City-County Liaison
Committee
Meeting Notes
June 12, 2003
Present: Jerry
Huber, Frances Lichtman, David Ling, Bill Tallman, Adam Miller, Matt Showalter,
Paul Preston and Chris Bundy
Chris made a short
presentation on the work of the Family Recreation Center Task Force. He indicated that they are preparing an RFP for consultant
services. Chris said they have had
three meetings to date, and he felt they were on track and there is a lot of
enthusiasm for the process.
Marc Griffis also made a
presentation on the status of the Emergency Operations Center. He covered a number of items during his presentation.
Below is a summary of his comments:
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All 16 emergency sirens are operational and tested
monthly.
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The 1610 AM radio channel has been upgraded to
include National Weather Service emergency alerts.
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Currently there are seven members on the Emergency
Public Warning Team.
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Have purchased eight new computers and two laptops
from Tribal 2% allocation.
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EOC plan is outdated and he will be updating it
over the next year. He will also be
doing a threat assessment study.
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He is currently administering a number of haz-mat
grants for equipment and training.
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Received a recommendation that the EOC get a
separate phone system. They are
currently tied to Central Dispatch’s system.
May look at City’s EOC Tribal 2% for funds to complete the
installation.
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Reported that a school violence training exercise
will be held on August 18th.
Discussion
was held regarding future diversity training.
David Ling will check at the University as he knows that there are people
there who conduct diversity training. He
will report back to the Committee.
It was decided that we would
invite Joe Sowmick to the next meeting to discuss the 2% process.
The
next meeting is scheduled for July 24th at 1:30 p.m.
