SPREAD OUT OVER AN HOUR BEFORE THE EVERY, UH, EVACUEE IS AT LEAST IN THE NETWORK ON, IN A CAR AND ON ON THE STREET.
AND THE ZONES THAT WEREN'T, THEY'RE NOT ZONES CUZ THEY WEREN'T INCLUDED BUT THE PARTS WEST THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE RESIDENTS IN THEM.
UH, ARE THERE ANY, DID YOU FACTOR IN THOUGH ANY POTENTIAL EXITS IN TERMS OF TRAILS OR WHAT HAPPENS IF PEOPLE ARE CAMPING IN THOSE AREAS OR I MEAN JUST HOW DOES THERE MAY BE EXITS THROUGH THERE WAS THAT FACTORED IN BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T PART OF THE ZONE.
SO I JUST WANNA KNOW HOW THAT WAS CONSIDERED.
SO, UM, CUZ LEMME BE CLEAR FOR THIS PLAN MM-HMM.
UH, UM, GREEN LIGHT WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO INCLUDE THAT, THE MAJOR TRAILS ON THE MAPS, BUT THIS PLAN WAS GEARED AT MOVING PEOPLE IN CARS.
SO WE DID NOT DO PEDESTRIAN COUNTS, FOR EXAMPLE, LEADING BY, BY WAY OF TRAILS.
AND THE, I THINK THIS WILL PROBABLY BE MY LAST QUESTION FOR THE MOMENT, WHICH IS THE, JUST TELL ME ABOUT THE QR CODE AGAIN IN TERMS OF THAT, THAT WILL BE LIVE INFORMATION WHEN SOMEBODY WHO IS USING IT GOES ON, IT'LL BE LIVE TIME, REAL TIME INFORMATION THAT'S UPDATED ON THAT QUEUE BY ACCESSING THE QR CODE.
COUNSEL, MAKE SURE I ANSWER YOUR QUESTION CORRECTLY.
UH, THE MAP IS CONSTANTLY UPDATED AND IS LIVE TIME.
IT WILL NOT HAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, LIFETIME TRAFFIC FLOWS ON IT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
IT'S NOT GONNA SAY IF YOU LEAVE NOW, IT'LL TAKE YOU TWO HOURS AND TO LEAVE.
THIS IS REALLY A TOOL FOR CITIZENS TO BE AWARE THAT IF THEY GET AN EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION ON THEIR PHONE OR SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT KNOCKS ON THE DOORS OR POLICE DEPARTMENT KNOCKS ON THE DOORS, HEY, YOUR ZONE'S BEING EVACUATED.
IT IS NOT, UH, A REAL LIVE TRAFFIC
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TOOL AT ALL.IT WAS NEVER INTENDED FOR THAT.
IT DOES HAVE LIVE WEATHER ON IT.
WE EMBEDDED WEATHER ON IT SO THAT IF YOU'RE TOLD TO GO, YOU KNOW, I'M HEADED THAT WAY, WHAT WEATHER MIGHT I ENCOUNTER? OKAY.
UH, BUT NOT LIVE TRAFFIC INFORMATION.
JUST WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
AND LET ME JUST, UH, IT'S NOT A TAG ON CUZ IT'S MY TURN.
I'M JUST GONNA ADD ON TO THAT.
WILL THAT MAP SHOW, UH, THAT YOUR ZONE IS IN EVAC? IF IT IS IN EVAC.
SO I'LL SEE FOR COOKING HILL COUNTY IN THIS PARTICULAR PIECE.
WHAT WE ARE GONNA DO IS IF A ZONE GOES INTO, UM, A SET OR GO NOT READY CUZ EVERYBODY'S IN READY ALL THE TIME.
SO WE ARE NOT GONNA HAVE THAT.
BUT IF A, IF A ZONE IS PUT IN SET AND GO BY OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS, EITHER CITY OR COUNTY, YES WE WILL LIVE TIME CHANGE THE COLOR OF THOSE ZONES TO DEPICT THEIR CURRENT STATUS.
OKAY, SO I'M GONNA TRY NOT TO ASK ALL OF MY WEEDS QUESTIONS, BUT THERE'S A COUPLE THAT, UH, OCCURRED TO ME TO ASK, LOOKING AT YOUR SCENARIOS.
IT WAS, UH, 89 A NORTHBOUND CLOSED ALL THE TIME.
IT, IT JUST, IT LOOKED TO ME LIKE WE WERE NEVER CLOSING 89 A TO THE SOUTH TO THE WEST, WHICH IS, UH, TWO OR FOUR LANE ROAD, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO COUNT IT, WHICH IS A MAXIMUM TRAFFIC CAPACITY ROAD.
IF THAT WERE A NO-GO PLACE, THE FIRES COMING IN FROM THE WEST AND WE HAD TO GO NORTH OR SOUTH ON 1 79.
IT WOULD SEEM TO ME TO BE A WORSE SCENARIO.
CAN YOU TALK TO ME ABOUT HOW YOU THOUGHT ABOUT, AND I KNOW YOU CAN'T MODEL EVERYTHING, BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO FOUR LANE ROAD AND TWO ONE LANE ROADS.
I'LL LET GREEN LIGHT FOLLOW UP AND, AND PUT THE PERIOD ON THE SENTENCE HERE, BUT YOU'RE EXACTLY CORRECT.
THESE WERE THREE SCENARIOS THAT THEY USED FOR ANALYSIS.
THERE ARE, I DUNNO, COUNTLESS NUMBERS THIS SCENARIO.
SO, UH, THOSE WERE JUST THE THREE THAT WERE ILLUSTRATED HERE.
BUT, UH, I I'LL GREEN LIGHT TO REALLY, UH, DETAIL THAT OUT.
AND I, I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE'S MUCH MORE DETAIL TO ADD.
SO THESE ARE THE, THE THREE SCENARIOS THAT WERE SELECTED.
YOU'RE RIGHT, IF, IF THE FOUR LANE IS CLOSED AS OPPOSED TO A TWO LANE, IT'LL HAVE A DIFFERENT IMPACT.
UM, THE, THE THOUGHT WAS THAT, UM, FOR THAT SCENARIO TWO AND THREE WITH THE 89 A NORTHBOUND CLOSED, THAT THAT WOULD HAVE MORE OF AN IMPACT POSSIBLY ON THE, THE, UM, UPTOWN AREA.
SO THAT'S WHY THOSE TWO WERE SELECTED.
SO HOLD ON, PETE, ANDY, ANDY, ONE THING IN RELATION TO THAT THAT I WOULD POINT OUT IS THAT, THAT'S A SCENARIO THAT WE SEE PRETTY OFTEN.
SO YOU, YOU HEAR ALL THE TIME A OTS CLOSED OAK CREEK CANYON, IT'S COMING UP IN JUNE SEVERAL TIMES.
SO I'M, I'M GLAD THAT WE DID MODEL THAT SCENARIO.
YEAH, BECAUSE IT DOES HAPPEN PRETTY OFTEN.
I JUST WAS THINKING THAT CLOSING THE TWO-LANE ROAD OUT OF TOWN WAS SIGNIFICANT IN TERMS OF MODELING AN EVAC TIME ESTIMATION.
SO, AND, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WE CAN'T MODEL EVERYTHING AND IT JUST TELLS ME THAT THREE AND A HALF HOURS EVACUATION TIME COULD GET WORSE.
SO YOU'D HAVE TO THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S COMING, WHAT'S GONNA HIT US HERE? UH, AND I KNOW COUNSELORS ASKED ABOUT THREE AND A HALF HOURS AND HOW YOU FELT.
I'LL TELL YOU HOW IT MAKES ME FEEL.
THAT WAS LONGER THAN I THOUGHT.
AND SO I'M THE KIND THAT MY, MY GO BAG IS PACKED.
I'VE BEEN THROUGH THIS BEFORE.
MY WIFE AND I TALK ABOUT THIS TWICE A YEAR.
AND, UH, MY, UH, EVAC, MY PERSONAL EVAC TIME HAS JUST GROWN.
AND SO I THINK PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN SHOULD THINK ABOUT THAT AND MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS AND PLANS.
BUT THAT WAS PRETTY INCREDIBLE TO ME.
UH, A, A SPECIFIC QUESTION HERE, IT'S OUR PACKET, PAGE 39.
IT'S YOUR DOCUMENT, PAGE 28 WHERE YOU TALK ABOUT THE TOURIST, NON-RESIDENT CONSIDERATIONS.
AND YOU HAD A STATEMENT IN THERE, A BULLET SAYS THAT TOURISTS OFTEN RELY ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO EVACUATE.
I'M ASSUMING THAT YOUR MODEL REALLY DIDN'T USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOR TOURISTS TO EVACUATE, BUT I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
SO WE WANTED TO OFFER CONSIDERATIONS.
