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Weekly Journal #5

KINS 4306

Monday, June 5th

Today was the first day that Stephanie was back in the office, so I started to work on the

Resource Management project again for the whole day. I finished the first part last week, so I

asked Stephanie to look over it to make sure there was nothing that she wanted me to change and

started to work on the next part. The next part was very similar to what I was doing, but instead

of organizing by plan, I started to organize by categories, so that way they can look quickly to

see what resources are under which category instead of having to look through each individual

plan.

Tuesday, June 6th

I had a terrible migraine this morning and low-grade fever so I emailed the Director of

the Office of Emergency Management Greg Swanson, because my supervisor is out all week,

and he told me to stay home and if I started to feel a little better, I could work on the resource

management project for a little at home to get some hours for the day. I got up around 10:00

A.M. and felt a little better so I worked for a few hours and then took the rest of the day to rest

up for the week.

Wednesday, June 7th

Today I worked primarily on my resource management project. I worked on getting

through the document that I am sorting by category, but I did not completely finish it. I plan on

trying to get most of it done tomorrow, but I am attending a sheltering review tomorrow with
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Stephanie for the Red Cross. If I do not finish it tomorrow I will most likely be able to complete

it by Friday.

Thursday, June 8th

Today was a very busy day with the Red Cross and the meeting I attended with Stephanie

and Ashley. This meeting was about the sheltering protocols for disasters in the different

“regions” of Georgia. Everyone at this meeting was from the Metro Atlanta area, and I saw a few

people from the different Emergency Management Agencies (EMA) that I have met at the

previous conferences and meetings I have attended. The main focus of the meeting was trying to

figure out where there may be some “disconnects” between the Red Cross and the various

EMA’s in regard to disasters that have happened in the past, as well as the verbiage of some

things. For example, the Atlanta-Fulton County EMA pointed out that their definition of

“misplaced” varies from that of the Red Cross, so they further defined it to say that misplaced

people are those whose housing is destroyed with no other options to go and stay, such as family,

friends, hotel, etc. This meeting was very interesting because I learned more about the Red

Cross’ involvement with EMA’s as well as met some new people. I met the entire staff of the Red

Cross Atlanta Headquarters, as well as got a business card from the Disaster Program Manager. I

also got to meet one of the Regional Directors of GEMA. After the meeting we returned to the

office where I continued working on the resource management project, which I hope to be

completely done with tomorrow.

Friday, June 9th

Today I finished up the next part of the resource management project. Once I was done with that

Ashley asked if I could help her with something that she needed to do for GEMA’s accreditation

program. This included looking at a list of all of the critical infrastructure in Gwinnett County
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and finding out what was located at each address. I was just given the addresses along with what

section of the Gwinnett County government owns them, but she was explaining to me that

GEMA needs the names of each place in order to continue the accreditation process.

Day Time In Lunch Time Out Hours Worked

Monday, 8:20 A.M. 11:50 A.M.- 4:00 P.M. 7.33

June 5th 12:10 P.M.
Tuesday, 10:15 A.M. Working Lunch 4:00 P.M. 5.75
June 6th
Wednesday, 8:15 A.M. 11:45 A.M.- 5:30 P.M. 9.00
June 7th 12:00 P.M.
Thursday, 8:15 A.M. Working Lunch 5:30 P.M. 9.25
June 8th
Friday, 8:10 A.M 12:30 P.M.- 5:30 P.M. 9.00
June 9th 12:50 PM
Total Weekly 40.83
Hours Worked
Total Hours to 150.16
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