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Emergency Preparedness Committee

feralmouse_eq — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:21:31 CDT

Objective: Assure that members and community are ready for any catastophic event
Chairperson: Cindy S.

Upcoming Emergency Preparedness Classes / Talks:

Home & Family Preparedness Training

Thursday Aug 28th
6:30PM - 8:30 PM
Calabazas Park (building across from the library & next to tennis courts)

Please join us as the Rainbow West Neighborhood Association hosts the City of San Jose's Office of Emergency Service's free 2 hour class. This class covers the following topics:

What types of hazards you should prepare for
How to reduce the risk of loss or injury by preparing for emergencies
How to create a family disaster plan
What supplies should you include in your personal and family disaster supplies
How to become more involved in disaster preparedness

The City of Cupertino also offers the following Emergency Preparedness classes. For more details, and to register for the classes:

Click on the following to get to the main site. Then select 'activities' - 'emergency preparedness'

City of Cupertino Classes

Personal Emergency Preparedness Workshop (3 hours) - This is probably very similiar to San Jose's 'Home & Family Preparedness Training' class. I have taken this class through Cupertino and recommend it highly. (Cupertino and Non-Residents - free) Next classes offered:

Tue Aug 12 6:30-9:30 PM
Sat Sept 27 9:00AM - 12:00 PM

CERT Emergency Response Training

The City of Cupertino is offering two sessions of the 'CERT (Community Emergency Response Training)'. Each class is comprised of six 3-hour sessions. (Cupertino residents enroll free, non-resident fee of $35). This is a really excellent series and I highly recommend it. At this time, the City of San Jose does not offer an equivalent class.

Series of 6 3-hr class sessions begining Thurs Sept 11th 9AM - 12PM
Series of 6 3-hr class sessions beginning Thurs Sept 11th 6:30PM - 9:30PM

Note: a 'Personal Emergency Preparedness Workshop' is a pre-requisite class to the CERTs class.

Heartsaver CPR

This 4 hour class teaches basic CPR techniques for adult, child and infants. It also teaches how to give first aid for choking and how to recognize signs of a heart attaqck, stroke, cardiac arrest and foreign body airway obstruction. (Cupertino residents: $45, non-residents $54)

Sat Aug 9 9AM - 1PM
Fri Aug 22 9AM - 1PM

April 2008

The Cupertino CERTs class is great - lively and informative! I highly recommend this to everyone (even if you don't have the time to become a CERTs volunteer, it provides details on how to prepare yourself, your family and your neighborhood to be better prepared to deal with emergencies)

The RWNA is submitting it's CAP Grant Proposal this week. It includes a request for funds for sponsoring an in-house Emergency Preparedness Training class and money for purchasing small rewards for people who complete an Emergency Preparedness, CERTs, CPR, or First Aid class.

February / March 2008 Emergency Preparedness Classes

Three of the Emergency Preparedness Committee attended Cupertino's 'Personal Emergency Preparedness Workshop' last Saturday (Feb 9th). I found it to be an excellent workshop and spoke with the instructor (John M) afterwards. He has agreed to speak to our association. I have sent email to the board indicating that we would like to make arrangements.

Emergency Preparedness Vision Statement

2008 CERTs Goals

RWNA has aprox 170 registered members. The neighborhood association area includes aprox 1500 homes.

CERTs to maintain active presence on RWNA website/wiki. Cindy to ask Dong if we can get write access to the RWNA website (emailed 1/31. Response from Dong - he does not believe sections of website can be set up for different administrators)
CERTs to contribute informational section to RWNA Bi-monthly Flyers add onto the bi-monthly flyers a CERTs news section) (cindy)
100 people to be trained in 2008 by enrolling in at least one of the following classes: Tracking may be desirable for future Grant applications

Family Emergency Preparedness

CPR

First Aid

3 people to take additional training become CERTs qualified

CERTs trained personnel begin forming neighborhood network to cover their nearby neighbors.(tbd to take the class and learn how best to organize this)

Sponsor a year long drive ("Got a Box?") to encourage membership to prepare an emergency supply. Goal = 60 families? (all committee members)

Schedule 1 'Personal/Family Preparedness' class to be taught for the Rainbow West neighborhood. Schedule during one of General Meetings? (Rich to contact SJ Emergency Services regarding outreach plans)(Feb 9 Cindy spoke with Cupertino's instructor of 'Personal Emergency Preparedness Class', and he is willing to lead a class.)

