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The City of Columbia City In Columbia County on the Columbia River Hazard Mitigation Planning Group Meeting Minutes – July 30, 2025 - 6:00 p.m. City Hall, 1840 Second Street Columbia City, Oregon 97018 Citizen Members City Staff Members ☒ Gary Hudson (Chairman) ☒ Jerry Bartolomucci, Chief of Police ☐ Vacant (Vice Chairman) ☐ Micah Rogers, Columbia City Public Works ☒ Jazzmin Love (Secretary) Columbia County Members ☒ Connie Quick (City Council Rep) ☐ Josh Allen, Environmental Public Health ☒ Frank Hupp (Member at Large) ☒ Corey Padron, Emergency Management ☒ Logan (Member at Large) ☐ Eric Smythe, Columbia River Fire & Rescue ☐ Cindy Turula, GIS Specialist (☒ Meeting Attendees) Hazard Mitigation Meeting Minutes – March 26, 2025 • Meeting called to order at 6:03 p.m. by Gary Hudson. • June and March meeting minutes approved. • August 9, Preparedness Fair o Confirmed to attend: CERT, Emergency Management, State Forestry Service o Not Attending: Sheriff’s office o Have not heard from CCOM, CAT team, Fire Dept, Team Robicom, or Red Cross o Corey will invite Ham radio to attend and broadcast live. If available, will bring pop up shelter as a display. o Transportation Ideas discussed for city tour including asking school principal about possible use of school bus, buggy rides. • Connie voted as Vice Chair if eligible • Emergency Services Updates o Emergency Drinking Water workshop held last week. Commissioners were there. Based around regional drinking water plan. o August 12 setting up shelters on fairgrounds by the pavilion with help from Oregon resilience management. Also setting up portable showers to test out. Multnomah County offered Columbia County a command center type trailer with lots of emergency related equipment. Includes generators, hvacs and many other helpful items. This will be available for use in the near future. o Columbia County Emergency Servies will have a side by side now that will be 1  available for use as requested. o Full evacuation drill tomorrow at 3 p.m. at the St Helen’s courthouse. Pushing the County panic button. St Helen’s police will be participating. • Hazard group agreed to move meetings from Wednesday to last Tuesday of the month. This should bring up attendance. • Next meeting August 26, 2025 • Adjourned at 6:28 2