 So let's let's start this find out start this meeting up. There's a couple other people that should be showing up that are running behind so First of all the piece of paper that I handed over to everybody that is something that I've been working on getting businesses people to to Give donations of some sort. I've requested from the town of Brookfield Today I talked to Vicki briefly and she was gonna send me over to Amy was gonna I guess Amy needs to do it Send me the tax ID number We actually had six researchers in the office at one time two listers and That's a small office and then Caroline myself. Yeah, they're their offices About from there boom square and everybody's in there. It's crazy Super crazy. So anyways, so we I can't get the tax ID number The state one the one that or the federal one, I guess it would be the federal No, are you state? Are you? Non-profit or are you you this is the town? This is from the town. Yeah, so so you're yeah, you've got to get a state Right, so whatever that whatever I Signed off form a blank one signed off. Yeah that you can Copy and okay, I will do that tomorrow perfect and drop it on this nail mail. Just case. I can't print it Yeah, yeah do both Can we reintroduce ourselves? Yes, please because we have new people and I hardly know anyone right So, thank you my name's rich duelen and I'm the emergency manager director for The town of Brookfield and also for Orange County Sheriff's Department, and I'm logistics for Braintree Pastor Mary, I Don't know who I am. My name is Mary McMillan. I was the pastor at Randolph Community Church I'm currently sort of Balancing a couple of other things, but I've been involved with Worming shelters in North Springfield and in Jamaica and Rich and I just sort of hit it off when we met and I'm this is something I think is very necessary in this area and Rich and I had started talking about it because I the basement at The Rudd-Brick Church is perfect for this It's just that they decided that I wasn't preaching the way they wanted me to so they didn't renew my contract nonetheless, Rich can deal with the negotiations there if need be but It's a it's in the set to me. It's in the center of town and you know, I've dealt with how the whole how I've worked with homeless people and some of the Dynamics and things you need to think about and be ahead of Okay, next I'm Chris Jones. I'm from Brookfield The newly retired priest from St. John's Episcopal Church here in Randolph So and I came previous to the pandemic So I'm I'm very aware of some of the concerns of all the various communities and such So now I'm a concerned citizen from Brookfield. Thank you. I'm glad to be here I'm Judith Irvine from Brookfield recently retired something or other business person business owner but I happen to be very committed to Brookfield as a community and very Kind of aware of the position we are all in in this new world We're living in where we need to be thinking ahead and develop resilience and strength I'm also Beking for not really, but there's two other people who are going to come from Brookfield Chloe Sardonas and Meredith No, Meredith's last name, but anyway, they're new residents in our part of Brookfield and They bring a lot of energy and experience But they just had to be at work late tonight. So Yes, we need the young blood there Amy and Gracia I'm the Charter at Brookfield a resident in West Brookfield I'm a former EMT and You know, I kind of miss I miss doing that. So this is the next best thing and I firmly believe in helping people I'm Maria Puglisi. I live in Randolph I'm a member of Ras which is the asylum seeker group in town and We have a family at the moment and we had a We had a real Trying to I'm so sorry find an apartment If you turn it over No Music So I'm Involved, you know, you're talking about resiliency Judy and so I was a member of our committee in town So I've been you know thinking about that for a couple years now the resiliency, but I'm not sure what this group is really about Excepted homelessness and how to take care of it or how to help that. Yeah, but I'm not sure any more than that So but I came anyway, and I'm living Randolph Awesome, and I'll tell you a little bit more and fill you in a little bit more Emily Daniel, and I'm the director of the senior center And I went to the meeting last month, and I think it's important that we do have Some system in place Because I think you mentioned that the Red Cross doesn't show up right away. I got corrected and we're gonna get into that Okay, so I just thought I Cared that I would like to support that effort So Just a side note. I was at the VLCT town fair of this past Tuesdays and yesterday I was in an accounting Session and all of our phones went off. Oh my goodness all of them emergency alert. Yeah person And it was so funny. I mean it took a good 10 minutes before the last phone clear now, right? So VT VT alert has the ability Which I need to get with the town again and get them to sign off on me using that system VT alert a EMD or select board member or somebody can hone in on certain landlines and Certain towns can