TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOR CITY COUNCIL PACKET
JANUARY 6,
2009
POLICY SESSION AGENDA
Packet Date: December 31, 2008
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CITY COUNCIL REPORT
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POLICY AGENDA
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TO:
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Alton Washington
Assistant City Manager
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AGENDA DATE:
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January
6, 2009
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FROM:
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Bob Khan
Fire Chief
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ITEM:
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SUBJECT:
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AZTF -1 DEPLOYMENT TO HURRICANES GUSTAV AND IKE
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The purpose of this
report is to provide the City Council with information regarding Arizona Task
Force 1’s deployment last Fall to Louisiana and Texas for hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
THE ISSUE
On August 29, the
Phoenix Fire Department’s FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team (AZTF-1) was deployed to Louisiana in anticipation of impending Golf Coast hurricanes.
The Type 3 team consisted of 34 members including Fire, Police and
support personnel along with associated vehicles and an equipment/ supplies
cache.
OTHER INFORMATION
AZTF -1 was first
headquartered out of Camp Beauregard, Louisiana where it road out Hurricane Gustav. The Task Force was then redeployed to Texas to prepare for Hurricane Ike’s
landfall. Its duties there included
conducting wide area search and rescue operations on Galveston Island and providing humanitarian assistance to
the special needs community in Houston.
This included helping hundreds of individuals housed in 13 centrally
located buildings in the City of Houston.
Team members also had
the opportunity to attend and conduct FEMA Training sessions in Houston and at the University of
Texas A&M. The University has a
training site called Disaster
City that contains full scale props of
buildings, trains, airplanes and vehicles in various states of
destruction. These props are used for
hands on training exercises.
The response to
Hurricane Ike was handled under the Unified Command System between the State of
Texas and FEMA.
The Unified Command System worked well for this wide scale disaster.
AFTF -1 was
demobilized on September 18. Some of the
team members flew home while others accompanied our vehicles and supplies
cache. All expenses related to this
deployment are to be compensated by FEMA.
RECOMMENDATION
This report is for
information only. No action is being
requested.
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CITY COUNCIL REPORT
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POLICY AGENDA
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TO:
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Ruth Osuna
Deputy City Manager
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AGENDA DATE:
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January 6, 2009
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FROM:
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Tammy J. Perkins
Executive Assistant to the City Manager
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ON THE ROAD TO THE 2010
CENSUS
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This report describes
the City’s partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau for a complete and accurate
2010 Census count in Phoenix; summarizes the key role of the Phoenix 2010 Census Complete Count
Committee; identifies critical dates; and notes activities already
underway. This report is for information
only.
Census Day, April 1,
2010, is less than
fifteen months away. Taken every ten
years, the census affects political representation and directs the allocation
of billions of dollars in government funding.
The Budget and Research Department estimates that for every person
living in Phoenix who is not counted in the census, the city
loses approximately $402 in annual State and Federal funding.
The U.S. Constitution
requires that a national census be taken every 10 years. The census is a count of everyone residing in
the United States and includes people of all ages and both
citizens and non-citizens. The 2010
Census questionnaire is short, asking only a few questions of each person; it
should take just a few minutes to complete and return by mail.
Phoenix Partnership with the Census Bureau
Over the years, the
City of Phoenix has worked hard to build a positive
partnership with the U. S. Census Bureau to ensure an accurate and complete
count of Phoenix residents in each Census. Preparation for the 2010 Census is already
underway; examples of the partnership’s activities to support the 2010 Census
include:
• Local
Census Office – The Grand Opening at the Local Census Office, 850 West Adams,
is January 6, 2009. The management staff have been on board since October 1, 2008 and have been working with City staff on a
number of projects including address canvass staff recruitment & testing
and access challenges for Bureau staff to Phoenix gated residential communities. Staff from the Bureau and
City staff are in regular communication, including joint meetings of the
Bureau and City staff teams.
• Denver Regional Office – City staff have been in
communication with the regional staff since the summer of 2008 and assisted
with recruitment of media and partnership staff and identification of office
space and data processing center space.
• U.S.
Census Bureau, Office of the Director – Phoenix staff and Bureau staff from the Washington, D.C. office coordinated the Director’s October 2008 visit to Phoenix and an advisory committee nomination to the
national Census Advisory Committee on the Hispanic Population.
Phoenix 2010
Census Complete Count Committee
In order to engage
community support for an accurate and complete 2010 Census, the Mayor and City
Council are gearing up to establish and appoint a Phoenix 2010 Complete Count
Committee (CCC).
The charge to the CCC
is to develop and implement a public awareness education program to inform Phoenix residents about the benefits of completing
and returning the 2010 Census questionnaire and to encourage every Phoenix household to participate in the effort.
The CCC will be divided into five Subcommittees
with the following assignments:
• Media
– Create and facilitate ways to get the Census message to all Phoenix residents
using all available sources such as print media, newsletters, flyers, local
events, billboards, radio, television and on-line social networks.
• Business
– Create and coordinate activities that involve business in Census awareness
such as distribution of Census information, Census messages in stores and
inclusion of the Census logo and message on sales promotion items. Raise private
funding to support the 2010 Census media campaign.
• Minority
Outreach – Create and coordinate activities and materials that get the Census
message to all cultural and ethnic groups throughout the community. Focus on traditionally hard to count and or
undercounted populations.
• Community
& Schools – Collaborate with community-based organizations and neighborhood
groups to inform residents of the importance of participating in the 2010
Census and the benefits derived from census data. Facilitate Census awareness for local schools
from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade as well as Phoenix post-secondary education institutions.
• Communities
of Faith – Create and coordinate activities and materials that can be used by
any local religious institution in the promotion of 2010 Census awareness and
participation. Communicate availability
of activities and material to Phoenix faith-based communities.
Critical Dates
Upcoming key dates
for the 2010 Census include:
• January
6, 2009, 11:00 a.m. – Grand opening of the U.S. Census Bureau’s
Phoenix Early Local Census Office, 850 West Adams, Phoenix
• January
7, 2009 – City Council consideration of resolutions supporting complete and
accurate count in 2010 Census and establishing the Phoenix 2010 Census Complete
Count Committee (CCC)
• Early
February, 2009 – Initial meeting of the Phoenix 2010 Complete Count Committee
• March
2009 to July 2009 – Bureau staff initiates address canvassing activities in Phoenix neighborhoods
• October 2009 – Four additional
Local Census Bureau Offices open in the Valley
• February
2010 to April 2010 – Census questionnaires delivered; CCC awareness and promotional efforts in full
swing; regional media campaign operational
• April 1, 2010 – Census Day
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