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<span style="color:#ffffff">...</span>[[File:Scribes.jpg|alt=Pen and scroll representing a charter|thumb|144x144px|''Community Resilience Districts need a charter, but don't let the word "charter" make you think PBEM expects you to flounce about in a doublet or kirtle.''|border]] | <span style="color:#ffffff">...</span>[[File:Scribes.jpg|alt=Pen and scroll representing a charter|thumb|144x144px|''Community Resilience Districts need a charter, but don't let the word "charter" make you think PBEM expects you to flounce about in a doublet or kirtle.''|border]] | ||
=== What ''is'' a Community Resilience District? === | === What ''is'' a Community Resilience District? === | ||
Under PBEM guidance, a CRD is made up of | Under PBEM guidance, a CRD is made up of four essential parts: | ||
# '''A service area:''' A CRD has a service area that can be geographically depicted on a map. Inside that service area are operational teams that plan for and activate in a disaster...the NETs. PBEM recommends that a CRD's service area conform with a [https://www.portlandoregon.gov/fire/article/104015 Fire Management Area (FMA)]. FMAs are ideal because each FMA has its own fire station ''and'' FMAs tend to have a consistency in operations planning risks inside their area. For example: FMA 27 is in Forest Park. A CRD and associated NETs working in FMA 27 all need to consider and plan for the problems that emerge with living in a wildland/urban interface area (such as wildfires). Meanwhile, a CSD and NETs in FMA 4 (Downtown Portland) must contend with the issues of organizing and responding in a dense urban environment, and so on. | # '''A service area:''' A CRD has a service area that can be geographically depicted on a map. Inside that service area are operational teams that plan for and activate in a disaster...the NETs. PBEM recommends that a CRD's service area conform with a [https://www.portlandoregon.gov/fire/article/104015 Fire Management Area (FMA)]. FMAs are ideal because each FMA has its own fire station ''and'' FMAs tend to have a consistency in operations planning risks inside their area. For example: FMA 27 is in Forest Park. A CRD and associated NETs working in FMA 27 all need to consider and plan for the problems that emerge with living in a wildland/urban interface area (such as wildfires). Meanwhile, a CSD and NETs in FMA 4 (Downtown Portland) must contend with the issues of organizing and responding in a dense urban environment, and so on. | ||
# '''A committee:''' The CRD committee is a group of volunteers (almost none of whom need to be NET trained) charged with providing administrative support to the NETs in their service area. That administrative support may include volunteer recruitment, convening meetings, outreach, fundraising, arranging training events, and more. | # '''A committee:''' The CRD committee is a group of volunteers (almost none of whom need to be NET trained) charged with providing administrative support to the NETs in their service area. That administrative support may include volunteer recruitment, convening meetings, outreach, fundraising, arranging training events, and more. | ||
# '''A charter:''' Despite its arcane name, the CRD charter simply clarifies responsibilities and sets goals for the CRD and associated NETs. | # '''A charter:''' Despite its arcane name, the CRD charter simply clarifies responsibilities and sets goals for the CRD and associated NETs. | ||
# '''The individual block-scale NETs associated with the CRD:''' These are teams of NETs and neighbors who determine their own service area boundaries and operations plan. Only NET Team Leaders are expected to interact with the CRD Committee. | |||