CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS PLAN TEMPLATE - Sedgwick County

CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS PLAN TEMPLATE - Sedgwick County CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS PLAN TEMPLATE - Sedgwick County

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Following joint development of the initial COOP plan, the suggested responsibility of theCOOP review team should include:• Maintaining overall plan currency and readiness, to include procedures,equipment, system, personnel and rosters.• Addressing and resolving COOP plan policy issues.• Advising the head of the department or jurisdiction on COOP-related matters.• Coordinating among related plans.• Conducting training, testing and exercising• Updating plans annually to incorporate lessons learned from testing and exercisesas well as actual events or significant organizational changes that occur during theyear. Key evacuation routes, roster and telephone information, as well as mapsand room/building designations of alternate locations should be updated aschanges occur.Annex S (Multi-year Strategy and Program Management Plan) contains the followingexamples of the following tables that can be used to help organize and manage a multiyearstrategy and program management plan:• Multi-Year Program Development Strategy• Multi-Year Program Budget• Program Review Cycle and Plan Maintenance Schedule9. COOP PLAN CERTIFICATIONTo ensure that this plan is realistic and provides adequately for emergency performanceof all essential function, this COOP plan should be cross-walked against Federal andState plan guidance provided in Annex U (COOP Plan Crosswalk). The completed crosswalkshould be provided to the department head or chief elected official prior to thepromulgation of the plan. Resolution of Identified deficiencies, if any, should beaddressed in the Multi-year Strategy and Program Management Plan (See Section 8 ofthe Basic Plan).A distribution strategy should be developed and added to Annex V (COOP PlanDistribution) to ensure that essential COOP personnel have on and off-site access toCOOP planning and reference material. However, a distribution strategy will address thefollowing:• Consideration of other employee and the public “right-to-know”: againstoperational security.• Limited distribution based on a “need to know”.• Include distribution of a general summary of the plan distributed to otheremployees and the public.9. COOP PLAN DISTRIBUTIONDevelopment of a strategy is essential to control the distribution of a COOP plan. A well28

designed distribution strategy will ensure that plan information is in the hands ofpersonnel that may need the information following an event which warrants considerationof activation of the COOP plan. Many essential COOP personnel will not require accessto the entire plan, but only the portions relevant to their duties and responsibilities. Nonessentialpersonnel training requirements and the public’s right-to-know may be satisfiedby providing an overview of the department’s or jurisdiction’s COOP plan. Whateveryour organization is advised by legal counsel, a distribution strategy should be discussedin this section and summarized in the table provided in Annex U.29

Following joint development of the initial COOP plan, the suggested responsibility of theCOOP review team should include:• Maintaining overall plan currency and readiness, to include procedures,equipment, system, personnel and rosters.• Addressing and resolving COOP plan policy issues.• Advising the head of the department or jurisdiction on COOP-related matters.• Coordinating among related plans.• Conducting training, testing and exercising• Updating plans annually to incorporate lessons learned from testing and exercisesas well as actual events or significant organizational changes that occur during theyear. Key evacuation routes, roster and telephone information, as well as mapsand room/building designations of alternate locations should be updated aschanges occur.Annex S (Multi-year Strategy and Program Management Plan) contains the followingexamples of the following tables that can be used to help organize and manage a multiyearstrategy and program management plan:• Multi-Year Program Development Strategy• Multi-Year Program Budget• Program Review Cycle and Plan Maintenance Schedule9. COOP <strong>PLAN</strong> CERTIFICATIONTo ensure that this plan is realistic and provides adequately for emergency performanceof all essential function, this COOP plan should be cross-walked against Federal andState plan guidance provided in Annex U (COOP Plan Crosswalk). The completed crosswalkshould be provided to the department head or chief elected official prior to thepromulgation of the plan. Resolution of Identified deficiencies, if any, should beaddressed in the Multi-year Strategy and Program Management Plan (See Section 8 ofthe Basic Plan).A distribution strategy should be developed and added to Annex V (COOP PlanDistribution) to ensure that essential COOP personnel have on and off-site access toCOOP planning and reference material. However, a distribution strategy will address thefollowing:• Consideration of other employee and the public “right-to-know”: againstoperational security.• Limited distribution based on a “need to know”.• Include distribution of a general summary of the plan distributed to otheremployees and the public.9. COOP <strong>PLAN</strong> DISTRIBUTIONDevelopment of a strategy is essential to control the distribution of a COOP plan. A well28

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