The purpose of this Local Commissioner's Memorandum (LCM) is to update procedures for reporting emergency closings of local district offices, and to inform you of notification methods that will be employed to enhance communication processes in times of emergencies. This LCM also will inform local district offices about the availability of NY-Alert for emergency notifications. This LCM supersedes 07-LCM-03. Changes to the previous LCM includes an annual designation and reporting of emergency contacts (Section I), additional notification to information and referral services (Section III), information on NY-Alert (Section III), and posting of an emergency contacts list to the OTDA Disaster Preparedness Intranet site (Section III).
An emergency is a sudden, generally unexpected occurrence or set of circumstances requiring immediate action, e.g., inclement weather, fire.
We would also like to reinforce the annual submittal of a prioritized listing of three (3) emergency contacts for each local district, which will be used as needed, for off-hours emergency communications with OTDA and the Human Services Committee of the NYS Disaster Preparedness Commission (DPC) during activations and disaster response/recovery activities.
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