THAT'S WHY THAT PARTICULAR SECTION, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE, YOU DO HAVE VARIOUS MODES OF TRANSPORTATION.
UM, THAT CONSIDERATION IS REALLY ACROSS ALL PLANS.
LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE PHOENIX, RIGHT? THEY'VE GOT ALL KINDS OF MODES OF TRANSPORTATION.
SO IT WAS A CONSIDERATION, IT WAS NOT A SPECIFIC CONSIDERATION TO YOUR SPECIFIC PLAN DEVELOPMENT.
HOPEFULLY ONE DAY IN THE FUTURE THAT COULD BE A NICE TOOL TO REDUCE TRAFFIC COUNTS, BUT I'M GLAD TO KNOW THAT OUR CURRENT EVALUATION DIDN'T REALLY DO THAT.
SO YOUR QUESTION I'M SURE, JUST TO BE CLEAR THAT I UNDERSTOOD USING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION TO EVA, PART OF THE EVACUATION.
IT SAYS TOURISTS OFTEN DO RELY ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
AND I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR THAT THE MODELING WORK THAT WE'VE DONE DIDN'T INCLUDE
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THAT BECAUSE OUR TOURISTS DON'T REALLY HAVE ACCESS TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.I JUST WANT, CAUSE I HAVE A QUESTION.
WE WANT HOPEFULLY SOMEDAY WE CAN CHANGE THAT AND THINK ABOUT THAT
NOT THAT THERE'S ANOTHER, UH, A LITTLE, UH, IT'S A WEEDY QUESTION.
I CAN TALK TO ANDY ABOUT THAT LATER.
I'M GONNA GO TRYING TO, I'M TRYING TO GET, YOU'RE TRYING TO DOWN HERE WEED.
I'M PLAYING BINGO HERE TOO WITH QUESTIONS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN ASKED.
UH, WES AND THE CHIEF, I'M GONNA GO BACK TO THIS FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY QUESTION THAT WE TALKED ABOUT.
AND, AND BELIEVE ME, I DON'T WANNA KNOW THE THINGS THAT I DON'T WANNA KNOW
I HAVE ENOUGH TO KEEP, I HAVE ENOUGH KEEP THAT KEEPS ME UP AT NIGHT
UM, BUT IN TERMS OF THE TRAFFIC STUDY ITSELF, UH, IT'S NOT CLEAR TO ME WHY TRAFFIC STUDY ON A PARTICULAR DAY WITH NO EMERGENCY PLANS OR OPERATIONS OR SECRET THINGS.
I MEAN THIS WAS TWO DAYS IN THE PAST THAT DIDN'T HAVE EMERGENCIES.
AND THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING ABOUT THIS IS BECAUSE THIS CITY IS SPENDING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF TIME AND MONEY DOING OUR OWN MODELING AND TRYING TO LEARN AS MUCH AS WE CAN.
AND I THINK THERE'S VALUE IN DATA AND I'M HOPING THAT ANDY WOULD ALSO THINK THAT THERE'S VALUE IN THIS DATA.
AND I KNOW HE WAS ON THE TEAM, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THAT THERE'S DATA HERE THAT HE COULD USE TO CALIBRATE HIS MODELS THE OTHER DAY AND INTO THE FUTURE.
AND, UH, BUT NOT ONLY JUST CITY USE, I THINK THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION DIGS INTO TRAFFIC STUDIES AND THEY LIKE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON IN THEIR TOWN.
AND I THINK THE CITY COUNCIL IS ALSO INTERESTED IN TRAFFIC DATA AND I KNOW THAT WE HAVE SOME RESIDENTS IN TOWN THAT REALLY LIKE TO PLAY WITH DATA AND HELP US UNDERSTAND WHETHER WE'RE BEING CONSISTENT, WHETHER THINGS ARE DIFFERENT IN THE PAST AND WE ALL LEARN.
AND SO I'M GONNA PUSH SPECIFICALLY ON THIS TRAFFIC STUDY DATA WHETHER THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE F O U O.
WELL, AND AND PART OF WHAT WE DISCUSSED, AND YOU KNOW, ANDY CAN CHIME IN AS WELL, UM, IS THAT IT'S NOT ALL OF THE DATA.
THERE IS THE RAW DATA THERE THAT, UM, CAN BE USED FOR NUMBERS AND THINGS.
THERE'S JUST CERTAIN ITEMS WITHIN THE DATA THAT, WITHIN THE DATA FROM THE TWO DAYS OF THE TRAFFIC STUDY THAT PARTICULARLY.
C CAN I, CAN I JUMP IN? BECAUSE, SO I HAD THE SAME QUESTION AND CONCERN, AND I PROBED PRETTY HARD, UM, WHEN THEY CAME BACK AND SAID THAT THIS IS LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE SHOULD BE PROTECTED.
AND I JUST KEPT SAYING, BUT WHY? WHAT, WHAT ABOUT IT? AND, AND IT WAS FINALLY, I, I DID HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE TEAM AROUND THE FACT THAT THE VISA MODEL, THAT GREEN LIGHT DID INCLUDED.
SO, SO PICTURE THE MODEL THAT YOU JUST SAW AROUND THOSE TWO DAYS SCENARIO, BUT IT INCLUDE, IT INCORPORATED CERTAIN MEASURES THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT WOULD TAKE AROUND ACCESS, AND THAT'S THE PART OF IT THAT IS PROTECTED AND MADE IT SENSITIVE.
SO I DO THINK THAT THE RAW DATA ITSELF, UM, WHICH WE POSSESS, AND IN FACT PROBABLY ANTHONY'S DATA FED INTO THIS QUITE A BIT, WOULD STILL BE PUBLIC INFORMATION.
WE WOULD STILL SHARE IT, WE WOULD STILL USE IT IN OUR OWN VISA MODELS JUST STRICTLY TO ANALYZE TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC PATTERNS.
BUT WHAT LAW ENFORCEMENT WILL DO WHEN THOSE TRAFFIC PATTERNS HAPPEN IS THE PIECE THAT OF THAT, THAT'S, WE DON'T WANNA, UM, PUT OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
BECAUSE IT IS EXACTLY THAT RAW DATA FROM THOSE TWO DAYS THAT I THINK HAVE VALUE AND WE CAN USE THEM IN A VERY POSITIVE WAY.
SO THANK YOU FOR KNOWING THAT ANDY CAN, WILL CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO USE THAT AND WE CAN SHARE IT, UH, AT THE APPROPRIATE TIMES.
SHOULD WE
THIS IS, UM, PRIMARILY THE, UM, YEAH, THE, THE DIFFERENT, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY ORGANIZATIONS AND IT WAS THEIR, THEIR PLAN,
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UM, AND THEIR INPUT ON THAT.SO I, AND FROM FROM OTHER, I SEEN FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT HAVE MORE TIME IN THE SEAT THAN I DO HERE SHAKING THEIR HEAD TO FOR UNDERSTANDING, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY COUNSEL WOULDN'T APPROVE.
HAS IT BEEN PA PAST PRACTICE? UM, AND I DON'T SEE IT AMONG OTHER CITIES EITHER.
UM, BUT THERE'S NOTHING THAT WOULD PREVENT YOU FROM NOT ADOPTING THIS.
PART OF THE PROBLEM IS IF YEAH.
UM, ARE WE GONNA BRING IT BACK FOR A NEW ADOPTION EVERY TIME OR IF THERE'S MINOR CHANGES UPDATED, I WOULD LEAVE THIS AT AN ADMINISTRATIVE LEVEL AND IT'S COMING OUT OF, OUT OF OUR, OUT OF EXPERT STAFF.
AND I THINK THE WAY WE HAVE IT WORDED IN THE, THE PLAN IS THAT ANY MAJOR CHANGES WILL COME BACK TO, TO COUNSEL.
I THINK THAT'S THE END OF MY QUESTIONS.
JESSICA, BEFORE JESSICA, MAY I JUST HAVE A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE TO JUST GO BACK TO THAT QUESTION YOU WANNA TAG ON? YEAH.
I KNOW THAT
UH, TO, TO THAT POINT THOUGH, PETE, THERE HAVE BEEN STUDIES DONE AND, AND PLANS DONE.
THEY SIT ON OUR WEBSITE AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC POINT THEM OUT TO ME FROM ON A REGULAR BASIS BECAUSE THEY EXIST.
THEY ASSUME THAT COUNCIL HAS ADOPTED THEM, AND SOME OF THEM ARE, THERE ARE PORTIONS OF THEM WHERE, UH, AND I'LL POINT OUT ONE OF THEM THAT, THAT CAME TO MY ATTENTION RECENTLY WAS THE STUDY THAT WAS DONE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
REMEMBER THAT SEVERAL YEARS AGO THERE WAS A COMMITTEE AND THEY PRODUCED A, A PLAN, IT CAME TO COUNCIL AND COUNCIL LOOKED AT IT.
