Local Emergency Management Directors Committee

DATE: October 26, 2006

Directors/Alternates Present: County, Corene Ederer-Sklar, Cynthia Engelhardt; Jerry Schmidt, Town Spring Green; Nick Fluguar, Ho-Chunk Nation; Melissa Berberich & Janice Castile of Vil Ironton; Harold Dallman, Town of Freedom; Bryan Schwarz, Vil North Freedom; Jerry Schmidt, Tn of Spring Green; Tom Dorner, Vil Lake Delton

Directors Absent: Larry Volz, Town Delton; 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; Matt Anliker, Vil Spring Green; Earl Clark, Vil Rock Springs; Andrew Arneson, Town Washington/Hillpoint; Bill Fuhrman, Vil Loganville; Kevin Stieve, City Baraboo; Dennis Kluge, City Baraboo; Lisa McGlynn, Vil Lime Ridge; Kay Bainbridge, Baraboo Township

Meeting called to order by County EM Director, Corene Sklar in EMBS meeting room

Hospital and/or Health Consortium

The hospitals have done a vulnerability assessment to determine their most pressing issues. St. Clare Hospital is doing a terrorism drill Saturday, October 28 at the Sauk County Fairgrounds. The Health Consortium (BRAT) is being disbanded by the end of this year. A functional exercise was recently done with Reedsburg Hospital on contagious disease.

State Regional Meeting

• The municipal plan template is going to be updated. Emergency Support Functions (now known as Annexes) are on hold for 2007.
• There is a new program titled HAZ Collect for use in transmitting critical emergency messages through the National Weather Service channels (see brochure).
• Weather radios have been distributed to all schools throughout the country. This is being doine by the Department of Education and Homeland Security. To see if your local school is listed in the distribution, go to http://public-alert-radio.nws.noaa.gov. If your school(s) is not listed, that school can register themselves on-line.

County Information

• By way of information sharing, a firm by the name of Techno-Graphics (TGS) has been contracted by Homeland Security and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency to verify and validate data. If you or any agencies are contacted for information by TGS, they are a credible firm (see enclosed bulletin).
• All those present were walked through how to complete the Storm Ready information. IF YOU HAVEN'T YET, PLEASE COMPLETE THE FORM AND SEND IT TO THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICE. If you have any questions about completing the form, please contact Corene at 355-3200.

Tower Update

Basically everything is done with the fiber optics except for Hwy 78. Merrimac - all work at the site is complete, paging Baraboo & Merrimac. There was some damage to the Hillpoint fencing. Phil is hoping to be paging off this site by 3rd week in October (now). Lake Delton site is fully functional, just waiting for fiber loop and Happy Hill comparator work to be done. Nothing new to report on Hemlock (LaValle). Happy Hill - continue to work on moving things from old building to new one, which will take another month or two. Sauk City site is the same situation as Lake Delton. Nothing new to report on the Courthouse. Spring Green - construction completed, still waiting for feed lines and antennas.

Information Shared

• Washington Post article: Is DHS Site Really Ready? Science intern thinks not.
• A power point presentation was given, which was put together by the National Weather Service on how weather how the National Weather Service goes about determining warnings, areas to be warned, etc. Also noted were changes in how warnings will happen in 2008.
• In the Homefront security newsletter, an article re Wisconsin Preparedness Plans in Place.
• Nick mentioned a website for free weather information - http://www.emergencyemail.org.

Handouts

• HAZ Collect
• Hot Topics in EMS
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency bulletin re TGS

Training

• Memo went to all city officials and villages re ICS 100 & NIMS 700 classes in December. Only 2 replies to date.
• ICS 300 is available and is an intermediate course which expands upon information covered in the 100 & 200 courses.
• ICS 400 will take place between now and June 2007.
• ICS-402 course - Incident Command System for Executives/Senior Officialsto be conducted onNovember 7, 2006 at the Sheridan Madison Hotel, Madison, WI.This is NOT a required course, but highly recommended.

Local Reports

• Nothing new to report

NEXT MEETING: November 30, 2006 at 10:00 a.m.