Early this morning I was reviewing the email of the day and came across Concerns About Emergency Management Plan Addressed. This same type of discussion is held weekly across the United States in small city council meetings.
In this particular instance it was about what types of services would the parent county provide to a small city if they bought into being part of the larger emergency management effort. Perhaps this debate might never have even come up if that area of Washington had not had the largest wildland fire in the state's history just this past summer.
In the end the councilmember asking all the questions is the one who made the motion to participate in the larger effort. In reality there is no way the city could get the same level of effort by trying to do this work itself for the same amount of money.