IT WAS BEFORE I WAS ON COUNCIL AND SAID, OF ALL THESE RECOMMENDATIONS, WE WANNA FOCUS ON BROADBAND.
DO YOU REMEMBER THAT, JESSICA? YOU WERE ON COUNCIL AT THE TIME? NO, BUT I'M SURE YOU'RE RIGHT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD DO.
AND THERE WERE OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS IN THAT PLAN WHERE COUNCIL DID NOT ADOPT THEM EXCEPT THEM FEEL THAT THEY WERE WARRANTED AND WANTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THEM.
AND ONE OF THEM HAD TO DO AT THE HEMP FORM.
THAT WAS A STUDY, OR IT WAS, I MEAN, I REMEMBER THAT.
AND SO JUST BECAUSE IT EXISTS DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE CITY HAS GOOD TO TAKE ACTION ON IT OR PROVES IT, OR THINKS IT'S A WISE OR THAT IT'S TO DEVELOP A GOOD HE IDEA.
EVEN IF AT THE TIME WE THOUGHT IT WAS WISE, YEAH, MAYBE IT'S NO LONGER WISE, IT'D BE STUPID.
NOW IT WASN'T EVEN, IT WASN'T REALLY ADOPTED.
BUT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOMETHING THAT COUNCIL GET GETS BEHIND AND ADOPTS AND SOMETHING THAT'S A STUDY.
AND FOR THE PUBLIC, THEY DON'T SEE THE DIFFERENCE.
THEY, THEY JUST LOOK AT THE WEBSITE AND SAY, WELL, THE CITY PAID FOR THIS, OR THEREFORE THEY MUST HAVE ADOPTED IT.
WELL, THEY'RE WRONG, COR, I KNOW THEY'RE WRONG, BUT HOW DO WE DISCERN THE DIFFERENCE? I THINK THAT'S A REALLY A GOOD POINT, KAREN.
I TRY TO HELP BECAUSE THERE IS NOT A SINGLE PLAN THE CITY HAS EVER CONDUCTED IN ITS HISTORY THAT WAS FULLY IMPLEMENTED AND EXECUTED AS DOCUMENTED AT THAT POINT IN TIME.
SO CITIES HANDLE THIS DIFFERENTLY, BUT IT HAS BEEN OUR CITY'S PRACTICE, AT LEAST IN THE LAST I DON'T, EIGHT YEARS OR SO, THAT WE BRING ALL OF THE PLANS TO YOU FOR DISCUSSION FOR GENERAL HEAD NOD DIRECTION.
MAYBE THE ONLY ONE WE'VE ACTUALLY ADOPTED IN ALL THE TIME I CAN THINK OF WAS THE CLIMATE ACTION PLAN THAT WAS IN, IN SOME FASHION SYMBOLIC, WHICH IS WHY WE TOOK THAT EXTRA EFFORT IN ACTUALLY HAVING COUNCIL ADOPT IT.
THEY, THEY ARE LIVING DOCUMENTS, THINGS THAT MADE SENSE AT THE TIME, OR A LOT OF THE PLANS WE HAVE ARE, YOU KNOW, SHORT TERM, MEDIUM TERM, LONG TERM.
SOME ARE PIE IN THE SKY KIND OF IDEAS THAT MAY NEVER GET PURSUED.
SO I, I THINK, I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY SOLUTION TO, TO CHANGING A PUBLIC PERCEPTION IF THEY VIEW SOMETHING AND BELIEVE THAT EVERY SINGLE WORD, EVERY SINGLE ACTION, EVERY SINGLE EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING THEY READ ON THE WEBSITE IS
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EVENTU IS GOING TO COME TO FRUITION OR WE'RE ACTIVELY WORKING ON, BECAUSE IT'S JUST NOT THE REALITY OF HOW THINGS WORK.SO YEAH, I'M JESSICA, WE, WE CAN PUT A DISCLAIMER AT THE BEGINNING OF EVERY PLAN THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR, OR THAT, BUT, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE THAT TO THE PUBLIC.
IF THE PUBLIC BELIEVES SOMETHING THAT ISN'T ACCURATE, THEY CAN CERTAINLY CALL AND ASK OR GET CLARIFICATION.
I THINK WE HAVE SO MUCH STUFF THAT WE HAVE TO DO THAT WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT HERE THAT WE HAVE TO PUT ON THE AGENDA TOO.
I MEAN, A STUDY IS JUST THAT, IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S PRESENTED TO US FOR INFORMATION.
IT'S NOT, I MEAN, I REALLY SEE A LOT OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A STUDY AND SOMETHING THAT WE COMMIT TO AS A POLICY.
AND BECAUSE WHAT WE COMMIT TO AS A POLICY ARE SPECIFIC ACTIONS, WHICH INCLUDE PROJECTS OR EXPENDITURES OF MONEY OR SOMETHING THAT MAY DERIVE FROM THE PRO STUDY, BUT THEY ARE ACTUALLY ACTIONS.
A STUDY REALLY ISN'T AN ACTION.
IT ISN'T, I I AGREE WITH YOU, BUT WE'RE SAYING NOW WE SHOULDN'T ADOPT THIS PLAN, WHICH IS AN ACTION.
WHICH, WHICH I MIGHT JUST POINT OUT THAT NOT AN ANYBODY THAT PAGE EIGHT OF THE DOCUMENT IS A BIG SIGNATURE PAGE OF PLAN APPROVAL, WHICH, SO JUST, IT'S INTERESTING THAT WE'RE, THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OFFICIAL SIGNATURES ON A DOCUMENT THAT THIS WE HAVEN'T APPROVED.
I THINK THAT MIGHT, JESSICA'S NOT DONE YET.
BUT ON THE, ARE WE ON THAT POINT? UM, SHE, I DON'T KNOW.
WELL, I THINK THAT I HAVE COMMENTS LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE DID, BUT IF YOU WANT TO TALK ONLY ABOUT THIS POINT NOW, LET'S, WE CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS POINT.
IT'S, YOU DIDN'T MAKE IT IN TWO HOURS, SCOTT.
UH, HOPEFULLY WE MAKE IT IN THREE.
THIS ISN'T POLICY, THIS IS IMPLEMENTATION ON AN ADMIN LEVEL OF POLICY OF, OF SOMETHING.
I MEAN, SO I DON'T THINK THAT THIS IS, UH, A DOCUMENT FOR US TO BE ADOPTING, UM, BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION, THAT IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE BASED ON SCENARIOS.
IT HAS TO BE AT THE DISCRETION OF THOSE LEADING THE AGENCIES.
AND I THINK, SO THAT'S WHERE IT STAYS.
SO FOR ME, THIS ISN'T A POLICY DOCUMENT, SO THEREFORE I DON'T SEE THE NEED TO, FOR THIS BODY TO ADOPT IT.
I THINK THERE SHOULD BE SOME SIGNATORIES ON IT THAT SAY, YES, THIS HAS BEEN VETTED AND REVIEWED AND AGREED TO AND YOU KNOW, IS WHATEVER.
SO IF YOU WANNA CHANGE THE TITLE PAGE OF THAT, YOU KNOW, FINE.
BUT I, I DON'T SEE THIS AS A POLICY DOCUMENT.
AND I WOULD SAY THE POLICY IS WHEN WE SAID WE WANT THIS DONE
THAT WAS THE POLICY AND THAT WAS IN THE MINUTES AND WE VOTED ON IT.
AND THIS MERELY IMPLEMENTS, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH WHAT THE POLICY WE VOTED ON.
SO I'M GONNA WEIGH IN ON THAT AS WELL.
I I AGREE WITH BOTH OF WHAT YOU WERE SAYING.
UM, WE'VE VOTED ON DOING THE PLAN.
JOANNE SAID I WAS GONNA COME BACK FOR MAJOR CHANGES.
BUT THEY'RE GONNA BE MAKING CHANGES.
THE, THE CHIEF, I, I DEPEND ON THE CHIEF AND HER KNOWLEDGE AND THE TEAM TO MAKE THESE CHANGES.
IT'S NOT UP TO THE ME TO MAKE THE CHANGES AND WE HAVE TO VOTE ON IT.
THEY SHOULDN'T NEED OUR APPROVAL TO DO THAT EITHER.
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A, A, A GOOD CHIEF THAT WE DEPEND ON.
I AM GOING TO, UM, ASK SOME OF MY QUESTIONS.
I GOT, I'M JU LISTEN MIDNIGHT ALREADY.
SO I JUST WANTED, I'VE DECIDED THE WEEDS ARE THE WAY TO GO.
UM, I ALSO WANNA DISCUSS SIRENS.
