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Business Meeting
1. Call
to Order: Bob Zimmerman called the meeting to order at 10:00
a.m.
2. Welcome
and Introductions: Bob Zimmerman gave a brief description
of CREW's mission, goals and current activities.
3. Minutes:
No quorum to approve minutes. Minutes will be read and approved
at a subsequent CREW meeting.
4. Financial
Report: Will be read and approved at subsequent CREW meeting.
5.
Report on CREW Conference held on November 27th and 28th
of 2001. Bob Freitag gave an overview of the conference,
saying that four reoccurring themes throughout the two days:
- The
Nisqually earthquake was not "the big one",
but was what people in the region have come to expect
every 30 years or so.
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The risk reduction actions being taken by the business
community appear to be the result of increased worry from
the sum total of the many events that have recently affected
the region.
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Those business risk reduction programs that were successful
were balanced and comprehensive taking advantage of all
phases of emergency management.
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Partnering may offer opportunities to reduce vulnerabilities
that are otherwise outside of a business's control.
6. Bob
also mentioned that the videotape of significant presentations
from the conference should be available the beginning of
April.
7. Scenario
Project Status - Bob Zimmerman gave a brief update and description
of the Scenario Project. Craig Weaver was volunteered to
give an impromptu presentation using Linda Noson's slide
presentation.
8. CREW
Work Program - Bob Freitag went over the 2002 Statement
of Work. He explained the various activities that CREW is
involved in so that the educators in attendance could become
more familiar with CREW.
NEW
TOPICS
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Terry Simmonds lead a discussion on the need for a longer-range
plan for CREW. Businesses, both small and large, are always
looking for mitigation tools that they can use. We discussed
that the best thing to do may be to try and identify what
toolkits are currently out there and how we can make them
available to businesses.
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George Crawford told the group about a July 15-18 USACE
Cascadia tabletop exercise that is being planned. We may
want them to use our Scenario for the exercise. Oregon,
Washington and British Columbia will all be participating.
The tabletop is being held in Seattle at SeaTac. More
information to come.
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