5 minute talks at each General Session

First (April) talk - 2008 CERTS Goals (cindy) /
"Emergency Preparedness Class" experiences. Was class useful/inspiring...? (Cindi B/ Christine)

Second (July) talk - Rich

Third (October) CERTs training - what did class cover, why others should take... If RWNA general meeting is scheduled before March, then we may want to schedule this talk for the first session, since Cupertino is offering CERTs training beginning March 7th (Sue and/or Christine)

Other possible topics:
starting and building up emergency supply box ‘Got a Box?’
‘how to turn off your gas’

Future goals:

Neighborhood CERTs member participation at City (or equivalent) sponsored Emergency Training event

Expand the RWNA CERTs network to cover entire neighborhood

Sponsor 'give aways' of items for emergency preparedness kits (if we get budget money)

Create/Fund? Neighborhood stashes (at each CERTs trained personnel) with neighborhood gear (walkie-talkies, bandages, stretchers? what sorts of stuff makes sense?)Perhaps we can get a shed set up at the Calabazas Fire Station or
Rainbow Park Center and get funding for it. We can ask those 2 places.

Family Emergency List

feralmouse_eq — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:02:23 CDT

Your Health during an Emergency

The following link to the Mayo Clinic site provides information on how to prepare and what to do during an emergency situation if you have diabetes. Many of these suggestions apply to other health related issues.

Mayo Clinic "Managing Your Diabetes during an Emergency"

Personal & Family Preparation before an Emergency

The City of Cupertino has an excellent website on Emergench Preparedness - this site includes information on how to prepare for an emergency, obtain training (for yourself and your children), and how to volunteer.

City of Cupertino Emergency Preparedness site

This list is a 'work in progress' ! Please add your improvements (anyone have any lists from EP class?)

RWNA Emergency Preparedness Committee suggests that each family keep the following items ready in a easy-to-carry box, preferably located near an exit.

Store the following in a sealable, plastic bag:

List of contacts: names, addresses and phone numbers of people you may want to contact (friends, family, insurance company)
Health Information: For each family member, create a list which includes Doctor's names, phone numbers, health ID card number, and list of medications (may want to include details such as prescription number, dosages, how often to take...)
Extra prescription medications (for a week?)
OTC medicines

In addition, keep

Water (for 3 days - one gallon per day per person)
Water purification? examples ...
Food (for 3 days)
Flashlight(s) with batteries (or hand crank or shake versions)
Portable radio with batteries (or hand crank version)
First aid kit
Sanitation supplies (soap, toilet tissue...)
Miscellaneous

manual can opener
matches / butane lighter
extra set of glasses,

Perhaps in another box

Blankets
Clothing

Grants Commitee

feralmouse_eq — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:07:29 CDT

July 7th, 2008

We received notification from the San Jose Neighborhood Development Center this weekend that we have received a CAP grant of $2300! In order to fulfill the terms of the grant, we will need to keep close track of our volunteer hours and keep all receipts associated with these events.

The grant funds the following items:

Neighborhood BBQ $800

UNSCC $200

Insurance $100

Dumpsters $1,000

Communications $200

TOTAL $2300

April 4th, 2008

The RWNA CAP Grant Proposal was submitted to San Jose yesterday. We should find out about whether we will receive any funding by Mid-May.

The proposal includes covering some administrative overhead costs, along with a request for funding a Dumpster Day, Neighborhood BBQ, Family Emergency Preparedness Class, Neighborhood 5K Walk, and a Garage Sale. A copy of the main body of the proposal is available as an attachment "RWNA CAP Cycle 22 Application Final Copy.doc" (attachments are located at the bottom of this page)

San Jose 2008 CAP Grant Information

RWNA Grant Proposal - Current Success worksheet

Block Captain Committee

wsunlin — Sat, 24 May 2008 13:45:31 CDT

Objective:Outreach and flyer distribution
Chairperson: Open

RWNA Bylaws & Documentation

wsunlin — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:10:09 CDT

Committee Development Process

Beautification Committee

wsunlin — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:00:25 CDT

Objective: Organize the Dumpster day, trees removal/planting, house numbers painting.

