Chapter Meetings

The Central Arizona Chapter of the Association of Contingency Planners invites you to attend our monthly meeting.

Membership meetings are held the first Thursday of every month except for July. No meeting is held in July.

Date: Thursday, August 7th
Breakfast/Networking: 8:30 am - 9:00 am
Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: APS
400 N 5th St, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Please RSVP to RSVP@azacp.org by Thursday, July 31st.

Topic: “PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP”

Guest Speakers: Lou Trammel, Arizona Division of Emergency Management, and Tessa Badua of FEMA

Lou Trammell, Director from Arizona Division of Emergency Management, will be giving his perspective on Public Private Partnerships and briefing on TOPOFF 4 exercise and the Business Operation Center (BOC). Tessa Badua Larsen from FEMA Region IX (Preparedness Office) will be giving the FEMA perspective on Public Private Partnership.

LOUIS TRAMMELL: Louis Trammell serves as the Director of the Arizona Division of Emergency Management where he has served as the Deputy and Assistant Director for fifteen years. Since being with the Division he has participated in the response and recovery for 74 state and federal declared emergencies. He was recognized as Arizona’s “Emergency Manager of the Year” in 1999 and 2006. Lou also serves as the Chairman of the Arizona State Emergency Response Commission (AZSERC), a Co-Chair on the Emergency Management Committee of the Arizona-Mexico Commission, and as a Councilman on the Arizona Sonora Border Security Council. Lou retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel after twenty-three years of service as a Combat Weapons Developer and Flight Instructor/Examiner and served combat aviation tours in Southeast Asia and Central America. Lou received an MBA from Central Michigan University, a BS degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College and the Defense Language Institute.

Tessa Badua-Larsen: Emergency Management Specialist National Preparedness FEMA Region IX Tessa Badua-Larsen joined FEMA Region IX in December 1991 as a Technological Hazards Program Specialist overseeing the Hazardous Materials Program. By default, she became the Tribal Liaison because the Hazardous Materials Programs was the only program that provided preparedness grants to the Tribal Nations. She was the Regional representative to the task force that developed the FEMA Tribal Policy that became effective September 25, 1998.

Tessa’s federal career started with three years of Active Duty with the U.S. Army, followed by a two-year Internship with the DOD Career Training Program. This subsequently led her to work as a Logistics Management Specialist in the Plans and Operations Division of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Sixth U.S. Army. In this position, Tessa was one of the Liaisons to FEMA Region IX under the Military Support to Civil authorities/Civil Defense Plans.

Badua-Larsen was promoted to her current position on March 2002 and to date has managed a variety of programs including Project Impact. She initiated the Region’s Assistance to Fire Fighters’ Grant Program, was involved in the Presidential initiative Citizen Corps, Continuity of Operations program, and currently manages the Emergency Operations Center construction grants for Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands. Tessa is a graduate of the Leadership Excellence Program and the Master Exercise Practitioner Program. Ms. Badua-Larsen graduated from the University of the East, Philippines with a Bachelor of Science degree major in Biological Sciences. She also was a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserves until she retired in January 1998.

Meeting Coordinates: APS
400 N 5th St, Phoeniz AZ 85004

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