 We can go ahead and get started. So the thought process is a name. What do we want to call the group itself? Tritown says all three. The select board would like Brookfield to open up the door for other people. That was the original conversation probably a year ago and not exclude towns. So it doesn't really matter where you're from. This is approached by the Orange County Sheriff's Department of Emergency Management in the beginning. So that sort of opens up the door for a lot of towns. Not that those towns would further away utilize this. But I've been working with Jim Wheatley, EMD for Emergency Management Director, EMD for Lebanon. And we have the OK, if we get wiped out up here, they have a shelter open that we can send volunteers down there and our people down there. So I'm just trying to put enough distance between the towns because when something happens, it usually like the last storms that we have gotten. If you watch the Green Mountain Power Map, that was Springfield. Springfield was getting decimated. And we were fine up here. So to keep your resources in town close by and having other resources to use further away is the best course of action. So that's what I've been working on trying to do and it's been good. So I think the Tritown is a good beginning name. Tritown Shelter Group and the parent is Brookfield Emergency Management Shelter Group. And we can just run it that way and mainly introduce it as the Tritown aspect. I believe talking to Scott months ago when he was opening up the Randolph Police Department as they get funding for that. Hey guys, as they get funding for the village going outside of the village, policing that, they would like to, from my understanding, take care of the two other towns, meaning the Tritown. So thinking larger scope will use the bigger name and run that way. How does people feel about that? That sounds like a good idea. We can change the name at any time because it's not a corporation. It's not a problem. So if you think that's a good idea to run that way right now, throw your hand up. What's the whole name Tritown? Tritown Emergency, Tritown Shelter Group. No. The parent is Brookfield Emergency Management Shelter Group. No, I'll shut up and take notes and you'll correct me later. Not a problem. I just want to say I think emergency would be great to leave in there because there's another group that's looking at opening a shelter for just like regular shelter. Oh, like long term shelter. Like you can stay there every night kind of thing. Yeah, I call that a long term. OK. And so it might be better to add emergency. Thank you for throwing that because that's important. So I think whatever allows it to be easy to remember because if you're in an emergency, you don't want to have to come up with a complicated name to say, call the hubba-dubba-dubba-dubba-dubba. Well, we can bring it into an acronym. There's so many of those. I know. As time goes forward and as we grow and as we get to know each other and as we work together, it's going to flow out just like any other business aspect name. I still don't even have the Julie, Julie's group, RDC. Oh, yeah, no. Yeah, see, I don't even have that. No, and then the RU8. I don't even know what it's called. They say, yeah, the thing Julie is. Everybody knows what I'm talking about. So it's OK to have a long name. Yeah. And then we can put it into an acronym and just run it that way. And we're a collective group of three towns working together and using different facilities. I agree with the emergency thing, too. OK. Yeah, I like it, too, but I was thinking it was too long. Yeah, well, yeah. But you're right, we've got to define what we are, kind of thing. So everybody OK with that? Yeah, that's great. Cool. Well, that takes care of that. That part. So we're going to go over tonight. We're going to do a sort of a mock take-in. I ask people to come up with something reasonable for what's happening in their little sphere and why they're stepping into a shelter. And during a shelter situation, whether it's a warming cooling shelter, if it's warming cooling, you want to have snacks and you want to have water and coffee, possibly. And I have the coffee maker. I have 24 bottles of water sitting. I want to get food. I want to get the snacks all sitting. And somebody has to take control of that. And I don't know if you can do that at your house. So Amy's the the the. No, I was waving to my husband. I didn't agree. Well, it's really easy is the shelter manager. And that's just basically the person keeping track of the stuff that we have and keeping track of the people and just making sure that things are running smoothly. Ann, you're really good with the communication stuff. Would you want to be a communications person, building the tree? Sure. And so what we'll do is as things go forward, the state says, OK, we're in a state of emergency. We have this ice storm coming in. We'll evaluate with the select boards of should we stay dormant? Should we just stay aware? And if we're going to stay aware and possibly open a shelter of some sort, then I'll let Amy know. If I can't get a hold of Amy, then I'm going to call you. And we're going to just use a chain. And then you can send out a blast. Hey, it looks like we're going to be opening. We need people to show up. Who would you? My friend Rich likes to use. Ann. Ann. Ann. Ann. Ann. A-N-N. Got it. So we'll do that. And we'll start refining that a little bit more and see how that all transpires and see if that works. Now, everybody's sitting here today, excluding Kevin, because I said I don't want him in a shelter, volunteering. He's the fire department for Brookfield. He's vital to the shelter and the different things that are happening him and his guys. And having a firefighter in a shelter, he or she or whoever is going to be running around doing their job as we're staying warm somewhere and trying to help people. So he would be directing people to us as he runs into situations if we are indeed open. But like I said, Kevin and the guys over there are