By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent

The Nephi City council reviewed an invitation to the emergency-management training class for elected officials which will be held in Richfield on August 4 beginning at 8 a.m.
"It is a four-hour class," said Randy McKnight, city administrator. "It is oriented toward those who are on the line in an emergency."
McKnight presented council members with the pdf announcement.
The class is entitled "Crisis Leadership and Decision Making for Elected Officials" and is provided by Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center.
The seminar uses four Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government case studies to examine the dynamics of crisis leadership and decision making from an elected or senior official's perspective.
The four hour seminar uses the case study to frame the discussion on ways to overcome leadership challenges in planning and responding to a large scale incident.
The final outcome of the seminar is the development of an individual and jurisdiction plan of actions needed to improve preparedness and emergency response.
"Each seminar is fully funded by a training grant provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security," said McKnight.
The target audience is mayors, county executive officers, county commissioners, senior appointed officials and private sector executives.
The topics include planning for effective disaster response, leadership and decision making during a crisis, recognizing the extraordinary and improvising the necessary response, complex multi-jurisdictional coordination, maintaining scalability, and developing a jurisdiction preparedness action plan.
The training is offered in a center regional area and this one happens to be planned for the ease of attendance for those in local government.
"This class provides crisis leadership training on an administrative level," said McKnight.