Disaster Recovery - Pueblo

Event Date: 5/7/2019
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Capacity:

19/45
Event Overview
Pueblo Streets Maintenance Building
310 East "D" St.
Pueblo

Program Topics:

The purpose of this course is to provide participants with an increased awareness of the local government involvement in disaster recovery. This course is designed for local disaster recovery teams consisting of leadership from emergency managers, city/county administrators, public works directors and field operators from road and bridge departments, general public works and other specialists. The course focuses on the following:

  • Roles and responsibilities of team members
  • Providing guidance on developing a local disaster recovery plan
  • Best practices / case studies in disaster recovery
  • Developing an outline of a recovery plan for your area

Roads Scholar II : Technical Skills

This is a course in the Roads Scholar II course track Technical Skills Focus Area. Click above for more program details.


Registration Fee

The registration fee for this class is $50 per person for employees of government agencies and $75 per person for non-government agencies. Fee includes class handout and lunch. Invoices will be sent upon receipt of registration form. Invoices can be paid by cash, check, money order, or credit card.


Cancellation Policy

Please be considerate of those on the waiting list, cancel early if necessary. A full refund will be made if you cancel no later than 3 business days prior to the training day; otherwise, you will forfeit the registration fee.


Special Notes

In order to receive credit for this class, attendees must stay until the end when it is dismissed by the instructor and class certificates are awarded.

Instructors

Manns, Todd Disaster Recovery

Todd has over 32 years of experience. His background includes service in the United States Marine Corps. Reserve, law enforcement experience as a SWAT officer and operational sniper, managerial and policy implementation as an interim Chief of Police, and various assignments in support of U.S. efforts against global terror.

Todd has been contracted as a consultant to elements of U.S. military Special Forces, the U.S. Army Garrison Command at Fort Carson Colorado, and has written the emergency response plans for over 20 water districts across the country. He is a certified instructor for over 20 courses for members of the National Consortium on Domestic Preparedness through the Department of Homeland Security, and the FEMA Emergency Management Institute.

Todd holds an instructor certification for Peace Officer Standards and Training curriculum (POST). He is a certified instructor in all levels of the new all hazard ICS curriculum and instructs the EMI L-449 train the trainer and is a credentialed Career and Technical Education instructor by the Colorado State Board of Community Colleges and Occupational Education. He is also a FEMA instructor for the national ICS position specific training and has taught those courses nationally. Todd is a certified all hazards type III planning section chief in incident command. He is the former planning section chief for the Eastern Colorado Incident Management team, which covers 3 all hazards’ regions of Colorado and 22 counties.

Todd previously served as the planning section chief at the Colorado State Emergency Operations Center during the 2008 Democratic National convention in Denver, during the 2010 Hells Angels USA Run and during the 3rd annual National All Hazard Incident Management Team Training and Education Conference. In 2011, he was specifically brought in as a subject matter expert and given the responsibility to write the evacuation plan during the record Missouri River Flooding in the Sioux land area. He is a certified emergency manager and a member of the Colorado Emergency Managers Association. Todd designed and directed the 2008 Denver Hospital Exercises for 17 separate hospital facilities.

His further credentials and experience include being certified as a professional continuity practitioner by FEMA and has completed his Advanced Professional Series. He is the author of a national blog and course developer having achieved DHS approval for courses that are now listed in the DHS State Sponsored Course Catalog.