vital to a successful shelter. So I have a question about snacks. Yeah. Obviously, they usually have an expiration date. Yes. So what I want to do is try to get stuff donated to us. And I'm going to be working on that very, very soon here. Get it donated. It will sit on a shelf in one of the bigger totes. And when it becomes out of date, I would use a Sharpie on it saying what date it becomes out of date, keep an idea of what you have in there. And when it goes out of date, then bring it down to the town hall. And whoever walks in, hey, you want a candy bar? And just get rid of it and we'll replenish it. I would say 30 days before the expiration, we need to replenish it and get rid of the old stuff. So anyway, so everybody here sitting, everybody willing to volunteer in a shelter how it's going to work is when a state of emergency arises, we'll keep an eye on it. Then we'll put a call out saying, hey, can you volunteer? If you already said you can. But there's issues in your own life. You can say I can't. And that's fine. But I want numbers. I want a lot of people that say they can because you always get the people that can't. And you're going to need shifts. Right. And if it's a warming cooling shelter, then that's going to be certain hours of the day. If it's going to be a sleep in, that's going to be an overnight kind of thing. It's usually nobody ever shows up, but you never know. You need two people on board pretty much at all times. I want to get a couple of decks of cards. I want to get a couple of simple board games to throw in the box. So the volunteers, hopefully, will be just playing cards. If they're not, then of course, you hand that stuff over to the people that are being sheltered to have something to do. It's going to be relatively simple. The most of the shelters that I've seen open are sparse and people that go to them. The one in Barrie, during the flooding, they were set up. I can't remember how many cots, but they added the auditorium filled with cots. And there was a bunch not being used. It was just a small handful of people, maybe 15 people, that were there. And they were geared for, I think, about 100 people. So yeah, that's what I saw. They wouldn't give me numbers. I was really not supposed to go in kind of thing. But I talked to the guy and somebody that I know with the red cross said, yeah, he's fine. And just come look and go. No pictures, no anything like that, because it's not cool. And it definitely is not cool. But still, that's the next experience. Yeah, it was an eye-opener. That whole thing, giving out food, giving out water, giving out clean-out kits, giving all this stuff out to people, it was definitely like, oh my goodness, this is a huge kind of thing. So yeah, the food and water, having snacks, having some games for people to play with, inexpensive stuff, because things are going to get lost, and then we'll have to get rid of it. Getting Cots, I was corrected by at the seminar. I was corrected that it's two hours to get Cots delivered. It took 18 for Randolph to get the Cots. But they had a pull, because it was such a huge incident. They had a poem from Southern New Hampshire. So it was a track for them. They had to look around to get them. Can I talk? Yep. Everybody, this is my husband, Jack. He raised his hand. I don't want to get involved with Jay, but as an outsider listening to you, please don't turn it on. Yeah, he's a camera shy. Yeah, I'll break it. I swear I won't. You mentioned, like, with Kevin there, that the fire department will be doing everything. Have you given any thought to emergency services in case somebody all of a sudden has a heart attack because of the stress they're under? You should think about it. On site? Yeah. On site? OK, so that's something that was talked. Thank you for bringing that up. I think you should have, if nothing else, you should get whoever's going to be involved in your group. You might want to get them trained at least in CPR. Yeah, we've talked about it, and thank you for bringing that up so we can revisit it. So I do want people to get CPR training. I'm trying to contact and find the right person with the state emergency management to get it for free because it's a costly thing. I'm certified in the whole CPR and Stop the Believe, which is two different things. And I think everybody should if they can. We have Matt Parish with the ambulance service that has agreed to stage an ambulance at any location that we open. And what that means is that ambulance will be here and it will be dispatched from this location. So if they need to leave, they're going to leave. But they'll return back to this location or the other location. They won't return back to their headquarters unless they have to restock their items. But we're definitely on board with having all of that available. Sounds great. Yeah. Matt is White River Ambulance. Just talking about it. Yeah, OK. So that's already addressed and where we have that relationship and that OK White River. And you don't do it training for us? I'm going to hit him up. I already hit him up for a first aid kit already. I got Narcan from him, which I didn't think of. Maybe I should because I'm on the board. Go for it. OK. But I think he'd be willing to do something. OK. And I'll also look out to the state as well to see if they can fund some of it or whatnot. Because the state folks, they get recertified every year. And why can't we be part of it? Yeah, we're working with the state. We're helping the state. But at least to get going maybe, I can convince them. How are you keeping track of your inventory? It's going to be very easy and written. And we don't want a bunch of inventory because inventory has to be stored. And we don't have that place. The goal is, as was discussed before, is open up a shelter. If it's overnight shelter, turn it over to the Red Cross ASAP. OK. Well, no, because my mind was just playing with databases. What we could do to make it simple and easy just so we can keep track of what's going on. Right now, I think keeping track on a