Emergency Management
The Emergency Management Section is responsible for coordinating citywide disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation concerns for all City departments. This section creates, updates, and participates the City’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP), which culminates in an annual citywide disaster exercise.

As part of its response duties, this Section is responsible for the deployment and management of the City of Miami Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The City EOC is activated in order to maintain the continuity of municipal services any time a disaster threatens or occurs. The EOC becomes the operational link to both the public and private sector resources that would be required to successfully deal with a catastrophic event.

The Emergency Management Section is also responsible for the recovery phase of disaster operations. This Section guides the recovery process from its inception in the EOC through the restoration of damaged infrastructure and the recovery of reimbursement dollars from the State of Florida and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The mission of this Section is essential to maximize State and Federal aid before, during, and after disaster declarations occur and to improve City infrastructure. DMPA is responsible for coordinating all FEMA restoration and recovery work for all City departments.

This Divisions’ Hazard Mitigation and Recovery Specialist is responsible for identifying damages, conceptualizing restoration work, and reducing it to writing in the FEMA application format. Once the reimbursement grants are approved, the Hazard Mitigation and Recovery Specialist liaisons with the respective City departments involved in the project assure adherence to FEMA standards. The Division's Staff Auditor Principal assures the proper administration of all the financial aspects of the grant contracts associated with these projects.