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Emergency Operations Plan Page 2 November 16, 2001 '. I have also included a brief paper by the Public Entity Risk Institute entitled "Local Government Preparation for Bioterrorist Acts", that gives you a little background on some ofthe things that the City should begin looking at in terms of what we would need to do to be more prepared for bioterrorist acts and ensuring both the continued operation of the government of the City of Arden Hills and the safety ofthe residents. I have also included papers that have recently come out in a symposium entitled "Community Response to the Threat of Terrorism" by the Public Entity Risk Institute. On September 13, the Introduction and Overview was published on the web along with an interactive site for comments and feedback. On September 14 the article entitled "Public Works and Terrorism" was published. On September 16 an article entitled "Chemical and Bioterrorism" was published and on September 19, "Fire Departments Emergency Management Services", "Emergency Management Agencies", and "Emergency Medical Response to Terrorist Incidents and Hoaxes". These series of articles are designed to help communities examine their emergency operations plans, evaluate their preparedness, respond to the questions that are asked at the end ofthe prepared information, and provide feedback to their local elected officials on what changes. if any, need to be made to their plans. . I have also included a management document that the Public Entity Risk Institute published for emergency management system directors, managers, administrators, and anyone else trying to deal with determining the effectiveness of their emergency management plan and emergency management structures. The title of the document is "Characteristics of Effective Emergency Management Organizational Structures", and provides a check list and a series of follow up questions for examination by anyone related to the delivery of emergency management services or the set up of emergency management operations plans. It is a example on what to consider having in your emergency management plan, how to evaluate the effectiveness of your current plan, and to provide a method of change for inclusion of events not originally included in your emergency operations plan, The most valuable pieces of information I took away from the symposium and the evaluation tool, is the City of Arden Hills should consider asking the following questions: . Where are we vulnerable? · What is in the City of Arden Hills which might be a tempting target for terrorists? · What visits by VIPs or foreign dignitaries are schedule which might attract terrorists or terrorist acts? These three questions serve as a basis for the beginning of the evaluation of the Emergency Operations Plan in terms of being able to identify, respond to, and deal with terrorist acts or bioterrorism. . RECOMMENDATION