PSCP committee moves forward with emergency preparedness agenda: Representatives from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Department of Homeland Security speak on preparing for pandemic.(Public Safety and Crime Prevention)(Brief article)

Nation's Cities Weekly, October, 2006 by Glazer, Melinda

NLC's Public Safety and Crime Prevention (PSCP) steering committee tentatively approved policy to recommend reforms to the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to ensure the nation's emergency preparedness and response capabilities

At the PSCP fall meeting, held Sept. 28-30 in Thousand Oaks, Calif., the steering committee strongly urged all levels of government to work together to ensure that cities can respond to and recover from natural or man-made disasters PSCP Chair Marty Simonoff, mayor pro tern of Brea, Calif., hosted the meeting.

The steering committee also used its meeting to discuss and approve an amended resolution referred from NLC's Human Development steering committee addressing the pandemic flu....

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