G 205 Recovery from Disaster: The Local Government Role   

This course is designed for local disaster recovery teams consisting of emergency managers, city/county administrators, public works directors, building inspectors, and community planners. The course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of each team member, and provides guidance on developing a local disaster recovery plan. Participants are given the opportunity to develop an outline of their own recovery plan during the course. • Increase local government and community awareness of issues involved in disaster recovery • Build local recovery capability to address guidance expressed in the National Disaster Recovery Framework during local disaster recovery • Provide a forum for discussion of “lessons learned” and best practices in disaster recovery at the local level • Promote the development of a pre-disaster recovery planning process **This course is part of the FEMA Advanced Professional Series (APS)

Prerequisites: Recommended: IS 100.b Introduction to the Incident Command System, IS 2900 National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) Overview

Target Audience: Local government, emergency managers, building officials, community planners, city or county administrators, and public works directors, state disaster recovery personnel, floodplain manger/staff

Seats Remaining: 26

Begin Date: 1/12/2026

End Date: 1/13/2026

Time: 8:00 AM--4:30 PM

Location:
Marshall County Sheriff's Office/Emergency Management EOC 2369 Jessup Avenue Floor 3
Marshalltown
Iowa - 50158



Additional Information:

1) Parking will be on the south side of the Sheriff's Office, entrance through SE door marked "Civil/Admin", take elevator up to 3rd floor training rooms. 2) Meals are on your own, adequate time will be provided. 3) This multi-day course is supported with Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) funding. You may request lodging reimbursement if you traveled an excess of 50 miles one-way and are an Iowa resident. Requests are based upon available funding. BEFORE making lodging reservations and PRIOR to start of class, email your lodging reimbursement request to HSEMDTraining@iowa.gov limited to available funding. 4) All other travel will be on your own if the above doesn't apply or requested.