HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmergency Management and Communication 06-20-05 AGENDA
ST. CROIX COUNTY
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETIN
TO: Clarence Malick, Chairman
St. Croix County Board
FROM: Chuck Mehls, Chair of Emergency Mgt./Emergency
Communications
COMMITTEE TITLE: Emergency Management/Emergency Communications
DATE OF MEETING: June 20, 2005
TIME: 9:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Government Ctr., Room #1281
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
ADOPTION OF AGENDA
DATE OF NEXT MEETING Open
ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
NEW BUSINESS:
1. Telephone Contract
2. Emergency Service Agency Representative's Concerns and Issues
A. Sheriffs Department C. Municipal Law Enforcement
B. Fire Services D. EMS Services
3. Director's Report — Emergency Management
A. Hammond Tornado Preliminary Critique
B. County Mass Immunization Training
4. Director's Report - Emergency Communications
A. Interoperability Grant
B. Cellular E911 Grant
C. Future County -Wide Radio System
POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING:
ADJOURNMENT
(This agenda not necessarily presented in this order)
SUBMITTED BY: Jack Colvard, Emergency Management - Phone #386- 4719/386 -4718
Gary Kollman Emergency Communications — Phone #386 -4705
DATE: 06/15/2005
Copies to: County Board Office Committee Members
County Clerk News Media/Notice Board
Intranet Site
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MINUTES - OFFICIAL
Emergency Management/Communications Committee
June 20, 2005
PRESENT: Chuck Mehls, Buck Malick, Art Jacobson, Charles Grant, Charles Struemke - County Board; Gary
Kollman — Emergency Communications; Jack Colvard, Emergency Management; Craig Nelson, EMS
Representative; Bob Klanderman, Sheriff's Dept.; Tom Kinney, Village of Hammond; Doug Briggs, Law
Enforcement Representative; Jim VanderWyst, Fire Representative.
Chairman Mehls called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m.
A Grant/Jacobson MOTION approved the adoption of the Agenda.
The May 26, 2005 EM/EC Committee Minutes were approved on a Struemke /Grant MOTION. The June 6, 2005
Special Meeting EM /EC Committee Minutes were approved on a Struemke /Jacobson MOTION.
DATE OF NEXT MEETING: July 18, 2005 -- 9:00 a.m.
St. Croix County Government Center, Community Room
Telephone Contract
SBC provides the County with Long Distance service. The Contract is reviewed yearly. SBC also provides
Prime /Extended Calling and Centrex services. SBC has proposed a new three -year contract for Prime /Extended
Calling and Centrex service with a 17.5% reduction in cost. A Malick/Mehhs MOTION was made to propose to
SBC that we sign a on&year renewal with the 17.5% reduction for the Prime /Extended Calling and Centrex
services and also renew the long distance contract. Struemke brought up asking if we can get a larger reduction if
we sign for three years. = Kollman will propose this and bring back the answer. Kollman will also report on where
the money is going from the pay phones at the Government Center.
Emergency Service Agency Representative's Concerns and Issues
A. Sheriff's Dept.- Nothing
B. Fire Services- Future Radio Communications
C. Municipal Law Enforcement - Future Radio Communications
D. EMS Services -EMS Services at Disaster Sites and EMS Coverage at County Fair
Director's Report — Emergency Management
Tom Kinney, Village of Hammond President informed the Committee of how the Emergency Response
operations went in the Village of Hammond in the Tornado incident on June 11, 2005. He reported that
the operations were a success.
Colvard reported that the Lions International Organization offered a $1.0,000 grant if needed. Wal -Mart
donated $5,000 to the Red Cross for disaster relief. Another Company donated $3,000 to the Red Cross
also.
A Debriefing Meeting will be held at the Hammond Village Hall on June 21, 2005 at 5:00 p.m. A couple
issues (on- lookers, coordination of all assistance services) will be discussed further in the event of a
disaster situation. Estimated private property damages are now approximately two million dollars. Costs
to the village have not yet been totaled.
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. The Public Health Mass Vaccination Training event will be held on June 24, 2005 at St. Croix Central
High School. The U.S. Marshall's Office will escort the vaccination carrier.
There will be a HERSA EOC Simulation on September 9, 2005.
Director's Report — Emergency Communications
The OJA Interoperability Grant's participation deadline is August 15, 2005. This Grant is 25% (County
Costs)/75% (Reimbursement).
A Malick/Struemke MOTION was made to add a line in the 2006 COP for the County's cost of the
Interoperability OJA Grant.
The Cellular E911 Grant decision will be forthcoming in July. St. Croix County has asked for
approximately $437,000. The PSC is taking Public Comments on two areas dealing with auxiliary items.
Kollman will e -mail to this Committee the information, and they may make their own comments to the
PSC.
Kollman has received, one estimate for a consultant's study of the Future County -Wide Radio System. He
is awaiting another estimate and will report on this matter at the next committee meeting.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 11:30 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Pam Engen, Administrative Secretary
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