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Ramsey County │ Annex A: Volunteer and Donations Management 8 Depending upon the need, the following types of volunteer and donations management facilities may be established to support volunteer and donations management efforts: • Volunteer and Donations Coordination Center. This is the location where the VDCT administers the program and where the call center is located. This “facility” may be operated virtually. If operated in-person, it is preferable to locate it near the EOC. Physical goods and volunteers will not be received at the VDCT, although financial contributions may be. • Resource Staging/Collection Areas. These locations are used to stage donated goods coming into the county or a specific area and then directed to either distribution centers or a multi- agency warehouse. • Multi-Agency Warehouse. This location is used to receive, unload, sort, inventory, and transport unsolicited donations of goods. Does not operate as a walk-in distribution center. • Distribution Centers. These are locations established to distribute donated goods. Walk-ins may be accepted, or goods may be transported from distribution centers to specific locations. • Volunteer Reception Centers (VRCs). These are locations within the community used as a clearing house for unaffiliated volunteers to be registered, credentialed, provided training and orientation, assigned, and transported to work sites. Within the geographical confines of Ramsey County, several levels of volunteer and donation facility activations are possible. • Local activation is defined as a municipality establishing a facility to support volunteer and donations activities within its boundaries. • Multiple municipality facility activation is defined as the operation of a volunteer and donations facility that serves several municipalities. At this level, neighboring municipalities combine and leverage resources to serve a sub-area of Ramsey County. • County facility activation is defined as the activation of a countywide volunteer and donations facility under the guidance of the RCEOC. Because disasters and planned events vary in terms of their size, scope, duration, intensity, and consequences, the choice of facility activation levels and sequencing of activation levels should be tailored to the disaster as well as to the resources available. 3.2 Organization All incidents begin and end at the local level. Municipalities retain primary responsibility for command and control of incidents occurring within their jurisdiction unless a delegation of authority is in place. This annex has been created with the understanding that critical tasks and key operational activities are applicable to municipalities first unless there is a delegation of authority in place, the responsibility for that function is already assigned to a county agency, or county support has been requested. Typically, a municipality will organize an EOC response to support field response when support and coordination of an incident is necessary. RCEOC activation is done at the discretion of the RCEMHS Director or duty officer when large or extremely complex incidents occur to provide multi-jurisdictional coordination, or at the request of an affected municipality.