Hurricane Preparedness Website: http://www.getagameplan.org/
The Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) has an excellent website, http://www.getagameplan.org/, which is a tremendous resource for businesses and individuals. Banks can make copies of any information on the Get a Game Plan site, add their logo and the Game Plan logo, and, distribute to customers. Banks are also encouraged to add the Game Plan website to their websites for customers’ convenience.
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2010 Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Coalition Resources

• 2010 Emergency Preparedness Meeting Notes
• Armored Carrier Cash Orders 
• Branch Reopening Checklist 
• Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina from FDIC 
• Federal Reserve Atlanta Update 
• Federal Reserve Dallas Update 
• Federal Reserve New Orleans Branch Update  
• FFIEC Guidance 
• GOHSEP Update  
• GOHSEP “Get a Game Plan” Checklist 
• Louisiana Business Emergency Operations Center  
• OCC Emergency Contact Numbers 
• OFI Disaster Recovery Team 2010 Update 
• OFI Emergency Preparedness Guide 
• Re-entry Requirements By Parish 
• Regulator Script After Emergency Event   
• SBA, Agility Recovery Solutions launch PrepareMyBusiness.org

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Swine Flu Resources:

• FFIEC business continuity guidebook, includes pandemic preparedness guidance: http://www.ffiec.gov/ffiecinfobase/booklets/bcp/bus_continuity_plan.pdf
• DHS/Administration Sunday press conference: http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1240773850207.shtm
• World Health Organization Swine Fl Site: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html
• NIH swine flu site: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/

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Prior Year Documents: http://www.lba.org/content.cfm?id=118

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Helpful Websites

• Gov. Bobby Jindal’s website for updates at http://www.gov.state.la.us/
• For hurricane tracking, go to http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/.
• Information Websites:  http://www.emergency.louisiana.gov/  and http://www.gov.louisiana.gov/
• Government Emergency Telecommunications Service: http://www.ncs.gov/
• http://www.ready.gov/

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Nearly 300 coalition members attended meetings held in Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Bossier City, Covington, Houma, Lafayette, Lake Charles, New Orleans and West Monroe.

The coalition is comprised of financial institutions, regulators, emergency personnel, law enforcement and armored carriers.  The primary purpose of the emergency preparedness meetings is to bring together coalition members to foster working relationships. 

In the event of an emergency, decisions are made at the local level; therefore, it is vital that the financial institutions build strong working relationships with their local law enforcement and emergency personnel.  The way the system is designed is that the local and parish emergency personnel make decisions and take charge of an emergency event in their particular area until their resources are depleted then they call the state in for assistance.  By building relationships on the local level, the bankers will be more on top of any given situation than if they wait for news from the state level.

This year, the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Louisiana Department of Economic Development, LSU’s Stephenson’s Disaster Management Institution and UL Lafayette’s National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies Institute have come together to form a Business Emergency Operations Center of which the Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Coalition is a part representing the financial sector.  The goal of the BEOC is for private industries to come together to form a partnership with government to be better prepared for an emergency event and to respond to and recover from more effectively from an emergency event.  The physical BEOC facility will be housed on LSU’s South Campus.  The grand opening of the facility is June 2, 2010.  As more details become available, we will share them.  In the meantime, the BEOC presentation that was made during this year’s emergency preparedness meetings is listed on this webpage under Resources.  See more at http://www.labeoc.org/.

Community Emergency Response Team training is available in most regions.  The national website is http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/ and take a look at Shreveport/Bossier’s site, http://www.c-bcitizencorps.org/cert/.  Contact your local emergency operations office for details and to schedule training for your bank employees if interested.

The National Hurricane Center will now declare Tropical Storm Watches at 48 hours out and Tropical Storm Warnings at 36 hours out which is 12 hours sooner than last year.  You can see the website at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/nhc_new_2010.pdf. 

For more information or to join the coalition, contact 
LBA Chief Operations Officer Ginger Laurent at laurent@lba.org.