Jayson Lelli

Jayson Lelli has been with Tacoma Power for 18 year’s, a majority of that time has been spent as their Generation’s Dam Safety Department’s Emergency Action Plan (EAP) Coordinator; writing, maintaining, training and exercising the EAPs for their four hydroelectric projects. In 2019 Jayson was promoted to Tacoma Power Emergency Manager to oversee, develop and help coordinate the Emergency Management program for all five sections of Tacoma Power. Since being selected as Tacoma Power’s Emergency Manager the majority of his time has been spent on coordinating and managing Tacoma Power’s response to the COVID-19 Pandemic as well as reconstituting personnel as the pandemic came to an end. Although managing the COVID-19 Pandemic took a majority of his time during the past few years Jayson has continued the development and coordination of Tacoma Power’s Emergency Management program working with his utility counterparts to complete a utility level Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP), performing an extensive maturity model related to Tacoma Power’s program and then tying the deficiencies to a strategic plan for the future, establishing utility wide activation levels and is developing an ICS structure that incorporates all sections of Tacoma Power which will feed up into a utility wide ICS activation. These are just some of the projects among many others that have enhanced emergency response and relationships with Tacoma Power’s community partners. Jayson’s knowledge of Tacoma Power’s electrical system and team mentality adds to the coordination between Tacoma Public Utilities and the City of Tacoma to ensure interdependencies are addressed and a whole community approach is taken towards Emergency Management.