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Assignment - Project Hometown - Profile/Risk Assessment

This assignment relates to the following Course Learning Requirements:

CLR 1 - Describe the regulated and legislated emergency management programs CLR 2 - Explain the local, provincial and federal roles in Canada

Objective of this Assignment: To apply profiling and risk assessments skills focusing on your hometown.
Instructions:

Project Hometown is a dynamic, living, breathing assignment. It is designed this way to acclimatize you to the fact that, within Emergency Management, many such projects or assignments and the documentation associated with them are always changing. As such, it is subject to and will be revised and adapted several times before the final assignment is submitted.

Over the time frame of this course, you will work on Project Hometown, and amend it accordingly. Note, that the word used here is "amend". That does not mean wholesale change! If there are applicable revisions to what has already been posted then make such amendments. These should all be highlighted in some manner so as to make them obvious, unless they are simply the additions that are required due to the topic of the week. In that case, their mere addition/inclusion should make them obvious.

In Project Hometown, you will be given the job as the "Emergency Manager" for your Hometown. All your submissions should be written as if you are preparing a report for your Hometown Council. Your Hometown may be where you were born, or where you grew up, or where you went to school, or where you are living now. You make the determination but it should be an area that you know well. This will avoid researching a lot of information that you would normally already have at your fingertips.

Your Hometown must also be of a reasonable geographical size, firstly to provide the challenges required by the exercises, and secondly, be large enough that the Town Council can afford to hire a full-time Emergency Manager. If you are from a very small village or town include the surrounding area as part of your hometown. As an example, you can include the township or county. It must include significant critical infrastructure such as roads, bridges, sewage treatment and the like to be acceptable.

Hometown Profile and Risk Assessment

Your first assignment as the new Hometown Emergency Manger is to develop a profile report for Town Council that also includes a Risk Assessment. Review the comprehensive list of Hazards and Threats compiled for the Discussion Activity postings and apply as many as possible to your Hometown.

This assignment should be structured as a report to your Council, in Word format and should include a cover page as well as standard formatting such as openings, background, recommendations, closing, etc.

In your Hometown profile you must include, but are not limited to the following items:

• City/Town/Township/Municipality
• Location and GeographicalDescription

• Narrative: Population -Numbers
• Population - Demographics
• Weather - Climate concerns andeffects
• CityFacilities
• CriticalInfrastructure
• UniqueFeatures/Landmarks/Attractions
• EconomicFactors
• HistoricalSignificance
• Any Other PertinentInformation

Once you have completed your profile, then rank the top five hazards and risks to your Hometown in order of severity and rationalize the ranking. Your ranking may be based on impact as well as vulnerability.

Your report will be used as a decision-making document by Council, so be thorough. Council may respond to you with questions, BUT you do not want that, as it generally will lead to more significant work. Note that your facilitator will represent Council.

You will be adding more chapters to this report before this course is completed, so plan your layout accordingly. You do not need to completely re-submit each report (assignment) as we move along, unless there are amendments as indicated previously. Explain anything else that you feel should be included in your developmental Hometown information package.

Hints

Indicate if there is any historical significance surrounding your Hometown, which would require special emergency management consideration. Outline anything that makes your Hometown special. Identify and outline the primary economic stimulus of your Hometown. Identify all Hometown critical infrastructure at a macro level for your Hometown i.e. list the kilometers of roadways, the number of major bridges, identify any city operated services such as hydro, sewage, water, public transportation, etc.

Identify Hometown facilities such as schools, hospitals, churches, seniors' centres, arenas, etc. that can be used in an evacuation for needs such as morgues, shelters etc. during and/or after an emergency.

Provide a short one-page description of your Hometown. You need to describe its terrain, its major geographical features, issues such as in the case of New Orleans, located 6 feet below ocean level etc. (Ie: using Ottawa, what earthquake faults run through, near the city?). Describe the average weather pattern for each of the four seasons. Identify the demographics and provide the most recent census numbers for your Hometown. Identify the City Centre of your Hometown on a map with GPS identifiers. Name your Hometown.

Range: 1500-1750 words

Attachment:- Risk Assessment.rar