HomeMy WebLinkAboutThurston County Emergency Management - Interlocal Agreement Cross-Jurisdictional Memorandum of Understanding
Regarding Alert, Warning, and Notifications Sent
Through FEMA' s Integrated Public Alert and Warning
System
Thurston County EM and Mason County EM
Purpose
The above-mentioned Alerting Authorities (AA) recognize the need for interagency
i
cooperation to enhance public alerting capabilities. This Memorandum of Understanding
(MOU) allows AAs to establish a backup AA to issue alert, warnings, and notifications (AWN)
on their behalf, to their respective communities in the unlikely event the original AA is not
able to perform that function.
Scope
This MOU is effective as of June 12, 2024 and will continue until revoked by one or all parties
following the procedures listed in Section 7, Changes to the MOU. The MOU provides
permission for the backup AA, established in this MOU, to issue AWN on behalf of the
requesting AA only when express permission is granted by the requesting AA.
Parties to the MOU:
Party A Party B
Jurisdiction: Thurston County EM Jurisdiction: Mason County EM
POC: Sonya Kroese POC: Tammi Wright
Address: 9521 Tilley Rd. SW Address: 100 Public Works Dr.
City, State, Zip: Olympia, WA 98512 City, State, Zip: Shelton, WA 98584
Email:sonya.kroese@co.thurston.wa.us Email: tammiw@masoncountywa.gov
Office Phone: 360-867-2817 Office Phone: 360-427-9670
After hours phone: 360-280-3993 After hours phone: 360-490-6607
Approval to use the following: Approval to use the following:
o Wireless Emergency Alerts o Wireless Emergency Alerts
o Emergency Alert System o Emergency Alert System
o National Weather System Alerts o National Weather System Alerts
Policy
All parties agree that in the event of an emergency incident requiring the activation of AWN,
the AA requesting alerting on behalf shall provide the following information:
I
Page 1 of 3
• The message content to be used in the WEA, EAS, and/or NWEN.
o The message content should address the following:
■ Identify the Sender.
■ Identify the Hazard.
i
■ Affected Area.
■ Action to take.
■ A URL to obtain more information.
• The Activation Area.
• The Duration of the Alert. j
• A Point of Contact to Maintain Communication During the Incident.
For purposed of situational awareness, involved jurisdictions will inform each other as soon as
possible of the need for alerting assistance.
The State Alerting Official must approve any MOU between alerting authorities establishing
cross jurisdictional support prior to the MOU becoming valid.
This MOU will be reviewed by all parties every two years [or designated].
If changes are requested to the MOU, the requesting jurisdictions will submit the respective
changes to all other parties. Each party will review and provide acceptance, modification or
rejection to the requesting jurisdiction for consideration. Should all parties agree to
change(s), a new version of the MOU will be prepared for signature by all parties.
If a jurisdiction elects to revoke the MOU, the respective jurisdiction will notify all other parties
of the MOU in writing with a 30-day notice.
The State Alerting Official (Signatory) needs to be notified of the ratification or any changes
to the MOU including changes of participants. A completed copy of the MOU will be
forwarded to the State Alerting Official, the FEMA IPAWS Program Management Office, and
uploaded to the IPAWS Users Porfal. The State Alerting Official has the right to immediately
suspend or terminate any MOU between Alerting Authorities within their jurisdiction.
Procedures
The Jurisdiction providing alerting on behalf will use the following procedures:
1. Receive alerting request from the impacted jurisdiction(s).
2. Compose an IPAWS message with message content coming from the impacted
jurisdicfion(s).
3. Send the IPAWS message.
4. Verify message sent; notify the proper POC(s) from the impacted jurisdiction(s).
5. Coordinate further alerts with impacted jurisdiction(s), if necessary.
The impacted jurisdictions) will use the following procedures:
1. Request assistance from adjoining jurisdiction detailed in this MOU.
2. Provide message content to be used in the AWN.
3. Monitor alert receipt from adjoining jurisdiction.
Page 2 of 3
4. Coordinate with jurisdiction providing alerting on behalf for any ongoing alerts,
updates, and/or cancellations.
Alerting Authority Signatures
.13, 3oa4
NAME & DATE: ?,anc\t I12aVhevl\n NAME & DATE: I��le_ e)us4-ad 61151.21-/
TITLE: Cha\q TITLE: gmersenr�) /✓lpngfe/Men�-
Organization: `r(M2Son Cou"k� Organization:
I � Vr.) ,4 COVA+y I;Mer3ency
(r1O.A
State Alerting Official Signature
Digitally signed by Kevin
Wickersham
Date:2024.08.29 11:10:51 -07'00'
NAME & DATE: Kevin Wickersham 8/29/2024
TITLE: Response Section Manager
Organization: Washington Military Department, Emergency Management Division
Electronically approved to form:
DPA Rick Peters 6/14/24
Page 3 of 3
i