 And Amy is the shelter manager for us. And Amy is at the town office? Yeah, at the town office. And she's taken that role. Mary, because she was a pastor, she was doing the secretary, but she had to resign that because she was working during that time period. She was doing paraeducator for her entry? Oh, maybe. What was it? Mary. But she's resigned. Mary who? I'm trying to remember her last name. Yeah, I don't know the para's out there. You probably sent her email up for her. Probably. Well, I'm saying Mary's not quite enough. Yeah. Oh, Mary. Oh, yeah, Mary, yeah, yeah. She was a one-minute show. She was a one-minute show. I mean, she started, I think, the first day of school and she's done now. Yeah. She was a second-in-law. Yeah. You know, that actually sounds familiar. Yeah. No, very much. And she's very... I don't know... I can't picture her. I know she was working there and is no longer. Yeah. But she was doing that. Yeah, we were just talking about the power outage, the March 2023 power outages. We're going to be down in White River Junction on the 6th for a meeting with other senior centers. Okay. So that ought to be interesting. Yeah. And just looking at it, you know, knowing that the line is allegedly under us. That's going to go out black if they do a major power outage because of the big power line thingies. Mm-hmm. But who knows if we'll get affected by that. Under us being south of us? South of us, yeah. Okay. But where do those lines go? Right. Because their south doesn't mean if they all flow south, it's not like water. Right. They may all go this way. Right. And I think Barry and another town above us are the distribution centers for goods, you know, during this ice storm. I hope a pie in Barry. Yeah, right. Well, that was written in March, so they weren't thinking about floods. So anyways, it's, you know, the responsibility of our town is minimal. You know, it's going to be, but we're going to have people that are banging on our door. Mm-hmm. Saying, hey, can you help us out? So, you know, during the floods, I didn't do any volunteering per se here, except for the emergency management aspect. I was volunteering in Barry. Mm-hmm. Because that's where they needed help. Right. Yeah. You know, nobody had big groups of people trying to dig out stuff here. Right. Yeah, for sure. You know, you have a tractor, so you want to open Joe's house. Right. Yeah. It was a big, massive people. Right. So, I guess, nobody else coming at this point. Scott might show up. I asked him, if he could, but he's sitting with somebody right now. Somebody with some little issues or whatever to go over some concern, but those people aren't here that we're concerned about. Yeah, there was the lady. Policing. Right. She was in a field that wanted to talk about transportation. Right. About if something happens, how are people going to get to the shelter? Right. Right. And that's a good subject to talk about. So, on that, we'll cover, well, let me back up to where I was. So, Scott was going to come and try to answer any concerns or whatnot about the aspect of you have somebody drunk on drugs. Fire on the premises. And my comment to that was, well, and I don't know if you've done this yet or had the okay to do it yet. On the school grounds, it clearly states you can't have it. Right. And the signs are up there. Yeah, the signs are up. You know, you can't be drinking, you can't be carrying guns, you can't be whatever. So that sort of, not that a sign is going to stop somebody, but it's there. Right. So it's a hair of protection. Well, the intention is clear. Right. You know. Right. There's not a gray. Yeah, and people that are drunk or stoned or tripping, they're not the folks that are going to be showing up to a shelter. Right. They're going to be doing their own little thing in their own little house or wherever they choose to do that. Yeah, that's right. With that habit. So they're probably not going to show up to a shelter. They're going to be with a firearm. That's distraught. That's a little iffy. And the fact is, you know, he has somebody working in a shelter. Why this should be two people. You know, we had vast, we had trying to get a hold of little cheaper radios that, you know, if somebody's over here, somebody's checking in on somebody on the front. The idea is, you know, you're checking somebody up front. And they say is Fred here. I can't tell you that. Yeah. Right. And, you know, the minute that you get a little heebie-jeebie about something, you know, that's where the police come in. Right. The Randolph Police Department during an incident is going to be fully operational. They're not going to be going home. Yeah. So there's going to be somebody within the area. Scott has no problem with dispatching or coming himself to an incident in Brookfield. Right. You know, he was clear with the town saying, I'm a police officer. If somebody needs help, I'm going to do what I can. Right. You know, that's the bottom line. And that's my understanding of his stance on anything like that. So, like, if somebody has a firearm, you could say, hey, you know, we don't allow that. It's posted on the door. But that's not allowed. Can you go secure that in your car? Right. You know, you just treat them like a person and you know