I'D LIKE TO HEAR IF THERE'S SORT OF DOWNSIDES OF THEM AS WELL.
WELL, WE'RE GONNA GO TO DO SIRENS AFTERWARDS AND I'M JUST WEIGHING IN THAT I'D LIKE TO DO THAT.
UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT THE ZONE, THERE ARE A LOT OF CRITERIA IN CREATING THE ZONES.
ARE IS ONE OF THEM POPULATION? YES, MA'AM.
AS POPULATION CHANGES, DO YOU ANTICIPATE THAT THE ZONES ARE GONNA CHANGE?
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HMM.I I WOULD SAY THAT'S POSSIBLE.
AND SO I, I I THINK THAT PUTTING THEM ON STREET SIGNS IS
THIS NOTHING PERMANENT SHOULD HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF, OF WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
AND I ALSO THINK THAT IT'S GOING TO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ATTACHED TO THEIR ZONES.
THEY'RE NOT, IF YOU CHANGE 'EM, THEY'RE GONNA BE BUT ONE, NOW I'M IN TWO, BUT I JUST THOUGHT THAT WAS, I MEAN, POPULATION IS PART OF IT, SO THANK YOU.
UM, COUNSELOR, JUST REALLY QUICK.
UM, WE HAVE OUR BEATS THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF.
THAT'S WEST ROBERT EDWARD, WE HAVE THESE 12 ZONES, BUT WE BROKE IT DOWN EVEN A STEP FURTHER TO SECTORS.
AND THE SECTORS ARE PROBABLY, OR ARE THEY PREDICATED SOMEWHAT ON POPULATION? SO THEY, SO OUR ZONES AND SECTORS ARE PREDICATED PARTLY ON THOSE.
AND SO YEAH, TO, TO YOUR POINT IS, UM, LIKE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE GROWTH WE CAN REALLY DO IN SOME OF THE AREAS.
SO THERE PROBABLY WON'T BE BIG CHANGES.
HOWEVER, WE HAVE A SECOND LAYER LIKE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT GOES INTO OUR SECTORS ON HOW WE DIVIDED IT UP EVEN FURTHER.
DOWN THE ROAD THAT WE'RE JUST NOT INCLUDING IN THIS, BECAUSE IT GETS REALLY EVEN MORE DETAILED AND THERE'S EVEN MORE THINGS THAT GO INSIDE WHY WE CREATED SECTORS.
I DON'T, THE, I AM ABSOLUTELY NOT INTERESTED IN THE WEEDS.
WAS IT BASE PO POPULATION? AND MIGHT IT CHANGE? OKAY.
THAT WAS REALLY, UM, WHEN I HEARD YOUR DISCUSSION OF THE OVERALL EVACUATION TIMES FOR THE CITY, WHAT I REALLY HEARD AT THE END OF IT WAS THAT THE LENGTH OF TIME IT TAKES TO EVACUATE FULLY IS DEPENDENT ON THE LENGTH OF TIME IT TAKES THE LONGEST ZONE TO EVACUATE.
IS THAT KIND OF TRUE? OR IS THERE, ARE THERE OTHER ISSUES INVOLVED? BECAUSE YOU SAID ONE ZONE MIGHT EVACUATE IN AN HOUR AND ANOTHER ZONE MIGHT TAKE TWO AND A HALF HOURS TO EVACUATE.
SO THAT, UM, I MEAN, IT'S SORT OF INTUITIVE.
IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE CLOSE AS I AM TO 89 A MARK COULD TAKE ME A LONG TIME.
SO WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO, UH, GREEN LIGHT.
SO THAT, UM, UH, TOTAL EVACUATION TIME, THE, THE IS FOR THE ZONE THAT TAKES THE LONGEST.
UH, THE REPORT ACTUALLY GETS INTO AVERAGE TIMES AND ACTUAL TIMES FREEZE THE 12 ZONES.
BUT THAT OVERALL EVACUATION TIME IS FOR THE ZONE THAT TAKES THE LONGEST.
DID YOU, DID YOU CONSIDER OR DID THE FACT THAT SOME OF OUR AREAS LIKE BREWER ROAD HAVE ONLY ONE ENTRANCE AND EXIT? DOES THAT, HOW DOES THAT FIGURE INTO, UM, THE EVACUATION TIMES? AND DOES IT, IS IT IMPORTANT FOR EVACUATION TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE ACCESS POINT IN TERMS OF, OF NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE BREWER? YES.
SO, SO WE TOOK THOSE 35 MAJOR INTERSECTIONS AND, AND LOADED EACH OF THE ZONES TO GET EVENTUALLY TO AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE INTERSECTIONS.
SO YOU'RE RIGHT, IF YOU'VE GOT MORE THAN ONE WAY TO GET OUT OF THE ZONE, IT'S GOING TO HELP IN TERMS OF THE EVACUATION TIME.
BUT IF YOU'RE LIMITED TO JUST THE ONE, THE ONE, UH, ROUTE TO GET OUT OF THE ZONE, THAT'S DEFINITELY GONNA IMPACT IT.
UM, I WANT ALSO TO SAY THAT I WANNA GIVE, I, I THINK HOLLY RAISED A GOOD POINT ABOUT SOME OF OUR POPULATION NOT BEING PARTICULARLY COMPUTER LITERATE.
AND I, I JUST AM PUTTING THIS OUT AS OF HAVING PRINTED COPIES THAT MIGHT BE DISTRIBUTED, FOR EXAMPLE, TO THE CLIENTS OF THE NGOS, THE MEALS ON WHEELS WHEN THEY GO AROUND, THEY CAN DELIVER THIS.
THE, UH, CAREGIVERS, WHEN THEY GIVE SOMEBODY A RIDE, THEY COULD.
SO I'M NOT SAYING ABOUT A MASS OUTPOURING OF THIS AND TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD TO HAVE A HARD COPY, BUT JUST IF THERE'S SOME LOW LI LOW LYING FRUIT, NOT THIS THING, BUT THE EMERGENCY, THE EMERGENCY PREPARE, OF COURSE IT'LL ONLY PROBABLY FREAK PEOPLE OUT.
BUT NONETHELESS, IT'S JUST SOMETHING I THINK WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT, UM, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GETTING THE WORD OUT.
UH, LET ME START WITH THIS, WES.
I SAT HERE ACTUALLY, I WAS DOWN THERE AT
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THE TIME WHEN YOU STARTED THIS WHOLE PLAN.AND I WAS, I MEAN, I HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF KNOWLEDGE IN IT AND I WAS BLOWN AWAY AND IMPRESSED BACK THEN, WHETHER IT TWO, THREE YEARS AGO.
AND IT'S FAR EXCEEDED MY EXPECTATIONS, WHAT YOU'VE DONE.
THERE'S ALMOST ALL THE FACES HAVE CHANGED.
I GUESS HE GOT BORED,
BUT A LOT OF YOUR GUYS HAVE CHANGED AND IT'S GOTTEN BETTER.
CHIEF FOLEY, YOUR STAFF HAS CHANGED A LOT AND IT'S GOT EXCEEDINGLY BETTER, UH, KNOWING THEM AND EN ENGAGING WITH THEM.
I'M REAL CONFIDENT THAT WE'RE IN GREAT HANDS, BUT NO PLAN IS PERFECT.
AND YOU COULD HAVE THE BEST PLAN AND SOMETHING SCREW UP A CAR BREAKDOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF AN EVACUATION.
BUT THIS PLAN IS GREAT AND I REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'VE ALL DONE TO COLLABORATE TO BRING ALL THESE KNOWLEDGE BASE TOGETHER AND TO CREATE THIS PLAN.
I FEEL THAT THIS, THE CITY'S AS SAFE AS WE CAN BE BECAUSE WHO KNOWS WHAT CAN REALLY HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
BUT I THINK WE'RE IN GREAT PLACE.
BUT I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
UM, YEAH, WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT THE LIVING DOCUMENT.
I'M VERY CONFIDENT WITH OUR CHIEF TO KEEP IT FRESH, TO KEEP IT UPDATED THROUGH HER STAFF.
I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION IN MY MIND.
UM, I, I LIKE THE IDEA WHERE IT WAS REALLY PLAIN THAT IF PEOPLE DON'T WANNA LEAVE, THEY'RE NOT FORCED TO LEAVE.
AND IT'S CLEAR AND YOU'RE TELLING THEM, DON'T EXPECT ANYONE TO COME AND GET YOU.
AND I KNOW THAT, THAT BACK IN CALIFORNIA, I HAD READ THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE, THE LAST MINUTE, THEY CHANGED THEIR MIND.
BUT YOU'RE VERY CLEAR AND THE PLAN IS CLEAR.
THE WHOLE PLAN IS, YOU STEP TO STEP IS VERY CLEAR.
