It is important that as emergency managers that we keep our eyes on the legislative ball as it bounces along at the federal, state and local levels.
Sometimes people say they don't like "politics" but let me tell you that you cannot be an effective emergency manager if you just focus on the four phases and don't know what is being written in our various legislative bodies that will impact your ability to function.
Bill Cumming has a nice update on the Stafford Act machinations that you might want to take a look at. Reforming the Act has been debated for many years. Eventually someone is going to take on that challenge and the tweaking will end and a full blown rewrite will happen.
See Robert T. Stafford Act
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Sometimes people say they don't like "politics" but let me tell you that you cannot be an effective emergency manager if you just focus on the four phases and don't know what is being written in our various legislative bodies that will impact your ability to function.
Bill Cumming has a nice update on the Stafford Act machinations that you might want to take a look at. Reforming the Act has been debated for many years. Eventually someone is going to take on that challenge and the tweaking will end and a full blown rewrite will happen.
See Robert T. Stafford Act
