Mount Pleasant Town Hall Magazine

40 www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant.com | www.MPTownHall.com MOUNT PLEASANT Town Hall T here’s a large room on the ground floor of Mount Pleasant’s new Town Hall. It’s equipped with smart TVs, an integrated projection screen and tables that include data and power ports for each of 60 chairs. It can be split in half by a movable curtain. Most of the time, it’s used for training, usually for classes on law enforcement subjects such as speed measurement devices, firearms, use of force, first aid and ethics. Employees who work in other town departments In Case of Emergency Mount Pleasant Will be Ready By Brian Sherman can utilize the room as well when they require the space or the technology it offers. If the town of Mount Pleasant is faced with an emergency situation, however, created by man or nature, it would take just minutes to transform this placid training room into a feverish hub of round-the-clock activity, a Municipal Emergency Operations Center manned by representatives of several town departments and possibly outside law enforcement agencies and dedicated to keeping the residents of Mount Pleasant safe and informed. “It will take 10 to 15 minutes to convert it from a classroom to a MEOC,” said Mount Pleasant Police Capt. Mark Arnold, the town’s part-time emergency manager when the new Town Hall was completed in July 2017. He pointed out that the room is about twice as large as the MEOC in the old police headquarters, providing enough space for at least 15 to 20 people to work together, including, if the situation calls for it, representatives of law enforcement agencies other than the Mount Pleasant Police Department “There’s enough room in the MEOC to bring in SLED to work. Its mobile command post can be tied into Photo Brian Sherman. Mark Arnold runs the Municipal Emergency Operations Center during the Aug. 21, 2017, total eclipse, as Nicholas Lebby, left, and William Barnes look on.