AND THAT'S, BUT THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
IF I, I THINK IT WAS KAREN WHO MADE IT, UH, A STATEMENT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO OWN IT BASICALLY.
I BELIEVE THAT, I KNOW I'M PARAPHRASING WHAT YOU SAID, BUT, UH, THE FACT IS, WE'RE ALL GROWNUPS AND YOU HAVE TO OWN IT.
BUT THAT BEING SAID, WE'RE ALMOST AT 17% OF SHORT TERM RENTALS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND THEY MAY NOT HAVE NICKEL, THEY MAY NOT HAVE YOUR WEBSITE, BUT THE, THAT SIRENS, WELL, WE WE'RE GONNA GET TO THAT, BUT PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT SIRENS REALLY MEAN.
I MEAN, I KNOW TO ME WITH A SIREN BACK, BACK EAST IS A FIRE AND NOBODY USE THOSE ANYMORE.
BUT I, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD DO SOME KIND OF OUTREACH, WHETHER IT'S A BOOKLET TO EVERY HOUSE DROPPED ON, UH, YOU KNOW, ON THE DRIVEWAY OR GIVEN OUT IN SOME FASHION.
BECAUSE I LOOKED AT THE MAP THAT YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE UP HERE AND I'M IN.
I CAN'T SEE, WE HAVE THE GLASSES.
WHAT'S THE BOTTOM RIGHT IN, IN BROWN? WE'RE 12.
I DON'T HAVE MY, THEY'RE OVER HERE, BUT 12.
YOU KNOW, I, IT SAYS 1 79 IN MY ZONE.
BUT IF YOU FOLLOW THAT UP, YOU LOSE WHAT THE STREET IS.
IT'S NOT THERE OFFERED ENOUGH IN AN EMERGENCY.
I'VE PEOPLE, YOU, YOU GET STUPID.
UNFORTUNATELY, IN AN EMERGENCY, YOU'LL, HERE'S A MAP WHERE, WHERE AM I? AT LEAST YOU NEED TO KNOW IF WE COULD DO THE GUIDES IF, AND I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF WORK PER ZONE, AND I DID LIKE THE IDEA OF DOING A STRIPER COLOR ON STREET SIGNS.
BUT NOW JESSICA BROUGHT UP THE POINT THAT MAY CHANGE.
WES, YOU SAID THAT HOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW, HOW OFTEN WOULD THEY CHANGE POSSIBILITY WOULD THE ZONE, BECAUSE WE'RE PRETTY SEDENTARY.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, BUT WE'RE BUILT OUT FOR THE MOST PART.
UM, SO MAYOR, I, I THINK THAT'S A VALID QUESTION.
I BELIEVE THE VALUE WOULD BE OUTWEIGHED WITH ANY TENURE, UH, QUITE FRANKLY.
HOW OFTEN HAVE THE STREETS IN SEDONA CHANGED? CORRECT.
WE GOT NEW, NEW DEVELOPMENT, NEW STREETS.
YOU GOT A NEW STREET SIGN WITH A NEW ZONE ON IT.
UH, OR WITH A NEW ZONE MARKINGS.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE CONVERSATIONS I'VE HAD WITH SOME OF THE PARTNERS IN COCONINO COUNTY, UM, WE DON'T ANTICIPATE A LOT OF CHANGING STREETS.
AND IT CAN BE ACHIEVED IN NON-PERMANENT WAYS.
MAYBE IT'S A STICKER, MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.
A REFLECTIVE STICKER OR SOMETHING THAT COULD BE CHANGED.
SO WE BELIEVE IT TO BE AT LEAST A VIABLE CONVERSATION TO HAVE.
UH, IF WE COULD HAVE A COLORED STICKER AND GOES AROUND THE STREET POLE THAT, YOU KNOW, AND THEN
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THIS, LIKE PEOPLE WILL KNOW, AND IN THE, THE GUIDE HOWEVER WE DO IT, WHICH I HOPE WILL BE IN SPANISH AS WELL, UH, IN SOME FORM, UH, INDICATING TO PEOPLE LOOK AT THE COLOR ON YOUR, YOUR LOCAL STREET POLE, BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE TO EVACUATE, YOU'LL, YOU'LL LOSE ALL COMMON SENSE SOMETIMES.UM, SO I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT IT'S NOT IN STONE OR IT WOULD CHANGE.
SO FOR THE MOST PART, SO, UH, OR WILL NOT CHANGE, I SHOULD SAY.
SO, UH, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD LOOK AT IN THE FUTURE.
IF YOU COULD HIGHLIGHT THE, THE MAIN THOROUGHFARES BETTER ON THE MAP IN SOME WAY, WHETHER IT'S A 1 79, 89 A, I KNOW 89 A IS A BLACK LINE.
IT, IT'S NOT REALLY CLEAR WHAT THAT REALLY IS.
YOU JUST NEED TO, IF YOU LOOK AT IT, YOU NEED TO KNOW, I'M GOING OUTTA MY HOUSE, I'M GOING THIS WAY AND I'M DONE.
INSTEAD OF TRYING TO FE LET ME FIND THE LINE.
WHERE DO I GO? JUST A THOUGHT, MR. MAYOR, IF I MAY, THIS IS AN OVERALL MAP.
IT DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME LEVEL OF DETAIL AS THE INDIVIDUAL MAPS.
THE INDIVIDUAL MAPS HAVE MUCH MORE DETAIL AND DO HAVE, I BELIEVE WHAT YOU'RE SEEKING.
BUT EACH INDIVIDUAL MAP THAT WE PRODUCED, THAT I SHOWED YOU OFF, THE EVACUATION WEBSITE DOES HAVE ALL THOSE MAJOR STREETS, UM, ENUMERATED.
AND I WOULD, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU WHAT I JUST SAW, EVERYTHING WAS LAVENDER, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
UM, I KNOW JESSICA BROUGHT UP ABOUT UNOS, PETE THAT BROUGHT UP ABOUT THE BUSES.
CAN OUR TRAILHEAD BUSES BE USED IN DURING AN EVACUATION IF NECESSARY? IS THAT PART OF, I DIDN'T SEE IT IN THE PLAN, BUT IS IT A THOUGHT TO GET PEOPLE OUT, ESPECIALLY OUR HANDICAPPED, IF WE KNOW SOMEBODY IS HANDICAPPED TO HELP GET THEM OUT? OR THAT TOO MANY PEOPLE USING, YOU KNOW, YOUR, YOUR STAFF IS REALLY COMMITTED TO WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND YOU'RE REALLY NOT GONNA HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE TO DIRECT THEM.
IS THAT PART OF THE PLAN? THAT'S THE FIRST PART.
CAUSE SO PRETTY MUCH, I, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD.
CAUSE I WAS TRYING TO GET THIS, I'M SORRY, SLIDESHOW BACK.
OH, SO CAN YOU JUST SAY IT AGAIN JUST SO I CAN MAKE SURE I HEARD ALL, ALL, IS THERE SOME WAY THAT OUR TRAILHEAD BUSES AND OUR FUTURE TRANSPORTATION BUSES, RIGHT? CAUSE IT'S A FLUID'S GONNA CHANGE, CAN BE USED TO HELP EVACUATE SOME OF THE MOST INFIRMED OR HANDICAPPED PEOPLE THAT WOULD NEED HELP.
WELL, I THINK DEPENDING ON WHAT TYPE OF SCENARIO THAT WE HAVE OF, OF WHAT WE'RE EVACUATING AND HOW MUCH TIME WE HAVE TO IT, IS IT THE WORST CASE AND IT'S ACTIVE RIGHT NOW AND IT'S FAST MOVING, UM, THEN WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT EVERY RESOURCE AND EVERY HAND AVAILABLE, WHETHER IT'S GONNA BE THROUGH OUR STREETS, DEPARTMENTS, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR TRANSIT, WHATEVER THAT IS.
WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING FOR ALL THAT AS WE GET OTHER RESOURCES INTO TOWN WHILE WE EVACUATE OTHERS OUT.
RIGHT? SO A LOT OF THE THINGS TO CONSIDER IS OUR VOLUNTEERS OTHER, UM, PARTNERSHIPS, COUNTY, THEY'RE ALL GONNA BE COMING THIS DIRECTION AS WE'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF THIS DIRECTION.
AND THEN WE'RE TRYING TO GET A UNIFIED AREA AND INSTANT COMMAND PUT UP THAT THEN WE CAN START USING, UM, SOME OF THOSE EMERGENCY OPERATING PROCEDURES TO START THEN GETTING ANDY TO, TO WORK ON GETTING PEOPLE TOGETHER, WHETHER IT'S A SHUTTLE OR SOME OF THOSE OTHER THINGS.
SO I WOULD TELL YOU, DEPENDING ON EVERY SCENARIO THAT WE'RE GONNA BE AT, SURE THAT COULD, THAT COULD ABSOLUTELY BE PART OF IT.