they're just already coming into it. Yeah. Because they're walking into a shelter because their house is, they can't be in it for whatever reason. So, you know, compassion and all of that fun stuff takes, you know, the total toll of what needs to be done. Trying to think of all the things that we've covered since, now it's just a catch up, sort of. Volunteer duties of somebody is to be able to keep a situation calm and relaxed. And that's something that, you know, that might have been the first meeting that we did. That is the first meeting. So I'm not even going to say that. So keeping things, you know, chilled out. We talked about how to intake guests, people that need a shelter, is we're going to have a small table at the mouth of any shelter situation in Brookfield School. It will be where the benches are, where the fish tank is sitting, where the fish tank was. It's still there. So, you know, having that there and then bringing them into the gymnasium or multi-purpose room. VTC is, as you know, set up the same sort of style. I'm not sure where. Would you go to shape? Shape is one of them. The other is Judd. So Judd, you walk in. That's kind of an entryway. Yeah, it's an entryway. And that's where a table would sit and then people would be inside. You don't want to give any information to media or anything of that nature. Or, you know, if I walk in and say, hey, is this Joe here? No, can both of them help you? Yeah. You know, and the information, the forms that we're giving out that we're probably going to use, I gave Amy a metal binder closing book and I said that's basically your little vault. So you keep all the, if I come in and I'm looking for help, I'm going to fill out the paper. You're going to put that in that book, then metal box. And you're going to take that wherever you go. You're going to have that on your hand. Whoever's in charge of that incident, of that time period, is going to have that with you. And we don't give out any information to anybody. Obviously if Stay Troop or something shows up and says, I'm looking for Fred, is he here? Oh yeah. Give him up. My goal is to hand it over to the Red Cross as soon as possible kind of thing and relieve the townspeople. And obviously the townspeople are more than welcome to work with the Red Cross. Continue to help if they need it. Because you just never know what's going to transpire. Having snacks of water, coffee available. My goal is five to 20 people into your shelter of supplies. No, yeah for snacks, water, coffee. For up to 20 people. Having the ability to cook enough for 20 people to eat pasta or stew or whatever. On hand. So if we opened up right now, did you have dinner yet? Let's turn on the stove, cook up some pasta and have something. And later on have a snack or whatever. And the Red Cross within a few hours should be there kind of thing. They have more provisions. And if we need more provisions then reach out to Rebecca at the food shelf and have somebody grab up stuff. Bob, if we use the school building, Bob said he'll get somebody to bring supplies up to that building. And there are some supplies already there. I was going to say there's about a week's worth of food. Of food, yeah. So three kids. Yeah, trying to work with him to get that. I haven't talked to him for a while because I've been super busy and I'm sure he's super busy. So having snacks, coffee and that stuff available for people. Checking in with the Red Cross and their ETA so we've called them because we have too many people or we're at eight people and now we feel we need to bring in the Red Cross because we think the incident's going to bring us the issues that we need to address. So doing that for setup for any COTS we're going to try to use the COVID method of a shelter. The COTS being set up a certain way which I have a diagram and all that stuff and trying to encourage masks if that's available. I do have a small handful in the TOTES that I've accumulated different items. We're basically looking at the March 2023 tabletop exercise of ice storms wiping out 5 to 20 30 days of no power. So the resources that we can muster up and bring in kind of thing. You mentioned TOTES, where do those live? Those are sitting right now in the cooperative office space. Okay. So they would just be taking where they need to go. And as soon as we get this really up and rolling Amy's going to take possession of them. And there's first aid kit and one TOTES kit. There's Stop the Bleak kit. There's Narcan and then clipboards for writing down the information for the intaking of people. There's can of coffee and another one. Coffee maker sugar non-dairy powder stuff. And I'm solely building that stuff How about the TOTES and the blankets and pillows? The TOTES, that's all through the Red Cross. Because if we're going to do an overnight shelter, the Red Cross can get them within a few hours. Where's the Red Cross around here? There's trailers everywhere. But Barry I believe. But you basically have to figure you're going to be on your own for 72 hours. 