1.       General Information:

      a.       Google Earth: Our Site Locators (Sandy Geary, Charlene Justice and    Karen Noeth) have been designated to use Google Earth to locate distressed addresses.  The database entries are kept up-to-date on every member and friend of the church.

      b.      Training: We will start in-house training and develop some scenarios.

      c.       Web-site: We have a page on the church web-site for the Disaster Support Team. The Web-page address is:  fpc-franklin.org.

d.      Types of disasters that would affect our area are:  Flooding, Mud Slides, Ice Storms and Severe Thunderstorms which may cause power outages.

e.       The gigantic physical map that is located in our DST Command Center will be reprinted every 2 or 3 years.  The local Macon County maps were provided to all 5 Lead Zone Coordinators.  Jim Geary will purchase four more maps for distribution. 

f.        Assigned Dispatchers’ role: Ernie presented a flow chart to the group and we discussed what happens when a distressed member calls their assigned Shepherd.

g.       Ernie advised everyone again to sign up for “Code Red”.  You may go the Macon County home page (www.maconnc.org) to sign up.

 

2.      Questions and Answers:

      a.        Is Presbytery aware of our disaster process?  Yes.  We reported the formation of our Team to the WNC Presbytery and sent our manual to their office.

b.      Will we share our process to other churches?  Yes, most definitely.  We would be honored to help others.

       3.       The next scheduled meeting is Tuesday, Aug 24, 2010, at 3:30 PM.