BEECN Program Organization: Difference between revisions

# The PBEM Bureau Director may delegate responsibilities for the BEECN program to a designee.

# All routine communications regarding BEECN program business between volunteers, city employees, and PBEM will be directed to staff at PBEM assigned to manage BEECN.

=== City Employees and BEECNs ===

The City of Portland may assign a City of Portland employee to a BEECN for drills and/or deployment. A city employee is still considered a city employee while undertaking responsibilities to the BEECN program, and the city employee is at no time considered a “BEECN volunteer”.

=== Elements of a BEECN ===

A BEECN consists of three essential elements: the site, the equipment cache, and the assigned volunteers.

# The BEECN equipment cache associated with the site is located within a five block radius of the BEECN site. It contains all the equipment that volunteers need to deploy the BEECN.

# BEECN volunteers are the personnel associated either with a BEECN or a fire station, and are trained to deploy the BEECN program 24 to 48 hours following an earthquake. It takes a minimum of two volunteers to operate a BEECN, and at least two volunteers to carry out BEECN responsibilities at a fire station.

=== Responsibilities of PBEM to the BEECN Program ===

PBEM has many responsibilities to the BEECN program and they are woven throughout these BEECN Guidelines. The following subsection does not include all of PBEM’s responsibilities to the BEECN program, but indicates those most salient. PBEM will:

# Ensure that caches and cache supplies and equipment are replenished and replaced as needed and as resources permit; and, ensure that caches receive maintenance as required.

# Be responsible for and maintain Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with property owners who host BEECN caches.

=== Location of BEECN Sites ===

# An open area large enough to hold a crowd of at least 100 people;