42 to 72 hours. Hopefully that's even without that stuff even without TOTES anything out of a trailer or anything like that. They say they can get it quicker but I found that Wayne had ordered up 50 TOTES and that took 18 hours to bring over to VTC. I just found out that's now his new location at VTC. Yeah. And that was never on their plan. But I guess I'll have to get with the town of Randolph and figure out what to do with it because we've had that in our plan forever. It goes back. But there's enough room to house multiple towns and that's what we're looking at in any ways. When I'm looking at Brookfield, we're looking at the area catering to our school kids. Right. That kind of thing. Let's see. The information needs to flow through the group and Amy set up that tree and we're going to try to work more of how to communicate with each other during an instrument. So that's pretty much what you've missed. That kind of thing. We did talk about what does somebody do about a pet coming in. So at first you open up as an independent shelter and then your goal is to turn it over to the right cross. The right cross has the ability to do all that for pets. For a pet it's going to be a case by case kind of thing. It's not fair by any stretch of the imagination but if you've got a little lap dog that's going to stay in your lap or you have it in a carrier or you have it in a carrier and the folks that are being sheltered right now are okay with that but if you say, I can't get five feet close to a dog or I can't breathe you've got to secure the dog in the car. Because we're looking at the mass aspect of it. So it's going to be more of a case by case situation with pets. So now I think I've caught up. Yeah. It was going over what was the last meeting. Yeah, the last two meetings. Because you came to the second meeting? I missed the last one. You missed the last one. Yeah. One thing but we don't have enough people to really do it is setting up a scheduling aspect. What looks good for you kind of thing for being in a shelter situation. So if you two could flip that piece of paper over and just jot down what would work for you all if we're in a state of emergency are you going to be working in the school? At the time. Or are you going to take the day off? But what sort of is a comfortable thing saying I'm pretty darn sure now the bottom line is life happens. Things change. You can put I can do nine to five. Monday through Friday, not a problem. Things change. Crisis happens in your own house. In your family first. Exactly. I was going to say that we're not in crisis. If you're not in crisis and your boss says I don't care, take the day off and be voluntary. So way cool. If your boss says no, you've got to be here. We've got power in our facility. So what might work for you kind of thing? And looking at probably six hours would be enough kind of thing because it could be daunting. But we need two people at all times. It can't be a one man show. And what I've seen in the past for shelters around here is nothing's happening. What do you mean nothing is happening? So you two are volunteering. We're in crisis right now. We're doing two sitting here. Oh, as far as there's not a lot of ideas. You might have somebody call up and say are you open? But they don't go. Randolph had a couple of people one storm and they opened up the fire department and nobody showed up. But they said on Facebook or whatever hey yeah we need something. And they never showed up. So there's that. But it's nice to be ready for these things. If somebody does need the help. Kind of a thing. I see. Well I have a question. This Facebook thing that rural Vermont I work with seniors. They don't do Facebook. So I'm wondering how are they going to even know that you go to the fire department or you go to VTC. I'm concerned even with the people that are members here. How do you let them know? Well texting email or knocking on their door. People don't even answer their telephone. So Brookfield is working on a form sistering with 211 and duplicating that and saying okay so and using the community at large saying okay Rich let's say I live downtown Brookfield who do you know that is on oxygen? Who do you know that's at risk? You know some people within the three communities. So I would go to you and say let's say you're on oxygen. The town's put this 211 thing out and what we're doing is and we're going to photocopy that Kevin's going to have a copy of it and that information is going to go to 211 then we can reach out to you. Then one of our firefighters can come out to your house and see if you're alright see if you need anything or somebody with a shelter we're going to try to get out and check on you kind of thing. It's small town thinking but if it's looked at as a big deal it will work. Because if you're on oxygen and but you get a ride from Joan who knows somebody that she's talked about that's on oxygen. Well that you might say oh well there's Henrietta for the town of Brookfield and hopefully we can get this set up quickly and then transfer it over to the other town if they want to use that kind of thing. Was there an after action report after Henri for like people over there in Rochester that were isolated and they didn't even get to them? Yes there was and I don't have it but yes there was Choo River Oh they did do it? They have all that information. I hate to I mean I don't feel like I could help anybody right now. You know Right But I don't know how to ask them for this information