be targeted so Brookfield I can hone in on that and send a VT alert out to them I believe with my own voice, which I really don't want but you know We can do that and alert people that have landlines even if they're not signed up if it's Brookfield resident We can we can get them if they are signed up for VT alert Obviously their phones gonna go off because they clicked that town The other thing that they can do is they can hone in on a geographical area by cell phone That's why all your phones went off. I was at a convention a couple years ago And even if you weren't on the system, they pinged in somehow on you and Everybody's phone was going off and saying if you're not signed up you better sign up Yeah, so you'll get every every alert and for the So we're not looking at homelessness. What we're looking at is ice storms Major power outage warming shelter So the the goal of the Red Cross and I'm trying to sister what they do because I want my goal is to hand it over to The Red Cross as soon as possible Their goal is once you open a shelter. You're planning to close it So if I decide at 8 o'clock, we're gonna open a shelter and I'm making that decision right now I'm planning on closing it And I'm gonna have a close-out date so I call the right right cross alert them and Watch officer and say we're opening now and we look at closing at this time So they could put it on their site and say this is what's available cooling station a warming station shelter for sleeping a day shelter That kind of situation So that's what we're looking at. So it's sort of homelessness, but it's not it's due to What's happening? So if your house goes down the stream and it's gone well now you're homeless, right? You're in a lot of trouble Once we decide to close the have the close-out date for the shelter that family that is now Homeless the Red Cross will because we've turning over to the Red Cross. They're gonna start working on finding that person some housing temporary housing like a hotel or whatever that is available and They'll start working on that now. We'll be helping as well to do that We're not gonna Start it up and dump and run, but you stay open till they can move right or we find other Situations it was somebody this last storm that went to VTC and it was the only person that that went They set that person up and they were from Royalton. They set that person up in a dorm that was vacant And they had nobody actually in the shelter nobody ever showed up to the shelter Even though all this stuff was ordered by Randolph and it was a waste and they went and got most of it And they're going to get the rest of it. I had that conversation with Red Cross during this convention So that's sort of I hope fills in some blanks for for yourself So I'm always gonna be watching the clock because I want to only be an hour It looks like we might run over a little bit Coordinating a list of people who need assistance. Yeah, we talked the safety committee and I talked and I left some 211 sheets off with Lou of The format that works and they're gonna see if that will sister on to what they want to do This duplication is always the key at least for me is We want to keep everything, you know that the state organization can take take it over at that time I'll pass this down that I gave to Lou to the safety committee and You know that's that's the form format that they might use. I don't know it'd be good if they did Hey, how's it going? Don't be Good I have something you're gonna see Kevin later. Is it possible? Yeah, remind me I've got something for him and I'll leave you a message with him. Have a seat We have a sign-in sheet right over here So where the heck was I Data-alert systems and getting the coordination so that you can talk between them. Oh, yeah So so we're working on a good thing to take a note so we're working on all that I handed out a sheet to everybody that has stuff that looking for donation and That yep perfect and that is the stuff that's checked off is already Received and that's sitting on the table right now And this is just for Brookfield. This is okay. We're gonna open for Brookfield. Yeah, okay, okay? And as the event Evolves or changes Randolph and brain tree are perfectly welcome I want to get some folks from Randolph and brain tree to help volunteer and I want to work together I I don't look at the boundary ground being there and if we open up Larger than Brookfield then I've got to have a conversation with George the sheriff and Emergency management director for Orange County Sheriff's Department, then it becomes into my my other district You know, so it's just changing hats right kind of thing. So that's that's what we're we're looking at So in taking in taking folks into a shelter I've got Different forms that we're looking at I think there's like 12 here so take one and then Pass it down. I'll let it go around and get what's back There's one two three four. There's four different forms here and these are all red red cross forms and it's how to intake Different incidents the last Form that was given out was overnight shelter and I think I got some more