The Oregon Resilience Plan – Critical and Essential Buildings – February 2013 88 <br /> <br /> <br />Healthcare facilities do not have control over any of these components. It is therefore recommended <br />that healthcare facilities maintain a minimum thirty-day supply of all items that come from external <br />sources; this should include water, fuel, and medical supplies. <br />EMERGENCY SHELTERING <br />Shelter as an essential part of disaster recovery and resilience, and the need for it is great. Many <br />facilities throughout the state are listed as designated emergency shelters by local jurisdictions and the <br />state Office of Emergency Management. The most common buildings on these lists are schools and <br />churches, followed by other miscellaneous buildings (including community centers) that have the <br />capacity to hold large numbers of occupants. The expected and target states of recovery for school <br />buildings can be found in the Education Facilities section of this chapter (above). As with all building <br />sectors, the performance of churches and other facilities in a Cascadia subduction zone event will be a <br />function of the building’s vintage, construction type, and geographical location. In general, the expected <br />and target states for churches should, at a minimum, match those of school facilities with similar <br />construction. <br />Discussion of recommendations for buildings designated as emergency shelters can be found in the <br />Conclusions and Recommendations section at the end of this chapter. <br />CRITICAL GOVERNMENT FACILITIES <br />Introduction <br />Critical government facilities are those buildings that are necessary to the continuing operation of <br />essential services following a significant event. The most obvious of these—police stations, fire stations, <br />and emergency operations centers (EOC)—are addressed separately in this report. Other services, <br />however, which may include some limited administrative functions and essential health services, and <br />certain structures, such as correctional facilities and even the maintenance buildings that are needed for <br />repairing roads and utilities following the earthquake, are also necessary. Compiling a specific list of <br />these services and their associated facilities was beyond the scope of this report—but in many ways, <br />such a list was not necessary to get a general overview of how these facilities may perform. <br />Estimated State of Recovery <br />Data for general government facilities was available from the FEMA Hazus damage estimates and was <br />reviewed to determine the resilience scores included in the resilience matrix. The statistical analysis <br />from Hazus was based on an estimated 2,357 government buildings located throughout the state—this <br />estimate represents the total number of government buildings, not all of which are critical to statewide <br />resilience. We assumed that both the non-critical buildings and the remaining critical buildings (those <br />not included in the assessment of police, fire, and EOC facilities) will generally behave in a similar <br />manner. We were therefore able to determine with reasonable certainty the level of performance that <br />can be expected.