Santa Clara Community Organization – Eugene

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE APRIL MEETING
Eugene Neighborhoods’ Preparedness Network
Thursday, April 18, 7:00 – 8:30 PM

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Featured Topic: Dodging Winter Disaster on Eugene’s Roads

With: Marion Suitor Barnes, City of Eugene Public Works Department

January’s ice storm was a big challenge for lifeline providers to maintain or restore services in the City of Eugene. Most did pretty well! The majority of power outages were brief; telephone, internet and cable interruptions were relatively minor, and city streets were open to many vehicles in a manner of days, not weeks.

This month we’ll take a look at how the City of Eugene prepares and responds to extreme weather conditions, focusing on how it keeps streets passable for emergency services as well as more ordinary household needs. Would a more severe storm have led to a different outcome, putting the more vulnerable members of our community into life-threatening situations? What tasks should neighborhood emergency preparedness groups expect to be called on to provide when winter weather closes down our transportation system?

This month’s meeting will also feature a short report from the annual conference of the Partners In Emergency Preparedness, a Washington state coalition of agencies and private-sector providers, that took place April 2-4 in Tacoma. Our reporter, Randy Prince, attended a FEMA course on making community organizations effective in reaching the public through their existing connections.

AGENDA
7:00 Short Introductions In Chat: Name, Neighborhood Association, Affiliation
7:10 Eugene’s Roads and the City’s response to the January 2024 Ice Storm – Marion Suitor Barnes, Eugene Public Works
7:30 Questions and Answers/Discussion
7:50 Report from Partners In Emergency Preparedness conference April 2024 – Randy Prince
8:00 Announcements
8:05 Report from neighborhood groups and discussion of future ENPN meeting topics.
8:20 Adjourn

This Third Thursday Meeting Is Brought to You By
Eugene Neighborhoods’ Preparedness Network (ENPN)
A committee of the Eugene Neighborhood Leaders Council (NLC)

ENPN Objectives: Meet, learn, and exchange views. Find out what volunteers in neighborhood preparedness teams are doing, what they need, and how we might motivate and assist others in preparing our community. Contact us at: enpn.org@gmail.com

Hello Everyone,

Just a reminder we will be having some fun this Saturday from 10 am to 12 pm at Norkenzie Christian Church located at 2530 Crescent Ave, Eugene. Please park in the back parking lot and the side door will be open for access to the training. If you don’t have an FRS radio, come anyway we will have one for you to join in. If you have FRS radios, please bring them. 

After the FRS fun time, those that have GMRS radios, there will be a brief given on how to connect your GMRS radio to the local GMRS repeater. 

I hope to see you there this Saturday.

Andy Davis
KJ7JDN – Amateur Radio
WRDE880 – GMRS
Eugene EMCOMM Net Manager
Northeast District CERT Leader

andydaviseugene@msn.com
803-316-7529

For your information…Andy Davis is heading up this in-person FRS radio training exercise. It’s a great opportunity whether you currently have an FRS radio or not!

–Charlsey Cartwright / Joel Robe / Ed Farren / Bruce Stermer / Joe Piccolotti, Ready NW Eugene Coordinating CommitteeReady NW Eugene YouTube Channel
ReadyNWEugene@gmail.com

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