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Emergency Management Taskforce Goals and Objectives

• The Emergency Management Taskforce serves as an avenue in which preceding stakeholders can come together to discuss current planning efforts.
• Define the roles and responsibilities of emergency response in the school district and in non-publics schools
• Develop, update and revise current methods for communicating with the staff, students, families and media
• Obtain necessary equipment and supplies to carry out our response plans and recovery procedures
• Update maps and facilities information, and provide this to the responding law enforcement agencies prior to an emergency event
• Update accountability and student release procedures for various types of crises that require the following responses: evacuation, reverse evacuation, lockdown, or shelter-in-place.
• Perform at minimum, one exercise, involving all of the stakeholders of the Bethlehem Areas School District REMS project. Debriefing immediately following the exercise, and the development of a Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant after-action report will be prepared and disseminated amongst the EMT members.