piece of paper and taking a picture of it and texting it to everybody is probably the easiest right now. As we move forward, yes, that's a great idea. You have a librarian in your midst now who wants to know where things are. Which is good. So that's what we're looking at. I'm also a database person. I'm also a database person. So the cuts and whatnot can be delivered within a couple of hours. And we just got to make sure that we get the location certified with the Red Cross as a Red Cross shelter approved. And there should be zero problems with this location and any other location. Because they're all public buildings to the system. But you've got ADA doors and all that other stuff. So that's something I'd like to work on. Sometime soon. Like I said in the past, I've been working on this since January, February. And finally, this is the third meeting. So it takes time to build stuff. And it's a part-time thing. I'm going to use the word hobby. It's a hobby. And you only have so much time to knit. You only have so much time to do X, Y, Z. So it's taken a few minutes. I've heard the winter forecast is to be above normal in temperature. I don't know about preset if I haven't seen anything like that. But to me, what that means is we have the potential for more ice. Correct. And that's what the March tabletop of this year that they were doing is basically a wipeout of electric for five to 20 days or something of that nature from just lower than us, but will affect us, southbound Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. So knowing that that's in the midst, it's good to be prepared. And most of us will stay home. I got to generate our home. I'm good. The power goes out. Boom, it's going. I'm watching TV. And everybody's in the dark. But that's a lot of people in Vermont, New Hampshire. But there's a lot of people that don't have that. So we want to be able to help them. So that sort of closes that aspect out of what I have to say. We can have a Q&A in a few minutes here. But what we're going to do is basically an intake. So we're going to have, if you don't mind, there's a vest right over by the door there. OK. If you want to put that on. Sure. Is the official vest. It's what I can get a hold of. It's not what I want. Yeah, this one, I'm going to jump over here. It's right over. On your inside? You're the inside person. You know, I have one question just thinking about this. Yes. It seems calm. We're here talking calmly. And I imagine that when you're in a shelter, it's not calm because somebody just left two of their dogs in the house. And they can't call their grandson because their phone doesn't work. It sounds like it would be kind of stressful. Yeah, stressful. It's going to be stressful. People are going to be upset. And as what I talked about during probably the first meeting is that we need to stay calm and be positive. The requirements for a volunteer person is a clean background, the ability to de-escalate problems, a calm attitude. And that's one of those things that when you step into the role, you've got to put your problems aside and just look at that individual. And that's why I ask people to think of different issues that they might be having. Yes. I had experience of being one of the directors for the North Springfield Warming Shelter. And one of the things I found there is that the volunteers were open and welcoming to anybody that came through the door, no matter how difficult it might have been. And it was something that just seemed inherent in them rather than it being all befuddled. But again, it was training, being in these sorts of meetings to make you aware of what you might encounter. And that was a big help. You mentioned something about when animal, like if somebody does bring an animal. Yeah, as a private shelter, we have the right to refuse. Once it gets turned over to the Red Cross, they take animals. There's an organization out there that can bring in crates, bring in a trailer, and all that other stuff that needs to be done with pets. So then we just tell the person they can't? We're going to have to do case by case. It's going to have to be respectful to the people here that's being sheltered and respectful to the person coming in and find a happy medium. And it might come in that you have somebody in a shelter that says, I'm allergic to cats. Five feet, I'm going to start sneezing. I'm sorry, Ann, you can't bring your cat in. Can we secure it in your car? Can we, you know, we've got to figure something out. And Ann and I will work together and try to figure out a solution as of me being a volunteer in the shelter. And once the Red Cross takes over, then they're good to go. So the requirements for a volunteer, once again, was a clean background check. The ability to de-escalate situations, a calm attitude, volunteer duties at a shelter is being trustworthy, respecting confidentiality about our guest, non-judgmental. Giving feedback to the EOC and the Shelter Manager. The EOC is the Emergency Operations Center. And that would be myself from the EMD. And Kevin's part of that as well during incidents. He doesn't really know that, but he is. And Tim is a part of it, which he's wrote before him. You're just going to give me these lists of people because I'm not even going to try and take them down now. Exactly. Intaking of guests is part of the duties of a shelter person. Checking with the guest to see if they need anything. So doing that, Amy would be standing. You can go ahead and stand over there. Who has a little story of why they might be here? Anybody? I can make a story up. OK. So go over to the door. Oh, and the other thing that's on these vests, and will be on the vests that I can get a hold of that's correct, is a flashlight. In the flashlights, because if the generator goes down, now we're all in the dark. So the volunteers will have a couple of flashlights just in case. And then at that point, we need to figure out an evacuation plan. So this lady's walking into the shelter. You folks would be more so, especially if, let's