copies to that I think you need one because I think you weren't here So this is this is totally I'm looking at everything as in what feels comfortable for the group Since the group is the one that's going to be doing it So what forms are going to be best suited for our needs and the other ones will will just not discard But we put aside but being familiar with how the forms work And there's a great explanation on the back back page of the front page on how the form works So that's something that the next meeting will we'll talk about Of how we want what forms we want to do and how in depth we want to go So back to the original thing that just got side to side swipe So the the first thing that you got with all the check marks is stuff that was given already and I'm Looking at getting more stuff. I'm looking at asking for donations from different businesses. I've been to Shaw's here in town price chopper on the Miracle Mile Mobile just next to them because he's actually a friend of mine. So asking him for Something you know, whether it be a gift card that he goes and buys at the grocery store Or else I've been I think that's it so far and then small little donations from different people that I've talked to that said Yeah, you know take this take this At our office it's got what we got from Red Cross. Yeah, it's got the gloves Granted you might not need the shields and you definitely don't need the bunny suits, but right? Yeah Well, we'll look at that definite next next time I'm in and We'll we'll we'll know it's there and we'll pull out a count of 20 Everything here is set up for five to 20 people and that's for This is this the sheet. I'm setting everything up for five to 20 people on a one-time incident Because we have limited space to put stuff So the storage of that will be one of the members one of the members that are pretty sure that they'll be there 100% and they'll have no issue. There's three toads that size and then An office box a little bit bigger than that is what it's gonna have to be for the office manager the office manager will have This right here with them the first aid Kit to stop the bleed kit and the Narcan With them and the flashlights in little notebooks the gloves the masks to open up the shelters So they'll walk in with that food coffee maker Paper goods will go into the three three other totes and the tote size is right here So it's basically a filing cabinet size after you stack them up So what we're gonna be looking for is somebody to be able to house that in their house Because there's gonna be spaghetti sauce or liquid canned food Where it's not gonna freeze and if you have problems of mice Maybe that's not a good place. I mean it's all it's you don't have to tell me anything Just say yes, I can take it or no, I cannot take it kind of thing. Isn't that what the cats are for at my house? Yes Yeah, that's awesome, and so you should have a reasonably good Chance of getting to the Brookfield elementary school, right? So a Brookfield resident, right? First yeah second For right now until we figure out who's gonna be a shelter manager and how how the structure is gonna be I'll store it here in Randolph in my office at the co-worker space. I have an office space there For emergency management. That's actually donated by the red jeweler Downstairs he owns the building and he's donated that space to me for the last God year year and a half or so. Yeah, it's been quite a while So I've had that space available to me and we held the Brookfield L e L HMP meetings in that office building. It's a long-term emergency plan So anyway, so that listing is stuff that I'm working on at some point I'm gonna say okay, can somebody else grab up see what they can grab this is where I've been And they can work work on finding stuff Oh most definitely most definitely and you'll see radios on there thinking for four radios the radios are gonna be They don't have to be really wicked nice ones, you know, basically the CB small radios You know 12 20 stations on there or something silly like that And that is to be able to communicate from that point the door to this point over here So two-way radio two-way radio Yeah, and that's gonna that's gonna help those from the locals when they replace there I I don't want you stuff. Okay. I want new updated Why because That right that that can of coffee Anything perishable? I want the the creamer stuff is brand new right off the shelf because I hope to God we never use it So I want it to last as long as it can and then as it goes out of code Turn around and say okay. Well, you've been sitting on it. You've been watching it It's out of code that can of coffee is yours. I'll go get another can of coffee Or the highway department's used once they replace them the older ones Probably aren't functioning a hundred percent right there Not reliable right to say the least You're having that cluster of things in each of the towns. No, Jessen in Brookfield and so Back to the list so all the the stuff that we're collecting for five to twenty people I already have an agreement with local food shelves The OSSD the school district