 Cal OES Logo, Governor's Office of Emergency Services, Agency Overview Cal OES, Enhancing Safety and Protecting Lives and Property in California The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services was established when the legislature approved Governor Brown's reorganization plan, effective July 1, 2013, reforming what had been known as the California Emergency Management Agency during the previous four years. The Cal OES vision is to be the leader in emergency management and homeland security through dedicated service to all. Our mission is to protect lives and property, build capabilities, and support our communities for a resilient California. The organization is led by a director who is supported by an executive team leading each of the agency's four functional directorates. Nearly a thousand operational staff are employed by Cal OES to support programs in planning, preparedness and prevention, emergency response and recovery operations, finance and administration, and logistics management. Cal OES is funded through a variety of sources with an annual operating budget of nearly $200 million. Additionally, Cal OES administers over a billion dollars in state and federal local grant programs and assistance funds. The California State Operations Center is located within the OES headquarters building near Sacramento, part of a 118,000-square-foot complex that provides the agency with centralized office space and a large emergency operations facility. Overall, our campus covers 12.5 acres of the former Mather Air Force Base. Legislation authorizing the Standardized Emergency Management System, or SIMS, was enacted as a result of the disastrous 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm. SIMS is the cornerstone of California's emergency response system and is the fundamental organizing principle for the response phase of emergency management. SIMS unifies all elements of California's emergency management community into a single integrated system and standardizes key elements. SIMS incorporates the use of the Incident Command System, the California Disaster and Civil Defense Master of Mutual Aid Agreement, the operational area concept, and multi-agency coordination. The California State Warning Center has become, both by statute and practice, the state's hub for reporting emergencies and the only area of Cal OES staffed by duty officers around the clock. The Warning Center may receive hundreds of reports in a single day, ranging from small hazardous material spills to major earthquakes. Cal OES receives information from many sources, such as the National Weather Service or the state's nuclear power plants, and is connected to all 58 counties and key federal agencies to instantly disperse emergency information, notifications, and warnings. Average notifications to and from the Warning Center exceed half a million annually. Cal OES is also a response organization. During an emergency and on-site presence at Incident Command Posts allows us to process requests for state-level assistance from local jurisdictions, coordinate more closely with responding agencies, and provide first-hand situation reports to the governor's office. Many Cal OES staff are co-located with local government and can be quickly dispatched to operational area emergency centers to assist with the coordination of disaster response activities. Preparedness means being ready for any emergency, natural or man-made. Cal OES works to ensure preparedness through development and maintenance of the state emergency plan and regional catastrophic earthquake plans while fostering private sector partnerships and public education efforts. This has been a brief overview of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, its organization, and some of its operational programs. For more information, please visit us on the web at www.caloes.ca.gov. Cal OES logo, Governor's Office of Emergency Services, www.caloes.ca.gov.