[EAS] Alerting in General

[Sean Donelan]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, felucia at att.net wrote:
> One thing I forgot, each FEMA Region had a person assigned to visit the 
> Region's BSPP stations and to personally know the local FCC Field people 
> and the SECC Chairs. Reports were filed.

Does FEMA still assign a person to do this?  Does the FCC have a person in 
the FCC Field office?

Making it part of someone's formal job description and performance plans 
is how things get done in government agencies.  When people change jobs, 
and people always change jobs, its maintains continuity.

Volunteers are awesome. Industry advisory groups perform an important 
service.  But looking across all 50 states plus territories and the 
district of columbia, a critical success factor is having a government 
official assigned public warning as part of their job description, 
including working with SECC and other NIEM ESF duties.  The government 
official shouldn't take over a SECC, but in states without that 
government official, it seems to become "someone else's job."  And there 
is no someone else.