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STARRS BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES May 19, 2011 The meeting of the STARRS Board of Directors was called to order at 10:00 a.m. at the offices of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments at One Memorial Drive, St. Louis, Missouri with attendance as follows: Directors Present Ex Officio Nancy Bates, President Rob Wylie, Vice President Dolores Gunn, Secretary Charles Bryson, Treasurer Abe Cook Dennis Jenkerson Randy Lay Jon Lewis Joann Leykam Morris Taylor Ed Hillhouse Greg Render Hope Woodson Also present were: Chief Greg Brown, Eureka FPD; Mr. Brian Young, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department; Ms. Chris Zirges, BJC; Mr. Nick Gragnani, Ms. Anna Giacomini, Mr. Eric Hammonds, Mr. Brian Marler, Mr. Steve Swift, Mr. John Whitaker and Ms. Jane Suozzi of STARRS staff. CALL TO ORDER Ms. Nancy Bates, President and Chair, called the meeting to order. APPROVAL OF MINUTES A motion was made and seconded to approve the March 17, 2011 minutes. The motion passed unanimously. DISCUSSION ITEMS Executive Director’s Report • 2011 UASI Grant Application Update – Mr. Nick Gragnani reported that the FY 2011 grant application was released and was received by STARRS at 9:30 a.m. this date. In addition staff received notice that the Kansas City Urban Area was cut from the UASI program for FY 2011. There was a brief discussion on the impact the lack of funding would have on the Kansas City region. Mr. Gragnani advised that the St. Louis region will receive $5,973,100; with a law enforcement set aside for terrorism prevention activities totaling $1,630,581. He stated that the Executive Budget Committee will meet on June 3 at 9:00 a.m. at East-West Gateway. John Whitaker gave a summary of the submitted project proposals for the FY2011 grant totaling $13,772,491. He reported that although the deadline has passed for submissions, staff is still waiting for the EMS committee’s projects proposal. 1
• FY 2012 UASI Grant Application Update – Mr. Nick Gragnani gave a brief summary of what the U.S. House of Representatives has recommended for FY 2012 funding. Currently, the funding proposed for 2012 has been reduced from the 2011 amount and has been limited to the ten highest risk urban areas in the country. • STARRS Committee Update - Hope Woodson, Advisory Council (AC) Co-Chair, provided an update regarding the AC’s progress in reviewing committee guidelines including voting members, minutes, meeting sign in sheets, and public notices. She presented a STARRS committee meeting minutes template to facilitate the process of completing minutes and posting them on the website for public access. Mr. Gragnani added that updated committee lists have been sent to all of the STARRS committee co-chairs for review. Once the changes have been submitted back to STARRS, updated committee lists will be provided to the Advisory Council and to the Board. Good Friday Tornado Response • Fire Mutual Aid – Chief Greg Brown, Eureka FPD, gave a report on the recent response to the Good Friday tornado incident by highlighting the resources and assets funded through STARRS and deployed through the Fire Mutual Aid system. Regional teams initially responded to St. Charles County but shortly afterwards St. Louis County requested assistance for damage in North St. Louis County. An eight person incident support team was sent to the County’s EOC to assist with resource requests which included establishing Emergency Support Function (ESF) 4, 9 and 10. He advised that the E-Sponder software was activated and an incident report was initiated. Several incident screens from the E-Sponder software were displayed and explained. He advised that many agencies such as the St. Louis County Heavy Rescue Team, EMS and several engine company strike teams were deployed almost immediately to the north county area. Chief Brown added that Incident Support Teams trained with STARRS funding were deployed to the southeast Missouri region during their flooding event as were swift water rescue teams from the St. Louis region. Chief Brown referred to the efforts made by Chief Greg Render toward collaboration between Missouri Fire Mutual Aid and Illinois Mutual Aid Box Alarm System (MABAS) with several Illinois engine companies responding to North St. Louis County. • St. Louis Medical Operations Center (SMOC) – Mr. Gragnani gave a brief history of MedComm and the newly created St. Louis Medical Operations Center and introduced Ms. Christine Zirges with BJC Healthcare who gave an overview of the SMOC activity during the tornado event. Ms. Zirges summarized the response from the SMOC for both the winter weather event in February as well as the tornado in April. The SMOC was virtually activated in February for three days using the full E-Sponder platform. Situational awareness calls were held via conference call twice daily. With good collaboration from Public Health, the SMOC concept worked well in protecting the nursing homes. Joann Leykam inquired if all eight counties were represented in the SMOC. Ms. Zirges responded that all eight counties and all fifty-five hospitals are represented. She clarified that there are currently seven duty officers that are representatives of the region’s hospitals and that many more are being trained. With specific reference to outlying areas in Jefferson and Franklin counties, she indicated that they are all represented in the SMOC on some level. Mr. Gragnani explained that the SMOC utilizes both E-Sponder and EMTrack software. Ms. Leykam expressed concern that there are some areas that are not in close proximity to a large, involved hospital. Ms. Zirges stressed that the collaboration exists through the region. 2
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