HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - October 28, 2013 - CC, Special MeetingCITY OF AZUSA
MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL
SPECIAL MEETING
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2013 - 7:50 P.M.
The City Council of the City of Azusa met in special session at the above date and time in Azusa Light and Water
Conference Room located at 729 N. Azusa Avenue, Azusa, California.
Mayor Rocha called the meeting to order
ROLL CALL
PRESENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: GONZALES, CARRILLO, ALVAREZ, ROCHA
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: MACIAS
STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT
City Attorney Ferre, City Manager Makshanoff, Director of Public Works/Assistant City Manager Haes,
Utilities Director Morrow, Police Chief Gonzalez, Operations Captain Momot, Assistant Director Water
Operations Anderson, City Clerk Cornejo, Assistant/Deputy City Clerk Hernandez.
PUBLIC COMMENT
No public comment was given.
AGENDA ITEM
Presentation by Police Department, on City of Azusa Emergency Operations Center ("EOC")
Police Chief Gonzalez addressed the item giving an overview of the Azusa Police Department EOC,
explaining that the Police Department has undergone a re -organization to have a team approach, instead
of a one member coordinator, which consists of six police staff members to coordinate the operations;
there have been concerns by the community regarding Azusa being at risk of a major disaster, if such
emergency should arise, the EOC will be activated to respond accordingly to the magnitude of the
emergency.
Operations Captain Momot, gave a presentation and overview of the EOC, explaining that Azusa is
located in a unique geographical location with a number of potential concerns; it is also located within
the Disaster Manager Area ("Area D") in L.A. County; there are eight disaster management areas, which
consists of 23 cities within the L.A. County, the coordinator is Ms. Brenda Hunemiller who is housed at
the Azusa City Hall Administration Building. Depending on the magnitude of the emergency, the
channel of coordination to respond would be Azusa's EOC, Walnut Sheriff's Station EOC, L.A. County
Operations Area EOC, California Office of Emergency Services Southern Region, and the California
Office of Emergency Services. Authorized to active the EOC are: Director Azusa City Manager, Deputy
Director Azusa Police Chief, or the on scene manager of the disaster. The most common reasons to
activate the EOC are: a significant earthquake causing damage in the city, an uncontrolled release or
failure of the Morris Dam, State wide emergency or an impending or declared state of war emergency,
major hazardous material incident, brush fires or severe weather, civil disturbances, a terrorist attack that
impacts Azusa, or emergencies that require commitment of resources from two or more cities for
multiple days. In the event of a disaster all city employees become disaster service workers; manning the
EOC in a disaster are four core groups during full activation, comprised of department heads and/or their
designees: (1) Operations consisting of fire/rescue, law enforcement, shelter, utilities, building & safety
& public works; (2) Planning/intelligence do damage assessment and recovery planning; (3) Logistics
work with resources, purchasing, procurement, I.T. support, transportation, personnel, facilities; (4)
Finance/administration, work with cost recovery, compensation, cost analysis. All city employees that
make up these groups, are currently taking instant command system online training through the Federal
Emergency Management Agency ("FEMA") website; with this training, they will create a training
baseline for all respondents, do local training exercises and move to County wide exercise; this will
include adding a table for social media. The Azusa Amateur Radio Communication Emergency Services
("AACES") is a radio operators group of volunteer citizens that are prepared and trained to respond to
the aid of the City with emergency communications in the event of a disaster; the goal is to increase the
Call to Order
Roll Call
Also Present
Pub Part
Agenda Item
S. Gonzalez
Comments
J. Momot
Comments
community participation with EOC workshops at future city events. Social media consists of all the
social websites and is a benefit to the city; people today expect and demand instant information, there are
more people informed in an emergency, citizens post problem areas on oui web site. The EOC Managing
Team are Captain John Momot, Sargeant Sam Fleming, Corporal Jorge Sandoval, Training Coordinator
Sandy Willison and Jail/Fleet and Building Manager Sam Jauregui.
Discussion, including a question and answer session, was held regarding an outreach component to the
community so that family members and households know how to be prepared for an emergency Discussion
situation; social media being the most effective tool to communicate; community outreach through
channels of communication i.e. cable T.V., the city's website, Twitter, Facebook, these are places where
instant information can be provided and more residents can benefit from, and be more prepared in a
general disaster or national emergency, be informed of resources, and provide instantaneous response;
'putting a display at the library showing the community what items should be included in an emergency
preparedness kit, replenishing emergency kits, having a plan in place that will work to be able to provide
to the community in case of emergency; training department heads on how to account for all city
employees should it happen during the employee's work hours, quarterly trainings and exercises; the
Azusa EOC department can communicate with L.A. County by satellite should regular communication
systems not be available.
ADJOURNMENT
It was consensus of the City Council to adjourn the meeting.
TIME OF ADJOURNMENT: 8:35 P.M.
C
NEXT RESOLUTION NO. 2013-C84. (City)
NEXT ORDINANCE NO. 2013-04.
* Indicates Mayor Pro -tem Macias Absent.
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Adjourn