Meetings/20190222

Butano CERT meeting 02.22.2019

Attendees

Wendy, our amazing hostess, Catherine Peery, Lisa, Rob & Cotton, Mark & Sandra, William & Christine, that Casey. who else? my notes are messed up for this meeting ( signed, Casey )

Guests

Cleopatra Tuday from SMRDC ( http://www.sanmateorcd.org/about/staff/ )

Agenda, interlaced with corresponding notes

• Quick intros for new folks, if any. Let's not dive down into details.
  • we all zoomed around, and Cleo introduced herself
• ( simultaneously ) pass around email lists; indicate if you want to be on the 'slow' or the 'fast' list by checking off in the appropriate spot, or adding you info
  • this sorta worked, but everyone was pretty jazzed to be together. We did get a marked up piece of paper out of Finnigan's mouth while cleaning up, so I suspect we can move the arrows and runes about the two lists.
• CalFire Grants; overview and discussion by our guest from RCD, Cleopatra Tuday
  • this may take some time. There is a current grant we can participate in involving mass wood/scrub chipping. There is the question of pursuing a 2019 Grant and the ( wide ) range of activities we could propose.
    • There are are wide range of grant-supported activities we can apply for funds to pursue.
    • SMRCD will provide support ranging from grant polishing to cash flow in exchange for administrative overhead re-eubursement from the grants. ( net zero for Butano )
    • The canyon will need to decide what the heck we want to pursue
    • we need a quorum of NCs to represent the canyon, which we really didn't have at this meeting. ( this brings to head a number of structural issues )
    • vague notions of getting the NCs together specifically to form a direction for Grant Proposal work
    • If we keep plugging, Cleopatra suggests, we can hit the Sept/Oct deadline. we're not out of the running at this point.
  • after this part Cleo is welcome to split, or hang
    • a sensible woman, Cleo split
• BCERT focus question: Prep / Prevention balance. The group has to decide what fits its level of commitment.
  • this brought to light the quorum issue again
• Lessons from the slo-mo emergency in Wendy's Corner
  • Big trucks will move slowly
  • we need more signs / sandwich boards. Perhaps each NC should have one? we have to figure out how to write on them.
    • confusion: are there any in the Emergency hut? Answer: Casey checked Saturday: no
  • everyone thought it was great that Susanne put out some boards for traffic control. Suppose an ambulance had been called up Madrone? sheesh.
  • we all agreed that if the trees had fallen into Wendy's Palace of Wood that would be a fine basis for firing off the Siren to get community help

• Monday Night ham radio back up tests - how to listen and learn the voices of those who we'll be talking to in a real mess
  • we touched base on this quickly: if your radio has a BU UP D setting just listen in.
• Evac Drill planning workshop
  • Office of Emergency Services outreach person has agreed to help BCERT do a pre-plan planning meeting about running an evacuation drill. This would be in April, but the OES person hasn't gotten back to Casey WRT dates
• "House Pages" wiki workshop. Mar 9 afternoon. To bootstrap efforts to get neighborhood books / house pages moving forward. ( perhaps we should review if this is still a reasonable idea to create house pages, as it has so little uptake by teammates )
  • Still a reasonable idea.
  • some discussion circling around the Perfect being the Enemy of the Good. We don't need to have a neighborhood totally marked up on paper to start sharing the info via the wiki.
  • so far: Wendy, Catherine, ?William and Christine? ( Casey missed an email? ), GateDon
• Rebooting CalFire Mapping
  • LisaM coordinated somehow with AriTheFireman, and she and Casey and some collection of kids are getting trained in the procedures Saturday at 4pm