Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting: December 10th, 2020 via Zoom Members present: Yvette Fleming, Harry Kellogg, Roger Lindgren, Marie Versen, Jan Victorson, and Owen Polifka Old Business: FEMA Pamphlets: Yvette reviewed the various pamphlets or brochures available from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) to be distributed to our residents by their respective Emergency Preparedness Resource Person…

Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting:  November 12th, 2020 via Zoom Members present:  Yvette Fleming, Harry Kellogg, Roger Lindgren, Jan Victorson, Marie Versen, and Owen Polifka Old Business:   Preparedness Survey: We discussed the timely dissemination of the survey results to the residents of our township.  It was the general feeling that it would be prudent to have…

Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting:  October 22nd, 2020 at the Cornucopia Community Center Members present:  Yvette Fleming, Harry Kellogg and Owen Polifka; present on Zoom:  Roger Lindgren, Jan Victorson and Marie Versen   Old Business Roger reported that the Bell Town Board has approved our request to purchase a generator for the Community Center at some point…

Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting: September 15th, 2020, at the Cornucopia Community Center Members present: Yvette Fleming, Roger Lindgren, Harry Kellogg, and Owen Polifka Old Business: The Survey/Flip charts: Yvette and Owen met previously and wrote a summary of the EPC survey and presented it to the committee via email and it was approved by the…

Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting:  August 4th, 2020 at the Cornucopia Community Center Members present:  Yvette Fleming, Roger Lindgren, Harry Kellogg and Owen Polifka Old Business:   The Survey: Owen and Yvette agreed to review the information that Kurt Nelson has compiled in order to condense it into a summary to share with our residents as discussed…

Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting:  July 2nd, 2020 at the Cornucopia Community Center Members present:  Yvette Fleming, Roger Lindgren, Harry Kellogg and Owen Polifka The Survey We discussed the survey for the most part of this meeting.  Kurt has formulated a breakdown of the survey response percentages.  We talked about ways to provide a summary or an overview of…

Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting:  June 4th, 2020 at the Cornucopia Community Center Members present:  Yvette Fleming, Roger Lindgren, Harry Kellogg, John Higney and Owen Polifka We continued finalizing the Town of Bell Emergency Action Plan.   The committee approved John’s addition of Tornados and its inclusion forming the Tornados/Straight Line Winds section.  There was some…

Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting (via zoom):  May 14th, 2020 Members present:  Anna Hike-Krueger, Yvette Fleming, Harry Kellogg, John Higney, Roger Lindgren and Owen Polifka We continued reviewing and updating our Emergency Action Plan.   Anna had reviewed the plan after the last meeting’s changes.  She made several recommendations for improving the plan and we proceeded to…

Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting (via zoom): April 30, 2020 Members present: Anna Hipke-Krueger, Yvette Fleming, Harry Kellogg, Roger Lindgren and Owen Polifka Old Business: We continued reviewing and updating our Emergency Action Plan. It was pointed out that the Incident Commander can provide any of the Response sections of the plan for those first responders…

Emergency Preparedness Committee Meeting (via zoom):  April 16, 2020 Members participating:  Anna Hipke-Krueger, Yvette Fleming, John Higney, Harry Kellogg, Roger Lindgrin, and Owen Polifka As with the meeting of last week, this meeting dealt mainly with the continued review and updating of our committee’s Emergency Action Plan. It was decided that John’s concept of utilizing…