the state will step in and Anything that is during a An act of an emergency any food or food services that's rendered by VTC Goes automatically to the USDA. There's a Law that's in place. So if we're an ice storm state of emergency We're using that shelter The time and food is replaced by the by FEMA So we don't need a bunch of stuff on hand We need enough to get going and where I was corrected on the the help from the Red Cross was two hours. They can get caught Delivered in 72 right 72 hours for the for the state to step in Two hours to get the cots delivered, but the last set of cots that were delivered to Randolph took 18 hours Yeah, where are those cots those cots are are sitting somewhere and the Red Cross is looking for them But in general where where's the Red Cross the right cross has trailers all over the place with equipment on them And they feed off of those trailers and bring them to that location to bring the whole trailer Or they'll bring a count of 50 or 25 Units of stuff and that's what happened with VTC They two people showed up they offloaded and went on their merry way But they were 18 hours because they had to bring the stuff from southern East Right, so it's not like sitting well it's sitting in Montpelier and stuff like that But Barry in Montpelier got wonked. Yeah, so of course they got the stuff ASAP because they had a bunch of people Randolph and Brookfield brain tree had zero Yeah, but a call was put in by Randolph for the stuff and that was maybe premature So I found out during this conference They don't want that happening when you have people then they want the call They don't want you to preload Instance especially like an ice storm where you would want to open one here in Randolph Right and the elementary school Yes, the the primary place is VTC. That's our our primary location Secondary is the Brookfield school the senior center is Tritown and That that could be opened as well, you know, I'm cold I Don't want to go to a shelter. So I'll go here So we might have a couple of volunteers or a volunteer here and Emily staff will will help staff that we're gonna all work together. This is a team effort Like I said, I don't like egos egos can wait outside, you know, leave them outside It's too hard to travel right so you don't want to be as close to home So Brookfield at that point if it was hard to get around We would open up Brookfield Bob Worley with the OSSD facility manager We talked her on this last darn. He said if you decide to open this I'll hit the key and turn your fob back on and Go in get the lights do what you need to do and I will get food and water up there for you Randolph same thing, you know, they can come up to Brookfield or if it's a huge incident Then we'll look at other areas That's that's a call that the EMD needs to make for Randolph He needs to make that I said decision. I can't make that. Who is it Wayne Warner? He'll have to make that decision for this town now if we open and he says No, we don't need to and you're from Randolph. You're perfectly welcome. That's John John Bennett Benson And I talked about that a while back ago. We're not turning anybody away if you need something We're gonna try to help you as best as people from out of state that are visiting Correct. Yeah, driving down the road and they're in trouble. They can definitely come in I Believe South Royalton is listed in Connecticut as a place to go to seek shelter Can you imagine and South Royalton had no idea up until somebody saw that on somebody's plan and went hey guys guess what? And they were like, oh, no, we don't want that So rich yeah, this this is probably a longer-term vision, but I was just talking to some people in Northfield About coming to this meeting. Yeah tonight and what they are doing. I don't know if it's all I don't think it's all over Brooks Northfield, but it's in the area there in is they have like a little distribution Email or whatever sort of like we have the neighborhood support group And so that there's about 15 to 20 families all kind of close. They know where the generators are They know they know those people so that if you can't get all the way out to a Brookfield elementary school They know who in the neighborhood would have heat Power Really local and I just so long long term. Yes, that that discussion has been been had About you know families helping families out and something that is long term that that we're we're gonna be looking at because of different incidents that that we might be having and Kevin Wheatley during the last term that we had him and his guys They went in their personal trucks and the people that were closed off because I said, can you do this? And he's most definitely They went banging on doors or they checked and made sure that they're okay and do they need anything? Green Mountain Power is They have 30 I'm gonna call it generator. It's electric pack And I forget the hours I got to get back with Tina and talk to her about it, but they have 30 units to lend out Yeah, yeah, they're awesome. Yeah, and You know, she she saw me walking. She's like come look at this So she's got