Chairperson: Laurie Pines

Hospitality Committee

wsunlin — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:48:59 CDT

Objective: Provide refreshments at meetings. Welcome new members
Chairperson: Donna Hadley

Traffic and Public Safety Committee

wsunlin — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:25:16 CDT

Objective: Concerns about traffic in neighboring streets

Chaiarperson: Harry Hadley

RWNA 2008 CAP Grant

LRuby — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:39:31 CST

This contains text portions of our CAP Grant application regarding current successes. RWNA board members, please review (particularly sections in red) and edit/correct and please mark your approval by putting an 'X' next to your name. (I think there is a way to set up a vote, but not going to bother with this for now). Other RWNA members are also welcome to contribute.

Pres: Liz
VP: Kim
VP: Ron
Treasurer: Ruby

"Describe briefly some success your group has achieved and how it has helped to build your group and make your neighborhood stronger. "

We have done a lot in our few short months of existence as an association. We did all of this without funding from the city. We contributed a lot from our own pockets.
General Meetings: The first general association meeting was held in May 2007 because of neighborhood concerns regarding traffic safety and crime prevention, along with a general hope to foster a stronger neighborhood by simply getting to know one’s neighbors. During the meeting, a questionaire was distributed and the answers collated to determine membership interests / priorities.

In subsequent General Meetings, we have hosted a number of speakers including the San Jose Police Department; our Councilman, Pete Constant; and our Mayor, Chuck Reed. For the next General Meeting, we are pursuing the possibilities of either a talk on Pandemic Flu by the Santa Clara County Health Department, ‘Neighborhood Watch’ by the SJ Crime Prevention Group, or on Calabazas Library by their librarian.

Traffic Safety: By working with Pete Constant and our police department, additional crossing guards have been added. (Can someone who is familiar with this detail this in some more?) -- I don't think we got more crossing guards but there was an issue raised by a parent from Meyerholz.

Neighborhood Outreach: Block leaders have been responsible for notifying all homes within the neighborhood via flyers left on doorsteps. We created a website (currently moving over to a WIKI site so that all members may easily contribute/edit), and maintain an email dlist of all registered homes.

Library: We provided and continue to provide strong neighborhood feedback on the Calabazas Library expansion. (More details?) -- Not sure how to word this, but this needs to be somewhat stronger - Dong and Marylou did a lot.

Garage Sale: In October of 2007, we sponsored our neighborhood garage sale. Any household within the neighborhood boundary was welcome to sign up for no fee. A map was available online which highlighted all of the participating homes. Advertising was provided online, through local newspapers and with banners, and signs throughout the neighborhood. In addition, sellers were provided with a package containing a sign for advertising their home, and a set of flyers containing a map of all homes participating in the garage sale.

Emergency Preparedness: Members of our Emergency Preparedness Committee have taken the ‘Personal Emergency Preparedness’ class, and one is curently registered for ‘CERTs’ classes beginning in March (offered by Cupertino). The Emergency Preparedness Committee has set goals for 2008 is to encourage families to prepare for emergencies. We have established a goal of having 40 people trained in ‘Family Emergency Preparedness’/ CPR and/or First Aid classes. The committee is committed to a strong outreach program to inform the neighborhood on how to prepare for emergencies by speaking at every General Meeting, and having a short article included every neighborhood newsletter. The committee is working with a volunteer Emergency Preparedness trainer to provide onsite training to our neighborhood association. (tentatively scheduled for May/June 2008).

WIKI Posting Rules

feralmouse_eq — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:00:46 CST

Before posting to the RWNA site, please be aware of the following rules. Violating posts / links / edits will be removed. In severe cases, the writer will be banned. (And yes, there is advertising on this site supplied as part of using this WIKI provider. If someone can locate another WIKI that has no ads, is multi-user, with decent storage allocation and user interface, and which is free, please contact one of the Admins and we will consider switching)

Don't provide personal information of yourself or others. This include full names (suggest using first name, and initial of last name), phone numbers, or mail address. This site has been set up to be visible to the public, so please be aware.
Be nice. No flaming. Flaming includes personal insults, crude language and so forth.
Linking- Links to outside sources need to be described, must be to appropriate sites of interest to Rainbow West members (no offensive sites, no adverstising). Preferably, describe what the link is going to lead to so people can decide to follow it or not before hand.
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feralmouse_eq — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:21:46 CST

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Emergency Preparedness

Comittee Development Process

etadman8 — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:11:17 CST

Committee Development Process

Establish a leader ·
Sign up on a sheet we will provide with name, phone number, address and email ·
Decide how the group wants to communicate or meet to handle business ·

Set goals:
Brainstorm ideas
Prioritize ideas
Establish the estimated costs for each idea that they want to do and provide to the Grant Committee each year before March 1st
Establish goals for achieving the selected ideas/projects
Establish timelines for the projects
Provide monthly reports of progress to RWNA

Have fun and make our community better and safer ·
Give reports at General Meetings.

