Agenda NMAEPC meeting November 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Groton Public Safety Building
North Middlesex Area Emergency Planning Committee, November 13, 2012 Agenda
Old Business
1. Review and approval of previous meeting non meeting Minutes
2. Status of available funds with suggestions for best use. .
3. Review of community sign up status and appointment status (members, alternates and Community Emergency Response Coordinator). Note: The name of the coordinator is required for Ecemp. Please bring a listing of your community’s appointments, as you know it, to the meeting. The Town Clerks have received an independent request for this information and some have responded, but I would like your input.
4. Bylaw review. Comments on what we could be doing differently.
5. Certification
6. Please bring your communities listing of Tier 2 reporters for comparison purposes. It is required that Tier 2 reporters send a copy to the Fire Chief. We are now in a new year and Tier 2 reporters must submit updated or new information.
7. Availability of “NIMS for EOC’s” for use by communities for training
8. Suggestions as to what can be done differently. What would members like to see at meetings?
9. Comments on MRPC Meeting regarding Natural Hazard Mitigation Update. (I noticed in the newspaper an article that NMCOG is also starting this process.)
10. RMS Basic and Administrator Class, Each community is allowed 4 students one of which will be the town system administrator. The class runs from 8:00-12:30 with the administrator having an additional hour 12:30-1:30. Students are encouraged, but not required, to bring there own laptop. Have any Communities completed this training? MEMA lists available dates as November 26 and 29.
11. With regard to the TTX NERAC08 Littleton 495 Incident. The summary placed a lot of emphasis on “Improvement Plans” particularly those related to “Incident Command Training” and “Unified Command”. Do your communities Standard Operating Procedure or Standard Operating Guideline cover this subject?
12. Mutual Aid possibilities or Methods .


New Business
1. What happened in your communities during Hurricane Sandy? Road Closings, Power Outages, a State of Emergency, use of WEBEOC (MEMA, NERAC)
2. Other
Bill Shute

The listing of topics that the Chair reasonably anticipates will be discussed at the meeting is not intended as a guarantee of the topics that will have been discussed. Not all topics listed may in fact be discussed, and other topics not listed may also be brought up for discussion to the extent permitted by law.