those units sitting sitting there for Green Mountain Power They are willing to help out other power companies, you know like us in Brookfield where we're Got two different power companies They're willing to work with us with getting somebody that has oxygen one of those machines Residential it's a residential. Yeah, and that will keep them breathing for a little bit if they if you know, they're told not to Just stay where you are. Stay play, you know, it's all about temperature, you know, if it's freezing cold And let's get you out if it's Summertime stay where you are it's safer that way kind of thing depends on depends on the incident the the types of storms that that we're looking at is the the Tabletop that was developed in March of 2023 where the major power supply Gets wiped out and wipes out the bottom part of New Hampshire, Vermont Massachusetts connect a road, you know, and just wipes it all out and that stands for 20 no five hours to 25 hours, I think That nobody has any power and move movement of goods and materials Terrible ice storm came in heavy rain Everything freezing. That's why I was so hot to trot about Securing Brookfield school because it's a metal pitched roof And this is a pitched roof Flat roofs of cave in in so the high school VTC or caving in because there's too much weight on them That's the scenario that they're working on it because it's happened in other parts of the country So that's what I'm sort of gearing so I'm gearing five to 20 people that can grow obviously We'll have to scurry and get more food more stuff but with the Different food shelves are around that I already have talked to the board members and they have They have no problem with me going in and raiding their their stuff as long as it's all counted for what we take The school saying, you know, we'll get you a food and water to that location, you know to their location You know, I don't know what you have for for supplies here, but you know if Yeah, so if in this this facility is on a generator, so you know People had to vacate here You've got it and I got to get you in contact with the person with the USDA to get your stuff replaced and see how that's gonna work, but that I just learned that last week So So do we look to the volunteer fire department? For example in Brookfield as the way I see transportation is being okay So transportation I had an agreement with stagecoach I need to reopen that because it's not stagecoach anymore and getting people Originally it was I think an hour and a half to get a bus up and running Because they have to get the driver there. They have to do the inspection all that other stuff and then and then on the road traffic I do have a verbal agreement with the school bus company with Bellavance I'm drawing a blank on his first name That he's all I need to do is call him up and he's gonna do whatever he can to get Things moving if needed the fire department the police department. I don't want to bother them They're gonna be busy You know I want to bother them for the reason that you would call the fire department They're gonna be busy dealing with other issues and they get we need all of our resources spread out But together at the same time Because I wasn't at the first meeting. How do people communicate their need? You know you're out so that we're working on with the safety safety committee 211 is is is one thing the state police The state police I gotta revisit them and say, you know, you should be calling me if there's if there's issues or Kevin Wheatley Or you know, we got to set up a command Amount of people not a bunch, but it I handful of people So that is emergency management is set up to be as a director set up to Sort of run not run the show but coordinate the show So that's you know key number one important kind of thing So that's where we are with that. How's it going? good That's all right Have a seat. So it seems like another sort of like level of kind of general information at some point might be Who in a given neighborhood has four-wheel drive truck? You know, right? That's that's gonna be that's that's sort of a It needs to be found out right most definitely. However, that's a different Entity entity. We're looking at just shelter. Yeah, and under under The Red Cross in doing what they do. They don't worry about going picking up people. Yeah, okay That's a different entity During whatever incident whatever agency or whatever group of people, you know during Irene There were people running all over the place with four-wheelers Helping people out, right? Yeah, so we're hoping that that will happen again. Yeah Okay So that's but we got to have a place to put these people yeah when they're displaced and that's that's what this is all about So we're gonna need a shelter manager somebody to step up and say I want to be a shelter manager and the shelter manager will manage this the stuff for the shelter and set up Communications with all the the members of the group and my understanding is We have at least 10 people that want to be a part of the shelter right now And I want more because there's always something happening