City Council Agenda and Packet 2018 08 03 Tabletop

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City of Louisville Tabletop Exercise Situation Manual 5. Find areas of improvement within the City of Louisville's processes and procedures related to emergency preparedness and response, communication channels (flow not actual radio use), financial decisions, and staffing decisions. Participants • Players. Players, including local school officials, respond to the situation presented, based on expert knowledge of response procedures, current plans and procedures, and insights derived from training. • Observers. Observers support the group in developing responses to the situation during the discussion; however they are not participants in the moderated discussion period. • Facilitators. Facilitators provide situation updates and moderate discussions. They also provide additional information or resolve questions as required. Key Exercise Planning Team members also may assist with facilitation as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) during the tabletop exercise. Exercise Structure This tabletop exercise (TTX) will be a facilitated exercise. Players will participate in the following four modules: • Module 1: Event and Response • Module 2: Mass Casualty, SAR and Situational Assessment • Module 3: Limitations and Contingency Considerations • Module 4: Communications Plan -Recovery Module 1 outlines the event and response, which is intended to provide enough information to set the stage for the higher level decisions. All modules include situation/key issue updates to highlight the problem and areas for discussion. Participants will review the situation and engage in group discussions based on a typical response to address appropriate issues related to the situation. During the group dialogue, participants will engage in a facilitated discussion with the assistance of facilitators. Players should be organized into a response structure that is suitable for the incident and they should answer based upon their role in the response. A large graphic should be developed on a white board or similar as the incident unfolds to assist the players in understanding their role within the command structure. This effort should be led by a designated incident commander and, if appropriate, his or her general staff. (ICS terminology for the Incident Commander and his or her main staff includes a Public Information Officer, Safety Officer, Planning Section Chief, Operations Section Chief, Finance Section Chief and Administrative Section Chief, and possibly a Deputy Incident Command, if the event is large enough. This could also be a unified command structure.) 2