South Orange CERT General Meeting Minutes and Action Items Jan.6, 2016 Ricalton's, 19 Valley St., South Orange Agenda and Actions
Primary learning for Operation Iron Horse: wearing proper PPE, following medical triage protocols- asking permission before performing a head to toe assessment.
South Orange CERT General Meeting Minutes and Action Items Nov. 3, 2015 Ricalton's, 19 Valley St., South Orange Agenda and Actions
We are making and seeing some progress; we continue to work on getting attendance at events and recruiting potential volunteers. Special Note: we have made adjustments to the Core Volunteer roster (those who have been trained AND have participated in a training, drill/exercise or event). We now have 17 Core Volunteers and 23 auxiliary volunteers. We encourage all volunteers to actively participate in our meetings, training, drills, and exercises. According to our charter every volunteer must participate at least once in a one of these or in an actual response in order to remain active.
The next CERT Basic training is schedule to start in January and run each Sat. from Jan. 9-30. See sign up: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f084ca5a72ca7f94-cert
Going forward we will plan to take part in 2-3 events: Play Day, National Night Out, perhaps the SO Middle School Health Fair or other large public event.
End of Notes South Orange CERT General Meeting Minutes and Action Items Sept. 16, 2015 Ricalton's, 19 Valley St., South Orange Agenda and Actions
We are making and seeing some progress; we continue to work on getting attendance at events and recruiting potential volunteers.
The next training is schedule to start in January and run each Sat. from Jan. 9-30. See sign up: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f084ca5a72ca7f94-cert
We hosted a table during South Orange Play Day. We had a "Wheel of Fortune", a number visitors, and six people sign up who were interested in becoming volunteers. Thank you to all who helped out. Great work!
We decided to put this on the back burner for now. We will revisit this issue down the road when it presents itself.
We continue to use the Google form that feeds our potential volunteers list; this is checked once a month or more frequently. Not on the agenda:
End of Notes South Orange CERT General Meeting Minutes and Action Items June 3, 2015 Ricalton's, 19 Valley St., South Orange Agenda:
We are making progress, but much more slowly and are challenged by low attendance at training, exercises, and other events. See next item below.
We had five participants in our Spring training, but our last session was cancelled as only two new recruits showed up. Need to address low attendance urgently. Next steps:
Event was well attended and allowed for great outreach. Follow up with 4 interested volunteers.
Exercise went well. Much was learned, and AAR is due out.
Had our first planning meeting and will set up the next planning meeting.
Nothing to report.
Check in with County and plan for TTT; mid. Oct.
Need to speak with Chief Chelel and Adam Loehner.
AnneMarie to send Word document
Play Day SO: Sept. 20- Plan to have a table and also provide traffic control. SO by SO: June 26-28- may offer volunteers to help.
Sept. 9, 7:30-9PM; invite has been sent out. |
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South Orange CERT General Volunteer Meeting- June 3, 2015
South Orange CERT General Meeting Minutes and Action Items June 3, 2015 Ricalton's, 19 Valley St., South Orange Agenda:
We are making progress, but much more slowly and are challenged by low attendance at training, exercises, and other events. See next item below.
We had five participants in our Spring training, but our last session was cancelled as only two new recruits showed up. Need to address low attendance urgently. Next steps:
Event was well attended and allowed for great outreach. Follow up with 4 interested volunteers.
Exercise went well. Much was learned, and AAR is due out.
Had our first planning meeting and will set up the next planning meeting.
Nothing to report.
Check in with County and plan for TTT; mid. Oct.
Need to speak with Chief Chelel and Adam Loehner.
AnneMarie to send Word document
Play Day SO: Sept. 20- Plan to have a table and also provide traffic control. SO by SO: June 26-28- may offer volunteers to help.
Sept. 9, 7:30-9PM; invite has been sent out. |
South Orange CERT General Meeting - April 1, 2015
(Meeting took place at Ricalton's, 19 Valley St., South Orange) Agenda and Meeting Notes:
We have made substantial progress on all objectives: coordination with neighboring CERTs, establishing a marketing and recruitment effort, and developing our procedures (admin. kit etc.); thanks to all those who have accomplish these major objectives.
We have five participants in our Spring training. SO (and Essex County) Residents can still sign up for the remaining sessions at: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f084faea82fa5f94-cert Tom Giordano at Seton Hall is running a CERT Basic training every Friday for four weeks, starting April 10. If you know of someone who would like to attend those, then contact him at: thomas.giordano@shu.edu . Participants will meet the the same requirements attending either of these or can complete what they can at those sessions offered.
We presented and reached out to other organizations. We have posted our training dates to the SO Village Center Alliance.
We are gearing up for this; we have two volunteers for each hour long slot. For those who committed to these slots, please sign up at: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f084faea82fa5f94-socert3
We will schedule this for early Summer and avoid yard sale, June 13. Will set this before the next general meeting.
We have agreed on developing a medical triage drill and formed a planning team comprised of: Mike M., Mike T., Dan, & Brooke. Andrew will help support and provide past exercise documentation.
Brooke and Dan presented. This would be based on the Scouts Venturing crew- 18-21 year olds, with adult advisors. Dan and Brooke will explore this opportunity further and we will revisit in the Summer.
6 volunteers interested. Plan to schedule in mid to late Fall and will revisit this at next meeting.
Background checks Form for volunteers Clarify emergency notification and deployment method
Ted and AnneMarie have agreed to take on this assignment. We will circle back to Adam with an agenda and possible dates, as well as a method for managing a common calendar of events (trainings, drills, exercises etc.).
Well done by all.
Wed. June 3, 7:30-9PM at Ricalton's (see address above) http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f084faea82fa5f94-socert5 |
General Volunteer Meeting - Wednesday, Feb. 25th 2015
We had a great turnout at our first General Volunteer Meeting this past Wed., Feb.25 at Ricalton's. A BIG Thank you to Ricalton's for hosting and donating food. I highly recommend paying a visit for dinner, drinks, or hosting your next event. A BIG Thanks to all the volunteers who turned out. A few key items from our meeting that I wanted to highlight:
We
will following up with more updates and encourage you to sign-up for
our next meeting and events. There will be much more to come. Thanks for your attention and participation. Best Regards,  Andrew Boyarsky Chairperson South Orange CERTBe Part of an Organized Team Trained to Protect & Save Families & Communities Email: info@socert.org   |