St. Clair County EMA/LEPC Meeting Minutes for March 17, 2011 at St. Clair                                        County Health Center in Osceola.

 

Call to Order by John Christiansen at 19:00.

Those Present: Robert Albertson, John Christiansen, Sheila Christiansen, John Gover, Jerry Hart, Jeanne Millsap, Steven Pierce, Glenda Wiese, Roger Wood, and Tracy Fletcher.

Minutes were accepted as written for January 27, 2010 with a motion by Robert Albertson,  second by Sheila Christiansen with all in favor.

Treasurer's Report:  $4634.66 total remaining on January 27, 2010

                                    Outstanding:

                                    $    71.50 Clips and badge holders for badges.

                                    $  150.00 John Christiansen SEMA Conference

                                    $  150.00 Sheila Christiansen SEMA Conference

                                    $  150.00 John Gover SEMA Conference

                                    $  748.80 Lodging Fees for SEMA Conference

                                    $ 274.40 Web-posting (website)

Remaining on February 22, 2011 $4634.66   Motion to accept report was made by Robert Albertson, second by John Gover with all in favor.

Reports:

Training:

            Weather Spotters Class in February in Collins was attended by 28 people.

            Shelter class in Collins was attended by 24 people.

Conferences:

            Missouri Interoperable Communications February 8-10 attended - not sure if Don

                        Stockton attended.

            GIS February 14-16 Tan-Tar-A was attended by John Gover.

            SEMA Spring Conference May 3-6 will be attended by Sheila and John

                        Christiansen, and John Gover.

Exercises:

            October 27 Poultry tabletop by Region D in Mt. Vernon - HSEEP report - Jeanne

                        is still working on this. Just received the final copy from Region D

                        RHSOC about three weeks ago.

            Real Event HSEEP report - Jeanne gave a copy to John Christiansen for

                        comments. Jeanne is working on this.

            March 31 Beef Exercise Mt. Vernon 8:30 to 15:00 will be attended by John

                        Christiansen and Jeanne Millsap.

            April 28, 2011 Great Central U.S. Shakeout

            May  16-20 Statewide Earthquake Exercise - EOC will open on May 18th from

                        8:00 am to 12:00 noon.

Website update & Microsoft Frontpage - John Gover said the website has been updated and that when the new version of the program is needed it will cost around $236.00.

HAM Radio net – Steve Pierce gave the ARES report for December was 25, for January was 38, for February was 22.

Sheltering – Glenda Wiese reported nothing new.

Bio-Terrorism/Pandemic Influenza - Jeanne Millsap

            Radiation concerns and use of potassium iodine was talked about.

            MHA - Northern Tier April 6th at 10 am at Ellett Memorial Hospital. Didn't have

                        the February meeting due to weather.

            RHSOC - had a meeting on March 2. Next meeting will be April 20 at 9:00 am in

                        Monett. The generator switch will be brought up in the June meeting for

                        consideration for funding. Jeanne will work on the forms for the IJ.

                        Training on the forms will be April 11 in Springfield.

            Planners meeting March 29 & 30 will be attended by Jeanne. New tool forms and

                        preparedness for Earthquake Exercise.

            Medical Reserve Corp. meeting was held February 28 in Monett.

            Heartland Center order form was passed around for product orders.

Mitigation Plan is back from SEMA, but John has not heard from Pioneer Trails.

HAZMAT Plan is being updated by John Christiansen.

New Business:

Michael White has been asked to schedule a HAZMAT training and Chemical suicide

            training classes, but John Christiansen has not received anything from him. He

            has called Dawn with MERC and discussed this with her.

EOP update for 2011 has a few legal statements that need to be inserted. Annex C public information and functional needs instead of special needs., resource supply and reception and care, new update on terrorism annex. 3 Annex have been changed - P is Ag. Terrorism, Q is Donations, R is Debree Removal. Department of Ag is rewriting the Ag. Annex and wants to meet with veterinarian, commissioner and livestock people in the county.

We need to have a staging area for a catastrophic event. Several sites were discussed.

Discussion on Dam failure.

Sirens didn't go off on tornado drill found that they are broken down and no one called the hospital.

Governor is looking at DSL for every community and reverse 911 notification systems.

Airport discussion of needs.

SMESO will be meeting on April 14 at Bolivar at 10:00 am due to the final planning conference meeting on April 13th.

Announcements:

Next meeting  April 28, 2011 at 1900 at St. Clair County Health Center 530 Arduser Drive, Osceola.

Motion to Adjourn: Motion was made by Jerry Hart with a second by Robert Albertson. All were in favor.