Diocesan money managers get insights into disaster planning, recovery

Published: 2005-10-05

ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- Whether dealing with a blackout, disease outbreak, hurricane or other emergency, people should never underestimate what can happen or the need to be prepared, according to diocesan and community officials from Toronto and Orlando who know only too well what can happen when a disaster strikes. That was the advice William Dunlop of Toronto and Dianne and Bill Kramer of Orlando offered to nearly 300 members of the Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference meeting in Orlando Sept. 26. "None of what we faced can compare with what has been experienced by the people of Louisiana and Texas during the most recent storms," said Dianne Kramer, former deputy superintendent of Seminole County Public Schools, alluding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. "But hopefully we can share with you what we've learned from our personal experience with emergency situations." Dunlop, comptroller for the Archdiocese of Toronto, talked about issues raised by Pope John Paul II's visit for World Youth Day in 2002, the SARS outbreak in 2003 and what later that year was dubbed the "Great Blackout," which took out power in New York and Canada.

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