SYRACUSE CITY
Syracuse City Disaster Prep Committee
January 28, 2021 - 6:30 p.m.
Municipal Building, 1979 W. 1900 S.
Notice is hereby given that the Syracuse City Disaster Prep Committee will participate in a meeting on Thursday Jan 28, 2021, at 6:30 p.m. in the large conference room of the Municipal Building, 1979 W. 1900 S., Syracuse City, Davis County, Utah. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss/review the following items:
Welcome by Terry Palmer Chairman
Call to Order
Prayer
Pledge
Action Item Update
District Yr Mo Workshop Date Topic Article Due
Syracuse
West Dist 2021
Syracuse District 2021
Syracuse
South 2021
Legacy
District 2021
Bluff
District 2021
Committee Business:
1. Minutes from December Meeting
2. Election for Secretary for 2021 Year
3. Ratification of New Chairman and Vice-Chair moving up from Year 2020
4. Discuss April Disaster Preparedness Exercise focus - make assignments
5. Dan Merkling will write the operations document for the City's ECC
6. Terry Palmer report on J&J possibilities of raised gardening for a city-wide Zoom presentation; discuss other topics: freeze dried, etc.
7. Transfer Judy to discuss What's App texting program
8. Discuss and assign topic for Syracuse Connection Magazine for March - due February 5th, April - due March 5th and should be related to April disaster;
Adjourn
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In compliance with the Americans Disabilities Act, persons needing auxiliary communicative aids and services for this meeting should contact the City Offices at 801-825-1477 at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting.
CERTIFICATE OF POSTING
The undersigned, duly appointed City Recorder, does hereby certify that the above notice and agenda was posted within the Syracuse City limits on this 26th of January 2021 at Syracuse City Hall on the City Hall Notice Board and at http://www.syracuseut.com/. A copy was also provided to the Standard-Examiner on 1/26/21.
CASSIE Z. BROWN, MMC
SYRACUSE CITY RECORDER
DISTRICT LEADERS:
Syracuse West District- Lane Smith Vice Chair Legacy Park District - Duane Cheney, Vice Chair
Syracuse District - Judy Meservey Bluff District - Patrick Carroll
Syracuse South - Wes Jenkins Member at large - Terry Palmer, Chair Member at large - Dan Merkling, Secretary
Notice of Special Accommodations (ADA)
In compliance with the Americans Disabilities Act, persons needing auxiliary communicative aids and services for this meeting should contact the City Offices at 801-825-1477 at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting.
Notice of Electronic or Telephone Participation
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Other Information
MINUTES:
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE
MINUTES FROM MEETING
1/28/21
- 18:34 - Motion to open meeting by Duane Cheney; seconded by Patrick Carroll
- Call to order: Terry Palmer
- Invocation: Dan Merkling
- Pledge: Terry
- Minutes from December meeting
- Read by Dan
- Motion to accept by Duane; seconded by Dan; approved by all
- Motion by Terry to promote Duane to Chair and Dan to Vice-chair; seconded by Patrick; approved by all
- Election of Secretary for 2021
- Motion/nomination by Dan of Patrick; seconded by Duane; approved by all
- Patrick accepted appointment
- Dan will take notes for this meeting and send them to Patrick for transmission to Jody Mahlum
- Discussion of April 2021 Disaster Exercise
- Various options were brought forward; most were discarded due to COVID restrictions
- Settled on doing a communications exercise, utilizing the Zoom app
o Exercise date: April 17th at 10:00am
o Will use the chat feature of Zoom in a non-password meeting for citizens to check in with their name and phone number
o Zoom will be up for 30 minutes
o 10 door prize baskets/bags will be offered as incentive to get better citywide participation
o Committee members will solicit contributions from local businesses and organizations to fill the prize bags
o Dan will author the small quarter-page blurb advertising the exercise
It will be published in the Syracuse Connection in the March and April issues
It will be published in the city's web site and Facebook page
It will be provided to the five District coordinators for sharing with their Area coordinators to be published on the District and Area social media platforms
It should be published once a week until April 5th and then daily until the 17th
o When the exercise has ended at 10:30, the five District coordinators will check in on the same Zoom meeting with the city to discuss the results and to officially close the exercise
o The door prize winners will be drawn from the participants and they will be contacted to pick up their prize at the City offices
- Dan has started gathering information to create the ECC operations document
- He will hopefully have a rough draft by next month
- Terry reported on his discussion with J&J Nursery to provide a city Zoom presentation in March
- Scheduled for March 13 at 10:00am
- Will be broadcast from the Community Center
- Terry will author the advertisement for this activity
- Discussed upcoming articles for the Syracuse Connection
- Lane Smith has submitted the article for the February issue on 'firearm safety'
- Dan will submit the article for the March issue on 'personal disaster preparedness'
- 19:43 - Motion to adjourn by Dan; seconded by Terry; all approved