say, Kevin has a ex-wife that's abusive, and he has a restraining order against her. And we would encourage him to stay over this wife. No media is allowed in here. News people, they're not allowed. So this lady comes in, and her story is, and she can't see anybody. Oh, hi. Oh, you're so sad. OK. How are you? My electricity just went out, and my pipes are frozen. And it's not good. Now, that's why I thought I'd try it here. OK. So you have a small dog. I have a small dog. He's orange. OK. So I'm going to ask the people that are already here. Is anybody here? So at this point, we're going to try to have two-way radios. OK. And she can radio the other person. Radio over and say, I need to know if anybody that's already here is allergic to dogs. And my comment is the person coming after her probably is. So I don't think it can just be who's in here. Well, we can work on this. This is work in progress. She's going to keep it in her little plan. OK. Is anybody here allergic to dogs? Is that what I'm doing? Right. Yeah. And everybody says no. No. Let's go with no. OK. And now we're going to allow you to have your dog. But if somebody comes in, we're going to have to ask you to remove the dog. Maybe put it in your phone. What would I do? Put it in your phone. Did he do? I don't think so. And the red cross is going to be taking over which they have the ability to do. And two, one, one. Is it in the box? Or is it in her hand? Is it in her hand? I think she's just holding it. We're going to eat it later. That's right. It'll be a squash pot. Yeah, it's 10. Yeah. So the dog is in her arms. Do we have dog crates? No. She's going to keep it. She's got a large dog. Right. I know, I just don't want you to get upset. Right. And I just want to be sure that I have some way to deal with your dog if something happens that you can't hold it in your arms. Then the dog will go back in her car until the red cross comes in. OK, all right. Good. OK. OK. That's a good solution. Let me show you. Yeah. Let me get a dog in his car. Yeah. And a large dog over here. This is a little bit to your ready. Yeah, but yeah. And so what am I doing? Your job would be, because let's say somebody's behind waiting to come in. So to come up and greet this new guest that's here and show them this is the bathroom. Over here we have snacks, water. Thank you. OK, so I will take Kim now. OK. And OK, so Kim, this is our space here. I want you to know the bathrooms are over here. And there are men's and women's. Yes, there is. There's a men's and a women's. Is there a place for my dog? No. Your dog has to go. Pertinent information. Where are you going? Am I supposed to be taking it down or did she take it down? It's all down. It's already down. Just making sure you're in here. Do you see all these cuts? Where would you like to go? Oh, right over there. Do I ask her where she wants to go? If they're open? Why not? Let me take you over here to your cot so that you can put your purse down. You can relax here. And then what? We have snacks over on this table, water. But are they allowed to just go and take snacks? They should be able to. But if we have a lot of people and we have limited, then it's monitored. OK. All right, so right now there's where the snacks are. OK. Do you need a cup of coffee? I'd love a cup of coffee. OK. So I have a helper. Great. And the helper's going to make some coffee. And then she'll give you a cup of coffee. Do you have a Wi-Fi password? Yeah. That is up to the facility. We have Connect Project, so it's automatic. You just sit down and open it up, Connect Project, and you'll be connected there. And then the other thing, which I forgot because we're all learning here, is we need to ask at the front door, not that I need to know what you're on for medication, but do you have the medication that you need? Oh, good point. Do you have your old? So who's asking that? That should be at the front door. And then are the people keeping their medications? What's that? Are they keeping their medications? Yeah, they're holding their own, but we're asking that because if you got flooded out, you ran out of your house. And let's say you say, I'm diabetic, and I forgot my insulin. OK, at this point, it depends on the roads, on the road conditions, and all that other stuff. We might send you back out to go get that. If the road conditions are bad, we have the ambulance service right here. Now we're going to bring them in, and they're going to help you along with what's needed. What ambulance service is it? The White River Ambulance Service. Do they run the medicine service? I believe they do. But they can also be in communication with hospitals to make sure they've got what the patient needs. Most people don't leave without their medication. Sometimes. In some situations. So that's how rough, it's a rough cut. Everything is going to be by what's happening around you. And then let's say somebody came to the door, and they're irate, and they can't be calmed down. Well, at that point, Amy's going to say, call the police department. We've got an issue. She can say, wait right here. Call the police department. OK, let me have you fill out this form, which is the overnight one, which we're not having anybody fill out. But she's detaining that person with something to do. And then Scott, or J.M., or Bill, pull up. And now it's their problem. Kind of thing, the police in the town. Drunk people, we're going to have to sort of wing it if they're a calm drunk. We're going to have to ask the hard questions. Do you have alcohol on you? How much do you think you might have drank already? Why don't we keep you over here, away from all the other people? That probably won't happen, but it could. And that's why the ambulance service gave us Narcan, just in case. Because you never know what's going to happen. My belief is we won't run into those problems. Because somebody that is taking narcotics, somebody that isn't intoxicated, they don't have the ability to make the right judgment. So they're going to stay in their