CCAC Minutes 07/21/2022Collier County Citizen Corps Advisory Committee
July 21, 2022, 10:00 A.M.
Voting Members Present
Reg Buxton, Chamber of Commerce — Chairman
Walter Jaskiewicz, Coast Guard Aux
Ashley Jones, The Salvation Army
Ed Bonilla, RSVP
Barry Gerenstein, Community Emergency Response Teams
Voting Members Not Present
MAJ. Richard Farmer, Civil Air Patrol
Bridget Bannon, American Red Cross
Chris Byrne, Collier County Fire and EMS Chiefs' Association
Non -Voting Members Present
Joshua Starrett, Citizen Corps Liaison — Emergency Management
William Lang, Local Mitigation Strategy Representative — Emergency Management
Mike Shaw — Emergency Management
Camilo Torres, FL Dept of Health —Collier
Spencer Smith, United Way Collier and Keys
Dan Summers, Emergency Management —Director
Larry Kielasa, ARES
Non -Voting Members Not Present
James Cunningham, Collier County Sheriff's Office
Opening
Meeting was called to order by Chair Buxton at 10:00 A.M. Roll call was conducted, and quorum
was met. Minutes from January 13, 2022, meeting was approved.
New Business
United Way was approved by Citizen Corps and now must go before the Board of County
Commissioners for approval.
There was discussion of having the Advisory Committee appoint a secretary to take minutes, but
no members were nominated in the meeting. EM Staff will continue to transcribe the meeting
minutes.
Law Enforcement Update — No Law Enforcement member present
Old Business
Local Mitigation Strategy Updates
William Lang — LMS
• handed out the quarterly report, with recap of 2021. Not many changes.
• No HMGP Grant opportunities.
• The State (FEMA) provided traditional grants 75.5 cost split. 75 % Fed 25% local in response to
some items and some fed legislation they were able to change those numbers to 90/10.
• Two disasters Sally, Covid Last pot of money from Sally.
• Through the State of Florida there is a Grant opportunity to HOA being dropped. The Governor's
office got involved and pushed out initiatives, with prerequisites.
• Two vacancies on the LMS
o Parks and Rec
o GMD (Planning/zoning)
Camilo Torres- DOH
• DOH continues to work their testing sites. These are walk up only Monday — Friday 9:00-4:00.
• Percentage of testing is at 20%. Testing is starting to increase; it went from 20 patients a day up
to 200.
• Monkeypox is low risk in Florida.
• Urging parents to get their kids vaccinated before school. DOH has all the vaccines needed
available.
Mike Shaw —Training and Exercise
• ICS 400 is coming up August 2-3 and still have a couple spots open
• Looking for more to register for the Instructor Development Workshop that is taking place
August 16-18, 2022
• ICS 300 will be held on December 6-8, 2022, there are spots still available.
• The Naples Airport Exercise had their initial midterm planning meeting and the second one will
take place on August 8, 2022. The full-scale exercise will take place on October 25, 2022
Ashley Jones — Salvation Army
• Been busy getting their volunteer teams up and running.
• Brand new kitchen on wheels that is being utilized to assist with the new volunteers and their
trainings.
• Ministry of presence training will be held Saturday Aug 12, 2022, 8:00-12:00 and the Serve Safe
training will be help in the afternoon.
• Disaster Food Service and Canteen Operations Training will be held on August 13 from 9:00-4:00
• The Salvation Army will be assisting with the Lipman Backpack Giveaway and will have their
canteen out there.
• They will also be participating in the Big Bus Event November 5
• The Salvation Army continues to work closely with the American Red Cross. They get a fair
number of referrals from the East Coast Branch of the Red Cross.
Spencer Smith - United Way — Collier and Keys
• Volunteer Florida Grant
• Oversees all Community Impact between Collier and Monroe County
• Doubling down on all the grant funded projects through various grants
• Working with Salvation Army found of funding long term recovery
• They are on their 3rd round of funding and hoping this is the last. They received $500,000 and
are about halfway through that.
• Working on getting another 100k in additional funding and this will assist with about 10 more
houses in Collier County.
• Been working on case management through Emergency Solutions Grants, Covid Variation with
Continued Care Group and the Hunger and Homeless, assisting families with rent assistance
from the effects of Covid.
• 9 Counties will receive with 4.5 million dollars due to exceptional performance, to get a million
back for the community.
• Individual Reports
Larry Kielasa - ARES
Continue to work on ARES has gotten some good reporting
Exercise with CCSO after August 10th meeting
Will try to locate a fair amount of people at the substations.
Project Director for the RSVP
• 90 Volunteers now, trying to increase volunteers seasonal and year-round.
• Can help with volunteer's fundraisers, activities,
• Recently mobilized 21 volunteers to help with packing kids
• Training with Emergency Management
Mike Shaw - Emergency Management
Vacancies EM are still trying to fill PAC, We now have the Telecommunications manager, and are
looking to hire an assistant.
Most of pre -storm logistics and staging of equipment's is finished.
Purchased ARCGIS for WebEOC — will be able to push more information out. This will help the
public to decided where they need to go during a storm. These programs will be incorporated
sometime down the road.
Barry Gerenstein —CERT
CERT Teams North C Fire and Greater Naples
North Collier July 9 CERT class was canceled low attendance, holding an event at Coastland Mall
on Nov V. This is being put on NCC. GN CERT They have a gotten a good start back in Feb. They
have had a couple public events with high attendance and was televised. Verona Walk received
the CPR AED introductory course from Greater Naples Fire.
Next Meeting is October 13, 2022, at 10:00 AM
Meeting Adjourned
The next meeting will be held on October 13, 2022, 10:00 AM at the Emergency Services Center.
Meeting Adjourned 10:44 AM
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