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Meeting Summary and Outcomes
FireWise of Southwest Colorado
April 20, 2004
In attendance: Dan Ochocki, Bill Ball, Ben Cordova,
Kristie Borchers, Nicole Smith, LeeAnn Vallejos, Laurie Robison,
Marsha Porter-Norton, Joy Mathis, Ron Tyner, Pam Wilson, Carolyn
Hunter, JT Coyne, Jim Garofolo, Jay Hwang
Pam will present a program for the council on the 10-year strategy
for Federal Lands related to fire mitigation at 5:30pm on May 18th.
April 17 Update
What worked, what didn’t work. . .The event was cancelled
due to low RSVP’s and speaker cancellation. The event has
been rescheduled for 2 evenings:
a) May 18 6:30 to 8pm on legal and insurance issues for HOA’s
in enforcing defensible space covenants. There will be a panel
discussion and a presentation by a local attorney (Carolyn will
contact someone in the SW Bar Association and advertise for attorney
speakers over their e-mail tree). Dan Ochocki will facilitate
the panel discussion.
b) May 25 6:30 to 8pm on Developing an Evacuation Plan for Subdivisions;
Dealing with Slash as a Neighborhood; and a “What Works”
discussion—successes and challenges of subdivisions and
how to address the challenges. The meetings will be held at the
LPEA meeting room, 45 Stewart St. in Bodo Park. Snacks and drinks
provided.
The fire council would like to extend personal invitations to
homeowners in “high risk” subdivisions. The proper wording
must be used when making the phone calls so as not to scare people.
Nicole, Carolyn and Ben (as well as the other four callers) will
help place phone calls. Ron will forward call lists and protocol
suggestions to new callers.
The council decided that it would be up to the presenters if they
felt comfortable being videotaped. Kristie will poll them and let
Joy know so she can reserve the video camera from DCAT.
Fire Prevention Insert in the Herald coming out this Sunday will
advertise the event and psa’s will be sent to all local radios
and newspapers. The four mitigation companies that were planning
on attending the April 17th meeting will be invited to set out information
at both meetings. At the meetings, the council will make sure to
provide the list of ALL companies for people.
Five Part Brochures
Five Part Brochures are done as well as the wooden racks! YEA –
Chas! They were distributed at the meeting. Bill will put the brochures
on the SWcoloradofires website. Rack cards are almost out of stock.
The council will pursue funding to have more printed.
Radio Interview
Ron Tyner did a Council-radio interview for KSUT, to advertise the
April 17th event. The taped interview will run later in the month
(with the new dates). Thanks, Ron!
La Plata County Urban Interface Code
The planning for the new driveway code is slowly moving forward.
The council does want to be involved in supporting the new code.
The council will invite Nancy to the meeting on the 18th of May
to update the council on the code.
Homeland Security Grant
Grants for natural disaster preparedness are available through the
Corporation for National Service. The council is applying for one
of these grants.
Red Cross
LeeAnn stressed that the Red Cross is moving ahead with their involvement
in fire mitigation education, with or without Fire Council. Concerns
were raised about The council’s education committee will meet
with LeeAnn to coordinate a future training and to discuss the partnership
between the council and the Red Cross.
Home Depot
Kristie suggested holding a Firewise Council booth at Home Depot
on a Saturday in May in conjunction with a sale on fire mitigation
tools. Looking for volunteers to help!!!
June Meeting
The council decided to skip the June meeting and regroup in July.
Next meeting: May 18th 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. LPEA
Meeting Room
Don’t forget
May 18th 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Legal/Insurance Issues
May 25th 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Evacuation/Slash/Video/What Works
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