- Decision not to declare a snow emergency
- Insufficient accountability tools
- Insufficient and delayed deployment of City assets
- Failure to procure and preposition [pre-position] private resources
- Insufficient internal and external communications
- Problems with emergency communication and response
Thursday, January 13, 2011
"THE CITY'S RESPONSE TO THE SNOWSTORM FAILED IN MANY WAYS"
In a nine-page report submitted to Mayor Bloomberg by the Mayor's Office of Operations and the Mayor's Office of Citywide Emergency Communications, six problems are identified and an action plan is recommended. The six problems are