Stow Medical Reserve Corps - Meeting Minutes 8/29/06
Meeting 8/29/06 Board of Health Office, 7pm
Attendees:
Terri Cole (BOH Admin), Mary E. Cormier (BOH Member and Liaison to Stow MRC), Marilyn Driscoll, Dianne Oelberger, Louise Peacock, Marcia Rising (BOH Member), Sarah Robart, John Sangermano, Vickery Trinkaus-Randall, Jack Wallace (BOH Agent)
Meeting Minutes – (summary form).
1. Purchase of materials using $1400 grant funding.
Sarah presented a draft proposed list of materials for consideration of purchase. Grant funding of $1400 was made available with requirement for spending in August.
Sarah had prices for items vs quantity. Discussion was aimed at what was most important to obtain with this first round of funding vs the available budget.
Discussion on options and priorities. Aim was for material to support an inoculation event, with items including gloves, masks, goggles, hand sanitizer, blood pressure cuffs (sphygmomanometers).
Sarah will look at what the $1400 will buy and purchase items before the end of the month.
2. Materials to be stored at Police Department. Materials purchased with grant and materials obtained for the MRC will be stored at the Stow Police Department in storage bins. This agreement for storage was made, with materials locked away for MRC use.
3. Liisa Jackson still looking at ID Cards for credentialed volunteers. Card will include a photo. Some options as to what else will be included.
§ Only credentialed volunteers will be given an ID. This requires taking a minimum set of training.
§ At an emergency event, a volunteer with their ID will need to present positive identification to be enabled to help.
4. Sarah met with the Fire Chief and introduced the Stow MRC. The Chief is the incident commander for the Stow emergency response.
The Chief (David Soar) said the top 3 issues/events most likely to occur are: Pandemic, a Storm, and a small evacuation triggered by something like a traffic accident.
The Chief looks to have the MRC serve as a resource, and thus allow the FD/EMT staff to do more. Chief Soar indicated the MRC could share supplies with the FD in an emergency.
Note on a mass inoculation – unless the weather was extreme, the event would be handled outdoors under tarps/tents at Hale School.
[Sarah has more detailed notes from her meeting with the Fire Chief].
4. MRC Communication. Details to be put in place, but Board of Health has a communication hierarchy - Jack, Marcia, down.
5. How to get MRC and MRC members more ‘credible’ to work with the FD? Get volunteers trained:
§ first responder training (First Aid and CPR)
§ Incident Command System training (FEMA ICS 100)
§ NIMS (National Incident Management System) (IS-700)
§ Possible inclusion of MRC members to Fire Department courses (Stow FD)
§ Possible training for MRC members run by the Stow FD
7. Hazardous Waste Day – 9/16/06 at the Highway Barn. This is a very attractive site for recruiting members. People are (stuck) in their cars for more than an hour and this may be a good audience to recruit from and convey information.
Looking to organize volunteers from MRC members to work this event. Copies of the basic MRC information packet and application to be copied and readied.
8. First Member Meeting and ‘Event’
§ First member meeting –
§ Use meeting to organize, assign tasks, remind people of required and optional training.
§ Have a working presentation of creating a ’72-hour bag’. Base a session on the DVD from Liisa Jackson and the course. Do a hands-on presentation of what should go in to planning for a 3 day problem/situation.
9. Communication Ideas:
§ Write a ‘marketing’ introduction page, locate on Stow town Website.
§ Fliers for school events - to recruit and to promote
§ Write a monthly newsletter to communicate to members
§ Make an action list and assign people
10. Roles for members (How many total roles ? to be determined)
§ Liaison to Fire Department and Police – Sarah
§ Newspaper communications
§ COA Outreach – Dianne
§ Schools – Newsletters/’Blue-Sheets’, information at school lobby.
§ Churches
10. Member and community Communications
§ email list for members – looking to get Town of Stow website email address (so email looks more official).
§ Agenda posting on Town of Stow website calendar
§ Official meeting posting at Town Building
§ Reverse 911 for emergencies
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