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Home My WebLink AboutJuly 10LAHECC_FINAL_Minutes_20180710.docx 1 Emergency Communications Committee Minutes Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 7:00 pm LAH Town Hall Council Chambers: 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Members Call Sign Attendance Dru Anderson, Co-Chair KG6LAD P Bob Anderson KC6ZWG E Eduardo Arias KM6LSX P Jim Heintzelman KD6Y A Ben H. L. Hu, Secretary KK6HH P Edwin R Jones W7WPO P Terry Kearney KM6LTQ P Andrew Kirk WB6CLS P Scott Overstreet, Co-Chair N6NXI P Sam Wood K6MSR P Council/Staff --- Gary Waldeck, Council Liaison K6AIR P Associate Members --- Larry Carr KE6AGJ P Neil Katin – EC K2LL P Bill Gibbons K6GH P Craig Miller WA6OXK P Kjell Karlsson KD6BPP P CERT Mauri Okamoto-Kearney KM6LXC P 1.Roll Call: Co-chair Dru KG6LAD called the meeting to order @ 1904 hours and Ben KK6HH took the roll call. Attendance (15): 8 members, Council Liaison Gary Waldeck K6AIR, 5 associates and 1 CERT’s. Dru and Scott welcomed two new members, Eduardo KM6LSX and Terry KM6LTQ to the ECC. A round of introduction was made to ensure everyone was acquainted. 2.Minutes approved: Ed W7WPO’s moved to approve both the April and June 2018 ECC minutes, with seconds by Andy WB6CLS and Scott N6NXI. The motion to accept the minutes was approved by the ECC members present, with one abstention from Ben KK6HH who abstained due to his absence from those meetings. Dru will submit the approved FINAL minutes to the city clerk for posting on the town website. LAHECC_FINAL_Minutes_20180710.docx 2 3.Public comments from the floor: a.Larry KE6AGJ commented: i.The evening Recon radio exercise he ran was well received. He intends to do more in the future. In addition, at a suggestion by others, he will give notice to the exercise not only to Recon team but also to all members of ECC. Neil will forward him the email distribution list. ii.Larry noted he would like to enable non-ham CERT members to listen in to the radio exercises so that they could actually get notified on the actual earthquake or fire alerts. To that end, he would like to place ham radios to those CERT members but with radios programmed to listen only. Neil volunteered to put together for the August meeting a budget proposal on the brand and cost of these radios together with antenna, Mag mounts and extra batteries. iii.Larry said he would set a date for his next exercise event later. b.Co-chairs Dru and Scott’s presentation to Council on June 21 on the annual ECC committee report was well received by Council, they reported. Dru had forwarded the presentation to all ECC members and associates. 4.ECC Activities and related a.Council Member/Liaison Gary K6AIR had no report. b.Neil K2LL, EC, reminded all about the email that he sent out regarding the training courses offered by ARES/RACES at the County facility. c.Scott N6NXI reported that repairs were completed on the eight ICOM 2720 microphones had been received back from the repair vendor. 5.Old Businesses a.Update on ARDEN: deferred to August meeting as David WQ1K was absent. 6.New Business: a.Nomination and Election of 2018/19 ECC Chairs: Dru informed the group that the annual election of officers, required by the town, was nigh at this meeting. First, Terry KM6LTQ nominated Eduardo KM6LSX and Ben KK6HH for the co-chairs, seconded by Ed W7WPO and Dru KG6LAD. Then, Ben nominated Eduardo KM6LSX and Dru KG6LAD for the co-chair and seconded by Terry. Ben reasoned that the combination provided continuity from the past experience, and new member contribution. Dru chose to abstain, but the remaining members voted in favor of Eduardo and Dru being co-chairs for the next year. Dru thanked outgoing co-chair Scott N6NXI for his leadership and contribution to the ECC from founding to current, and Scott volunteered to assist the chairs in any way he could. LAHECC_FINAL_Minutes_20180710.docx 3 b.Ben received confirmation to continue as ECC secretary, and welcomed the offer of support from Mauri KM6LXC, who is willing to be the alternate, when need arises. In addition, Mauri volunteered to take over ECC inventory duty from Duncan KI6VMY. Ben was thanked by the group for his past Secretary service and willingness to continue; and the group expressed appreciation to Mauri for her offer to take on the inventory and assist with the secretarial duties. Dru encouraged Mauri to consider applying for membership on the ECC committee. 7.Tech Talk a.Packet Focus by Neil K2LL: Neil gave a very informative discussion on packet, and his presentation can be found at the following link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qi1Y3D0WzbYItg8CB8wzYcVvY59 W6FugncrzndotPQg/edit#slide=id.p 8.Reminders: Please check online schedules for activities in the following: a.LAH town events: http://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/calendar.aspx . b.2018 County ARES/RACES courses & events: http://www.scc-ares-races.org/aresraces.htm c.CERT activities: http://www.lahcfd.org/community-programs/public-classes d.EMERGENCY ALERTS: i.LAH: http://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/381/EMERGENCY-ALERTS ii.AlertSCC: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/alertscc/Pages/home.aspx e.ECC QRG (Quick Reference Guide): https://goo.gl/h93sye f.SPECS organization: 2018 activities, links to ham training, www.specsnet.org 9.Adjourn. At 20:21, Ed W7WPO moved to adjourn, it was duly seconded, and was unanimously approved. Respectfully submitted: Ben Hu KK6HH, Secretary