Polk County Public Health Emergency Plan
Section 1.5.2.5 - September 10th, 2007 Multi-Agency Emergency Planning Meeting

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Security level: Unclassified

Version: 1.0

Version history: 2008-11-03 (tjb) Added section from meeting minutes.

Purpose:
Meeting minutes

Scope:
This meeting only.

Guideline:
Times: 10:00am to 11:00am

Location: CMH Cafeteria

Present: Kermit Hargis, Jim McManigle, Robin Bobinmyer, and Eric Derrickson

Minutes: The minutes from the last meeting were sent out prior to the meeting for review.

October Exercise Discussion: A meeting with Conne Burham will be set up for the first week in October. Kermit will notify Conne. The scenario details were discussed.

Evaluators were verified. Dave Hoover, Lorie Ficke, and another evaluator (Lorie is bringing this evaluator) will be present for the exercise.

The number of verified victims is 30 from the Boys Ranch according to Bob Walden. Bolivar Technical has been contacted and Robin is going to make another contact with Ida Junge for a number of victims. Eric is going to verify numbers on the Hospital Employee volunteer victims.

Theron Becker contacted the outlying fire departments to invite them to the exercise. We want to encourage Fire Departments to participate or observe to learn the decon trailers and equipment in case of an event.

Since the LEPC, in their meeting discussed making October there exercise month, it was decided to begin working on the next exercise as soon as this one is completed. An exercise committee will be appointed and work will begin.

Grant Partnerships: Many of the grants related to Homeland Security are now being put in place with the stipulation of working with Multiple Emergency Preparedness Agencies to encourage all emergency resources to work together. The possibility of working together on grants was discussed.

Hazard Vulnerability Assessment Review: CMH’s Annual Hazard Vulnerability Assessment was reviewed and discussed. The possibility of adding pandemic to the list was discussed. Also the ranking of earthquake possibly should be higher. County and city emergency management were given a copy of the Hazard Vulnerability Assessment.

Med/Surge Cache Location: The 250 med surge cache has found a CMH storage location. The old fleet management building has been approved by Mr. Babb. Rick Lewis had located two other buildings that were temporary possibilities that would work, but with this building, no storage MOU would be needed and it would be a more direct line of control.

HazMat Training: HazMed Concepts will be conducting hazardous materials training on September 27 and 28. The hospital personnel are currently being contacted for scheduling the class. The class size is limited to 30. After it is known who can attend, other community members will be invited.

Next Meeting will be November 5th at 10:00 A.M. in the CMH Cafeteria.

Meeting Adjourned

Exceptions:
None

References:
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