Executive Board Meeting

January 4, 2007

Fire Station #1400

In Attendance –

President George Vaughan

Treasurer Gisela Schneider

Auditor Brayden Criswell

Chaplain Pauline Morrison

Secretary Joan Roening

PIO Don Martin

George called the meeting to order at 5:00 P.M. – The minutes from the December 7, meeting were approved.

Treasurer’s report – Money from the grant will be less than expected. $4,000 - $5,000. It can be used for radios, masks and other approved equipment.

We voted to approve Don Martin as the 7^th Board Member and our Public Relations Liaison – Alex Smyth will serve as his assistant.

A motion was made seconded and approved to add George Vaughan and Willa Suiter as instructors.

George purchased a P.O. Box for our organization it is Box #852

Dave Clark and George met with the Lincoln City Police Chief. He is impressed with the CERT program and requested one of our members to be in the Command Center during an emergency/event.

George will be meeting with Lincoln City Public Works.

Emergency Management Database update – All beach, lake and river accesses as well as helipads and hard hovers are entered. We discussed the need to know location of water lines, gas lines, telephone lines, etc.

The Lincoln City EOC (Emergency Operation Command) is now showing interest in CERT. George and Mike Mulligan are scheduled to meet with them on February 7, 2007.

George has been talking to local groups to join CERT.

Taft High is now trying to get SERT (Student Emergency Response Team) during its next term. This will be the first in the state.

Future training will include reviewing what we learned in our classes.

Meeting Adjourned at 5:55 P.M.

Respectfully Submitted,

Joan

Joan Roening

Secretary