Well they're going to be there and Next week Sydney is the person for this area and remind me because I would like to act like we're organized enough that if something happens Right and that's what we're trying to accomplish. It's not going to happen overnight but I'm pretty sure if next week a major incident happens I think we can handle it and we'll be like the militia so it won't be formed like the regular army but we'll be able to do something positive and it's better to work at doing something positive and then sit there and say I don't know what's happening and that doesn't help your community so that's pretty much where that lies in my thought process. So we have another meeting next week? No there's a so she can fill you in on that. I guess from two rivers and it's because I'm here at the senior center and and Thompson senior center are meeting with a whole group of people in White River I think it is next week and they asked me if I wanted to talk and I was like I don't know what I'm talking about so I sent them to him to Rich and so that's what I'm doing next week to go down and they're talking about Green Mount Powers there to talk about long term power outages and what would we do? So I'll have some idea and of course you will. There's a long list of people Yeah, very long list. So yeah so that's outside of the shelter but it does deal with But it's the same thing we have to deal with I know where I live I live at the town house is when the power goes out our heat goes out So I'm kind of thinking Within 24 hours you're going to be cold. So what do we do? So Scott said he was going to try to show up I don't think he's going to I know what he's up to He's died up Probably till midnight Let's see Well I don't know if you advertise this meeting tonight On front page forum like I have in the past Yeah, okay You know that I want to continue with putting that on front page forum but I want the people that have said that they'll volunteer to try to I wasn't planning to do this meeting Yeah, that's right I said because it's in the holidays and the folks that aren't here She wanted to learn She wanted to talk about transportation So She got us to be here Yeah But that is a thing though Which is fine So transportation is going to be within the local emergency management plan and the bus and companies are going to be the drive behind it to move massive people to go get people from a situation They're going to be on the phone with 2-1-1 or 9-1-1 So getting them here in the back of a cruiser might be a fine citizen saying oh yeah I can get you down there or on their own accord getting to a shelter that's open that they can go to But it's paying attention to what your neighbors are doing, what's happening around you kind of thing and just being talking about it not the doom and gloom aspect but hey working on this this warm and cooling shelter at one location and an overnight shelter for another location looking for volunteers and asking people hey come check it out this is what we're up to that's going to be the driving force behind it I would like to see 20 volunteers at least knowing that only 5 of them are going to be active because life happens people get busy You've got the bigger pools that you have I had a crazy day today I maybe wouldn't be here if I was just a person but I'm holding a meeting I have to be here so it's um things happen and I get it and I respect that kind of thing Did you get a chance to write any times that you think would work? For me it's any time Any time because you're here Well I'm at the school if there's an emergency the school is not going to be going on That would be much more That's what I think that was my original target was teachers Because What else are they going to be doing? They're going to be ongoing Yes Why not help out go to work anyways Well you get paid for it We have problems here But why not But I didn't get much response from the staff members that I have there because I have the old phone list I don't have an updated one How old? The one I left I know nobody left It's all different people It's a very different list Very different It's hard to turn on Yeah Cool I think the local people would see it in front porch forum Any of the teachers that are nearby would see that Maybe I have Lou put up a little bit more more information Does anybody have a contact with radio station because they know when there's The local one here Yeah Yeah I think I have this number in my phone right now But yeah Because that's what we go to To know Right away what's going on Yeah radio that's people doing Yeah The local radio station I think his name is Aaron He has Not a problem just send him a text And he'll put it out Or something And interrupt his broadcast However they interrupt their broadcast So that was That was pretty cool They were willing to do that His information I have so many books It's a feather Yeah so the Red Cross Have direct contact With the people For this area Kind of thing Like Lindsay is the Key person for The Randolph Brookfield Braintree Area VTC obviously E-mail And his personal information Waveriver Ambulance Matt And I don't think you were here So Matt the Waveriver Ambulance will stage An ambulance to Andy Shelter You know stage Instead of returning