your driveways washed out you can't get out or You have enough drama in your life right this moment that you didn't foresee That you can't help somebody else because the bottom line is you want to keep yourself safe To help other people you don't run into a situation without being safe first So your yourself is most important and then secondary helping other people because you can't help people if you're hurt now You're just another number So we want to be you know aware of that situation So the ETA of getting stuff is about two hours From the Red Cross we're going to follow the the setup of The Red Cross And what they've done the CDC and we're going to set everything up on the idea of covid And you know the the size of the facility dictates how many people The Red Cross says 20 Feet square feet per person for standing for sitting like this 40 For you know sleeping arrangements and that's That's something that we're going to keep if we have a bunch of people we want to sort of Maybe mask up a little bit And think about it not because of covid Per se but the flu the common cold You know so we want to sort of keep that in mind kind of thing Um Information needs to definitely throw Flow through the group and I would like to take this sign in from last time and the one now And have it typed out And the phone numbers and emails being put on that don't even talk about that. Just give them And then get get get a tree going I just don't know why you Look at me and give me those looks How the heck did I ever meet you? I don't remember exactly, but it was good. Was there anything sent out for this meeting? What's that? No, I don't remember the emails from last month. No No, I signed up last yes. I know what I need you for being here today. Right, please um So that's So we're going to build a tree everybody's going to be on it This list will not be shared with anyone anyone except people in the group. So if Amy if fred from roilton comes to you and says, oh, can I get get that list? Absolutely not Absolutely not do not give that list out to fred from roilton You know, this is I want people's confidential Situations just think hip and you're at the hospital or the doctor's office, right? Um, so, you know if jane goes up to you from randolph and says can I get No, you got to talk to the emd You know here's where go find rich. See if you can get him to answer the question Exactly. That's what I do on a lot of jobs. I'm like Yeah, I don't know go talk to dave Dave knows even if I have the answer But I'm not the boss And I don't want the liability I'd be the secretary. I don't know nothing more than that right and So mary's the secretary now Because she's she's willing and and able I've done minutes for so long that it's just yeah, okay Yeah, that's great So the the other I'm gonna get get a hold of the state and see about trying to get people Um, cpr Certified see if we can't get that at a major discount rate or For free I'm going to hang over their head because I just found out that aot dot Anybody that works for the state is certified for um You know cpr and all that stuff Oh, yeah, so yeah, so if if they're if they're gonna take care of that for them Then We're sort of kind of not really state employees We're we're we're in it and we're trying to help them um, the other thing if people can write this down is um Volunteer guide to food safety and it's through the united states department of agricultural That is something that Y'all should pull up on the computer. It's a real easy read. It's mostly pictures And just take a gander at it. Thanksgiving's coming Holiday season's coming So that's a good thing to look at for feeding your family. Where do you find this? This is a the united states department of agricultural and food safety Inspection services and the link I'm also a librarian. So I I can find this folder all so I I have it in hard copy Um, I'm not the computer guy. I have it in a hard copy It was an easy read You should read it Get yourself Uh, re familiar with food safety and then when we do a shelter and start trying to feed people as volunteers We're keeping ourselves and them safe Be good Because we did this for the first day. It's going to jersey. It would be good for one person to actually be certified Yes For cpr And we can look at that as we move forward. I don't want to get bogged down with Full. Yeah, you're right. That's that's definitely on my but I'm saying it so nobody Gets sidetracked. Um, we don't want it. We don't want to get bogged down with people being certified for cpr And food safety and and all that stuff. We want a place to go and we're going to figure that out And we're going to work on that Right, it's an easy. It's an easy course. Yeah, I took it years ago. Uh, I forgot most of it Great. So if I hurt myself, you know, rich will just look at me and go, yep, there you go I'll feel so safe So that's that's where we where we are with that on this table. Um, so at at the conference This this group had flashlights So there's three here. Um, and that's going to stay in the the, um The office office, um Manager stuff stopped the bleak