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New Hanover County LEPC Minutes 9.26.2019New Hanover County LEPC Meeting September 26, 2019 New Hanover County EOC The following persons signed the roster indicating they were in attendance: NAME BUSINESS NAME BUSINESS Mike Alexander Kinder Morgan Kate Murphy Oelslager NHC Community Outreach Stephen Alexander SR&R Environmental Jodie Ruskin UNCW Tommy Batson Pender Co EM John B. Smith Red Cross Jon Booth Kinder Morgan Ron Stancil Sturdy Corp. Julia Boseman NHC County Comm. Catrina Streba NHRMC – EM Lisa Brown NHC HD Jeff Suggs NHC Env Health Stan Harts Withers Ravenel Phillip Watts Colonial Terminals Eric Hatcher CFPUA Linda Willis NCDEQ Patricia Keith American Red Cross Ross Wilcox PNCY Normand Lavoie Invista Randy Wright SR&R Environmental Steve Mason WFD Sarah Wright Sturdy Corp Elizabeth Meyer Invista Frank Meyer NHC Fire & Rescue Teresa Smith NHCEM Welcome and Introductions: Teresa Smith opened the meeting at 11:02 thanking everyone for attending on such short notice since Hurricane Dorian interrupted the scheduled meeting time. New members were introduced and acknowledged Membership announcements: N/A Minutes: July minutes were reviewed and approved. The Florence After Action Report (ARR) was discussed. Industries asked what they could do to help with the county’s efforts during a disaster. Teresa pleaded with the collective to submit a list of resources that each entity could provide to create a comprehensive database of resources such as forklift operators, overhead teams for documentation, not necessarily supplies. The responses have been slow. This was her last attempt to gather the resources. A form was passed around for everyone’s convenience. Elections will take place at the November meeting. Open Forum: Teresa asked if there were any questions regarding Hurricane Dorian. Tommy Batson, Pender County EM brought up planning for rental commodities, such as generators. He suggested implementing contracts 7 days ahead of a potential storm. While he had emergency contracts in place, the resources were already being shipped south to Florida leaving North Carolina without generators. Membership applications will be coming out next month. Teresa asked the group to run through their checklists – what can the county do better to support industry partners? Eric Hatcher, CFPUA would like to see a report of after-action items that have been addressed or completed or more communications. Mike Alexander, Safety School - asked where the gaps are in everyone’s plans. He has generators for all his employees. This is reinforcing the resource list Teresa is compiling. We do not want to be an island like during Hurricane Florence. The marine terminals have a Co-op that meets twice a month to help each other. New Info: Eric Hatcher, CFPUA – county wide hazard assessment, risk resiliency. Chlorine disinfection going away. UV disinfection and lab testing will start in the next day or so. On Tier II. Federal Law – Risk Resiliency assessment selected as a case study. Cyber security – firewall hit 10,000 times per week. DHS/FBI are using us as a case study. Emergency response planning in place in the larger community water systems have to Tier II, but Chemours is not in our Tier II reporting. We cannot respond. DEQ Report on Tuesday didn’t have a clear understanding of what and how much was affecting the Wilmington area and should we shut intake. Federal law is in response to up-river events. Sub-Committee Breakout Summaries: N/A LEPC Committees: Executive Committee  Chairman- Teresa Smith  Vice-Chairman- Eric Hatcher  Secretary- Jodie Ruskin Emergency Planning & Response Sub-Committee:  Chairman- Eric Hatcher  Members: Michael Thompson, Steve Mason, Frank Meyer, Dustin Stream, Billy Howard, Thomas Johnson, Marchele Evans, Heather Griffin Community Education & Public Response Sub-Committee: Community outreach – brochures. Teresa has them to give out. She will be inviting Linda to more events. Wants to speak to preparedness. Who we are and what we do. Public is welcome to attend. Not just be industry partners.  Chairman- Linda Willis  Members- Teresa Smith Next LEPC Meeting: December 10, 2019 at 11:00 AM in the New Hanover County Emergency Operations Center.