back to the Department Once a call comes out They'll come back When they're freed up The MRC Medical Response Corps I've got a strong contact With them with one of the head Volunteers Chandler obviously The food shelves Multiple Aaron yep with Obviously Elaine I have his Personal information But not many people have his personal House and cell phone To be able to reach out to him Green Mountain Power With Tina I have her information In fact I've text her And her email about sending me And they're busy still Because of the last power averages A more detailed map Of their customer base So I know Which towns are drawing off of them And when there's an hour to choose When there's an hour actually is affected So that's That's sort of a good thing to Get when I get it Another thing to keep in mind Elaine They have the automatic calling For Everyone in the district That's what I'm referring to So you can isolate One town or all towns Or whatever Just to let people know what's going on The school aspect The other thing I wanted to touch base With is to open up To say let's open a shelter The things that I'm looking at Is What is the temperature Right now What is the temperature going to be Six hours, 12 hours This last storm That we had some hour to choose A second year We had Braintree out some Brookfield out some We had Chelsea out some You know so Watching the numbers Through the Green Mountain site Of this many incidents These many customers affected In each town That goes down And then I On the weather station Track from 6 to 6 p.m. 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Or whatever they'll give me The temperature What it's supposed to be So watching the The temperature Watching what's happening Weather-wise What's happening How fast they're responding For time putting power back on All of these relationships And all of these things are happening Is what I'm looking at To say Okay guys it looks like We might want to think about opening And that might be That might be an 8 o'clock in the morning call Or you know sent out We're thinking about it We're teasing with it And then 10 o'clock rolls around Well it's looking pretty Out there Get ready And then at one saying Okay so we're going to drop it down a little bit Just be sort of kind of ready Or yeah let's do it Let's open up for 3 o'clock And let's get the word out And sort of keeping everybody In the loop And being transparent I don't care about Who shows up to a shelter I don't care what town they're from They're showing up to help Something that We're going to be going to on the 6th With the senior center stuff What I believe they're going to be talking about Is going to be the large scale Power outage That allegedly is south of us And they're looking at A couple of 5 days Or 30 days of power being out Kind of thing My huge concern is That Looking at the information that they gave to me Hey Looking at the information that I have Is That line right here Is the power outage line It's above us But you have Below us It's below us And if the power goes out For a long period of time Massachusetts is going to be out as well Where are these people going to go? They're going to flock northbound They're going to go to Berry, Berlin And so we're going to have Higher volume people on the road Higher volume people looking for Refuge Kind of thing And depends on where we are Can we help? And if It happen tomorrow We can't Because we don't have the resources yet But that's what we're going to get All of those resources You mentioned the robo calls Through the school system What about that Vermont alert? VT alert, yes VT alert Okay so VT alert Glenn is the contact person For VT alert and he is available To emergency manager directors And select board members So I can call The watch officer Any EMD can call the watch officer And they can On land lines Like I can call right now And say put a An alert out For blah As long as it's legit obviously And he or she Can hit all the land lines In the town of Brookfield And Wayne Warner can call And Put a call out for Randolph And all the land lines in Randolph Will get hit O'Tool can put them out for Brookfield I'm Brentry And all those land lines will be hit Or if they're already signed out For that That would give us a lot of scenes Even if they didn't pick up Well that's what I'm thinking now That was a question that somebody asked me About meals on wheels You know I've never really told anybody To sign up for this Yeah VT Alert Is easy to But it's easy if you have a computer Correct or a smartphone Yeah and Just a regular telephone A regular push button phone Well you're going to have somebody That's going to have to tell you Call this number so that you can sign up For these alerts Is that in the paper Probably not I've got brochures The state gives out free brochures There's some at the school I don't know if there's still are any Maybe on the bulletin board Maybe on the bulletin board As far as the Herald We have a credit Maybe we'll We'll look at using that credit If that's something that the select board will go for I'm sure they will The robo call for the school For Braintree Can reach 174 people For Brookfield is 146 people For Randolph it's 1208 people For those towns That call can go out That's the school