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| Amy Larson, Esq. Sworn In as PRIMA President
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PRIMA
Amy Larson, Esq. was sworn in yesterday as the 2017-2018 Public Risk Management Association (PRIMA) president at the association’s annual membership luncheon in Phoenix, Arizona.
Larson praised the power of the PRIMA community to educate and inspire its members and constituents.
Larson takes over the role of president of the Association after serving on PRIMA’s board of directors since 2012. Larson will lead the Association of more than 1,000 public entities and oversee its nine-person board of directors until June 2018, at which time she will assume the role of past-president on the Association’s board.
PRIMA director Jani Jennings, ARM, Insurance & Safety Coordinator for the City of Bellevue, Neb., was sworn in as PRIMA’s president-elect. She will assume the presidency of the Association in June 2018.
PRIMA members also welcomed the following members as directors:
Forestine Carroll
Risk Manager
Memphis Housing Authority
Sheri Swain
Director of Enterprise Risk Management
Maricopa Community College
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Route Fifty
The number of commuters who travel 90 minutes or more to get to work increased sharply between 2010 and 2015, a shift that traffic experts, real estate analysts and others attribute to skyrocketing housing costs and a reluctance to move, born of memories of the 2008 financial crisis. In all but 10 states, the number of “super commuters” increased over the period, and in California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, North Dakota and Rhode Island, it grew by more than 40 percent, according to census data.
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Government Executive
When we were kids, summer was something that stretched out ahead of us with the promise of fun and play. When we join the working world, we still greet the longer days and warmer weather of the season with gusto, but, paradoxically, it can be the busiest and most hectic time of the year for many of us. With co-workers on vacation, we’re often on backup duty while also managing our own daily work. And we’ve all experienced the pre-vacation sprint, which might leave you wondering: “Is this vacation worth it?”
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| Rodney Escobar Named PRIMA's 2017 Public Risk Manager of the Year
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PRIMA
PRIMA awarded its coveted Public Risk Manager of the Year award to Rodney Escobar. Escobar accepted his award during PRIMA’s 2017 Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ.
Escobar, Risk Manager for the State of Tennessee’s Department of the Treasury, was chosen as this year’s Public Risk Manager of the Year by a panel of his peers for his innovative risk management programs.
“Rodney’s commitment to the safety of his entity and leadership within the Division of Claims and Risk Management made him a standout candidate in an extremely competitive field this year,” said Marshall Davies, PhD, PRIMA executive director. “His programs have had a positive impact not only on the state of Tennessee, but everyone who lives there.”
Homeland Security Newswire
As the recent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom painfully show, the odds are in favor of terrorists. All they have to do is succeed once, no matter how many times they try. For public safety professionals to be fully successful, they have to prevent 100 percent of the terror attempts. It’s a number to aspire to, but even the most experienced countries fighting terror — such as Israel and the U.K. — can’t measure up to this standard.
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The Times Picayune
Emergency managers across southeast Louisiana are eager to understand evacuation behaviors as residents prepare for the ongoing hurricane season.
With this in mind, researchers at Louisiana State University determined that 5 percent, or 90,000, of the 1.8 million residents in southeast Louisiana require sheltering assistance in the event of a mandatory hurricane evacuation.
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Property Casual 360
As ridesharing continues to transform and disrupt traditional methods of transportation, scrutiny behind the safety of passengers continues to be a topic for discussion, particularly by the long-standing players in the transportation industry. Driver safety is also a concern.
Transportation network companies, also known as ridesharing companies, have modernized the transportation industry, and brought modern regulations.
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Government Technology
By combining cellphone and GPS navigation data, one startup thinks it can offer road traffic counts to government faster and cheaper.
StreetLight Data, one of the companies featured on the Gov Tech 100 list this year, has launched a new feature on its platform that can give users an Average Annual Daily Traffic count using data the company gets from mobile sources. AADT is a metric that planners and other government officials use when assessing development.
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Reuters
The link between poverty and disasters is becoming clearer — new research shows that extreme weather events alone are pushing up to 26 million people into poverty every year. With forces like climate change, urban expansion, and population growth driving this trend, annual losses have passed more than $500 billion annually, and show no signs of slowing.
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KCBS-TV
A tiny pest is turning lush forests into tinderboxes.
More than 100 million dead trees in California are blamed on years of drought and an epidemic number of tree-eating bark beetles.
It’s a dramatic transformation.
CalFire Division Chief Jim Crawford said, “It’s obviously an historic event that’s occurring in California.
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Governing
In 2014, six months after the residents of Lowell, Massachusetts, received new 96-gallon recycling carts, Gunther Wellenstein got a “nastygram.” The letter to the city’s recycling coordinator came from the recycling contractor, Waste Management. It let Wellenstein know that contaminated — that is, unrecyclable — items were making their way into the carts.
Wellenstein was incredulous.
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Emergency Management
A weather radar that can measure wind speed and direction at different levels in the atmosphere was under construction last week on a knoll on the Campbell Tract in East Anchorage, but it's mainly designed to forecast the paths of volcanic ash plumes that could cause problems for airplanes.
The radar, owned and operated by the National Weather Service, points directly skyward on a 6-foot-tall rectangular platform.
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