EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Every year the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) establishes program goals and objectives based on current events, emerging state and federal requirements, local challenges, and lessons derived from prior exercises and experience. In 2024, Hurricane Beryl reminded us how important it is to remain vigilant during “blue sky days” by continuing to plan, train, exercise, prepare the community, and cultivate relationships with important partners and stakeholders. Program successes witnessed during recent responses to Hurricane Beryl and Winter Storm Enzo (January 2025) were the result of years of “blue sky” investment in preparedness, capability and response and recovery proficiency. Fortunately, FY25 was less demanding than recent years with respect to threats and hazards and this permitted increased focus on strategic planning and preparedness. The absence of a threat, however, often encourages complacency to reassert itself. Countering complacency is a persistent challenge and OEM’s highest aspiration.
PETER MARTIN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR
OEM priorities are determined in collaboration with city departments and external stakeholders because the success of our preparedness initiatives, and, ultimately, the city’s response and recovery efforts, depend on the commitment and cooperation of all departments, staff, partners, and stakeholders. Therefore, as we highlight FY25 successes, we acknowledge that these accomplishments belong to all of us, across all departments, and that our collective investment in preparedness benefits the entire community – our residents, businesses, and community organizations, as well as municipal government. Ultimately, we aspire to build resilience, across city departments and throughout the Pearland community. Resilience enables our citizens to better withstand disaster and recover from it more quickly and completely while also enabling the city to deliver a more efficient, effective, and safe response. These are core values that unite us in our quest for preparedness.
The absence of a threat, however, often encourages complacency to reassert itself.
OEM initiatives are focused primarily on organizational preparedness, community preparedness, contingency planning for high-profile special events, and external relationships. The following performance review describes our organizational preparedness efforts, which includes disaster planning, program development, preparedness training, and readiness exercises. Community preparedness reflects our public outreach initiatives, including public preparedness presentations, special interest workshops, social media outreach, and information sharing. Also highlighted is support of city special events and our efforts to establish and strengthen both internal
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