BEECN Program Organization: Difference between revisions

This section outlines the structure, management, and responsibilities of the BEECN (Basic Earthquake Emergency Communication Node) program.

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# The BEECN program is sited in, supervised and managed by the Portland Bureau of Emergency Management (PBEM) with participation from Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R).

# PBEM has sole authority to determine BEECN volunteer membership and who is responsible for maintaining and deploying a BEECN.

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

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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”.

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

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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:

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# At minimum, there will be a total of 48 BEECN sites located throughout the City of Portland.

# BEECNs will be evenly distributed throughout the city and are generally sited with the goal of placing approximately two BEECNs within each of the Portland Plan’s neighborhood hub boundaries (see Appendix B).