Diana Rothe-Smith was introduced as the new Emergency Response Volunteer Fairfax: Program Manager with Volunteer Fairfax. She has been in the position for a month but was in the position 13 years ago. Finished the Providence and Springfield CRGs and is beginning to plan the CRG round-up. Found that more outreach was needed to get more participation from the communities. Office of Emergency Management Report: Matthew Marquis spoke of the success at the Preparedness Awareness Event at Providence Community Center on October 14th. OEM counted about 800 individuals that they directly engaged within a four-hour span. Because of this success, OEM is looking to do this event multiple times a year and look for the members of the council to participate. OEM has finalized the process for their volunteer group and will begin to offer it in the next quarter. OEM will also be hosting a disaster related game offer by the Koshland Science Museum. That game will take place at the end of November and possibly be used at the CRG Round-Up. Depending on the efficacy of the game, Matthew was looking into providing the game to members of the council. New Business: Need to address the vacancy within the Outreach position on the council. The Office of Emergency Management has tried to contact Representative Patrick Scott and have not received response. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm. Next meeting is Thursday, January 25th, 2018 at 6:45pm in Conference Room 232
Volunteer Fairfax: Diana Rothe-Smith was introduced as the new Emergency Response Program Manager with Volunteer Fairfax. She has been in the position for a month but was in the position 13 years ago. Finished the Providence and Springfield CRGs and is beginning to plan the CRG round-up. Found that more outreach was needed to get more participation from the communities. Office of Emergency Management Report: Matthew Marquis spoke of the success at the Preparedness Awareness Event at Providence Community Center on October 14th. OEM counted about 800 individuals that they directly engaged within a four-hour span. Because of this success, OEM is looking to do this event multiple times a year and look for the members of the council to participate. OEM has finalized the process for their volunteer group and will begin to offer it in the next quarter. OEM will also be hosting a disaster related game offer by the Koshland Science Museum. That game will take place at the end of November and possibly be used at the CRG Round-Up. Depending on the efficacy of the game, Matthew was looking into providing the game to members of the council. New Business: Need to address the vacancy within the Outreach position on the council. The Office of Emergency Management has tried to contact Representative Patrick Scott and have not received response. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm. Next meeting is Thursday, January 25th, 2018 at 6:45pm in Conference Room 232
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