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WELD COUNTY COUNCIL
May 17, 2010
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The Weld County Council met in regular session in full conformity with the We1&County
Home Rule Charter, Monday, May 17, 2010, 6:30 p.m. at the Weld County Centennial.
Center, 915 10th Street, Greeley, CO. - -
ROLL CALL: The meeting was called to order by President Perry Buck. Vice President
Don Mueller, Councilmen John Kivimaki and Charles Tucker were present, constituting a
quorum of the members. Also present was Roy Rudisill, Dan Oster and Karla Ford,
Council Secretary. Councilwoman Ginny Buczek was excused.
PUBLIC COMMENT: There was no public comment.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Councilman Kivimaki made a motion to approve the May
17, 2010 agenda. The motion was seconded by Councilman Mueller and carried.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Councilman Kivimaki made a motion to approve the April
19, 2010 minutes. The motion was seconded by Councilman Tucker and carried.
APPROVAL OF REPORT TO THE PEOPLE: Councilman Mueller made a motion to
approve the 2010 1st Quarter Report to the People. The motion was seconded by
Councilman Kivimaki and carried.
REVIEW PROGRAM:
Weld County Emergency Manager, Roy Rudisill, distributed two handouts and gave a
presentation regarding the Office of Emergency Management (OEM).
Emergency Management Functions — building relationships with agencies, organization
and citizens to prepare before an event or incident happens and the Office of
Emergency Management coordinates these efforts through training and exercises.
There is a federal and state disaster relief program that gives authority to have an
emergency office.
Daily functions include grant management, emergency support function coordination
(meetings and planning), county wide NIMS(National Incident Management System)
coordination and tracking, emergency operations plan development and maintenance
(county and municipality), homeland security vulnerability assessments and exercise
development.
Emergency Support Function (ESF) set-up was used to develop a county plan. Mr.
Rudisill meets with the different departments within the county and develops
procedures. They work together to create a plan and discuss what will work and what
will not. Each municipality also created a similar plan using the ESF framework.
Mr. Rudisill attends and represents Weld County at several monthly meetings such as
Northeast Colorado Emergency Managers Association, Police and Fire Chiefs Meeting,
EMS Council, Special Needs Planning, Exercised and Evaluation Planning Team and
the Weld COG Team.
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Quarterly meetings attended are Northeast All Hazards Region Committee, Northeast
Region Citizen Corps Council, Local Emergency Planning Committee, Colorado
Emergency Planning Committee and Weld County Citizen Corps Council.
Grant funds are important to this area. The Emergency Management Performance
Grant has increased each year and this grant is 32% of the OEM budget.
Homeland Security Grants— all grant applications through the county are reviewed by
the OEM. The applications are forwarded to the NEAHR for review and approval.
Funding that is received is county wide and funds items such as communications
equipment, Hazmat, Bomb Team and SWAT Team equipment.
The OEM function during an incident is to provide resource management, give status
reports to the Sheriff, County Commissioners and Colorado Division of Emergency
Management and resource management with Incident Commander.
The Office of Emergency Management has learned from previous emergencies
(blizzards and tornados) that there needs tc be emergency plans for small towns,
generators and sirens, training and exercises (tabletop, functional and full scale) and
communication. Several grants have accommodated generators and sirens for several
small towns.
Weld County has 846 chemical facilities that report to the OEM. There are 181 of those
facilities that are classified as EHS facilities and are required to have a response plan.
NEW BUSINESS:
2011 Budget
The secretary distributed a packet of information regarding the 2011 budget and a
proposal with the 10% decrease. The council will review and discuss at the June
meeting.
Notebook Updates
Two notebook updates were distributed to the Council for their notebooks.
Coordinator Reports
Councilman Mueller attended a Planning Department meeting with Harold Evans from
the City of Greeley Water Board regarding the water needs in 2030 and 2050. Council
man Tucker attended the UQM Presentation with Vice President Joe Biden.
Councilwoman Buck attended the Progressive 15 meeting in Holyoke and heard
information about work force development, office of economic development, ports to
plains highway, a water project coming out of Wyoming, telecommunications in rural
areas and the 1396 energy bill. She also attended the 2011 Budget meeting and
National Tourism lunch.
Upcoming Meetings
The council was invited to the upcoming Elected Officials meeting on June 21, 2010.
Payment of Bills
Councilman Kivimaki made a motion for the bills to be paid as listed below:
Mileage for Councilwoman Perry Buck $ 194.40
Mileage for Councilman Don Mueller $ 11.52
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Mileage for Councilman John Kivimaki $ 43.20
Mileage for Councilman Charles Tucker $ 94.08
The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Buck and passed.
ADJOURNMENT: By acclamation the meetin was adjourned at 8:15 p.m.
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