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Minutes
Town of Los Altos Hills
EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
September 02, 2014 @ 7:00 PM, City Council Chambers annex
Roll call (9 members + 3 others): P = present, E = excused, no mark = absent
Member Call Sign Attendance
Jim Abraham W6EB P
Dru Anderson KG6LAD P
Bob Anderson KC6ZWG P
Andy Fawcett KI6MAF
Jim Heintzelman KD6Y E
Edwin R Jones, EC W7WPO P
Andrew Kirk WB6CLS P
Duncan MacMillan, Chair KI6VMY P
Scott Overstreet N6NXI P
Bob Rowe, Vice Chair AF6LD P
Sam Wood K6MSR P
Others Present Call Sign Attendance
Bill Gibbons K6GH P
Kjuell Karlsson KD6BPP P
Gary Waldeck K6AIR P
1. As members were assembling, chair Duncan MacMillan KI6VMY quickly reviewed the
FHDA Board of Trustees meetings of August 25 that he, Mike Sanders LAHCFD and
CERT Barry Bruins attended. Duncan showed a few slides from the FHDA presentation
(attached), making it clear that, if their NDO (New District Office) building schedule
remains on track (Measure C funds), we will need to find a new ARK location by
December 14, 2015. About 1/3 of Lot 7 will reappear after construction but may not be
sufficient for CERT purposes. The ECC meeting was called to order at 7:03 pm by
Duncan, who took roll call as documented in the attached ICS 211A Check-in List. The
attached agenda, v2, was followed.
2. Review and approve past meeting minutes – Upon a motion by Bob Anderson KC6ZWG ,
duly seconded, version 1 of the August 05, 2014 minutes are unanimously approved, as
corrected for a typo.
3. Public comments from the floor – none received
4. Old Business
a. ECC charter(charges and duties) review – Duncan provided a PowerPoint
presentation (attached) showing what the ECC told the City Council it was working
on this year, what the current charter says and what items were suggested as
activities of interest to the members at the August 05 meeting.
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b. Select an administrative leader – Jim Abraham W6EB expressed an interest in
standing for co-chair with Scott Overstreet N6NXI and reviewed his concerns
about the general attitude of the Town toward hams (treatment of antenna
requests), the desire to reinstitute workshops and more ECC-centric drills, rebuild
"radios in a box" and clean up the radios in the HH. Jim suggested that the ECC
should not be "in the middle" of CERT communications with the EOC, es pecially
since they are on their way to having a digital radio link.
In his comments, Scott said he had not come to the same latter position stated by
Jim but that the CERT-ECC-EOC relationship certainly needed review. He also
advocated for actions to insure that ECC hams can truly operate effectively in the
field - batteries, car battery adapters, demonstrate that their HTs work in their car
of choice or install mobile radios.
Duncan was asked to stand for secretary but declined in favor of taking on th e
duties vacated by Ray Egan W6FQY and Bob Rowe AF6LD becoming associates
(activity records and Monday-night net management).
Ed Jones W7WPO indicated he was willing to stay on as EC.
Upon a motion from Bob Anderson, with a friendly amendment and duly se conded,
it was unanimously voted that Jim Abraham and Scott Overstreet shall be co-
chairs and Dru Anderson KG6LAD shall be secretary of the ECC until July 2015.
5. New Business:
a. Gary requested that Duncan provide a short presentation at the 9/11 City Council
meeting concerning issues of dwindling membership, lack of incentives fostering
ham development in Town, Town interest in continuing the ECC, and what they
want to see from the ECC.
b. Sam Wood K6MSR described the fact that he now has a 5.8 GHz digital radio link
from his residence to the Purissima Hills Water District office with WiFi at the
PHWD end. He provided the user name and password for those who would like to
check out the WiFi connection. Sam would like to expand this to possibly provide
a non-commercial (private), high-speed digital radio service between the ARK and
EOC (which would be different from the current CERT consideration of a 4.9 GHz
commercial offering from Skyline Broadband Communications). More next time.
6. Upcoming Events (https://www.scc-ares-races.org/activities/events.php) – Members were
asked to review the following:
a. Net Control - Type III, Part B training, 09/13, 0900, SV Public Safety HQ
b. Santa Clara Art & Wine Festival, 09/13-/14, 0800, Santa Clara Central Park
c. Fundamentals of Emergency Comms, 09/17, 1800, 777 S. Main St, Milpitas
d. Ham Cram, 09/20, 0800, TBD in Redwood City
e. EC Council Meeting, 10/09, 1900, Santa Clara EOC
f. Pacificon 2014, 10/10-10/12, Santa Clara Marriott, http://pacificon.org/
g. Net Control- Type II, 10/18, 0900, Quinlan Center Cupertino
h. Event Planning Table Top - Level 1 - Part A, 11/01, 0900, SV Public Safety HQ
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i. Intro to Emergency Comms - NIGHT CLASS, 11/12, 1800, 1000 Villa St., MV
j. Los Altos Festival of Lights Parade, 11/30, 1630, Downtown Los Altos
k. Annual Los Gatos Children's Holiday Parade, 12/06, 1000 Santa Cruz Ave., Los
Gatos
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 9:15 pm upon a motion by
Bob Anderson, duly seconded and unanimously approved.
Prepared and respectfully submitted by Duncan MacMillan KI6VMY
Attachments:
1. FHDA NDO presentation to BoT 140825
2. ICS-211A check in ECC meeting 140902
3. LAHECC agenda 140902 v2
4. LAHECC minutes 140805 v1
5. 2014 ECC charter review 140902 v1