IT COULD ALSO BE, OR NOT ASKING LINKS, YOU KNOW, OVER IN COTTONWOOD.
IT, IT COULD BE A LOT OF DIFFERENT PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE'RE GONNA PULL TOGETHER DEPENDING ON THE SCENARIO ITSELF.
UM, I THINK I'M DONE WITH MY QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS.
SO, UH, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS VOTE ON THIS ON THE, UM, PORTION THAT WE'RE GONNA VOTE ON.
THEN COME BACK TO THE ALARMS AND MAKE A MOTION.
I MOVE TO APPROVE RESOLUTION 2023.
1616 ENTERING INTO AN IGA BETWEEN THE CITY OF SEDONA AND COCONINO COUNTY FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF $83,247 IN GRANT FUNDS TO FUND A PORTION OF THE PLAN.
ANY OPPOSED? YOU WERE UNANIMOUS, JOAN.
NOW IT WAS DISCUSSED THAT WE WANTED DIS TALK ABOUT SIRENS.
SO WES, CAN YOU TELL US MORE IN DETAIL ABOUT THE SIRENS AND ARE THEY EVEN REALLY USED THAT MUCH ANYMORE? THESE, FOR INSTANCE, TELL ME.
I REALLY LIKE THE WAY YOU ORDERED IT.
UM, I'LL START OFF WITH SIRENS OF TODAY ARE NOT SIRENS OF YESTERDAY HERE.
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I GREW UP IN TUCSON.WE HAD THE SIRENS THAT WENT UP EVERY SATURDAY.
THERE WAS A WINE FOR 10 MINUTES, WHATEVER, UH, THE CIVIL DEFENSE SYSTEMS THAT WERE IN PLACE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
UM, PLEASE PURGE YOUR MIND OF THAT.
THAT IS NOT WHAT THEY ARE ANYMORE.
UM, SO I WILL JUST DETAIL IT VERY QUICKLY.
THE SIRENS THAT WE PUT IN, IN SUNNYSIDE AT THE BASE OF THE MUSEUM FLOOD ZONE, UH, THAT WE PUT IN LAST YEAR, UM, THERE, AND I WON'T TALK ABOUT THE COMPANY SPECIFICALLY.
I CAN IF YOU'D LIKE, BUT I'D RATHER NOT.
UM, THE, THE SIRENS ARE, UM, MUCH MORE MODERN.
UH, EVEN THE SIREN SYSTEM IN OAK CREEK CANYON IS, UM, I WOULD SAY IT'S AN OLDER SYSTEM.
UH, IT DOESN'T HAVE ALL THE CAPABILITIES OF WHAT'S AVAILABLE TODAY.
ASSIGNMENTS WE PUT IN MUSEUM ARE, UH, VERY POWERFUL.
FIRST OF ALL, VERY LOUD, VERY NOTICEABLE.
WE ACTUALLY HAD TO POSITION 'EM AWAY FROM RESIDENTS SO THEY DIDN'T BREAK THE WINDOWS.
BUT WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT 'EM IS THAT THEY ARE VERY PROGRAMMABLE.
SO THE SIRENS WE HAVE IN MUSEUMS START WITH AN INCREDIBLY ANNOYING ALERT SOUND THAT GETS YOUR ATTENTION.
THEN IT GOES TO AN ENGINEERED VOICE MESSAGE.
THERE'S ACTUALLY A MESSAGE FLOODING POTENTIAL.
IT'S AN ENGINEERED VOICE MESSAGE.
IT CAN BE IN OURS, IT'S CURRENTLY IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH, AND WE'RE ADDING NAVAJO TO OURS.
YOU CAN REALLY CONFIGURE IT ANY WAY YOU'D LIKE.
AND THEN ONCE THE VOICE MESSAGE IS DONE, THERE'S A CONCLUDING KIND OF A WIND DOWN SOUND MM-HMM.
UM, THE, THE, UH, THE POINT I WANNA EMPHASIZE IS THAT THE VOICE MESSAGE IS, IS INCREDIBLY CLEAR.
YOU'VE HEARD PAS, THEY'RE NOT ALWAYS VERY CLEAR, RIGHT? SCRATCHY, WHATEVER.
UH, THIS IS NOT THAT THEY'RE ENGINEERED BY, IN OUR PARTICULAR CASE COMPANY THAT WE USE, THEY'RE ENGINEERED IN AN, IN A, UM, IN A PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT ADDED INTO THE SYSTEM.
AND I CAN TELL YOU FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH OUR TESTING, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU'RE AT, YOU WILL HEAR AND CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE VOICE MESSAGE.
LET'S TALK ABOUT UPTOWN RIGHT TWO, ME TWO, LET'S SAY THERE'S TWO SIRENS IN DIFFERENT PLACES OF UPTOWN
UM, I AM VERY CONFIDENT THAT ANYBODY VISITOR, RESIDENT, BUSINESS OWNER IN UPTOWN WOULD A, BE DRAWN ATTENTION TO THE SIREN.
B WOULD HEAR THE MESSAGE AND UNDERSTAND CLEARLY WHAT THE DIRECTION IS GIVEN.
NOW THOSE MESSAGES CAN BE PRE-PROGRAMMED, WHICH MOST OF OURS ARE, THEY'RE PRE-PROGRAMMED INTO MY EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.
THEY COULD BE PROGRAMMED IN THE SAME WAY INTO YELLOW PIKE COUNTY'S EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM OR NICKEL.
UM, THEY COULD, THE SAME WAY, IT COULD BE PRE-PROGRAMMED.
THEY CAN ALSO BE VOICE CONTROLLED BY A MICROPHONE THAT'S IN MY OFFICE.
YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY THERE'S SOME WEIRD THING HAPPENING, RIGHT? THAT WE DON'T HAVE A MESSAGE FOR.
I CAN PICK UP A MICROPHONE IN MY OFFICE.
I CAN HIT THE SIREN SYSTEM, I CAN GET THE ATTENTION, AND I CAN MAKE A VOICE MESSAGE FROM MY OFFICE.
UM, THE REASON THAT WE PICKED THE PARTICULAR COMPANY THAT WE DID IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE A DIRECT, UM, API FOR DEVELOPMENT WITH RAVE, OUR EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.
SO WHEN I LAUNCH AN EMERGENCY NOTICE TO MUSEUM, I ALSO LAUNCH ASSIGNMENTS AT THE SAME TIME.
IT DOESN'T TAKE ADDITIONAL TIME.
IT ALL HAPPENS AT THE SAME TIME.
SO THEY GET A VOICE, THEY GET A TEXT, THEY GET SMOKE SIGNALS, THEY GET THE WHOLE THING THAT YOU KNOW NOW, AND THEY ALSO HEAR THE SIRENS GOING OFF AT THE SAME TIME.
IF, IF I ACTIVATE THE SIRENS, WE HAVE THRESHOLDS.
SO, UM, MUCH MORE, UH, FUNCTIONAL THAN THEY USED TO BE.
AND, UH, QUITE A BIT, UH, I WILL SAY MORE ATTRACTIVE.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SOME COLOR, I'M SORRY, SIR.
BUT, UM, I CAN TELL YOU SIR, YOU GUYS HAVE SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VISTAS ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET, RIGHT? SO I'M CERTAIN THAT, THAT, THAT THAT VISUAL IMPACT IS A CONSIDERATION.
UH, THE ONES THAT WE EMPLOYED ARE POLE MOUNTED.
THERE'S 16 SIRENS AT THE TOP OF EACH ONE OF THOSE.
THAT'S, THAT'S A SINGLE ARRAY.
THEY ARE DIRECTIONAL AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE, UM, THEY'RE ENGINEERED FOR THE AREA THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO COVER, RIGHT? SO THEY, THEY SET ALL THAT UP.
THEY HAVE ROOFTOP MODELS THAT SIT ON THE ROOF OF A BUILDING THAT FOR THE MOST PART, YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN KNOW, IS THERE, OH, REALLY? LIKE A BUSINESS DOWN, YOU KNOW, IN UPTOWN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO VISUALLY SEE THEM OR REALLY RECOGNIZE OR KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.
THEY'RE NOT GONNA STAND OUT AND IMPEDE YOUR, YOUR VISTAS.
UM, SO THERE ARE OTHER APPLICATIONS THAT CAN BE PUT TO THEM.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT, UH, WE ARE, WE HAVE ACTIVATED OURS SEVERAL TIMES IN THE MUSEUM FLOOD AREA.
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OUR PRIMARY GOAL IS LOSS OF LIFE STRAIGHT UP.UH, THIS IS WHAT WE CONSIDER ANOTHER LAYER TO OUR EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT EFFORTS.
UM, IT IS CERTAINLY NOT A REQUIRED EFFORT.
