4/25/2024 Meeting Minutes

Scioto County

Emergency Planning Committee

MEETING NOTICE

Thursday, April 25, 2024

12:30 PM

Conference Room

Scioto County Department of Job & Family Services

710 Court Street – Portsmouth, Ohio

AGENDA

I.        Approval of January 25, 2024, Meeting Minutes

II.     Financial Report

III.       Items of Business

a.   2024 LEPC Exercise

b.   Homeland Security Exercise

c.    Disaster Planning Committee

IV.       Updates

V.    Adjournment

*Next meeting will be July 25, 2024, at 12:30 PM.

LEPC Meeting – April 25, 2024

The meeting was called to order at 12:30 PM in the conference room of Scioto County Job & Family Services by Information & Emergency Response Coordinator Larry Mullins. A quorum was established.

Present:

Chip Maillet

Jim Delabar

George Moore

Larry Mullins

James Parsley

Bill Lynn

Dylan Felty

Gabriella Egbert

Scott Baird

Dale Egbert

Chris Kemper

Debby Brewer

Lorie Mount

Devin Urevick

Paul Sheets

Sheriff David Thoroughman

Deputy Chief Jason Hedrick

Jeremy Cochran

Eric Walsh

Chris Smith

Major Harold Bell

Capt. David Dunlap

Lynn Wilber

Dan Simco

Holly Johnson (Virtually)

Ashley Brickey (Virtually)

Sargent Joe Baisden (Virtually)

Absent:

David Hall, Tiffany Keller, Julian Sommers, Jake Schuldt, Charles Thomas, Darrell Keller, Alyx Burton, Linda Curtis, Bob Long, Cathy Mullins, Maggie Clark, Dr. Michael Martin, Tracy Crawford, Barb Setser, Blaine Duduit, Justin Clark, Tyler Fields, Aaron Montgomery, Sandy Mers, Jane Jarrells, Joe VanDeusen, Paul A.J. Foit, Dr. Darren Adams, Dr. Brian Barhorst, Dr. Jason Cheatham, Doug Buckle, Todd Childers, Carl Compton, Chris Davis, Zack Germann, Elmer Gregory, Scott Holstein, Darren LeBrun, Jannai Napier, Nathan Prosch, Shanna Shank, Steve Hamilton, Sue Shultz, Sam Sutherland, Jack Tackett, Chad Wamsley, Scott Williams, Woody Woodford, Brian Howell, Bill Raison, Kim Carver, James Neal, Roy Grimmett, Molly Dargavell, Chris Niziol, Lisa Carver   

Excused: Dan Endrizzi, Brody Davis, Dan Evans, Tammy Moore-Morton, John Peters

Guest: None

April 25, 2024 – MEETING INFORMATION

I.               Approval of Minutes:

Please review the minutes from the January 25, 2024 meeting for corrections, deletions, and any questions.  

·       Motion: Approve minutes from January 25, 2024, meeting - made by Chip Maillet

·       Motion: Seconded by Chris Kemper

·       Vote: Unanimous approval

·       Resolved: Minutes from 25 April meeting approved without modification.

II.            LEPC Financial Report for the First Quarter of FY 2024:

Contract Services:         MARCS Radio Fees -           $   90.00

                                                                       TOTAL  $       90.00                         

Security:                        Tri-State Security -               $   75.00

                                                                           TOTAL  $       75.00

Food:                             Nancy’s Country Kitchen -   $     425.00

                                                                           TOTAL  $     425.00

YTD TOTAL:                                                               $     590.00

·       Financial Report given by Information & Emergency Response Coordinator Larry Mullins.

·       Motion: Approve financial report - made by Paul Sheets.

·       Motion: Seconded by George Moore.

·       Vote: Unanimous approval

·       Resolved: Financial report was approved without modification.

III.          Items of Business:

a. 2024 LEPC Exercise: The 2024 LEPC Exercise Committee held their last planning meeting on March 28, 2024, to finalize the exercise. This year’s exercise will be a tabletop and is set for Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Minford Fire Department located at 8484 SR 335 in Minford. The following objectives will be evaluated: Incident Assessment, Incident Command, Response Personnel Safety, and Emergency Public Information. Players include Minford and Jefferson FDs, Minford EMS, Ohio and Scioto EMA, the Red Cross, EPA, Health Department, ODOT, Gateway Group, Law Enforcement (SC Sheriff and OSP), and Minford Local schools. All members of the LEPC are invited to come and help out with the exercise.

b. Region 7 Homeland Security Full-Scale Exercise: On October 3rd and 4th Law Enforcement and others from Region 7 will be taking part in an active shooter exercise at Shawnee State University. We are looking for people or groups to play victims as part of the exercise. We tentatively may need around 90 victims. Please let Scioto EMA know if you can help out. A Tabletop exercise will take place at SSU on May 29, as a precursor to the full-scale exercises in October.

c. Disaster Planning Committee: With all the severe weather that Ohio has experienced so far this year, Scioto EMA would like to form a Disaster Planning Committee. The committee would develop contingency plans for addressing such things as debris management, temporary housing or sheltering, damage assessment, reunification, and other tasks. It is hoped that this committee will transition into the committee that will work on updating the All-Hazardous Mitigation Plan that is due to be updated by next year. Anyone willing to volunteer please let the Scioto EMA know.

IV.          Updates

The meeting concluded with a roundtable of various agencies updating the group on the latest activities at their agencies.

V.             Adjournment

·       Motion from Dan Simco to adjourn the meeting

·       Motion seconded by Chip Maillet.

·       Vote: Unanimous approval

·       The meeting adjourned at approximately 1:15 p.m.

The next meeting of the Scioto County LEPC will be Thursday, July 25, 2024, at 12:30 PM in the conference room of the Scioto County JFS.