call VTC VT Alert If you're already signed up like I am For pretty much every town Orange County So I get alerts all the time about Silly stuff That's interesting But if you're signed up for it Your email is going to get hit Your cell phone is going to get hit Your work phone is going to get hit If that's what you have signed up And we have been Encouraging people to do that In the emergency management world Period Where I was going is I'm terrible with computers April does a lot of the stuff For me Because I'm like, I don't know I was doing great With that Chrome I was finally getting that down I love that But if I can Go on there myself And do it I think a lot of the seniors could do it If they had Well somebody has to tell I'll try to get some brochures I'll try to get some brochures And Maybe that's the other thing We have to talk to At the meeting next week Is getting some of that That information If you can get me a brochure Then maybe we can Put something together The state gives them away By cases Exactly Yeah, so the VT Alert stuff is the best way I'm actually signed up for the whole state Oh wow Lots of Leave it or not I've noticed though There's a lot of accidents on route 90 A lot of accidents In Windsor County So that's Pretty much where we are 15 minutes and then we're at the hour mark I bet we have to fill that So I have some bad news Oh don't tell the bad news Today's been a hard day Yeah I know White River said they can't afford To Do a decrease Or a freebie Now on the flip side of that Which I haven't reached out to them yet Kinney Pike Insurance Has They're teaching people Up to a certain amount Well you have to have Kinney Pike Insurance Contractors Insurance So I got the person's name So I'm going to reach out to them And say hey Could you So that's my next step So at minimum Sally Sent me this And she said that These are heart savers So there's a CPR AED And a CPR AED first aid But To get the hands on You have to Have She said maybe she could get somebody to volunteer To do it I'm also going to call I didn't have time today It's been so crazy I'm getting ready for an audit I'm going to talk to Northfield As well Oh yeah I was trying to remember exactly what I said So who did the actual testing? That was through the Sheriff's Department And I forget the person's name That did the class You know There was just the class locally In Williamstown And I asked If They would let us know About it And they did The other thing is They know They have somebody come in Once or twice a year So everybody is up to date And they could tell you The last time I went Which was last year He was fabulous So I know he's done it A number of times A lot of times they If you can reach out Can you give her that information? A lot of times they have Many people that they want In the class So that could be a problem too But let me Stephanie Oh, White River Does Yeah, so that would be cool That could happen At least for a handful of people That would take it Does Randolph Offer the town employees Anything? Highway Really? I was blown away with the city of Lebanon Lebanon Demands even for the DPW To do ICS 100, 200 and 300 CPR Any one of those People digging the ditch Or in the office Can be incident commanders They have the training Which is That's New Hampshire It's good to have ICS at least 100 Incident What does that mean? It's How to set up everything That needs to be set up During large incidents And how you speak over Radio Curious if they got that through their insurance If their insurance was like Saved in it to do it The state of Vermont does it for free You could take the classes Then I will It's available But they don't offer them Like every month or whatever You have to go do it And some of it was remote at one point So I have another thing The state of Vermont Has decided that Anybody who has received A laptop to believe kit Must be trained So I got an email today About Setting something up At least 7 people I'll retake it But the thing is Does somebody have a projector Because they want a projector I've got access to projector I could bring my laptop That's So we just have to decide When we want to do it Let's look at that after the first of the year Yes I said earlier I was in interest in doing a meeting today And then we were encouraged By somebody that's not here to have a meeting Because it's during the holidays And I know bad stuff can happen But everybody is busy Doing stuff Like I said in the past You And to stretch yourself out over This And I just left work Right I threw everything in my file cabinet In my secure file cabinet I said I'll deal with it tomorrow Right So I don't have really Anything More to say Scott was possibly going to show up He's busy It's a win It all happened to have The phone over there Yeah I did His personal and police number Somebody would like to talk to him Okay so they need to call I would like the office If you have the office number Yeah No I wouldn't Did you write down What you think you could volunteer for? Yeah So long as I have My assistant or someone at the office If it's work hours Otherwise then I live in hospital Oh yeah Thank you for coming I think the only solid Randolphian Well myself I will continue Awesome See you Alright I think that concludes Yeah