DATE: November 30, 2006
Directors/Alternates Present: County, Corene Ederer-Sklar, Cynthia Engelhardt; Jerry Schmidt, Town Spring Green; Nick Fluguar, Ho-Chunk Nation; Harold Dallman, Town of Freedom; Tom Dorner, Vil Lake Delton; Janice & Mike Castile, Vil Ironton; Bill Fuhrman, Vil Loganville; Kevin Stieve, City Baraboo; Dennis Kluge, City Baraboo; Lisa McGlynn, Vil Lime Ridge
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; Kay Bainbridge, Baraboo Township; Melissa Berberich, Vil Ironton; Bryan Schwarz, Vil North Freedom
Meeting called to order by County EM Director, Corene Sklar in EMBS meeting room.
Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) will be based on the type of complexity (see enclosed handout), ranging from a Type 5 being the incident that can be handled with local resources, to a Type 1 which would involve federal response.
Winter Awareness was Nov. 13 - 17.
If there are any large events in your community scheduled for 2007, could you please submit the information to Sauk County EM, the State is requesting this information.
Fiscal year 2007 NIMS requirements are now posted on the WEM web site at http://emergencymanagement.wi.gov.
Volk Field has a new entry policy, which requires your full legal name and date of birth.
Corene received approval on the 2nd part of the Interoperability Grant. Kevin Stieve mentioned that everyone needs to have the same programming on scene and that Phil Raab has been working on this. Stieve stated this should be a joint effort between EMS and Fire.
Corene mentioned that for a Type 2 event, there will be more federal teams involved and discussion took place on position specific training.
Information was sent to all those communities who elected to adopt the County's All Hazards Mitigation Plan, regarding application for the 2007 Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant.
OJA has developed 6 regional planning workshops beginning December 2006, as part of the FY 2007 application for the federal Homeland Security Grant, and eventually this application will determine the level of funding awarded to the state (see enclosed re workshop dates and places).
There was a discussion on severe weather warnings, tones and getting appropriate and accurate warnings out.
Kevin Stieve suggested people contacting their local responders about their pagers and also contact Phil Raab regarding minitor pagers and setting up one tone; there is a company in Madison that gives EMS personnel a discount.
As of November 3rd: construction re fiber to begin week of Nov. 13 on Hwy 78; a lease agreement was approved re Reedsburg Utilities; a transmitter will be required at the Reedsburg tower site which was not part of the original plan, however it would be a good solution to add at that location, so it was approved to purchase it. At Hillpoint there was an interference problem from cable television and Phil is working to correct this. Lake Delton is 100% functional, just waiting for fiber loop and Happy Hill comparator work to be completed. Nothing new to report on Hemlock. Work continues on Happy Hill on wiring up comparators so that once fiber loop is done the simulcast solution can be done.
Sauk City is the same as Lake Delton. Nothing new to report on the Courthouse. All the work is pretty well completed at Spring Green and should be able to turn on in next week or two.
Corene gave a talk on disaster preparedness for the Commission for the elderly nutritionists and handed 2 pieces - Disaster Preparedness Checklists for individuals with special needs and another piece entitled I Have put my House in Order. If anyone would like a copy of one or both, please let Cynthia know.
NEXT MEETING: To Be Determined