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Disaster Council Meeting Highlights of January 27, 2012
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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO
SAN LEANDRO DISASTER COUNCIL
Friday, January 27, 2012
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
San Leandro Senior Community Center
13090 East 14th Street
San Leandro, California
HIGHLIGHTS
Committee Members: Vice Mayor Michael Gregory; SLzUSD Board Member Isabel Polvorosa; Marla Blagg, Christy DeMaria, ACFD; Cary Neaback, Alameda County OES/OHS; Ali Cannon, SLUSD; Karen Langmaid, Dan Bates, SLzUSD; Lars Eric Holm, CARD; Aaron Rezendez, PG&E; Terry Garrison, Alameda County Schools
City staff present: Jacqui Diaz, Interim Assistant City Manager; Luke Sims, Community Development Director Kathy Ornelas, Community Relations Representative
Public present: Mitch Huitema; Jason Sweeney, Daily Review
The meeting was called to order at 8:35 a.m.
1. Self Introductions
Members of the Disaster Council introduced themselves and the agencies they represent.
2. Sub-committee Report on Discussion Regarding Establishing Emergency Shelters at School Sites
Kathy Ornelas reported that the sub-committee of City staff, representatives of both School Districts and the Red Cross continues to meet to discuss the process of opening an emergency shelter at a school site. The City and school districts have been reviewing the MOU requested by the Red Cross for use of facilities as shelters, and have been updating building surveys of the sites that potentially could be used as shelters.
Terry Garrison, who is staff to the Alameda County Office of Education and is tasked with helping all schools in the county maintain emergency plans and readiness, has agreed to present a table top exercise in the coming months for the City, schools and the Red Cross to give a practical understanding of how a shelter will be established at a school. She would like to include neighboring school districts, charter and private schools in the exercise to get as many trained as possible, and to establish relationships between the...
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