PREP Minutes - AUG. 4, 2009

PREP MTG. MINUTES FROM AUG. 4, 2009

 
 
       1.  Roll call
 
       2.  Minutes from meeting of July 7, 2009  --  item # 10 should read "needs updating"  to clarify what Heather Good said about the original questionnaire.
 
       3.  Treasurer's report -- Balance is $ 6,572.09.
           
       4.  Dept. of Emergency Management head is Doug Dahl. Dept. of Emergency Management.  Doug Dahl was asked to come by Nick Kiniski. Per Nick --he's for PREP. He stands behind us. In re our fire dept., "We are a volunteer dept. Can we get the engines out in an earthquake? The fire hall was built in the 80's. We can call on Delta people to help -- for 10 to 20 patients. We don't have search and rescue, or water rescue. Who carries liability insurance in re PREP? CERT and PREP are different. We can get emergency worker cards." There was a discussion of same and different aspects of PREP and CERT.
 
            Per Doug -- "Map Your Neighborhood is in effect in Bellingham." Per Steve -- "We have mapped the various areas here."    Per Doug -- "Ed Lester invited me here too. Dept. of Emergency Management is primarily support. We base who we call depending on their level of working/emergency. We should have Nick in charge to be able to have CERT and/or  PREP people to call in event of needs. An alert signal is in the works -- for here. PREP is independent of the government. Chain of command for emergencies -- if the governor declares an event, or requested by a local person, to have a letter for authority by the fire dept. to have people respond, for those who have worker cards or CERT cards.
 
       5.  Puget Sound Energy -- we have been approached in re getting support for a grant from the federal government, (for PSE), for us to have a letter  to send out to help PSE get funds, a matching grant. We wll shortly send out our letter of support. Also discussion about partial outages.
 
       6.  In re shelter operations -- we have the Red Cross manual now.
 
       7.  In re pets, Heather Good and Patricia McCairen will get the pet manual which has been received.
 
       8.  Per Dr. Dower, the company Ridek is donating part of its building next door to store some of our equipment.
 
       9.  Next meeting is on Tues. Sept. 1st.