POST-GAZETTE: Volunteer presents extensive credentials for emergency management position

When Dr. Tom Stein volunteered to be Franklin Park's emergency management coordinator, it was pretty clear he was the right guy for the job.

In addition to being an emergency room doctor and assistant professor of emergency medicine at Allegheny General Hospital, he is a colonel in the Army Reserves, has decades of military disaster and emergency training, is on the board of directors for the Red Cross of Western Pennsylvania and is a member of Allegheny County Council's Emergency Medical Services executive committee.

APP.COM: Monmouth Democrats shuffle top jobs; GOP lambasts move

FREEHOLD — Democrats on the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders have pulled the trigger on a high-level administration shakeup despite heavy criticism that the changes were politically motivated.

But Democrat John D'Amico Jr. said Republicans had expressed no concerns about the political spoils system for several decades when they had control of the county government.

"I'm somewhat amused by these passionate objections," D'Amico said at a Hall of Records meeting room packed with about 300 people Thursday night. "In 1985, when the Republicans took control, every single division head got a pink slip on Christmas Eve and they were told they were finished by the end of the year."

The chief financial officer, Mark E. Acker, a 25-year employee who earns a $176,000 salary, and two other department heads who had served under the former Republican administration were ousted.

Other changes were internal promotions, except for the appointment of Glenn Mason to emergency management coordinator. Mason was Freeholder Amy A. Mallet's running mate on the Democratic ticket last November. Mallet's victory gave the Democrats the board majority for the first time since 1985.

BOONE NEWS REPUBLICAN: On the Job with...Dave Morlan, Emergency Management Coordinator

Whether it is coordinating communication lines between emergency responders or implementing emergency response plans, Boone County Emergency Management Coordinator Dave Morlan has a long list of responsibilities.
Morlan, who assumed the position in 2003, spends a great deal of his time focusing on emergency planning.
"I spend a lot of time doing planning or research for planning, like emergency response plans, hazardous materials plans, even to the point of terrorism-type plans so that we have something that will give us direction if a disaster hits or some type of incident happens," Morlan said.

EVENING SUN: Emergencies are coordinator's thing

Dirk Hough knows a few things about emergency situations.

The new emergency management coordinator at Hanover Hospital has worked for the Penn State University Police Department at Mont Alto and Main Campus. He's been a member of the U.S. Air Force military police. And he's currently a firefighter in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.

ATLANTIC NEWS TELEGRAPH: Former Alco manager hired as Emergency Management Coordinator

Mike Kennon, former manager of the Alco Store in Atlantic, was hired as the Cass County Emergency Management Coordinator Monday evening by members of the emergency management board, according to a press release from board president, and Atlantic Police Chief, Steve Green.

ISSAQUAH PRESS: EFR defers on job of emergency coordinator

Amid talks about its 2009 budget, Eastside Fire & Rescue staff members recommended filling a new emergency coordinator position. But EFR’s commissioners chose to defer filling it, saying it isn’t necessary right now. EFR staff hasn’t given up on the idea, though, and they’re talking with Woodinville Fire and Life Safety District officials about brokering a deal to share in the cost of a full-time emergency management coordinator.

“We need one and we’ll continue to look for ways to fill that,” Fire Chief Lee Soptich said.

MYFOX LUBBOCK: New Lubbock Emergency Management Coordinator Named

There's a new head to Lubbock's Emergency Management department. Lewis Treadwell, a 31-year veteran of the Lubbock Fire Department, has been named emergency management coordinator, according to a City news release.

GAZETTE ONLINE: Goldberg accepts Linn County EMA job

CEDAR RAPIDS - Mike Goldberg has accepted the offer to become Linn County's emergency management coordinator.

He will replace Rich Mahaney, who resigned in August. Goldberg is the strategic and legislative services director for the Linn County Board of Supervisors.

Linn County Sheriff Brian Gardner, chairman of the Emergency Management Commission, hopes Goldberg can start Feb. 1 and help the EMA prepare its fiscal 2010 budget, which is due by month's end.

"We feel that Mike has the background and skill sets that we are looking for to manage the activities of the agency," Gardner said.

Goldberg's salary will be $86,003, the same amount he is making in his job working for the Board of Supervisors.

Goldberg has worked for the board for 14 years and was the county's lead public information officer during the 2008 flood.

Mahaney resigned just as the agency was beginning to evaluate its performance during the flood, and received $18,307 in severance payments, according to a resignation letter he signed Aug. 8.

Tom Ulrich, the agency's second in command under Mahaney, has been the agency's interim coordinator.

Ulrich, who also applied for the job, questioned the decision to hire Goldberg, based on his lack of experience in emergency management. But Ulrich said he was committed to working with Goldberg.