Morrow County Local Emergency Planning Committee
SAGE Center Theater, 101 Olson Road, Boardman, Oregon
January 21, 2014
Meeting Minutes
In attendance:
Boardman Foods: Cindy Burright
City of Boardman: Dave Winters
City of Hepner: Chad Doherty
Calbee North America: Brian Stoddard
Columbia River Community Health Services: Mindy Binder
Devin Oil: Steve Doherty
Morrow Cold Storage: Dave Marsing
Portland General Electric: Dan Turley
Port of Morrow: Kevin Gilbertson
NOAA Weather Service: Diana Hayden; Dennis Hull
River Point farms: Tom Rausch
Tillamook: Shelly Ward
Watts Brothers: Travis Hyder
State Fire Marshal Office: Terry Wolfe
10:00am ~ Call the meeting to Order:
A. Review and approve the November 21, 2013 meeting minutes:
Completed
B. Review any ‘Lessons Learned’, any information to share with committee members that could help others improve safety and/or communication within our group and/or the community.
No items reviewed.
C. Review LEPC Conference and Emergency Response Plan Template and determine a path to complete.
Note - Still in preparation by Dan and PGE, Bill has a copy of the County Plan and has forwarded it to Terry Wolfe to see if it can be adopted as the LEPC plan. It was found that this plan is not complete and cannot be used for the LEPC plan. There was extensive discussion on what it will take to complete the plan. We will contact the Umatilla LEPC to see if they or the Hermiston Fire Department have a ‘Hazardous Material Annex’ that can be used/incorporated into the plan. Will also check with Linn and Benton County LEPC to see if we can get information on their plan to help us. Per Terry, this may be a project for a person at one of the Fire Departments.
D. Regional HazMat Team Review from Last Meeting
Good feedback on the presentation, will try to do this every year or two.
E. Subcommittees Reports:
1. Information & Emergency Response – Travis Hyder
Review actions in the previous Minutes
Travis and Dave to work on a notification letter.
2. Training – Yvette Medelez & Mike Garrett
Brainstorm to identify a Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Grant application
Neither were present, no new information.
F. Old Business
o Annual Meeting Results from the Chamber of Commerce Luncheon on November 20th.
Bill did a good job getting everyone’s attention with his presentation
o Set Steve Myren training on interchange between business and local responders for future meeting.
Call Steve to see if he can give his presentation at the next meeting
o Draft letter for the facilities with hazardous chemicals that are not attending the meetings.
Travis and Dave to work on this.
o Other? None
G. New Business
o SAGE again has provided the meeting space at no cost to us but asked that we solicit donations for the center in lieu of the fee, so please consider this if your facility can provide a donation of any kind.
o Other? None