Stow Medical Reserve Corps- Meeting minutes 11/13/06
7pm Town Building
Attendees: Mary E Cormier, Louise Peacock, Sarah Robart, John Sangermano.
Absent: Marilyn Driscoll, Dianne Oelberger, Gloria Healey, and Vickery Trinkaus- Randall.
Guests: Sharon Funkhouser from the CoA and Terri Himmelmann, new MRC member.
1: Unable to approve previous meeting minutes as we did not have a quorum. Betty Cormier stated that minutes need to be initialed by members of the Exec. Committee and given to the BoH. Sarah will bring a printed copy of previous minutes to the next meeting to be initialed.
2: We need to officially remove Julie Glovin from the Executive Committee. Unable to do so as not a quorum present. Will bring this up at the next meeting.
3: Discussion on how to organize volunteers re. Trainings.
Tier 1: CPR, First Aid, ICS 700 and 100
Tier 2: ICS 700 and 100
John will send an e-mail to the volunteer list to try and ascertain interest in CPR/First Aid.
Sarah reported that Fire Chief Soar said he will organize trainings in Stow if enough interest is shown by volunteers
4: Sarah will meet with the COA on Monday November 20th at 10am in the Town Building to discuss Emergency Preparedness for the elderly population. Betty Cormier will assist. They plan to demonstrate 72 hr kit and Animal 72 hr kit. Chief Soar will also present.
5: Sarah has left messages for the Stow Women’s Group and the Stow Area Parents Network (SAPN) re meeting with its members and doing a presentation. We are awaiting replies from both groups. Will plan to update at the next meeting.
6: Discussion about requesting funding in FY08 budget process potentially to purchase a lap-top, flash drives and 2 way radio’s for MRC use. Unable to take vote as not a quorum present. Applications for funds must be in by 11/20/06. John will look into various items and get back to the BoH.
7: The MRC needs to make a list of needed items to be held by Osco Pharmacy at Shaws in case of emergency situation. Items to include: Advil, Tylenol, Alcohol prep pads, 4x4’s, Band-Aids, Bandages etc. Louise volunteered to make a list, with amounts, and present at the next meeting.
8: Volunteer List. Need to alphabetize by title and add D.O.B for each member. This was requested by the chief of police in order to do yearly CORI checks. This list will be held at the BoH to protect member privacy.
9: Discussion re e-mail news letter. ? Monthly or quarterly.
John will start putting this together: to include a brief overview of Emergency Preparedness meeting in Oct, available trainings with links, deadline for trainings to be end of Feb 07, a potential date for spring exercise/drill per Chief Soar, and encouragement for people on list to turn in their applications and CORI’s.
John will e-mail a draft to the group. Upon approval, John will send a mass e-mail to the Volunteer list.
10: In the event that we do not receive a response from those volunteers who have not handed in their applications/CORI’s we can discuss at next meeting about whether to do one last phone call or whether to delete them from the list.
11: We need to start planning how we will alert volunteers in case of an emergency. Will discuss this at next meeting.
12: We need to start making a plan for each disaster scenario. Will discuss this at the next meeting
13: Discussion re “Shelter Operations” training and need to make it mandatory for Exec. Committee. Sarah will e-mail group to inform of upcoming trainings. Will discuss this at the next meeting.
14: Sarah brought American Kennel Club Animal Emergency kit list to meeting. John to scan this and put it on the MRC web-site.
15: Janet Wheeler, chairman of the Board of Selectman (BoS), called Sarah to discuss whether the MRC would like to attend a Selectman’s meeting to raise public awareness (via the Channel 9 telecast of the Selectmen’s meeting). We need to propose a date to the BoS once we’ve discussed as a group.
16: The next MRC meeting will be on 12/11/06 at 7:00 pm in the Town Building.
Meeting adjourned at 9pm.
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