UM, I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE'VE HAD GOOD EXPERIENCE, GOOD FEEDBACK WITH THEM.
WE HAVE FOUND THEM TO BE VERY FLEXIBLE AND, UH, THEY ARE SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS CERTAIN WITH CONSIDERATION.
HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE IN FLAGSTAFF? SO WE HAVE, UH, IN THE MUSEUM NEIGHBORHOOD, WE HAVE FOUR SIREN ARRAYS.
UH, AND THAT WAS DETERMINED BY THE COMPANY THAT INSTALLED THEM.
AND IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH FLAGSTAFF, THAT ROUGHLY RUNS FROM HIGHWAY 66 AND FOURTH AVENUE.
UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE WALGREENS IS RIGHT THERE ON THE CORNER, UM, ALL THE WAY NORTH TO NORTH PARADISE.
SO UP INTO THE FOREST ABOVE CEDAR WAY UP INTO THE FOREST, WE HAVE FOUR SIRENS THAT COVER THAT AREA.
UM, AND YOU WILL HEAR THE SIRENS ACROSS THAT ENTIRE AREA.
AND THERE'S, THERE'S BLEEDING OVER, RIGHT? YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR IT'S, IT'S KINDA LIKE NOTIFICATIONS.
IT'S GONNA CROSS FORTH EVIDENCE.
I DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT THAT BECAUSE IF I'VE GOT A FLOODING ISSUE, I DON'T REALLY CARE WHO HEARS THE MESSAGE, THE MORE THE BETTER.
UM, BUT WE HAVE FOUR IN THAT AREA.
UM, I WON'T SPEAK FOR THE COMPANY, BUT I THINK I ENVISION UPTOWN WOULD BE SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF TWO TO THREE.
WELL, I GUESS WHY, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS HOW WAS IT DETERMINED THAT ONLY ONE NEIGHBORHOOD OF NEEDED IT? UM, SINCE THIS IS AN ALL HAZARDS THING AND PRESUMABLY EVERYBODY FROM FIRES OR ANYTHING ELSE MIGHT SOMEDAY NEED IT.
UH, THE REASON THAT, THAT THESE SIGNS WERE INSTALLERS, THEY WERE INSTALLED BY THE COOK AND COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT.
THEY WERE NOT INSTALLED BY THE CITY OR THE COUNTY.
THEY WERE INSTALLED BY THE FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT.
BECAUSE OF THE 2021 FLOOD SEASON WHERE WE SAW SIX FLASH FLOODS.
UM, I WILL TELL YOU NOW THAT THERE IS CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE OF LAST YEAR'S FIRES AND FLOODS OF EXPANDING THE SIREN SYSTEM TO OTHER AREAS.
UM, THAT WAS ONLY MADE REALLY SPECIFIC TO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE OF THE FLASH FLOODING THAT THEY ACTUALLY WITNESSED IN 2021.
BE SO, SO THERE IS TALK ABOUT EXPANDING IT CUZ IT DOESN'T, UM, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT JUST HAVING, I MEAN IT'S CERTAINLY IN UPTOWN, BUT CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, OUR CONVERSATION WOULD HAVE TO, WOULD BE DIFFERENT THAN THAT.
WELL, I CAN TELL YOU ON THE EAST SIDE OF FLAGSTAFF, LAST YEAR AFTER THE TUNNEL FIRE AND THE PIPELINE FIRE, WE HAD 46 FLASH FLOOD EVENTS.
SERIOUS LIFE THREATENING FLASH FLOOD EVENTS, RIGHT.
IS THE CONVERSATION ABOUT SIRENS? YES, MA'AM.
PETE, NICK, MAYOR WES, UH, I GREW UP WITH THESE THINGS IN MY TOWN.
PROBABLY SOME OF MY OTHER COUNCILS MEMBERS DID TOO.
THE TEST WAS, DO THE MODERN ONES NEED PERIODIC TESTING? WHAT'S THE CURRENT STATE OF THE PRACTICE FOR SOUNDING THESE THINGS OFF? GREAT QUESTION.
UM, I THINK TODAY THERE'S A, A HEIGHTENED SENSITIVITY AMONG OUR CITIZENRY THAT THEY DON'T WANNA HEAR THE SOUND, RIGHT? THE NEW ONES DO A SILENT TEST EVERY FRIDAY.
THE SYSTEM MONITORS THE SILENT TEST REPORTS, THE SILENT TEST.
AND I GET A REPORT IN MY EMAIL.
IN FACT, I GET A REPORT EVERY DAY OF THE OPERATIONAL STATUS OF EVERYTHING.
IS THE SYSTEM ALL ALIVE AND WORKING? AND THEN I GET A REPORT ON FRIDAY THAT TELLS ME THE SILENT TEST WORKED.
AND IT SPECIFICALLY SPELLS OUT THE, UM, THE, UH, ARRAY, THE SATURN ARRAYS THAT WERE TESTED.
SO IT IS TESTED EVERY FRIDAY, BUT THERE'S NO SENTENCE.
SO I JUST WANNA BRING US BACK TO THE FACT THAT, UM, FIRST OF ALL, WHEN YOU MENTIONED, UH, THERE WAS FUNDS AVAILABLE.
WE ARE MOSTLY IN YAVAPAI COUNTY.
UM, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SEDONA, GOD BLESS YOU JEN.
THERE'S MORE THAN UPTOWN, WHICH WAS, YOU KNOW, COUNCILOR WILLIAMSON'S POINT.
THIS IS A MUCH BIGGER THING THAN THIS.
SO THIS CONVERSATION BECOMES ONE OF DIRECTING STAFF TO LOOK INTO THIS TO FIND OUT WHAT IT WOULD COST, HOW MONEY WE WOULD NEED.
THERE'S A LOT NOW GOING ON AND IT JUST FEELS LIKE THIS IS NOT JUST A SIMPLE DISCUSSION ABOUT SIRENS ANYMORE.
WELL, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I APPRECIATE IT.
NO, I, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.
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I, I GUESS WE COULD PILOT OURSELVES WITH THE MONEY AVAILABLE FROM COCONINO KENLEY.I'LL, I'LL TAP ON AND, AND PLEASE.
UH, UM, THE CONGRESSIONAL AWARD THAT WE RECEIVED WAS AWARD TO COOK COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MEASURES.
I WOULD CERTAINLY BE WILLING AND, AND MORE THAN ANXIOUS TO WORK WITH YELLOW PIKE COUNTY.
UM, I MEAN, I, I TAKE SEDONA AS, AS MY OWN AS WELL.
I, I REALIZE PART OF IT'S IN, IN YAVAPAI COUNTY, BUT I TAKE IT AS MY OWN.
UM, WE PROBABLY NEED TO GET SOME, SOME BUY-IN FROM SENATOR KELLY'S OFFICE WHO IS THE SPONSOR OF OUR PARTICULAR EARMARK AND SENATOR SINEMA WHO ARE SPONSORS OF OUR EARMARK.
UM, AND WE HAVE TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION.
I, I DON'T KNOW THAT I COULD EXPAND IT OUTSIDE COOKING NEW COUNTY MM-HMM.
BUT I'D BE WILLING TO HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS.
THERE IS, BUT THERE IS MONEY THERE.
ADDITIONAL MONEY THERE FOR ADDITIONAL SIGN.
UM, NOT A PROMISE MADE, BUT I'D BE WILLING TO HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS.
SO LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE, I GREW UP WITH THE FIRE ALARM IN, BACK IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES AND WHAT HAVE YOU, AND 12 O'CLOCK THAT WHISTLE WOULD GO AND, OH, TIME TO GO HOME FOR LUNCH.
AND I'M REALLY GLAD THAT YOU, UH, BROKE THAT DOWN BECAUSE IT SOUNDS REALLY INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT.
UM, I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD LOOK AT.
WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT AS KAREN, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM? IT'S SOMETHING YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT IN ANOTHER WELL, NEXT BUDGET CYCLE BECAUSE OUR BUDGET CYCLE AND BOOKS ARE ALREADY DONE.
SO I, I THINK THIS IS A REASONABLE THING.
IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT A COMPREHENSIVE CITYWIDE ALERT SYSTEM OF SOME SORT, THAT IS A JANU NEXT JANUARY CONVERSATION.
IF, IF COUNCIL IS INTERESTED IN, WES AND I CONTINUING TO HAVE SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT COULD POTENTIALLY LOOK LIKE A PILOT IN AN UPTOWN OR A BREWER OR A CHAPEL SOMEWHERE IN COCONINO COUNTY WHERE IT'S NEEDED AND THAT WAS SOMETHING WE COULD DO AS A FIRST PHASE, A FIRST STEP, THEN I THINK THAT'S A REASONABLE ASK.
