CoWARN Steering Committee Meeting

June 19, 2014 – Colorado Springs

Attendees

Lois Rellergert, David Dani, Lisa Barbato, Steven Kuhr, Bobby Oligo

Items Requiring Follow-Up

1.  Lisa will use consolidated list of comments to draft updated MAA and send it out to the Steering Committee for feedback.

2.  Becky will put together a pros and cons list for using WebEOC and send it out to the Steering Committee to review. The Steering Committee will then vote on whether to integrate CoWARN activations into WebEOC.

3.  Bobby will work on a short after action report with lessons learned for the St. Mary’s Glacier incident.

4.  David will talk with CRWA and the CDPHE coaches to promote CoWARN when working with utilities in the Southeast region.

Detailed Minutes by Topic

1.  The Steering Committee will wait until the July 17th meeting to approve the May 15th meeting minutes.

2.  2014 Project Plan Goals and Objectives Discussed

a.  Strengthen the Steering Committee

i.  The Steering Committee discussed the ability to have CoWARN regional representation from the 9 all-hazards regions. Due to lack of membership in some of the regions, there may be one person representing 2 regions. The Southeast region currently does not have any utility members. David will talk with CRWA and the CDPHE coaches to promote CoWARN in the Southeast region.

b.  Strengthen relationships with CoWARN response partners

i.  The Steering Committee further discussed integrating CoWARN with WebEOC. There are still questions on exactly how a CoWARN page on the WebEOC would work as far as access, notifications, potential costs, and resource control. The Steering Committee will vote on whether to use WebEOC for tracking CoWARN activations after seeing a pros and cons list from Becky.

ii.  The Steering Committee talked about resource control during larger emergencies and county involvement.

c.  Update MAA then encourage CoWARN associate representative utilities to sign

i.  Lisa is heading this effort and consolidated MAA comments received from utilities. Many of the comments have to do with liability issues and many other states have faced similar problems with their MAA language on the topic. She will draft a modified MAA and send it to the Steering Committee for feedback.

ii.  In Accordance with the MAA, after the Steering Committee agrees on the MAA modifications, they will send it to all CoWARN members for a majority vote. If there is a majority approval, the Steering Committee will notify all CoWARN members and the modified MAA will take effect 60 days later.

d.  Schedule future CoWARN training events throughout the state

i.  The Steering Committee talked about doing another CoWARN training event, possibly in the fall.

ii.  Colorado Springs Utilities has done crisis training and CDPHE helped Aspen with a table top exercise in June.

e.  CoWARN website improvements

i.  The Steering Committee is waiting on improving the website until it becomes clear on how CoWARN will integrate with WebEOC for tracking resources.

3.  Recent activations

a.  There have been no new CoWARN activations.

b.  Bobby will work on a lessons learned report for Aurora’s help with St. Mary’s Glacier.

4.  Other updates and business

a.  Colorado Springs Utilities is exploring different software options to help with emergency response.

b.  The next CoWARN meeting is on July 17, 2014.