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Weekly Journal 9
Weekly Journal 9
Weekly Journal #9
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This morning I started by looking over the resource management plans to refamiliarize
myself with them since it has been a few weeks since I last worked with them. After that I sat in
on a staff training meeting where we were taught about the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA)
that the county has available for its residents to sign up for. The WEA is used primarily for
weather events such as tornados, floods, and severe storms but it can also be used for a
widespread notification system if there were a missing person or something that the community
needed to be made aware of. We were all shown how to send out an alert and told the guidelines
for deciding if one needs to be sent out. After that meeting, I returned back to looking over the
resource management plans and I discussed with Stephanie about meeting tomorrow morning to
discuss what I will be doing next, as well as how she wants me to format everything.
Today when I arrived in the office Stephanie started to explain a little bit of what else I
will be doing with the Resource Management Project, but she ended up have meetings for almost
the entire day, so she gave me the rest of the day after lunch to work on some of my project. I
worked on that for a little bit until Ashley asked if I was interested in looking at some of the
school safety plans that she has been reviewing. I thought it was really cool to see how many
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different events that the school’s plan for in their safety plans. Ashley was also explaining to me
how the Police Department and the Office of Emergency Management have started to do active
shooter drills with the schools around the county to ensure that the staff is fully prepared in the
event that there is an active shooter situation. Although it is sad that this is such an important part
of the school safety plans that Ashley works on, it is very necessary to do these drills.
Today was a very slow day as most people in the office were out for vacation time. I was
supposed to meet with Stephanie today to talk more about the resource management project, but
she ended up not being in because she was sick. Since Stephanie was not in today, I spent the day
looking over some more of the school safety plans as well as spending some time on my E-
portfolio since my supervisor told me I could work on something personal for school if I wanted
to.