Ramsey County, MN - Emergency Management Support

Case Study Comprehensive Emergency Management Support Ramsey County, MN Emergency Management and Homeland Security (EMHS)

Resillience Delivered

For the COVID-related Disaster Cost Recovery contract, Tidal Basin delivered the following results:

• Developed a clear plan of action in developing, distributing, and educating departments and local agencies on current, event specific, application, and funding requirements • Developed and maintained a grant management and recovery strategy that included hazard mitigation • Formulated and validated Project Worksheets (PWs) and other funding applications that were fully coordinated with insurance claim settlements before seeking additional funding • Developed and organized the Damage Inventory (DI) in the most advantageous manner for eventual development of PWs

• Developed PWs that complied with FEMA’s eligibility requirements and maximized opportunities for reimbursement for hazard mitigation, codes and standards, environmental compliance, and other opportunities under FEMA’s various pilot programs and policy updates • Developed a central repository for all Requests for Information from federal, state, local sources to ensure proper tracking and coordination • Developed and entered damage descriptions and dimensions, scopes of work, hazard mitigation proposals, |and cost estimates directly into Grants Portal

For the AAR/IP contract, Tidal Basin delivered the following results:

• Developed a timeline of events to help shape the AAR • Conducted stakeholder interviews • Developed an Equity Impact Assessment • Conducted focus group sessions • Analyzed all open-source service delivery documents the County produced during the response

• Prepared a service delivery impacts analysis report • Prepared interview results and analysis • Completed and finalized the AAR/IP • Facilitated an after-action conference

For the EOP contract, Tidal Basin delivered the following results:

• Created a Crosswalk/Gap Analysis assessing the existing plan, other emergency management plans, policies and procedures, doctrine, and AARs to industry standards • Facilitated a planning meeting to engage with stakeholders, create the vision, and discuss the major components for updating the EOP

• Conducted a meeting to review the drafts of the EOP and its annexes • Delivered the final EOP, annexes (including two new functional annexes) and 12 new job aids

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