house. Sometimes. Sometimes. Yeah. What about, here? And law enforcement, sweepers, what? Are we going to ask people that? We're, I need to check on that. But this facility can put a sign out that says no weapons. The school, the college, it's clearly stated, no weapons allowed on premises. So if it already says that. So if it already says that, we're good. I don't know if you have that on your sign. Maybe that's something to look at now. Because at that point that they enter the facility, they have a firearm on them. The minute that somebody sees it and says something to the volunteer, you can bring the police in and have them deal with it. And weapons also include knives or knives. Yeah. Is it something that we can ask people to just lock in their cars? We can. Yes. It's not an automatic. But I mean, plan for the worst and hope for the best. So always think, OK, I might have to call the police. Hey, Ann, I noticed that you have a side arm. Could you put that in your car for me? Because that really shouldn't be here. I mean, a lot of people have knives. Yeah, or a knife. And if you're, oh, I always carry a gun with me. Well, sir, sorry. OK, now we need to get the cops, because now you're being a jerk. But no offense, but where are the police? I mean, they're not really very accessible. They are during a state of emergency. They will be ready for this. And they will be fully aware of. Four score quite spread out, I think. Right. As time moves forward, Randolph is growing. Hopefully George gets his stuff together and he can grow. We'll see what time. But we can worry about the worst case scenario. And we need to plan for the worst case scenario and keep that in the back of our minds. But we don't need to dwell on it. Most people that are coming into a shelter need the help, want the help, want to comply. This is a mundane question. But do the cops come with bedding? Yes. OK, that's part of it. There's a pillow, blankets. It's a neat little, you know, it's a roll about ye big. You can pull it up online. And then there's boxes that come with those cots. And you open up the box and everything's in there. Some of them even have toothbrushes and all the other stuff in it. As far as the medications, it's not violating HIPAA. If you say to them, if you are running medications, did you bring them with you? Right, you're not. It's just it's a question that the Red Cross asks. I don't need to know what they are. I just need to know and remind you that, hey, and you might say, holy goodness gracious, whoops. And you need to do something about it. Or we need to find the resources to help you do something about it. Is there an established protocol already? Like for the very shelter, is there a protocol for getting people down medications? That I do not know. I don't have the answer, but I can definitely find out. There's a young girl, Lindsay, that is my contact person for the Red Cross. And she does 11 in an area. She does this area. And her and I need to sit down and chat about different things. And actually, she mentioned it. And Barry, when I was there, she was like, we've got to have lunch. Because she was like, you're like running crazy. So she's right on board to help out. I just need to get the time to reach out to her. Yes? So as far as procedure goes, there will be somebody welcoming people. And then there will be the rest of us out here helping people to coffee in the restrooms and cups and such. One person is good. Right, right. So I was just thinking all these very probably or not probable things that could happen, people come in and they're in a state. Or they have been drinking because they're coping. Or they have an addiction, so they're not doing well. But I'm wondering if we have enough people, if we don't confront them the minute they come in. But just get somebody to a cot. And then have somebody sit down with them and then say, what do you need tonight? And then you go, clearly, I know she's drunk. But continue to treat that person. It's my time. It's five o'clock somewhere. So bring it in. Because that'll just log jam and probably escalate if you say to anybody who's coming in with addictive behavior or coping behavior or whatever it is. If somebody has that, they're probably going to lie. Of course. So bring them in, sit them down. They're going to lie to Amy. That's fine. But then whoever's working inside the shelter plus Amy, you notice things. You notice things. Of course. I just said don't lie to them. At that point you can say, hey, so how's it going? Spend a little bit more time with that person and talk to them. And as things go calmly, you're good to go. Don't worry about it. If it starts escalating, you know to back off and get somebody in here that can take care of the problem. And who is that person? So we're a bunch of good old volunteers. And so we invite somebody in. We sit them down. We realize that there's a problem. They still have needs. I mean, they're still hungry. They still need coffee. They still need a bathroom, whether they're drunk or not. We would do the best that we can. Are you here? Is it something with some authority? No, I'm emergency management. I'm the emergency director for Brookfield. So I'm going to be doing other duties. At the shelter? Not the shelter, but I will be in contact with the shelter. We have, holy goodness gracious, Dan Mason. There we go. He's our constable. And he's a volunteer as well. And he's Brookfield's constable. So this is one of our shelters, and then the elementary school is another? The elementary school in Brookfield is our secondary overnight shelter. And warming, cooling. And VTC is a primary shelter. And then Lebanon will be our, oh my god, we're in trouble. I personally trained in what they call NAPI training, which is used in the mental health world. I worked for Collaborative Solutions, which is part of second spring palms. One is in Williamstown. Actually, two in Williamstown. There's a private one in the state run one. And then there's one up north. And what they teach you, just putting my dog back. Is how to