There is no question that since Emergency Services coodinator Brad Davis left his post (after being forced to go on medical by City manager Reva Feldman) in late 2016, residents has felt increasingly unsafe.
Malibu, known for being a disaster prone community, heavily relied on Davis’s timely emergency and traffic alerts, his unparalleled experience and dedication to protecting the community.
Over the last year, locals have come to the sobering realization that not only do we no longer have the services we so desperately need and our tax dollars pay for, now with the failure of the Everbridge Emergency Mass Notification System, it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting any safer in Malibu if the City has anything to do with it.
Mounting frustration hit an all time high throughout the community after the City failed to replace Davis for more than six months with no second in command. Residents decided it was time to take Public Safety into their own hands by posting up to the minute traffic and safety alerts on personal pages and newly formed Emergency/Disaster information groups as well as other online platforms.
Locals have continued to diligently perform the monumental task of making sure timely alerts are circulated with information from verified news, weather and law enforcement agencies – a job City officials are paid handsomely to perform – and are failing miserably at.
So, in an effort to create a smokescreen (pun intended) by leading the community to think the City actually got their Public Safety act together, City Manager Reva Feldman went on a full scale press tour to announce the “test” of this system on all the major news stations.
The next morning, after most residents who signed up anticipating results did not get them (only a few who signed up actually received notifications), Feldman still continued the facade of allowing the press to think the test was a success, when in fact the majority of residents were not only frustrated, they were furious.
This now leaves residents on their own to create and facilitate an emergency alert system they can rely on, until the City can figure out how to do a job that was so expertly executed by former Emergency Coordinator Brad Davis until Feldman stepped in as City Manager.
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