Wade Gayler, ARC Volunteer

IDAVOAD Meeting Minutes
Date: May 25, 2017
Location: Central District Health Department – Boise, ID

ATTENDEES

· Wade Gayler, ARC volunteer

· Alan Perry, SFM

· David Loewenstein, Cloverdale SDA

· Tiffany Neilson, Southern Baptist

· Aaron Blake, IOEM

· Mary Marsh, IOEM

· Levi Claussen, IDHW

· Cindy Poe, FEMA (Phone)

· Major Bob Lloyd, Salvation Army (Phone)

· Pat Kriley, ID Food Bank (Phone)

· Bob Showalter, Boise County

· John Roberts, Boise County

· Myla Jeffries, ACEM

· Crash Marusich, ACEM

· Chris Volmer, ARC

· Heidi Smith, 211 (Phone)

· Fred Bretsch, FEMA (Phone)

· Jerry Reiner, SILC

· Kim Monson, ARC

· Dave Tish, Church of the Nazarene

· Dave McCune, LDS Charities

· Jerry Royster, HUD

· Dan Gasiorowski, Episcopal Diocese of ID

· Jessica Gasiorowski, Episcopal Diocese of ID

· Zack Ward, CDHD

· Becky Platt, OR-ID United Methodist

MINUTES

Review and Approval of Meeting Minutes

Minutes approved with corrections. Reminder that agenda and meeting minutes are posted on the Idaho VOAD website.

Treasure’s Report

Dave McCune provided the treasurer’s report. There is a current total balance of $11,489.81, with the WUNCCIL balance being $4,234.55. Treasurer’s report accepted 100%.

Conference Planning Committee Formation

The IDVOAD conference will be held in McCall, ID from September 17-19th. Committee members include; Natalie Bodine, Marta Tanikuni, Mary Marsh, Dan Gasiorowski, Mike Riedy, Mike Bullard, Robin Cocking, Kelli Ferrar, Fred Tribble, and Ryan Bender.

Membership Committee Update

Jessica Gasiorowski provided the membership update. She has not received any new member or partner applications since last reported. She has also sent out welcome and invite letters to several organizations hoping to have them join IDAVOAD. If there are any questions regarding members, you can contact Jessica at (E) (P) 208-392-9934

Update on IDAVOAD Website

Levi Claussen provided an update on the continued improvements to the IDAVOAD website. All documents (agendas, meeting minutes, conference information, etc.) are always posted on the website. Volunteer Tracking Forms have also been posted on the site and are available to download.

Update on National VOAD Conference

Mary Marsh and Dan Gasiorowski attended the 2017 National VOAD Conference in Texas. Dan reported that the term COAD (Community Organizations Active in Disaster) is in use once again. He also reported that there was a lot of discussion about effective communication tools used during a disaster including social media; Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Mary reported that she attended a great workshop on Long-Term Recovery and recommended that we may want to bring this presentation to our Annual IDAVOAD conference this summer. Mary will reach out and see if this is a possibility and work with the conference planning committee.

Nomination Committee

With Wade Gayler’s resignation as Chair, Dan Gasiorowski is now the acting Chair. With this, there is an open position as Vice-Chair. A committee has been formed to gather nominations to fill the Vice-Chair position. The committee includes; Dave Tish (Lead), Tiffany Neilson, and Dave McCune.

Wade Gayler was nominated and accepted the new position as the Disaster Committee Chair.

Flood Response

Myla Jeffries and Crash Marusich from Ada County Emergency Management gave an update on the flood response activities happening in Ada County (and Canyon County). As of May 25th, the Boise River has been flowing above flood stage for ~103 days. Mitigation efforts include but are not limited to; placing ~600 feet of flood barriers to prevent a pit capture at the SunRoc gravel pit, closure of greenbelt sections, regular monitoring for debris and downed trees, sandbagging at multiple locations to protect property and shore up river banks (~72,000 sandbags have been issued in Ada County alone).

Throughout the response, many VOAD agencies have been involved and provided invaluable help filling multiple direct requests to fill needs!

Discussion continued with future possible response needs and how IDAVOAD agencies may be able to assist with post-flood clean-up.

REMINDER – If part of this response, please keep track of all volunteer hours, resources used, and services provided. Volunteer Tracking Forms are available on the IDAVOAD website.

Meeting/Event, Date, Locations

IDAVOAD Meeting - July 27 – Central District Health Department

IDAVOAD Conference – September 24th-26th – McCall, ID

*If your agency would like to host one of the above meetings, please let Natalie know. Thank you.