Emergency Preparedness Committee Tasks

SanJose_RWNA — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:51:55 CST

Tasks

List and figure out how to divide tasks.

1.Personal preparedness:

A. Set up Yahoo group for interested members and Wiki for those that
rather go to the website. Shall we create a signup sheet for the next general meeting for members who would like to be invited to this Wiki?
B. Send bi-monthly reminders of things to to be prepared, classes that
available, etc.
C. Put inserts into the the meeting flyers, or to hand out at meetings

2. Rainbow West Awareness efforts for meetings:

A. Set up speakers (police, fire dept., CERT, or in-house) or
demonstrations (how to turn off gas, use a fire extinguisher, etc) or
examples of personal kits for meetings to encourage neighbors to
attend
B. Freebies: 1st aide kits, wrenches, flashlights, etc. for meetings
to encourage neighbors to attend. Assuming we get some budget :)

3. Community efforts:

A. Talk to public sites about putting storage sheds and working with
them to establish procedures. Public sites could include Fire Station, Rainbow Park, Muir, Meyerholz, Miller, Lynbrook
B. Talk to hardware stores about possible freebies, discounts for
preparedness items for group sheds and personal use.
C. Establish maps and resources: locations and names/addresses/numbers of those CERT, first aide, CPR trained, Doctors, Nurses, PG&E, members, HAM operators, swimming pools, etc as well as those that need special help.

4. Solicit volunteers for CERT, CPR, First Aid classes etc.
5. Investigate communication options such as Walkie-Talkies within Rainbow West community.
6. Use neighborhood watch to begin to establish zones for preparedness as well?

Emergency Preparedness Budget

SanJose_RWNA — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:30:58 CST

Budget

We can put in CAP request for funding of individual and CERTs training, and for the class to be taught to RWNA members.

Additional gear for family (whistles/wrench to turn off gas/ water purification devices/tablets...?) or CERTs trained members?

Winter Storm Preparation

SanJose_RWNA — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:04:23 CST

The following suggestions for preparing for storms is based off of a news alert email from Cupertino. It provides a good starting point from which we can edit and expand to fit our neighborhood's needs.

Title: Winter Storm Preparation

IWhen the National Weather Service forecasts the possibility of heavy weather, you are encouraged to take the following steps to provide for the comfort and safety of your family and neighbors.

§Prepare for power outages

§Watch for blocked storm drains and other sources of flooding

§Check on your neighbor

During a high wind event, power outages are common. Have battery-operated flashlights and a radio with fresh batteries ready to go.Listen for updates on storm conditions and local power outages on Radio Cupertino 1670 AM, andwww.cupertino.org.

If your telephone requires electricity, plan for alternate communication such as a standard telephone handset or cellular phone.

Freeze plastic containers with water to keep food safe in your refrigerator or freezer.

Pre-filled sandbags are available for Cupertino residents to pick up at 10555 Mary Avenue, in Cupertino.

Wind and rain often block storm drains with debris. Keep the storm drains on your street clear with a rake or hoe.

If power goes out, please check on your neighbors.

During and after a storm, keep away from flooded areas, downed trees, and downed power lines.

Contact PG&E's 24-hour emergency and customer service line at 1-800-743-5002 for more information on power outages.

Winter storms can happen regularly. By working with our neighbors and taking basic precautions, we can make these storms matters of convenience rather than safety.

For more information visitwww.cupertino.org.

Emergency Preparedness Vision

Rich145 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:49:59 CST

Emergency Preparedness Committee Goals ('Vision')

The RWNA Emergency Preparedness Committee Goal ('Vision') is to prepare our neighborhood to be self-reliant for up to three days during an emergency (eg; earthquake). We will:
A. Encourage all members to become prepared and to assist their neighbors to do likewise
B. Provide key (CERTs trained) members to coordinate with emergency personnel and aid families within our neighborhood
C. Identify members of our community who may need special help in an emergency (eg, elderly, sick, families with young children)
D.Track key neighborhood resources (e.g., CERTs/ first aid/ CPR trained personnel, ham radio operators, homes with pools)

Neighborhood BBQ	$800
UNSCC	$200
Insurance	$100
Dumpsters	$1,000
Communications	$200
TOTAL	$2300