Paradise
works on incident management plan
By Aaron
Mecham
March 6, 2009 | PARADISE -- The Paradise Town Council
discussed shortening the National Incident Management
System (NIMS) plan during their council meeting Wednesday
evening.
Councilman Mathew Weaver suggested they could shorten
the plan by combining approximately the last 20 pages
and make it easier to read for others.
Mayor Lee Atwood said he thought that was a good idea,
but felt like he was leaving a lot out that needed to
be mentioned with the first draft he had and decided
they should include the last pages for if the community
grows or for very large disasters because it would provide
better guidance.
Several members of the council said it would be difficult
to shorten the plan while retaining the information
needed.
Councilwoman Margaret Obray told a story about preparing
something short and informative. The story was about
Woodrow Wilson and how he was asked to give a speech
and how long he would need to prepare for it. He said
that depended on how long the speech needed to be. If
it needed to be 10 minutes it would take two hours to
prepare, if the speech needed to be 20 minutes it would
take one hour to prepare, and if it didn’t matter how
long the speech took he was ready now.
Also discussed at the council meeting was a lease
agreement for a cell phone tower for AT&T. The representative
for AT&T, Cindy Hanks, said they had been working on
the details of the agreement for over a year. The land
they are leasing is located near the Paradise cemetery.
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