The time to show value is before budget cutting becomes a reality. If you have not done that in the last nine months, don't expect to be held harmless. Once cuts are made, it will be a long time before those positions, which is where the majority of funding goes in emergency management, comes back.
Emergency Management Budget Cuts Coming in 2021
Don't expect the pandemic to bolster the need for emergency management.
The coronavirus pandemic is putting pressure on a whole variety of government operations at the state, county and municipal levels. While I've heard of cases where emergency management organizations have been held harmless for budgetary cuts being made now due to reduced tax revenues, I think more than likely this will be the story in 2021: "Emergency management manager position proposed to be dropped from Budget 2021."
The time to show value is before budget cutting becomes a reality. If you have not done that in the last nine months, don't expect to be held harmless. Once cuts are made, it will be a long time before those positions, which is where the majority of funding goes in emergency management, comes back.
The time to show value is before budget cutting becomes a reality. If you have not done that in the last nine months, don't expect to be held harmless. Once cuts are made, it will be a long time before those positions, which is where the majority of funding goes in emergency management, comes back.
