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ST. CROIX COUNTY
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING
TO: Thomas Dorsey, Chairman
St. Croix County Board
FROM: Charles P. Mehls, Chairman
COMMITTEE TITLE: Emergency Management/Communications Committee
DATE OF MEETING: Monday August 21, 2000
TIME: 9:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Baldwin Ag Center
Training Room
Baldwin, Wisconsin 54002
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
ADOPTION OF AGENDA
DATE OF NEXT MEETING - OPEN
ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES -
OLD BUSINESS
(1) Municipal Planning Requirements
NEW BUSINESS
(2) Dispatch of Emergency Vehicles
(3) 2001 Budget Review - Communications
(4) Director's Report - Communications
(5) Bills - Communications
(6) Governor's Conference on Emergency Management
(7) 2001 Budget Review - Emergency Management
(8) Director's Report - Emergency Management
(9) Bills - Emergency Management
EMERGENCY SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES
EMS Issues:
Fire Issues:
Law Enforcement Issues:
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CORRESPONDENCE
POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING:
ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented in this order)
SUBMITTED BY: Jack Colvard, Emergency Management PHONE#386.471814719
Bruce Brantner, Emergency Communications PHONE#386-4705
DATE: August 14, 2000
Copies to: County Board Office Committee Members
County Clerk News Media/Notice Board
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MINUTES
Emergency Management/Communications Committee
August 21,2000
PRESENT: Chuck Mehls, John Mortensen, Tom Dorsey, Denise Bjerstedt -
County Board; Jack Colvard - Emergency Management; Bruce Brantner -
Emergency Communications, Jim VanderWyst - New Richmond Fire Dept;
Dick Trende - Hudson Police Chief.
Excused: Greg Carlson - WITC, Art Jacobson - County Board, Ron Volkert -
Sheriff' s Departemt .
Chairman Mehls called the meeting to order at 9 : 50 a.m. The Agenda was
adopted on a Mortensen/VanderWyst Motion.
DATE OF NEXT MEETING: September 25, 2000, 9: 00 a.m. Location to be
determined.
After review, minutes from the July 25, 2000 Emergency
Management/Communication Meeting were approved on a Mortensen/Trende
MOTION.
OLD BUSINESS :
1) Municipal Planning Requirements :
Colvard informed the Committee of three issues that may directly
affect municipal planning; Public Health concerns involving
immunizations, especially influenza, passage of recent legislation
affecting towns and their issuance of building permits, and recent
concerns/issues involving the procedures for activating municipal
severe weather sirens . After discussion, it was agreed upon by all
members present, that future meetings should be joint municipal/county
meetings, held with the various municipalities to discuss these
issues, which could affect their plans .
NEW BUSINESS:
2) Dispatch of Emergency Vehicles :
Mehls informed the Committee of a problem that had taken place on I-94
involving a State Patrol Officer and an issue concerning a fire
response to a non-fire incident on the interstate. After discussion
with State Patrol District 6, Mehls felt that responses of this nature
have been more clearly defined for all parties involved.
3) 2001 Budget Review - Communications :
Brantner distributed copies of the proposed budget for 2001, to
Committee members . Each of the operations line items were discussed
and questions asked, if there were any concerns with any item. The
budget was approved, as presented, on a Bjerstedt/Mortensen MOTION.
4) Director' s Report - Communications :
Brantner discussed the use of the Emergency Communications Van at the
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Somerset rock concert, on August 12Th. The van was used as a command
post, by the Sheriff' s personnel, for 13 to 14 hours that day.
He informed the Committee that the City of Hudson allowed the dumping
of the van' s waste water, at the sewage treatment plant, at no cost .
An elevated work station for dispatch arrived last Thursday and will
be installed in the near future.
5) Bills - Communications :
After review of July' s bills, they were approved on a Mortensen/Trende
MOTION.
6) Governor' s Conference on Emergency Management:
Colvard informed the Committee about the Governor' s Conference that is
to be held in Appleton this year. Costs for the room and the
registration fee have increased almost 20% over last year. Colvard
said that he would like to attend the conference since it is no longer
being held in Milwaukee, where it has been held for the past three
years . Mehls also indicated that he wants to attend the conference
because of some of the sessions that will be presented would be very
worthwhile.
7) 2001 Budget Review - Emergency Management:
Colvard distributed copies of the Emergency Management and SARA
budgets to the Committee members . The Committee reviewed the budget
and moved to accept it, as presented, on a Bjerstedt/Mortensen MOTION.
8) Director' s Report - Emergency Management/SARA:
Colvard distributed a list identifying training courses, in counties,
that have been approved for funding. St . Croix County received
funding approval for 23 classes with five additional classes having
been requested since the list was printed on August 1st .
Pictures taken by the Sheriff' s personnel of the July 25th tornado that
formed over St . Croix County were shown to Committee members . The
tornado did not touch down or do any damage but they do show the
classic funnel cloud associated with tornadoes .
It appears that St . Croix County isn' t the only county that does not
wish to participate in the Weapons of Mass Destruction Grant that was
presented to the Committee last month. Only three of the thirteen
counties in the West Central Emergency Management Region have
indicated that they wish to participate in the grant . Most have taken
the same position as St. Croix; to much work for so little money.
9) Bills - Emergency Management/SARA:
The bills for July, $205. 74 were approved on a VanderWyst/Mortensen
MOTION.
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10) Emergency Services Reports :
Fire Service - VanderWyst - nothing to report.
Colvard commented on the fire training facility that the fire
departments would like to see built somewhere in this area or at
WITC in New Richmond. River Falls Fire has presented some
information to CVTC about the possible building, of the facility,
at their site in River Falls .
Law Enforcement - Trende - Hudson EMS is going through water rescue
training at this time.
EMS - not present
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Chuck Mehls talked about the EMS agencies/groups in the County
are talking about reforming an association again. This would
allow for the inventorying of supplies to share with other
agencies in mutual aid situations .
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 11 : 30 a.m. on a Bjerstedt/Mortensen
MOTION.
Respectfully submitted,
Jack Colvard, Recording Secretary
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