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• In the event of a regional disaster, pandemic, or widespread health care event, it can be expected that there may be a loss of available staff for duty of up to 50% or more in some incidents. These absences can be expected due to inability to travel or workers' own need to care for their family and themselves. This will require the City to take extra measures to assure the essential operations of the Public Services Department and reliable delivery of essential services to residents. 1. All essential staff on duty will remain on duty until properly relieved from their assigned duties or task. These staff will remain available at City Hall or other designated location until released from or assigned to other duty. 2. Workers and staff off -duty may be placed On -Call for contact for: • Immediate duty, • Change of shifts or work hours, • Other emergency placement. On -call staff is required to report for duty or respond to contact within 20 minutes. Employees must be able to report to a duty station within 45 minutes while on- call in emergencies. "White board notes" and active use of time clocks will be used to verify staffing levels. In emergency operations, staff availability and status may be shared with Police and other emergency operations units. 3. Public Services Staff that have not been contacted and hear of an emergency event in the City of Lino Lakes through other sources, are required to make reasonable efforts to contact the City and advise of their status and a contact phone #. If no contact is possible or if the event is of major or large area concern, staff shall immediately report for service. 4. In the event of a pandemic or other widespread health care event, duty rotations to maintain essential water and wastewater services shall be scheduled. All vacation and other discretionary leave will be cancelled. Available staff will relieve each other as possible for breaks and home care issues. The City will accommodate workers request to bring family members with them to City Hall for shelter while on -duty. Public Services Policy for Emergency Operations This Policy establishes guidelines for the Public Services Department in the event of a hazard or situation that will tax the resources and manpower ability of the department over an extended period of time. These guidelines can be preventative in nature, or reactive to prevent further loss of manpower and resources. In the event of a hazard or event such as: natural disaster causing severe property and infrastructure damage limiting access to the city, pandemic flu or other wide spread health care event, radiological / chemical exposure, other events requiring extended manpower and resources at times in which the manpower and resources of the department may be limited due to those employees also being personally involved or affected by those events, the department may take some or all of the following measures to ensure continued service to the citizens of Lino Lakes as best as can be accomplished. Page 8