Local Emergency Management Directors Committee

DATE: September 27, 2006

Directors/Alternates Present: County, Corene Ederer-Sklar,; Larry Volz, Town Delton; Jerry Schmidt, Town Spring Green;Bill Fuhrman, Vil Loganville; Nick Fluguar, Ho-Chunk Nation; Melissa Berberich & Matt Kratz of Vil Ironton;Kevin Stieve, City Baraboo; Dennis Kluge, City Baraboo; Lisa McGlynn, Vil Lime Ridge; Kay Bainbridge, Baraboo Township.

Directors Absent: Jim Rohweder, Vil LaValle; Tim Stone, Town of Fairfield; Andrew Sherman, Vil Prairie du Sac; Bob DeMars, Vil West Baraboo; Nils Richardson, Vil Spring Green; John Ruhland, Vil Plain; Michael Rogers, Vil Sauk City; Bret Anderson, City Wisconsin Dells;Al Shanks, Vil Merrimac;Scott Zirzow. Town Fairfield; Lori Curtis, City of Reedsburg;Darlene Hill, Town Baraboo; Harold Dallman, Town of Freedom; Bryan Schwarz, Vil North Freedom; Matt Anliker, Vil Spring Green; Earl Clark, Vil Rock Springs;; Andrew Arneson, Town Washington/Hillpoint

Excused: Cynthia Engelhardt; Tom Dorner, Vil Lake Delton.

Meeting called to order by County EM Director, Corene Sklar in EMBS meeting room. Introductions were performed. Sklar announced she will be retiring at the end of the year to work full time at home. It is hoped they will have someone on line by December so she can work with them prior to retiring.

Hospital and/or Health Consortium

Sklar mentioned the Mass Vaccination Functional scheduled for October 3rd, the Reedsburg tabletop scheduled for October 5th and working with the Baraboo Hospital for their full scale in November. She also passed around a Pandemic Influenza Update and a brochure on Avian Influenza in Wild Birds for review.

State Regional Meeting

Information on WEMA Conference, regional planning.

County Information

• Over 600 people have taken online training in NIMS, ICS. Only County in our region with more is Dane, Columbia has a distant 3rd at 300 plus. That does not include the last two trainings.
• New Superintendent of FEMA's Emerency Management Institute is Cortez Lawrence.
• Storm Ready - Communities now have to fill out a form that was sent out mid September, this is the final step. Local Directors decided to have everyone bring their forms to the next meeting and fill them out together.

Information Shared

Chemicals in School (included for those not in attendance) was passed around

Tower Update

Spring Green Tower is up, but there's a problem they are working on. Parts are ordered. All other towers are up, but dispatch console needs programmed for paging on some. Delton is 100% functional.

Handouts

Course Recruitment ICS 300

Training

• B965 - Fundamentals of HealthCare Emergency Mangement
• WEMA Pre conference training
• Surviving the Pandemic
• ICS 300 & ICS 400
• ICS 402

Local Reports

• Loganville has someone protesting the placement of the tower.
• Volz noted there is the possibility of a clean sweep in 2007. He and Kay Bainbridge reported the ICS 100 and NIMS training was very well presented.

NEXT MEETING: October 26, 2006 at 10:00 a.m.