BRAT Consortium #6 Public Health Commission

Name of Meeting: BRAT Public Health Commission Meeting

Facilitator: Susan Lorenz

Date of Meeting: January 25 th, 2006

Recorder: Jessica Nall

Guest: NONE

Present: Cynthia Bodendein, Anna Weber, Susan Lorenz, Linda McFarlin, Barb Theis, Melissa Delmore, and Jessica Nall

Absent: Beverly Muhlenbeck, Sue McCartney

Meeting called to order by Lorenz verification of Open Meeting Law noted.

Approval of the Agenda . Motion to approve by McFarlin seconded by Theis.
Motion carried

Approval of December 21 st , 2005 meeting minutes. Motion by McFarlin seconded by Bodendein.
Motion Carried.

Topic	Major Points Discussed	Resolutions and Actions Required	Assigned to	Due Date
Topic	Major Points Discussed	Resolutions and Actions Required	Assigned to	Due Date
EPI Report	WEDDS: Pilot agencies need to be underway by May ’06. Statewide to be on board by January 2007. EPI Meetings will take place every other month with alternating teleconference and face-to-face meetings as well. Questions arose regarding Mass Clinic staffing and whether it needs to be a 24 hours a day operation. Weber reports that the EPI Group will be using meetings as more of a study group for the tool they are developing.
Elections (per by-laws)	Co-Chair Election: Theis nominated McFarlin but McFarlin declined. Theis offers to take the position. Motion to approve by Lorenz, seconded by Bodendein.
Budget 2006	Mistakes were corrected in 2005 Budget Request for all BRAT Meeting expenses to come under trainings category in 2006 Budget Teleconference Scheduled : February 2nd, 2006 at 1:00PM regarding Budget Approval and Contract for Adams County	Delmore to forward request to Konkel	Konkel
Old Business	BRAT Newsletter: Some changes to be made: Enter who submitted information and contact information for Delmore as well at the dates for all BRAT Meetings . Decision was made to make the newsletter bi-annual.	Editing of the Newsletter	Delmore and Nall
Old Business	MOUs: McFarlin looking for examples of general MOUs Decision was made to make developing MOUs a group effort Delmore to locate example MOUs from other Program Coordinators Request for MOUs to be an agenda item for next meeting	Locate example MOUs and forward to each Health Officer Add to agenda for February 22 nd meeting	Delmore Nall
Fiscal Agent Report	Lorenz reported the next meeting is a teleconference on February 9 th, 2006.
Coordinator’s Report	January 19th Meeting: Delmore reports that the state received 1.7 million for Pandemic related planning to be disbursed to individual local health departments. The 1 st Phase funding must be spent by August 31 st, 2006 SNS is now on WIR, although there is no training available at this time. SNS Workshop will be coming to Wisconsin this year. Checklist for Consortium Objectives 2006 was distributed. Questions arose regarding how many items need to be checked off. Request for Consortium Objective Checklist to be added to the agenda for the next meeting. It has been clarified that it is not required but only recommended for hospitals to have an exercise in 2006 Emails Joe Cordova surrounding smallpox vaccine were distributed Joe Cordova also reported that Dr. Davis has signed the medical order for Antibiotics (Cipro and Doxycycline) for Anthrax Exposure. The Attorney General has signed mutual Aid orders for border counties Discussion arose regarding after hours responsibilities of nurses and the verbiage of the contracts. Next meeting: February 16 th in Stevens Point	Add to agenda for February 22nd meeting	Nall
HRSA Report	Next meeting on February 3 rd, 2006
County Sharing	Bodendein reports the on the ACT 96 document referring to Liability for Volunteers. Request made for someone to clarify this issue at the next Commission Meeting- Delmore will contact Billee Bayou McFarlin reports on her concern with how to assign leadership roles to others for ICS. Theis reports that they will be having a Tabletop Exercise in March and their Functional Exercise in May with the county partners. Gervase Thompson is sharing functions with partners for review and to generate discussion. This will be taking place over the summer months.	Invite Billee Bayou to next meeting	Delmore
County Sharing	Request for Delmore to send out Cordova’s dispensing site request. Lorenz reports that Columbia County is having an Exercise Design Meeting on February 21 st, 2006. Their Tabletop is tentatively scheduled for April and Functional for June. Weber reports that Marquette County will be having a Tabletop Exercise on February 3 rd, 2006 using the Avian Influenza for the example.	Forward dispensing site request	Delmore
Training Update	Peppy Winchel will be updating Delmore in the Spring as to how the program worked out for other areas of the United States. The Northwest Regional Emergency Manager Rhonda Reynolds will do the EOC Training. The training will be one full day. Decision was made to schedule the training for September 21 st or 22 nd. Delmore will contact Reynolds to schedule the training.	Schedule EOC Training	Delmore
New Business	Delmore is meeting with Dr. Haney via telephone on Friday January 27 th regarding PIO and Risk Communications Trainings. April 19 th-Agri-terrorism/Animal Influenza and the Local Public Health Role 8:30AM-1PM Kalahari Resort and Convention Center Wisconsin Dells, WI Request to invite UW Extensions, Veterinarians, the Farm Service Organization, and all Chairmen, Mayors, and Presidents in the Consortium. July 19 th- Risk Communications October 18 th - Basic/Advanced PIO Training	Extend invitation to them	Delmore/Nall
Next meeting	February 22 nd, 2006 at 8:30 A.M. BRAT Meeting :
Future meetings	April 19 th at 8:30AM-1PM Kalahari Resort and Convention Center

Motion by Theis to adjourn seconded by Bodendein.
Motion carried.