Meeting notes - Jan 17, 2017
Post date: Jan 18, 2017 5:24:58 PM
Agenda
Ken Feldman: Banner
Emily / Joycelyn: structure and requirements
Next meeting: Tue, Feb 21, 2017, Fire Station #1, 6:30p - 8p
Upcoming meetings:
Tue, Mar 21, Fire Station #1, 6:30p - 8p
Tue, Apr 18, Fire Station #1, 6:30p - 8p
Minutes
Attendees
Ken, Gayle, Linda, Johanna Zeh (Sunship), Frank, Emily, Bryan, Aaron, Tosh, Jenni
Action items
Outstanding action items from previous meetings:
[ ] Emily - Review process for preferred staging areas for evacuations, getting information (Emily will discuss with Fire District). [The Chief and Emily need to get clearer about what they mean by a staging area.]
[ ] Emily - Talk to Lyons Fire Fund about being a fiscal sponsor for grants. [Emily: Lyons Fire Foundation is willing to do this for us; we’ll need to write an agreement with them about who’ll do what.]
New actions items from current meeting:
[ ] Joycelyn - Get the nonprofit application finalized.
Discussion
Ken and Gayle showed us the beautiful new banner. $115.
Led to a discussion about finances.
We need to figure out how to raise the money to pay for it.
Any time we want to buy something, we need to know how to pay for it before we move ahead.
Eventually, we’ll have a nonprofit structure and officers, which will help us apply for grants.
Emily and Joycelyn are co-chairs, Keith will be treasurer, Tosh will be secretary.
We can talk to the Community Foundation, to the Town of Lyons, and United Way Resiliency about grants.
Goals for 2017:
Communications with residents. Outreach events. Newspaper articles, Facebook posts. Offer trainings? We can ride of the coat tails of the OEM and BoCo Strong.
BoCo Strong has funded a resiliency effort with Longmont for outreach to the Hispanic community, and Martha, the person who will run that initiative, also intends to include the Lyons Hispanic community.
Continue to expand the radio network into more neighborhoods. Recruitment.
Having a radio means participating in training and attending at least some steering committee meetings, some level of responsibility.
Run another test/training scenario.
This is a long term effort.
We don’t need to be perfect, but we need to keep trying.
Have a scenario by next fall, September or October. Emily will design it.
Identify the scenario, and then identify how we’re going to do it.
Create another emergency preparedness pamphlet, perhaps related to a winter-type disaster event.
The OEM is doing an exercise in April. Could we be observers?
Mapping our radio capability.
Updating our base layer map.