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Minutes
Town of Los Altos Hills
EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
Monday, April 21, 2008 @ 7:00 PM, Council Chambers
Roll call:
Member Call Sign Attended Absent
Jim Abraham W6EB P
Dru Anderson KG6LAD P
Bob Anderson KC6ZWG P
Ray Egan W6FQY P
Charlie Ellinger KI6JPM P
Rick Ellinger, EC, Chairman KJ6NU P
Andy Fawcett KI6MAf P
David Gilmour WQ1K E
Bob Hall KF6DHX E
Edwin R Jones, Secretary W7WPO P
Andrew Kirk WB6CLS P
Lynn McLeod KG6YIT P
Scott Overstreet N6NXI P
David Pratt K6LWT E
Miles Seiver KI6LDU P
Terry Smith K7YNO E
"Smitty" Smithwick W6CS P
Maynard Stevenson W7MVT P
Jerry Tomanek KI6BYL P
Gary Waldeck K6AIR P
Al Whaley N6RPR P
Sam Wood K6MSR P
Associate Members Call Sign
Peter Berman K6PJB
Bob Lisbonne KG6HOD
Ed Radlo AJ6V
Bob Fenwick K6GX
Other Hams present
Council Liaison
Jean Mordo Ki6AXE
1) Welcome to new member Andy Fawcett..
2) Feburary minutes were approved.
Moved Jim Abraham
Second Bob Anderson
3) Rick Ellinger and Miles Seiver attended the latest county training session. Rick passed
out and discussed copies of the new forms. The county plan is to convert totally to packet
over the next year and half to two years. He then passed out copies of the new Santa
Clara County Emergency Operations Plan and strongly recommended that all members
read and understand the plan. He then discussed the difference between types 3 and
type 5 incidents.
4) Five members of the committee participated in the county drill (.Ray Egan, Miles Seiver,
Al Whaley, Charlie Ellinger, Rick Ellinger). Since drill incidents are fictitious to avoid
onlookers thinking there is a real emergency, the incident was an attack by a giant
gopher which required both animal control and the National Guard.
5) Al Whaley gave the county report. At the recent county drill a new untrained crew was
substituted for the usual group at county. This gave additional people training in county
operations with some loss of efficiency in operations. The next northern California drill will
be called Silver Sentinel.
6} Dru Anderson reported on the status of CERTS training. Miles Seiver is attending the
current class and a plan is being developed for quarterly refresher training for current
CERTS members.
6) The next ECC meeting will be on Tuesday, May 20th at the Foothill Collage Fire Station
for a meeting with the Fire Battalion Chief
7) Dru Anderson discussed the new emergency equipment trailer located at the fire station.
Amoung other supplies the trailer will contain GMRS radios for used by volunteers. Many
aspects of the trailer and it use are still in the planning stage and the following members
of the committee volunteered to assist general planning (Dru Anderson,. Bob Anderson,
and "Smitty" Smithwick), radio equipment (Andrew Kirk, Scott Overstreet, Sam Wood).
9) Miles Seiver and Scott Overstreet did the 8:00 PM SPECS net check in for those
attending the meeting.
10) The new ECC manual was discussed. The plan is approximately 50 pages plus 20 pages
of sample forms. Dru Anderson, Al Whaley, Gary Waldeck, and Lynn McLeod are
working on the manual.
7) Meeting adjourned at 7:55 PM
Moved Bob Anderson
Second Maynard Stevenson
Respectfully submitted,
Edwin Jones
LAHECC Secretary