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08-09-2012 LEPC MinutesLEPC Meeting Minutes August 9, 2012 C&E’s Restaurant – 12:00pm 1 Members Present: First Name Last Name Company Danny Barker Cook Composites Polymers Myles Bartos US EPA Steve Bowman Pitts. Co. Fire Marshal's Office Betty Bryant Pitts. Co. Emerg. Mgmt. Verna Burnette Pitts. / Danville Health District James Davis Pitts. Co. Emerg. Mgmt. Steve Dishman Danville FD / EM Barry Dunkley Danville Utilities David Eagle Danville FD Craig Fulcher DRMC Laura Gateley Pitts. / Danville Health Dept. Mark Gauldin Williams Pipeline Bobbie Grogan Southern VA Mental Health Stephanie LaPrade SAAA Sid Leslie VSP Craig Motley Sartomer Donald Motley Pitts. Co. Sheriff's Office Ric Niesen Cook Composites Polymers Kelley Satterfield Danville Emerg. Mgmt. John Sherrill Commonwealth of VA Stuart Sutphin VA Cooperative Extension Danny Tate American Red Cross Summary of Meeting:  Chairman, David Eagle, welcomed everyone to the meeting and asked if there were any new members. The meeting started approximately at 12:30 pm, after everyone had the chance to go through the lunch buffet line.  Chief Eagle then asked for the approval of the last meeting’s minutes, and they were approved with the appropriate motions.  CERT reports: The City just recently held the National Night Out in cohorts with the Danville Police Department and Neighborhood Watch Program, and it was successful. o Jim Davis reported for County CERT. The County is about to roll out some teen and adult training classes that will be available to residents in the county, and additional recertification classes will be available as well for First Aid and CPR. The county also wants to utilize the CERT members in the month of September to do some public relations to get energized for National Preparedness Month.  Asst. Fire Marshal, Richie Guill, reported for the HazMat team. They haven’t been extremely busy over the last couple of months, but have stayed active with regional responses in monitoring the clearing of land in South Hill and several suspicious package runs in the City. The incident at Goodyear included a bomb that was a part of a training exercise for Homeland Security, but Homeland Security did not mean for it to stay on the truck to Goodyear. The incident ended up being a full response for the City and they had to call bomb techs in to analyze the situation – good training exercise. Also, the Post Office incident for the City included OC spray for dogs. It came across in packaging, and the employees did not realize why their eyes were burning. The team had to de-con the employees, and they found out that the LEPC Meeting Minutes August 9, 2012 C&E’s Restaurant – 12:00pm 2 substance was pepper spray. The team also monitored their normal hydro-carbon responses and on the environmental side, some illegal dumping and tires. The City hopes to get some training scheduled for a tabletop drill in the near future. EPA offered their assistance in getting some training scheduled through grant funding as well.  Cooperative Extension Agent, Stuart Sutphin, presented information on what the Cooperative Extension can do to help citizens, especially after a natural disaster. He brought with him news releases and publications of helpful information for after-disaster questions. The Coop. Extension has multi-functions. They work on damage to crops from storms, to disaster declarations, to special needs, to emergency preparedness items, and they also serve as a Liaison to Presidential Declarations of Disaster. All of which is designed to help citizens have answers to their after-disaster questions. If the Extension does not have answers, they have access to a wealth of information from other agencies. You may also check out their website for more helpful information, http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/ .  There was general discussion about the Derecho Storm. This storm caused probably the worst utility outage in quite some time. There has been some discussion about utilizing the old emergency notification system sirens, but Chief Eagle states that is far from realization. DEQ experienced a lot of phone problems of getting information disbursed to everyone. Jim Davis reported that there was $14,000 worth of damage done to agricultural mean. However citizens, as a whole, did not report much damage, but they have the ability to file and get public assistance. Cooling shelters were found used more than usual during the extreme heat weeks, 14 shelters were opened during this time. God’s Pit Crew helped out greatly in getting 28,000 bottles of fluid out to the county.  National Preparedness Month is coming up. Danny Tate from the American Red Cross presented some information on how to help our community during September. Time got away from us this year, so we are not going to be able to get preparedness kits together for this year but the hope is to definitely get this planned for next year! We want to be able to get vendors to supply items for home, pet, and elderly needs, and put all these items together in a 5 gal. bucket to give to people in order to be prepared for disaster. The goal is to get all of this together for next year, and hope to start working on it in the Spring  Next Meeting: October 11, 2012 12:00pm Mary’s Diner – Danville, VA  Chief Eagle then asked if there was any other discussion for the good of the meeting and adjourned the meeting, at approximately 1:18 pm. Respectfully submitted, Kelley G. Satterfield Senior Secretary, Danville Emergency Management