UM, I WILL CAVEAT THERE IS A 25% COST MATCH, UM, THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE DISCUSSED BETWEEN COUNTY AND CITY AND WE'D HAVE TO WORK ALL THAT OUT.
THERE IS A A, A COST MATCH INVOLVED IN THIS CONGRESSIONAL IN.
SO THAT MIGHT GO AWAY BY NEXT JANUARY.
UH, WELL, NEXT BUDGET CYCLE, NO.
AND I, I THINK WE WOULD BE ABLE TO, IF WE'RE TALKING IN THE RANGE OF 50 TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ONE OR TWO TO, TO TRY WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO MATCH THAT BY 25%.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING CLEAR, THAT'S SOMETHING YOU WERE GOING TO WORK ON.
OR MAYBE WITH THE CHIEF AND HER STAFF, CUZ SHE HAS SO MANY MORE STAFF PEOPLE THAN WE HAVE ON OUR SIDE RIGHT NOW.
NOT, NOT MORE HAVE REALLY GOOD PEOPLE.
YOU DO
JESSICA, YOU HAVE SOMETHING? I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY HOW MANY WERE TALKING ABOUT AND YOU JUST DID ONE OR TWO, MAYBE TWO.
SO THAT'S HOW MUCH MONEY THE GRANT WOULD PAY FOR AND OR WOULD IT PAY FOR PERHAPS MORE IF WE WANTED TO DO ANOTHER COCONINO NEIGHBORHOOD? WHAT I CAN SAY AT THIS POINT IN TIME IS I HAVE, UH, FUNDING FOR PROBABLY 15 TO 18 SIREN ARRAYS.
SO, OKAY, LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE, THE COMPANY CAME IN AND DID A STUDY AND THEY SAID YOU NEED THREE IN THE UPTOWN PILOT.
SO KAREN AND YOU WILL WORK IT OUT.
AND AS LONG AS THE BREWER ROAD AREA IS COVERED, WHICH I THINK YOU TURN YOUR, YOUR STUDY, YOU'LL FIGURE SOMETHING OUT.
BUT I'M REALLY WORRIED ABOUT THE, THE ROADS AND THE EVACUATION LOOK, YOU KNOW, THE WAY IT IS AND THE PLAN THERE.
SO I FORGET WHAT THE, WHAT THE AGENDA ITEM WAS WHEN WE WERE SITTING HERE.
YOU WERE HERE, UH, WHERE WE HAD TO, WE GOT THE YAVAPAI COUNTY, UH, ALERT ON OUR PHONES MM-HMM.
AND I THINK IT WAS A MISTAKE, BUT IT'S A MISTAKE.
IT WAS A MISTAKE, BUT IT'S STILL THE SYSTEM.
AND WE'RE, WE WERE ALL SITTING HERE AND IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE DISCUSSION WE WERE HAVING WITH YOU GUYS, BUT I'M NOT SURE NO.
WAS SOMETHING DIFFERENT WASN'T.
BUT LET ME TELL YOU, JOHN, YOU WANNA YEAH, IF I IN THERE, UM, THAT WAS OUR OLD EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.
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WE'RE VERY GLAD TO BE DONE WITH THEM.OUR, OUR NEW EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM IS FAR SUPERIOR.
IT'S VERY EQUIVALENT TO WHAT RAVE HAS EVERBRIDGE.
UM, YOU'RE ACTUALLY A CLIENT OF EVERBRIDGE THROUGH THEIR NEXEL PRODUCT.
UM, SO YOU'RE NOT LIKELY TO SEE THAT.
AND ONE THING TO THROW IN, I'VE HEARD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT IF PEOPLE AREN'T REGISTERED, UM, IF WE HAVE A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION WHEN WE SEND OUT THAT EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION, WE CAN SEND IT OUT AS AN ALERT TO EVERYBODY IN THE CELL TOWER AREA.
YOU KNOW HOW YOU GET THE AMBER ALERT ON YOUR PHONE AT 2:00 AM AND IT SOUNDS LIKE A MISSILES COMING IN.
YOU BET WE CAN SEND THAT SAME MESSAGE TO IRV PHONE IN THE AREA OF THE SALT TOWER.
SO OUR TOURISTS, SHORT TERM RENTAL PEOPLE, ET CETERA.
BUT, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS, WHEN WE DO THOSE MESSAGES THAT HIT A HUGE AREA, WE REALLY WANT HIM THE MESSAGE TO SAY WHAT AREA IS AFFECTED.
WHICH WOULD LEAD TO ME BEING VERY MUCH IN FAVOR OF HIS IDEA OF HAVING IT, LIKE YOU SAID, THAT STICKER ON THE SIGN POST OR ON THE STREET SIGN.
UM, AND AGAIN, I, I DON'T KNOW THE CITY AS WELL AS THE CHIEF, BUT I, I THINK WE'RE PRETTY BUILT OUT IN THE CITY OF SEDONA.
SO I DON'T, I, IT'S HARD FOR ME TO IMAGINE THOSE ZONES CHANGING.
SO, BUT THAT WOULD BE VERY USEFUL IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS.
I THINK SO THAT HITS A HUGE AREA AND WE HAVE TO SAY, HEY, THESE ZONES ARE AFFECTED.
AND MY POINT FOR JUST, YOU KNOW, SPEAKING ABOUT THAT INSTANCE WAS I FELT GOOD THAT WE WERE BEING NOTIFIED THAT WE EVEN HERE, WHEREVER I WAS, WE GOT ON OUR PHONES.
AND IF I'M NOT WITH MY PHONE, I'M, I'M HIKING OR WHATEVER, NOBODY SHOULD HIKE WITHOUT THEIR PHONE ANYWAY.
BUT EVEN YOU'RE GONNA FIND OUT ABOUT IT AND NOTIFICATION IS KEY TO EVERYTHING AND YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE.
SO WE, WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT AND THANK YOU, UH, UH, JOHN, I APPRECIATE IT.
AND IF ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS TOPIC, WELL, NOT TOO BAD.
WHO WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE WATER ISSUES UPTOWN? YES.
AND YOU SAID WE CAN DO THAT, THE WATER PRESSURE IN UPTOWN? SURE.
IT WAS RE IT WAS, IT WAS RELATED TO THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE.
SO, SO I GUESS KEEP IT TI TIGHTLY, YOU KNOW, UH, INTO THAT.
I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE'S AN UPDATE ON THE SITUATION UP THERE AND HOW THAT FACTORS INTO, UM, EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN THAT AREA.
CUZ I'M, I DON'T THINK I HAVE AN UPDATE COUNSELOR.
I DON'T HAVE AN UPDATE BECAUSE WE STAFF ARE NOT ACTIVELY WORKING WITH ARIZONA WATER ON ANY SPECIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES.
WE DID HAVE THEM COME PROVIDE THE UPDATE, PROVIDE THE EXPLANATION OF WHERE THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED THAT THERE ARE SOME INFRASTRUCTURE DEFICIENCIES OR NEEDS.
BUT THAT ISN'T SOMETHING THAT WE, YOUR STAFF HAVE BEEN TASKED WITH PURSUING.
I DO KNOW THAT THE UPTOWN NEIGHBORS ARE VERY MUCH IN ONGOING CONTACT WITH ARIZONA WATER IN TRYING TO, TO FIND SOME RESOLUTIONS MORE QUICKLY THAN THEIR INITIAL INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN OUTLINED.
BUT I, I CAN'T SPEAK TO WHERE THAT PROCESS IS.
SO I'M GONNA ASK JEN IF YOU WERE JUST, ARE THINGS MOVING? YES, THEY'RE, YOU HAVE TO COME TO THE MIC.
I MEAN, AND WE ARE, AS KAREN SAID, TRYING TO ACCELERATE THE PROCESS SO THAT IT'S SHORTER THAN THE TWO TO FIVE YEAR TIMEFRAME WIN WINDOW THAT THEY HAD GIVEN US INITIALLY.
ANYTHING ELSE ON THE WATER? ONE LAST COMMENT ON THE PLAN, WHICH IS, IS THIS THE FINAL, FINAL VERSION OR IS IT GOING TO GO THROUGH A PROOFREAD? HINT HINT.
DO YOU NEED A PROOFREAD
ANYTHING ELSE? AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR AN AMAZING JOB.
AND LET'S JOANNE GO AT, ON ANOTHER HIGH NOTE.
SO I APPRECIATE THAT IN HER BEING INVOLVED IN THAT.
UM, ITEM B, DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING FUTURE AGENDA, UH, OR MEETING ITEMS. DO WE HAVE ANYTHING? OKAY THEN, UH, HEARING NOTHING ELSE.
I SHOULD, YESTERDAY I COULD HAVE USED ONE.
NO FAVORABLE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
LET'S ASK RESTY, GET A PRESCRIPTIVE.