defuse a situation, how to stay safe. And that's the most important thing, is you need to stay safe. So if I feel like I'm being threatened and I can't bring this person down, I'm going to go to you and ask you to come up. And maybe your personality will work better than that person. Sure, yeah. Where at VTC do we go? That's the Judd. The Judd building is the primary. The secondary is, oh, what's the name of it? Student Center. It's right off of this shape. That helps me a lot. The shape building. I don't know what the Judd building is. The Judd building is the building that is closest to the main road. Yeah, it's a little huge. Oh, yeah, sure. Oh, OK, great. What's going to happen with that is, if we're using that as a shelter, it's going to be obvious that that's being used. And the elementary school will be obvious that it's going to be being used. In terms of supplies, I was thinking about infant formula or powdered milk or whatever, things for babies that people are going to need. And also personal hygiene products, I would think that we really need to have. As time moves, if we do an overnight shelter, which wouldn't be at this facility, would be at VTC or the elementary school, at that point, we're going to have the right cross involved. How it works is. And they have all that stuff. And they have a lot of that stuff. So we'll back up. So an ice storm is moving in. The ice storm hits. Power lines are knocked out. We're looking at a week and a half, no electric in certain areas. Generators will be fired up, obviously, at VTC and the Brookfield School. And those generators, I forget the runtime, but it's phenomenal. I would turn around during this incident. And as things happen, I would be in contact with Bob Worley facilities or SSD. I'd be in contact with email security with VTC. And I would be talking to them and letting them know what's happening. Bob Worley would be sending supplies up to the school getting ready. VTC already has them on site. Then we open up a shelter. Now it's safe to drive, but people need a place to charge the phone. They need a warm place to sleep. The Red Cross is now involved. The Cotter placed in whichever facility that we're using. They're going to be there. And if they're not there yet, the MRC with the state will send volunteers as well. So we need to be able to hold our own for a short amount of time. I say 72 hours. Then we can step back because the Red Cross can roll in in a short amount of time. The state can roll in in a short amount of time. However, if it's a large incident, we need to rely on ourselves first. Would you ever be proactive? And you know this ice storm's coming. It's not quite here. And you want to make sure that you can get to the place. Right. So would you do that? Yeah. OK. Yeah, all that stuff, then that part pre-opening is on my shoulders as the emergency manager director. And then I would be reaching out to the other emergency manager directors in the area, O'Toole, for Brookfield upper-entry and Warner for here and trying to work with them. And you get, even you, how am I going to word this? We get alerts for weather and that sort of thing through whomever. But you're going to get them earlier than we probably are. I get them about the same time than everybody else. I would encourage everybody to sign up for a VT alert if you're not already. Already. And I would put on the listing several towns. I put Brookfield, Braintree, Randolph, Bethel, South Royalton. I would put those down. Why? Because if things are happening there, it's going to probably happen here. So it sort of gives you an idea of what's happening and how it's going to close you off as a person. This has nothing to do with the shelter. It has to do with being able to travel and do what you need to do. So South Royalton and Bethel are getting nailed. But we're OK. You maybe want to go north for your groceries instead of going down 11 and to get your groceries. It's a good tool to have. Is that a, I don't know what VT alert is. It's, I forget the name of the organization. It's a federal group. That runs it. It comes on your phone and computer. I'm sorry. It's a federal group. VT alerts, yeah. And what they do is they have different areas like we have VT alert. New Hampshire has their own, but they're all combined into the federal. The federal, let's say we got nuked. Through everybody's phone will go off. You can't stop your phone from going off because the feds patch into it, period. I mean, my phone, I have a phone that I use for Facebook. And that phone is not hooked up to a phone line. Hasn't been for years. And that went off when they sent the most recently. They actually just recently did a test a few weeks ago. Yeah, everybody's phone went off. And that was part of VT alert. They were even kids in school whose phones were going off. And I mean, these are phones that were basically shut off, but they were sending the alert. Right, it overlaid. Yeah, it just ran over any security stuff. OK, so. Where does MRC stand for? I'm trying to remember. I have everything down, of course. So that's any more questions, thoughts? Well, I just want to clarify. Because I think I've heard you say two things. I'm not sure which one is right. My sense was that you said the Red Cross would be coming in almost immediately. The second thing I heard was 72 hours in your head. You're thinking it's more likely. Right. So we'll back up to this. This should answer this. We'll back up. So at the conference last month, Red Cross did a thing. I directly asked the guy. I said, so how long does it take to get caught? He told me two hours. And I said, OK. I said, so why did it take 18 hours for Randolph to get 50 cuts? And I already had the answer. Because they were depleted. They ran out of stuff. So they had to go southbound and pull stuff, way southbound and pull it up this way. And they had bad roads. They had washed out roads. So they had to maneuver around. But they finally got there kind of thing. So that took them 18 hours to get there. Now, I say 72 hours because