December Citizen Corps Council meeting minutes

New Castle County Citizen Corps Council
December 18, 2009 Agenda
Posted at http://ncccitizencorps.blogspot.com/

• Welcome and introductions
o Those in attendance (in order of sign in): Richard Jester CPAW, Bill Wheatley CPAW, Marny McLee DE Citizen Corps, Brian Bannon NCCOEM, Marissa Favata ESC/NCCOEM, Jessi Schimmel ESC/NCCOEM, John Scoggin PEPCO Holdings, Robbie McCray NCC Communication Corps, Lt. Gerry Donovan NCC Police, Peggy Sue Cole ACP, Bobbie Merrill ACP, Dave Carpenter Jr. NCCOEM.

• Review and approval of November 2009 meeting minutes
o Approved as presented.

• NCC Citizen Corps update
o December CERT class December 10 and 11 was very successful. Thirty-two newly trained CERT members. We will be offering a “train-the-trainer” class for anyone interested in teaching CERT on January 22, 2010 at the Public Safety Building (3601 N. Dupont Hwy., New Castle, DE 19720) from 9:30 am to 2 pm.
o Red Cross Damage Assessment Team is forming up quickly. We will be offering the instructor-led training class on January 30, 2010 at the Public Safety Building (3601 N. Dupont Hwy., New Castle, DE 19720) from 10 am to 3 pm. http://ncccitizencorps.blogspot.com/2009/10/disaster-assessment-team-announced.html
o For information about either of this programs, contact Jessi Schimmel at jschimmel@nccde.org or 302.395.2700.

• Discussion about the Delaware Medical Reserve Corps and the State Emergency Registry of Volunteers (SERVDE) by Nicole Desmarais
o The Department of Public Health has a system to manage and identify volunteers through the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC). The system has been useful, but is currently limited to the MRC. Citizen Corps has been searching for a volunteer management system that would serve our purposes well, this system could do just that, but no agreement exists to share the technology.

• Open group discussion
o Discussion of Web 2.0 functions and how they are being used (blog http://ncccitizencorps.blogspot.com/, Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1537122965&ref=mf, Twitter http://twitter.com/ncccitizencorp).

• Set action items and agenda for next meeting
o Next meeting TBA. Check http://ncccitizencorps.blogspot.com/ for more information.

• Adjourn