a.
Business/Homeowners Risk Reduction (Ines Pearce) - The
Risk Reduction Toolkit is not yet completed. She will
provide an overview and presentation on roll out at Partners
in Emergency Preparedness Conference (Tues. morn.) She
will also hold a series of meetings with business, required
to complete Chapter 1 as homework - Will be completed
in functional workshop. Additional UWASI funds will be
used to create an interactive website for toolkit and
templates, including templates and activities that assist
in completing components of plan. There will be no local
data retention. $5K of CREW funds will be dedicated to
this project. There are plenty of opportunities for CREW
members to be involved in project and workshops. Inez
will also be presenting at Oregon Emergency Managers'
Professional Development Conference.
Several people
stated that there is a great demand for this type of business
continuity education, but additional trainers are needed.
Bob F. indicated that we may be able to work collaboratively
with ICEP to develop this training next year.
Oregon University
and others may also be interested in RFP development and
pilot testing of training. Send RFP information or requests
to Idaho State University, Dept. of Civil Engineering.
Presentation:
Dave Gering: Executive Director of the Manufacturing Industrial
Council of Seattle working with South Seattle-Downtown
Foundation-
Web site: seattleindustry.org
Dave's agency
represents traditional industrial contingency groups promoting
carpools and vanpools via commute trip reduction…
working with the Alaska Viaduct Improvement Program (State
Grant funded) and local neighborhood improvement process.
They are requesting
CREW members' help with:
1. A project oversight committee
2. Assistance in meeting Ballard's business needs (a grant
exclusion).
3. Strategic planning on mitigation measures.
4. Funding Don Ballard's assistance on EQ closure transport
analysis (due to the loss of a viaduct).
Future grants are expected, and his agency is willing
to share.
Bob Z suggests
forming a working group as a first step (Volunteers include
Chris J.-Trisler, Inez, and Craig)
Andre suggests
CREW frame out an MOU to provide definition of the grant
and future partnerships.
CREW Web
Tool
Attention needs to be given to development of update
tool. James Pila suggested that CREW rent a room for 2
wks to introduce business owners to the web tool. Seattle
Project Impact was suggested as the best agency for the
Web Tool support.
Home Retrofit
Ines states that the third edition book update needs completion,
and will arrange a meeting to discuss proposed changes
mid-May.
b.
Emergency Management - Bob Frietag
Blue Cascades After-Action Report (AAR) copies are now
available. This is a companion document to "Pacific
Peril". Jay accepted a request to review the combined
exercise scenarios and create an impact statement.
c.
Pacific Peril- Jay
This exercise is sponsored by US-DOT, using the CREW Cascadia
scenario as a worst case disaster. The WA-DOT State serves
as lead agency on the exercise, which will be offered
at the same time as the State Emergency Management Division's
Evergreen Sentry Exercise on May 23, 24, 25. There will
be two Operational periods of 12 hrs after the start of
the Pacific Peril earthquake simulation. Emergency management
teams will enter at the beginning of the 2nd shift to
address Logistics and Staging issues. A Phase 2 compression
will forward the timeline to 5 weeks later. BC PEP, Oregon
DOH, and others will be participating in Pacific Peril.
CREW will write and assess the exercise AAR.
An educational
introduction to the program will be held on April 25th
9-3 at Willamett University. Attention will be given to
the Cascadia EQ threat and regional impacts, and will
also include tie-ins with other catastrophic events. This
event is open to the general public, VIP's, and media.
Register at: www.nw.faa.gov/peril.
Dave Spicer
requests CREW assistance with VIP day and presentations.
Bob Z suggests
CREW remain available to provide true science behind scenario.
TJ asked that
WA-DOH be identified as participants. Dave volunteered
to check this. If DOH is not participating, TJ will request
encourage their agency participation.
Patti: It would
be valuable to build a tool to identify specific questions
and assess specific issues for improvement.
Discussion:
Outside interpreter(s) may be needed to observe event
to provide an objective evaluation, feedback and locate
themes needed for future policy/planning and product evaluation.
CREW success criteria should be identified prior to exercise
to allow better follow-up to exercise and validation of
CREW's EQ scenario.
d.
Scenario Development (Benioff within Portland Area) (Gail
Dreckman) -The scenario has been moved from Portland Hills
Fault (the frequency is too low at <.01>50years)
and has been changed to a Benihoff Zone event. Bob will
provide additional information at our next meeting. More
data needed to test a scientifically based Nisqually type
event on an Oregon Community.
e.
Northern Command (Chris J-T) -
This exercise is intended to test proactive coordination
of federal assets deployed in catastrophic event, as directed
by President Bush. (An Operational Exercise)
f.
Professional Community Involvement (Andre LeDuc) - Event
calendar- Please identify and send Andre information
on professional events and conferences to faciliate development
of a running list. TJ will ask her staff to add Andre
to the Public Health mailing lists.
"Risky
Business" seminar- Ines will present and help
support the OEMA booth.
Discussion:
A poster outlining the CREW mission, goals, and objectives
should be developed. The task was assigned to Andre. Jim
suggested sending the Burk Museum display.
Motion: Andre
requests $275 to support booth space at the OMEA Conference.
Andre and students will man the booth May 10-12. Motion
to approve: 1st Inez, 2nd Bill White.
Discussion:
Should CREW pay for booth space when CREW provides presenters
and materials? Noted: Conferences have expenses and presenters
attend at no cost. CREW needs to recover funds through
on-site membership recruitment and product marketing to
the broad audience attending these conferences. We need
to set parameters on how many conference we can support
per year and define an operational budget.
Discussion
on conference/budgets to be on next CREW agenda and Outreach
Coordinator. Vote - Yes/15 - Nay/1 - motion passed.
g.
Cannon Beach - Jay -
A City Council member asked Jay Raskin the question: "Response
support… how long will it take?" Questions on
the issue went into recovery and how to approach a timeline
for recovery. A forum was held on how to rebuild community
(after identifying the impact to social and economic science
systems). The program had elements of Preparedness/Mitigation/Response.
The $35K project started with $10K from CREW. A long AAR
report to be available soon.
{Handout: Post Disaster Recovery Planning Forum Summary}
Conclusions
included recognition that citizens may not be able to
return until infrastructure is re-established (including
healthcare systems and potable water distribution). The
primary objective is to hold similar forums throughout
Cascadia. Students are now interviewing participants to
determine program usefulness. A compendium tool and a
lessons learned report are to be developed. (This is a
community resilience project).
The full, formal
report will be available in June. A guide on how to run
a post-disaster recovery forum is under development. CREW
members must determine next steps. Visions include research
and development and recovery tools for post-disaster environments.
Discussion:
Recovery Issues
Bob F: National
Earthquake Conference will focus on a long term strategic
plan, and recovery issues. (to be discussed at next meeting).
Andre: Grants
-
1. We must focus on ways to leverage the CREW budget.
Andre will be looking into foundation grants.
2. Toolkit distribution.
h.
Quarterly meeting (Joan Scofield):
The next meeting has been moved to Wednesday, July 20
in Olympia. Agenda Item: Board member election.
Discussion: Meeting style should remain loosely organized
to allow more workgroup discussion.
