Fighting With FEMA: A Practical Regulations Handbook - Hardcover

Michael Martinet is Principal with The Martinet Group, LLC, specializing in teaching Disaster Finance and Cost Recovery programs. For over 25 years, Martinet has trained local government officials on how to maximize their disaster cost recovery under FEMA's Public Assistance program. Attendees have come from cities, counties, states, special districts and private non-profit agencies across the nation. He has a master's degree from California State University at Long Beach and is a Certified Emergency Manager through the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM). Martinet is the founder and chair of the IAEM Disaster Cost Recovery Caucus and former Principal on the National Fire Protection Association's Standard 1600, the Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs. Martinet has also worked as a local government emergency manager since 1989 and retired in 2013 from the City of San Francisco where he worked as the Emergency Planning Manager in the Controller's Office. Since 2013 he has focused exclusively on disaster cost recovery training for local government agencies and eligible private non-profit agencies.