One of the most important endeavors for a local government is for its employees to work together to protect the public during emergency situations.   When major public safety events  occur in Marietta such as train derailments, storms or parades, the City's department heads meet in Marietta's crisis management center (CMC) to coordinate the response.  The crisis management team is comprised of many representatives from critical city departments such as: utilities, fire, police, public works, IT, City Manager’s Office, etc.  Although each department assigns a designee to run their crisis event operations and they coordinate with the other department designees in the CMC, there used to be a Silo effect with regard to the overall management of crisis events.