City Council

The City of Columbia City In Columbia County on the Columbia River Hazard Mitigation Planning Group Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2014 - 6:00 p.m. City Hall, 1840 Second Street Columbia City, Oregon 97018 Members Present: Casey Wheeler, City Council Member Michael McGlothlin, Chief of Police Lorne Clark, Plant Manager, Dyno Nobel Ron Youngberg, CRF&R Gary Hudson, Citizen Member Frank Hupp, Citizen Member Kelly Niles, Group Leader Ray Murphy, HAM Radio, ARES/RACES Anne Parrott, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, Public Health Foundation of Columbia County Meeting called to order at 6:03 pm Topics: Review of CAN System mapping efforts for City emergency education/notification. City is now broken down into four identified zones which can be activated individually or as groups. Facilitates message programming and reduces time needed for designated areas of information to be broadcasted. No further update, at this time, regarding siren warning system. Discussion raised regarding C-COM and CAN System stakeholder participation in future meeting(s) in order to answer operational and policy questions. Invitations to be extended by Chief McGlothlin. Update and discussion took place regarding legislative outreach efforts pertaining 1 to railcar safety concerns in shipping of crude oil along local rail system. Discussed receipt of letters of support received, in answer to council letter of concern, from Senator Johnson and Representative Witt regarding this issue. Item number 4, discussion and review of Columbia County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, was tabled for future planning group meetings. This was done at the suggestion of Vincent Aarts, Columbia County Emergency Management Coordinator, due to accelerated progress of the planning group with this effort. Columbia City Emergency Operations Plan project kickoff update was conducted. Members were provided with information regarding project status to date and future goals for completion. Planning group members were briefed on Nixle emergency notification system presentation. Vendor was provided contact information for C-COM personnel due to the high cost of the service prohibiting involvement by the City. Other business: None Meeting adjourned at 6:59 pm. 2