A proclamation recognizing National Preparedness Month and National Day of Action on September 30, 2014, and Recognizing David E. Cook for being an Honorable Mention “Community Preparedness Hero” as part of FEMA’s 2014 Community Preparedness Awards.
Proclamation 14 795 recognizing National Preparedness Month and National Day of National Day of Action on September 30th, 2014, and recognizing David Cook for being an honorable mention community preparedness hero as part of FEMA's 2014 Community Preparedness Awards. Whereas, National Preparedness Month is a nationwide community based campaign to increase emergency preparedness across the United States to help ensure that our homes, workplaces, schools, houses of worship and community based organizations are prepared for disaster events, helping to reduce fatalities and economic devastation following a major crisis. And. WHEREAS, National Days of action are set to encourage participation in drills, exercises, discussions to build community resiliency. And the second National Day of Action for 2014 will be held on September 30th. And. WHEREAS, Denver's Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security encourages Denver employees, residents, neighborhood associations, businesses and community organizations to participate in preparedness activity during this month, during the month of September, and to sign up for Denver's Emergency Response Training, otherwise known as CERT offered monthly at. W w w denver gov dawg backslash oem. And where. And these are free, by the way. Whereas OEM Homeland Security also encourages people with disabilities and their caregivers and people with. Spanish as their primary language to sign up for special offerings in September and October of the Denver Community Emergency Response Training Class to meet their specific needs. At again the Denver website. Denver gov dawg backslash OEM. And. WHEREAS, on September 8th, 2014, FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, announced that Denver Cert volunteer David E Cook has received an honorable mention Community Preparedness Hero Award as part of FEMA's 2014 Community Preparedness Awards. By serving the Denver community as a trainer, facilitator and exercise coordinator. Training more than 4000 people over the last several years and volunteering in numerous emergency events and exercises, including the 2013 Colorado floods. Now, therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver, Section one, that the Council hereby recognizes National Preparedness Month , Denver's Day of Action in David Cook and encourages Denver residents to join millions of Americans in learning and preparing the steps necessary to stay safe before, during and after a disaster. Section two that the clerk of the city and county of Denver shall attest. And a fix the seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and transmit it to the Denver Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. Thank you, Councilwoman. In taking your motion to adopt. Mr. President, I move for the adoption of Proclamation 795 Series 2014. It has been moved and seconded comments from members of Council. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you. I don't know how many of you have actually done one of these trainings. If you have not, I would strongly encourage you to do this. I did mine, I think about two or three years ago, and the information that you learn from this is so vital to your family and your workplace, being able to just take care of yourself and not wait for the emergency responders because they're at the epicenter of where the disaster has occurred. And so it's going to be a while before they come to take care of you. So as prepared as we can have our entire Denver community, we will be so much better off. And I just want to commend our Office of Emergency Management and all of the volunteers. I know that Mr. Cook is one of many different volunteers and trainers that do this day in and day out to ensure that we have a safe community in Denver. And I want to congratulate you on your award and just strongly encourage that my colleagues adopt this proclamation and continue to get the word out to all sectors of our community about how vital this training is. You know, one of the issues that we've been raising is the the issue of railroad safety. And when you look at some of the incidents that we've seen occur, not only in this country, but in Canada, where a rail incident wiped out an entire community on a on a weekend night, it becomes real when it gets closer to home. And so for the work that you guys do at OEM and the volunteers that provide this service to our community, I want to say thank you and appreciate that. It's something that continues to happen and just reiterate that this training is free to our community. So please, for those of you listening, take advantage of it. Your family may depend on it at some point in time. So thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Councilwoman Ortega, do we have any other comments from members of council? Seen on Madam Secretary, roll call. ORTEGA Hi, Rob Shepherd. SUSMAN Hi, Brooks Brown. I fights. I. And carnage. Lehman I. LOPEZ All right. Monteiro Nevett. Hi, Rob. Mr. President. So I. Oh, I'm sorry. Robin Brown, the perhaps not. All right, Madam Secretary, please close the venue, announce the results. 3939 is proclamation 795 has been adopted. Councilman Ortega, anyone you want to call up to the podium? That's already there. Sir. We are joined tonight by Pat from our Office of Emergency Management. And I'm sorry, Pat, I'm forgetting your last name. Pat Williams and Mr. David Cook. So, Pat, would you like to start off? I guess we just wanted to stand up front here at all, but thank you. Thank you very much for prompting us to do this again. It is very, very important that we all take some kind of action this month. We just ask you to do one simple thing, whether that's just going and making sure you have phone numbers of the people that you love in your in your cell phone. It can be just as simple as that. And I would like to express my thanks to Dave. Dave puts in a lot of volunteer hours for our organization, and we can't do it without the volunteers, and we can't do it without people like him. So thank you. Appreciate it. Dave, would you like to make any comments? Sure. If you can lift the mic up so we can. There you go. There you go. Certainly am humble. Having this proclamation as well as the award that was given, certainly could not have done it by myself. We have tremendous support with with the city county in Denver, with the Office in Emergency Management, but also the volunteers that we have, you know, supporting us as well. You know, one of the things that still sticks in my mind is the volunteers that we had to help out with the Red Cross there and their communication needs during the flood of last year. One third of the volunteers that was there helping the communications in the in the Red Cross were in the access and functional needs category. Those folks with wheelchairs, crutches and other disabilities, they wheeled right up and went elbow to elbow with all the rest of us healthy individuals and supplied a need to the Red Cross drivers that they were trying to navigate the roads that were washed out or blocked off. And so I am certainly am humbled and energized the fact that we have tremendous support in our training and in this organization. And thank you all so very much. Thank you. All. Thank you both. 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