8415 - EMERGENCY AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT
The School Board recognizes that the use of its facilities and transportation services can be invaluable to this community in a crisis or emergency. Therefore, in the event of a local or State emergency and upon the request of the local emergency management agency, the District shall participate in the emergency management effort by providing its facilities for use as emergency congregate shelters and by providing personnel necessary to staff them. Additionally, if needed, the District shall coordinate the use of its vehicles and transportation personnel with the local emergency management agency to facilitate an emergency evacuation or for other related purposes.
The Board authorizes the Superintendent to establish a crisis management team whose members shall be trained in various emergency procedures.
If a life-threatening emergency is anticipated in or near the District, crisis management team members, as well as the principals and other designated personnel of schools serving as emergency congregate shelters, shall make themselves available as needed. Unless otherwise designated, the principal of each school serving as a congregate shelter shall be the "shelter manager" and shall be responsible for all aspects of the operation of the emergency congregate shelter.
The Board recognizes that exempt and nonexempt employees who serve on the crisis management team and who staff the congregate shelters during a declared emergency will be providing services that exceed their contractual obligations by working on days and at times when other District employees are not required to be on duty. In addition to receiving their regular pay in accordance with the Board-adopted salary schedule for their position, the Board shall pay supplements to those employees who perform duties in direct support of the District’s congregate sheltering operations on days when other District employees are not required to be on duty in accordance with the schedule for such emergency service that is adopted by the Board. Nonexempt staff members who receive such supplements shall also receive one and one-half (1 1/2) times the established rate in the Board-approved schedule for such emergency service for hours worked beyond forty (40) hours in a seven (7) day period. In any case, the pay received shall be considered extra compensation and shall not be part of the employee’s base salary prospectively.
Following the use of District facilities as congregate shelters, the Superintendent shall calculate the amount spent during the period the facilities were used for congregate shelters that is above and beyond the usual and customary expenses to operate the facilities during that time period for the following:
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utilities (e.g., power, water, and telephone),
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generator usage (rental costs and/or fuel required),
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shelter safety and security, and
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costs related to use of buses and other vehicles, excluding operator costs.
The Superintendent is authorized to submit the itemized total expended by the District for extra compensation for exempt and nonexempt staff, as well as the additional amount expended for the operation of the District facilities used as congregate shelters, to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for reimbursement. The Board shall be informed of the amount of reimbursement requested from FEMA at the next regularly-scheduled Board meeting.
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