the state tells you don't expect any help for 72 hours. You're on your own. Now, hopefully they can get there sooner. They want to get there sooner. But if you plan for 72 hours, you should be OK. So that hearing that again just reinforces my viewpoint is to make sure we do have enough supplies for people to last for 72 hours. And that goes back to my concerns about infant formula and hygiene products that just really can't do without. Right. That's something that will, in the future, definitely all this is an infant. Yeah. This is still a baby. We're burping this baby right now. And changing their diapers. Which will be. So as we move forward and as we have space to put stuff and as we have dollars and donations and whatnot, yes, most definitely. But we've got to start somewhere. So my thing is five to 20 people, one meal and snacks and water. That's our starting point. Because you've got to have a step off somewhere. And those supplies will fit in the space less than that piano that's over there. But we have something. It's better than having nothing. And then if we got nailed in the middle of this winter, there's no way we can do what we have. Then I'm sure some good citizen will go down to the next town that's not affected and pick up stuff. And we can figure out how to pay for that. And I think the state will move products once if the Submergency Management runs the way they predict it will. From the thing we went to, that was part of it. If there are supplies in one area, but they will work to get those supplies to where they need to be from outside locations. Do you know what I mean? So even if there's bad roads or whatever, the state will adjust their supplies and get them to the needed locations. Yeah, the Army National Guard, as part of this. We saw that Kevin and I saw the big, huge truck with fans and DM and Paris. Oh, yeah, and those big, huge trucks can drive through pretty much anything. So is air quality considered an emergency issue? I'm just reflecting back on the summer. The summer, I was watching it. And I actually had spoken to the local hospital here and found out how many just give me a rough estimate. Is it more cases coming in with asthma issues? Is there the same? Is there? And there was a little bit heightened. It wasn't like scary. So I didn't feel that it was needed to open up any kind of shelter kind of thing. But it could have lasted a lot longer. But it could have lasted. Right. Yeah. And a lot of people don't have air. Once again, a lot of people don't have generators. They don't have air purifiers. And they're kind of just subject to whatever's coming through. So that's why I was wondering, is in the shelter have the option of air purifiers, for example, or? Well, that's all federal dollars that you would have to get grants and whatever. And nobody has that at this point. As we move forward, and weather gets worse, yes. That stuff is going to be. That's all stuff that we have to plan possibilities for. We don't need it right now, right? Right now, today, no. Tomorrow, no. Right. VLCT just published their next list of grants. I haven't seen it. So that's awesome. So that's where we, yes. Do you have a dream date for our group being a go group? Basically tomorrow, if we needed it. Oh, OK. So whatever, however we're communicating, we could get a call tomorrow, and then we show up at VTC. Or here. Right, right, right. We'll find out. OK. I just don't know. We're moving forward, but we need to be willing. I just want to know when to be on alert. We're going to fall on our face. Right. OK. And that's normal. Not necessarily. No, I think it's really. So I always plan for the worst. Great. We're going to fall on our face. So if we already have that known, we know how to pick ourselves up. We need more than what we have. It's volunteer. There's no budget for it. So we're going to work on it. We haven't got a little bit of a budget. We do. Did that get approved? I thought so, no. OK. I haven't heard. I thought I saw it in. Brookfield. Brookfield, I thought, had a little bit money. Yeah, I thought that I saw it in Randolph's select board, something or other. Oh, good. But that has to be approved by there's a lot of. Oh, yeah. No, I know. There's a lot of stuff that has to be. Yeah. Yeah. Coop you need to play with here. So that's where we stand right now. So if everybody in this room is willing to volunteer, and we have other people from the last meeting that are willing to volunteer, Ann's going to build a tree. And she already started, which was pretty cool. Can we add a column to this? Sure. That asks for preference of communication, like a phone. I need to know if these are cells or home phones. OK. And then if their communication preference is phone or email. Right. I have on the other form that's where do you have that? Did you give that to Ann? I think it's right here in front of Kim, maybe. But I have one wrote all over it. Oh, my gracious. Oh, my god. Yeah, I got more. I'm out of your mind. But I've got it noted on there whether it's a home phone or if it's a cell phone. You're going to be the front person. So that's on there. OK, pass those down. Take one. What the preference is for primary. Right. That's not on here, but I have some of that. Oh, my number's wrong. I've got more information at home because that was on here. My number's wrong. That's not my problem. Who did it? Richard probably wrote it down. No, may I please have the corrected version? I just have to torment Port Rich. It's my goal in life. I don't know how I. We're moving on the one hour mark. And you realize that the bills are on in 45 minutes, so I will be out of here before 8. What, dear? It's just 97, so you're not going to have nine days. OK, I have a problem. That's easily fixable. That's why I don't have an iPhone. Cmo Jones, which is the end to it. I don't get anything. You went? I said I don't have an iPhone. I don't get anything. Did you say? What do you mean, I don't have an iPhone? I'm assuming you have a file, cabinet, and files at your house with all this