Park City Emergency Management

Emergency Management is a core public safety function that prepares, plans, mitigates, responds and recovers from local emergencies and disasters. Emergency Management participates in the following functions with in the City:

  • Involved in all areas of Emergency Preparedness for the City, and interacts with City staff and management in all departments as needed.
  • Completes and maintains the City’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP), along with all of its appendices. Presents an updated CEMP to the City Council for acceptance by resolution annually.
  • Maintain the City's State and Federal National Incident Management System (NIMS) compliance (via the state and FEMA database).
  • Prepares, submits and manages emergency management program grants through the state and federal governments.
  • Provides financial and budget materials as needed to the Executive, Finance and Budget departments.
  • Serves as the equipment and operations manager for the City’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
  • Provides training and exercises for employees at all levels in community emergency preparedness, emergency operations, response and recovery, including their own safety at home and at City facilities.
  • Manages the placement of emergency equipment and supplies in all occupied City facilities and provides training for occupants.
  • Identifies and analyzes the Risks and/or Hazards to the community and how the City responds in conjunction with the CEMP.
  • Serves as the liaison to Summit County Emergency Services, Utah State Department of Homeland Security, the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) and other jurisdictions on emergency management.
  • Responds and serves as the Emergency Manager as needed on local or regional events, including but not limited to, Incident Commander, EOC Manager, facilitator, liaison, logistics resource, debriefing and after-action coordinator.
  • In conjunction with the Communications Director, works on community and citizen preparedness and training, along with business preparedness training.