kit, uh from fema. Amy brought one that she picked up from somebody. She's got a flashlight. No Oh, okay Here's another little flashlight Um, some notebooks, you know for inside the shelter that you gotta write something down Gloves, masks, alcohol pads, um Narcam Narcam came from the, um White River Valley ambulance this first aid kit came from the white river ambulance Um Just different things that that I've gotten people to hand hand make is over here. We've got four some knives We've got for a 20 council. There's about 23 units Bowls plates, forks and knives sugars coffee coffee maker Clipboards for intake and all that stuff. Um, I just sent an email out to Who's a uniform? Unifirst They do uniforms for for different companies and I've requested a donation of A handful of patches that read background That just says emergency management and I want to put that on safety vests Um glowing the dark ones Just just then when somebody's wearing, you know, the safety vest you got two people in here It's obvious. They're the ones that I need to talk to when I come in and I need help Um, so instead of sheriff's department, we'll have emergency management on it So I gotta try to get those I actually went looking to buy those myself And the ones that I want are don't exist right now And I think it's because of all the flooding and they got bought out But the safety vest that I want has the The radio hanger right here on both sides Because you're gonna have a little two-way radio one of those flashlights For somebody in here is something that I want on there because if the generator breaks down You're gonna go dark and you need light now You don't need to be tripping over yourself trying to find light and that's gonna, you know throw people into a panic Next meeting what I want to do is go over, you know and do a mock Intake of people So we're gonna have some people in here. We're gonna have some people at the door We're gonna have two people with safety vests that are and come up with A reasonable story Of your situation You know and think about that what what kind of story you want to walk in with and You have three kids you're single My beast they're cold. What do I do? You know the Red Cross has the facility to to do with animals and pets and all that stuff So that's definitely a something that's there. Yeah, that's interesting Yeah, even though it says in here that you can't bring your pets Not hearing but they're no but we In my humble opinion and from the one workshop that I went to them You need to have something Because those people aren't there are going to be people who don't want to come To any sort of rescue because of their pets But there were forms that we had it that were at the Session we were at Where they just you had that notation on there so that the people There were other people that would go retrieve the pets so it you know, it's the whole group Everybody's working together. Yeah, it just says it on the second page Yeah, okay, so the the Red Cross has and that might be an older form the Red Cross is taking pets now You know because they've they've noticed that this is a pain in berry when they opened up the auditorium building For a shelter the ice skating rink was where the pets were And the people were in the auditorium the pots were all set up They had X amount of people. I actually toured that And obviously I can't go into detail because I probably shouldn't have been allowed in there But I asked and the guy was like, all right And I knew one of the directors for the Red Cross so I got to see how it worked Kind of thing but the yeah, the pets were all sectioned off over in the ice skating rink The people were Had their their little areas they Little sections that families took and somebody actually had one of those outside awnings In the auditorium to sort of this is my 10 by 10 spot for my family kind of thing So it was it was pretty cool to see that facility activated that way Um when is your next meeting? So I want to keep all the meetings on the last Thursday of the month And at 6 30 and we're going to meet next Thursday Here next Thursday. I mean next month. I'm sorry. Thank you for correcting me. That's my job So next month the last Thursday 6 30 unless is I don't have a calendar my apologies I left my phone in the car Yeah, it's not halloween. That's what I wanted to make sure Yeah, it's not it's not halloween 27th. I have 26 Okay October and that will be the last meeting that we have through the holiday seasons because We're not going to have any catastrophes during the holiday season. Hope to god not No, we're planning. Um, so if everybody's in this room Is everybody willing to volunteer somehow some way? Yes, yeah, okay Who wants to be An office manager we have a secretary who wants to be an office manager Now let me back up and explain why i'm asking this is i'm the emergency management director A shelter is out of my sphere My job with emergency management is Have contact and say Shelter manager We're looking i'm really i'm thinking it's very very possible. We're gonna have to open up in three hours And then the Shelter