folder all in it, correct? With the sign-ins from before? Just general information. Yes. It's all in this notebook. You know, I might, for some reason, ask you to provide me with a copy of that too just because. Yeah, I got a copy. Actually, what I'll do is I'll ask the next time you come over or something like that, I'll run it through my scanner and then I'll have it all digitized. OK, so we're pretty much the 730 mark. And I like to keep things on time as possible because everybody has lives, everybody has stuff happening. So my original statement last meeting was the next two months we were going to not have a meeting because of the holidays. Now, I was sort of given a little pushback, which is great. So I have chosen not to step on the toes of any other organization of Brookfield. The last Thursday of the month. Now, that falls the day before. No, it won't fall the day before because the last, the third Thursday of the month is Thanksgiving or the fourth Sunday at a fourth Thursday, I can't remember right now. Thanksgiving's the 23rd. Right, so you've got the 30th, November 30th. Was I doing the fourth or third? Fourth. OK, fourth. Oh, so OK. I looked at it a lot. See, isn't, yes. So do we want to have a meeting on the 30th? Of November. Of November. It's a Thursday. Unless there's an emergency. Then we'll be here anyway. I think so, yes, that's the week after Thanksgiving. OK, so are you OK with hosting that? The 30th on the Thursday? Yeah. Yeah, I'll be here. Wait a minute. I don't want to be November. These are my contacts. Oh, I don't know. OK, thank you. I can't come because I'm going to be at the holiday print making class at the White Room. Oh, that is so fun. Crap. Let's go over that. And? OK, so my agenda is dry at this point because I've gone over the stuff that I felt was needed. What do we want to try to go over more of the logistics aspect? The next meeting, right? Yeah. I'd like to talk about transportation and options for getting us to the, if we want to volunteer. But I mean, every emergency we've had recently, like that was a problem, traveling on the back roads was a problem. So I'd just like to talk about that. How do we do it? How are we going to handle that? OK. I think when the message goes out, you should say that. You should reply and say, absolutely, but I need transportation. And then we'll speak. Then everyone will be able to see if it's possible. Right. It would be good to know who lives close to each other. OK. The other thing that we didn't cover, and I sort of lied, we need to figure out what people are comfortable for a schedule aspect. So we're going to do a warm and cooling shelter. It's open from this hour to this hour. And that's during the daytime. Or we're going to do an overnight shelter. What are people comfortable with? What's their prime time? What's the, do they want to do six hours? Do they want to do eight hours? What do they want to do? Now, if it's an overnight shelter, I'm guessing you're going to be playing cards. And you're going to be sleeping. No, we weren't allowed to sleep as the volunteers. We had. This is, I get that. But I'm trying to run time. But this is a town sponsored. This is a tri-town thing. We're not under those rules, but I totally get that. So if we did open, and nobody's showing up, and you wanted to snooze, that's fine. You're going to hear the door open. You're going to get a cold burst of air coming on you. But it's going to be incident by incident. Right. As long as two people are here. Right, two people are here. And a lot of this will be between Amy and I to figure out what would be happening, kind of thing. Yeah, because we used six to 11.30 and 11.30. Maybe it was seven. I don't know, but we had it then. Everybody write down some times that worked for you in your life right now. And tomorrow's a different day, so it might not work tomorrow. But just an idea of where we're all coming from, what will work. Myself being the director for emergency management, I have found that a tailgate EOC is best, and that means working out of my truck and going to place to place because cell service is terrible. So it's very likely I would be here with you, kind of thing. If we're doing overnight, I'd be camped out at the school with everybody because that's easier for me to get down into the bottom part of the truck field and et cetera. So there's latitude of movement. So we just got to figure out what works for us as a group and go from there. You could also do 12-hour shifts, or you could split them. People could choose just as long as you have all the time covered, like say, Kim and I split a 12-hour shift. But if somebody wants to do the whole 12-hour shift, they could do that. People would, if they felt they couldn't do, I can't do a whole 12 hours, but I could do six hours. If you make it a combination, it would give more flexibility for people. It's more of a scheduling nightmare, but right. Is that something you plan ahead? We want it planned ahead to a point, a rough. It don't change. Like I said before, you said you could volunteer. I call you up. And he says, things that happen to him, I can't do it. OK, great. Next. So everybody has to be flexible, and everybody has to be understandable and respectful to each other's lives of what's happening. Yeah, I would get the phone calls at 11.30 when I volunteered and show up and get to cover the night. Yeah. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yes. What is EOC? EOC. EOC, I don't know what that is. emergency operation center. It is center. OK, I guess we're going to have to do a mission. You're right. Maybe. Yes. Maybe you can email every now. Just send my order. Yeah. Schedule constant. Yeah. Center. My cell phone number is wrong. The area code for me is 973. You didn't get my text. Nope. Operator error, my fault. Straighten me up. It is a cell phone? There must be a penalty for that. She told me to smack her hand. Oh, I can't do it. So we're officially done? Yeah, cool. Does that work? Yeah. And if you need to contact me. I'm just wondering.