Sentences with phrase «emergency manager»

The four officials charged include two former state - appointed emergency managers who ran the city and two city employees: a public works superintendent and a utilities manager.

It is these efforts that have opened the door for emergency managers and veterinarians to begin the dialogue of collaborative disaster planning for animals.

During the hurricane and in immediate aftermath, we had radio to our local emergency managers, but we could not reach the eastern side of the island.

Environmental advocates say the city's emergency manager needs to address pollution problems.

Emergency managers simultaneously deal with who, what, and when issues every day, and therefore so should research to improve warnings, the authors suggest.

The city's main district is now run by an elected school board after years of control by state - appointed emergency managers.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder appointed Kevyn Orr as emergency manager in March 2013, giving him extraordinary authority to fix the city's finances.

NWR is the perfect complement to local radio and TV weather news, as well as Emergency Managers Weather Information Network, the Internet and other sources of weather information.

Snyder's decision allowed Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr to make a filing under Chapter 9 of the federal bankruptcy law.

The former emergency manager Robert Bobb planned to convert as many as 45 of Detroit's public schools into charter schools, but Roberts scaled back the plan to only eight for the next school year.

Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr addresses the media about the ruling on the Detroit municipal bankruptcy while Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (L) listens during a news conference in the Theodore J. Levin U.S. Courthouse in Detroit, Michigan, November 7, 2014.

In the eyes of DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts, the gain was «progress, substantive progress, on academics.»

The lowest performing schools in Detroit will be taken over by a new authority created in partnership with the state, Detroit Public Schools and Eastern Michigan University, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) and DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts announced at a news conference to much fanfare and some protests.

Gov. Rick Snyder's recently announced plan to have Detroit's lowest - performing schools answer to a special state - run authority (run by emergency manager Roy Roberts) is still thin on details, but it is known that the new structure will have the authority to charter new schools.

Besides the $ 5 million, New York is committing a team of emergency managers from various agencies to work out of Manhattan, the Meadowlands sports complex and other points in New Jersey, according to a state official.

In 2014, a state - appointed emergency manager decided to stop buying treated Lake Huron water from the city of Detroit, and instead to treat and distribute Flint River water to city residents.

Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner John Melville said, «We are in regular contact with County Emergency Managers in the area to discuss planning and operations for additional state assets to the region.

The new emergency manager law passed in December requires such a «public informational meeting» within 30 days of submitting an updated operational plan to the state.

We're going to have charters,» Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy Roberts, who is also the chair of the EAS board, told The Huffington Post.

Over the summer Muskegon Heights schools» then emergency manager laid off everybody who worked at the district and hired Mosaica Education to run operations for 5 years.

The Big Animal Rescue Truck left for Oklahoma on Tuesday to get the supplies closer to the tornado - stricken Moore community so they can respond swiftly when emergency managers issue deployment orders.

This has local leaders like Godfrey, Orleans County Legislator Lynne Johnson and the counties» emergency managers on alert.

But, even though warning triggers are used often, little research has been done on how emergency managers set them or how effective they are when combined with integrated early warning systems, the authors write.

The plan was developed to mirror earlier efforts by former DPS emergency manager Robert Bobb, as revealed in documents subpoenaed by a lawsuit, said Donna Stern, national representative of BAMN, an activist coalition in Detroit.

And though he has the power to do so — thanks to Michigan's wide - ranging emergency manager law — he said, according to the Detroit Free Press, that he has no plans to reconstitute the school board or cancel union contracts.

Seven writers from both publications have each selected a work from the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), a treasure trove that could inconceivably be sacrificed if Detroit's emergency manager forces a sale of the collection to alleviate some of the city's staggering -LSB-.....]

This allowed emergency managers and leaders to make critical decisions around evacuation orders and readying supplies that undoubtedly saved many lives.

When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

Kevyn Orr, the attorney who managed Chrysler's 2009 bankruptcy, is reportedly Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's top pick to be Detroit's financial emergency manager.

He engineered a state takeover of the perpetually troubled city of Detroit, installing a hand - picked emergency manager who quickly filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

And electricity may not be restored fully in Puerto Rico and the USVI until May, since emergency managers are still reeling from the devastation across the United States in 2017, spreading thin reconstruction supplies like utility poles and power lines across all disaster areas spanning from California to Florida.

Flint's former mayor and the city's former emergency manager testified that they were not aware of lead in the water until January 2015.

Christian Aid's regional emergency manager, Dipankar Patnaik, said: «India's eastern coast and neighbouring Bangladesh are routinely hit by severe storms between April and November.

Of course, being the manager after the manager has other advantages: Mid-season emergency managers are able to get away with what their predecessors could not.

Niagara County Emergency Manager John Schultz says the birds are adapting to their surroundings and should be left alone.

Twenty people were injured in an explosion and fire at Kuraray America Eval, a plastic fabrication company in Pasadena, Texas, according to Jeff Suggs, the corporate emergency manager for Kuraray.

The trailer will allow us to compile all the tools we use into one space, ensuring we will have what we need when necessary,» added Edward R. Sauer, Elma Emergency Manager.

Gov. Cuomo signed an executive order Monday creating a new independent emergency manager who will oversee much - needed upgrades of public housing.

This bankruptcy has been imposed by the Michigan GOP Gov. Snyder; and his dictated emergency manager.

Long's comment came after Rep. Jeanette Nunez, a Miami Republican who oversaw the state House's response to Hurricane Irma, encouraged emergency managers to keep pushing for storm hardening projects.

That kind of detail is exactly what emergency managers need, says Christopher Barrett, a computer scientist who directs the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, which developed the NPS1 model for the government.

The authors» goal is to sound a «wake up call» that they hope will lead to an improved understanding of how warnings are formulated and implemented across hazards, which in turn could lead to improved training methods, warning system innovations, and synergy between researchers and practicing emergency managers.

He notes how Hurricane Harvey, for example, strengthened suddenly to become a Category 4 storm right before it made landfall in Texas, offering emergency managers little time to issue warnings.

State planners and emergency managers turned to U.S. Census Bureau data about the people living and working in the affected area to identify the communities that would be hardest hit, and come up with a plan for recovery in the months that followed.

At the NWS office, Smith and his colleagues worked feverishly to make sure the local population was warned, taking to Twitter, working with local media, and briefing emergency managers around central Oklahoma, which looked to be the bull's - eye.

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That's when the district's newly appointed Emergency Manager Don Weatherspoon said the district couldn't afford to open school in the fall.