manager will get a hold of Everybody and say who can volunteer it looks like we might and then turn around and an hour and say yep We're definitely opening and then I turn around and call the watch officer For the state I turn around and alert, uh, red cross that we are open So now we're on the map The office I want to say office manager. I don't know why the shelter manager Will show up to the facility with said items Somebody else will be there and you'll start the setup Obviously brookfield is a tailgate EOC emergency operation center Um, there's no way in heck. I can be in my office and randoff And operate because communication is not there Wait, what do you mean by a tailgate? On the back of my pickup truck. Oh, okay Wait a minute. I thought you were driving around in a little car still. No, I got the truck today I saw the truck today, but I thought that you were still yeah, I still got that too Okay, I have a pt cruiser that I have gutted out And I put plywood in and that could be a great EOC. Yeah Yeah so Go ahead. I well actually i'm gonna ask the question. Um How are we going? What are the most effective means that we we can use or the town can use to make sure everybody in town It even knows about this. I I have an agreement with uh, lane millington Uh, the superintendent that he he will activate the, uh, robo call I have, um vt alert To send out messages to randoff. I have no authority to send out messages to any other town Except brookfield. I just said right now. Yeah, brookfield. Um So the residents of brookfield and Chandler house as long as our powers on I have an agreement with them to use their marquee Um, so we have ways of communicating and then there's there's facebook there's front page forum And there's that kind of thing that can be You know used most people do have a phone Brookfield is very sparse I I have a personal zoom account that if we need to use that that's you know available to to put stuff out um And or meetings and or anything because I don't have a problem about using that right so um So yeah, we we have we have the means to get some word out and it's gonna it's gonna turn into you know I live I I live in randoff actually, but uh, I I live down the street From somebody in brookfield that I know Has no means because everybody knows everybody in this town for the most part So I get the alert I'm gonna go bang on your door and say hey, are you okay? Did you know they're open in a shelter? You know, we're gonna communicate as townspeople And then they send something out in the town report and to insert I look at you just because you're part of the Insert into the town because everybody gets the town. Yeah. See that's that's what we need Right. Well, most people get the town right. Actually, yeah, nobody gets the town We Descend it out But I think I think this year Carol and I spoke about it and we thought we should send it out Descend it And I'm happy to send it out via pastors networks to Pastors in churches in the area so that if you know, they can get it out to their people too I mean we have boxes left over from last year or this year. So we we are now on the hour mark So if you had desperate plans Totally understandable And like I said Next month the last thursday Where are we gonna meet here? What here if we're gonna be here? We're gonna be here Okay, super And we can do that temporary as we get more members You can pass the the torch on okay, and obviously if we do open a a shelter at any time I will be Somewhat involved with it. I'm not setting this up and then drop and run, you know, I'm going to show up and what not And for the training next time that we're going to do a small training You'll get an idea of how it's supposed to And yes, oh, I'm sorry If we have any of these things, how do we let you know that we have some of these things Um, do we just call you or yeah, give me give me a text. Does everybody hear how to text? No, I um, I do I mean you can text me. I was just wondering I don't know how to text just like for me. I don't know how to set it up Would you like to do that? Are we gonna get everybody's name? Oh, all right. Yeah Um, just just just to start with this. Yep. Yep. Well, that's why I said to rich I will build a database. It's when I you know, I'll do it I probably won't do it tonight, but I'll probably do it tomorrow And I'll set up a database with everybody's name and number and I can email them to everybody Okay, um Take a screenshot of them and do a group text tomorrow Would it be easier to let me whatever Can I but it's good to have an it two of this and one of this your fish. Did you know you're officially You're gonna I mean, you know how much it will bother me things. Where do we take them? We'll find out later We're brought you into the church in a text All right, good idea great, okay Until and and and then Amy will know I just want to know where the rest of them are so that I can So that I could have them so that I can start my notebook Yeah Okay, so we're all we're all situated with with stuff. We have another meeting set up Yeah So I I guess officially we're we're closed meeting