Board Policy	No. 3516

CLOVIS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

BUSINESS AND NONINSTRUCTIONAL OPERATIONS Security, Safety, and Emergency Procedures
EMERGENCY AND DISASTER PREPAREDNESS PLAN

PURPOSE:	To establish an emergency and disaster preparedness plan.

The Board recognizes that all District staff and students must be prepared to respond quickly and responsibly to emergencies, disasters, or threats of disasters on any District sites. Therefore, the Superintendent or designee shall develop and maintain a disaster preparedness plan that contains routine and emergency disaster procedures and complies with applicable laws. Such procedures shall be incorporated into the District’s comprehensive school safety plan. (Education Code 32282) The Superintendent or designee shall provide such training to District employees as are required of the District relating to the District’s disaster preparedness plan.

The District’s disaster preparedness plan shall also comply with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) in California. Such compliance will meet federal or state requirements necessary to receive disaster relief funding.

In the event of a natural, manmade, or war-caused emergency, District employees are considered disaster service workers and are subject to disaster service activities assigned to them. (Government Code 3100)

A. Safe Schools

The Superintendent or designee is instructed to prepare and ensure the implementation of such regulations that will require each school principal to establish a School Site Council and/or Safety Planning Committee (as defined by Education Code section 32281) to assess the school climate on campus, in the community while the students are under school authority, during the lunch break, and going to and from school. Each School Site Council/Safety Planning committee shall, in accordance with the law, develop and maintain Safe School Plans unique to the individual school climate. The Safe School Plan shall be adopted within one year of a school’s opening, and annually updated thereafter according to the timeline set forth by the State of California.

The Superintendent or designee shall review each Safe School Plan prior to its submittal to the Board for approval to ensure student and staff safety and to ensure compliance with policies and regulations of the Board and statutes of the State of California. When such reviews establish that additional rules and regulations are required District wide, the Superintendent or designee shall make appropriate recommendations to the Board.

The School Site Council/Planning Committee is to be particularly concerned with any conditions that exist that constitute a threat to the welfare of students and staff and to determine whether any additional rules, regulations or actions are necessary to correct such threats. When it is determined

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that additional rules or regulations are required, the Principal shall review and consider for adoption and implementation such rules.

The Superintendent or designee shall establish procedures to ensure notification to all continuing students at the beginning of each year and new enrollees upon enrollment of the District.

B. District-Level Crisis Readiness

At certain times, District personnel will be challenged with situations that could potentially threaten the safety of students, employees, and/or community members. The Superintendent or designee shall establish and implement District-wide emergency protocols to be followed if such a situation occurs. To manage particularly grave situations, the District will enact the Respond and Assist Crisis Team (ReACT). The ReACT Planning Group shall determine the need to implement ReACT and coordinate all ReACT activities. The Superintendent will serve as the ReACT Team Leader and the Deputy Superintendent will be the EOC Command Center Director. A ReACT oversight committee will meet regularly to update ReACT assignments, organize and implement ReACT drills, conduct training and maintain on-going communications with local agencies who would be critical partners in the face of a crisis (i.e. law enforcement, fire department, and emergency health services).

C. Communications

The Board directs that the Superintendent or designee obtain and maintain for the District a multi-channel communications system, adequate to meet daily and emergency needs of the District.

The Superintendent or designee shall communicate the District’s disaster preparedness plan to parents through various means, including but not limited to, the Student and Parent Rights and Responsibilities Handbook.

Adopted: 07/23/1975
Reviewed: 08/08/2007, 10/03/2008
Amended: 12/12/1979, 05/13/1987, 07/08/1992, 07/19/2006, 05/12/2010, 04/22/2020 (BP 8202 renumbered as BP 3516)

EDUCATION CODE 32001 Fire alarms and drills
32040 Duty to equip school with first aid kit 32280-32289 School safety plans
32290 Safety devices
39834 Operating overloaded bus
46390-46392 Emergency average daily attendance in case of disaster 49505 Natural disaster; meals for homeless students; reimbursement

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CIVIL CODE
1714.5 Release from liability for disaster service workers and shelters

GOVERNMENT CODE
3100-3109 Public employees as disaster service workers; oath or affirmation 8607 Standardized emergency management system

CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION Article 20, Section 3 Oath or affirmation

CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 5 550 Fire drills
560 Civil defense and disaster preparedness plans

CODE OF REGULATIONS, TITLE 19
2400-2450 Standardized emergency management system

UNITED STATES CODE, TITLE 42
12101-12213 Americans with Disabilities Act

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