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_`' ~, MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARp OR COMMISSIONERS SPECIAL MEETING ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS JANUARY 24, 1989, 12:00 NOON The Orange County Board of Commissioners met in Special Session on January 24 1989 at 12:00 noon at the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for the Purpose of hearin a g presentation from Joe Myers on Emergency Preparedness, BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Care John Hartwell, Shirl` y~ Jr., and Gommissioners Stephen Halkiotis, y Marshall and Don Willhoit. STAFF PRESENT_ County. Manager John M, Link, Jr,, the Board Beverly A, Blythe, Social Services Director Marti~Cook~rpublic Health Clerk to Director Eileen Kugler, Sanitarian Tony Laws, Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass, Administrative Officer Richard Poole and Health Director Dan Reimer. Joe Myers, Director of State Emergency Management, presented information on emergency preparedness. He stated that it is important for the County to have three components in place: (1) coordination, (2) caoperatian and 3 community, It is important to have a ( ) unity - unity in the population and because of the technological hazards becaueryt~ingeinvolvesechemica ls. Myers gave statistics which indicate that the number of emergency disaster situations continues to increase each year, He emphasized that a community must know (1) haw to get the resources to handle a disaster and (2) what to have in place to respond to an emergency, Myers listed the number of state agencies that may be involved in ari emergency, He emphasized that teamwork is essential. Everyone involved must know their fob and a procedure must be in place for carrying out those duties. The governing board would need to know how to call an emergency meeting and how to enact an ordinance if necessary to handle the emergency, ' A slide presentation was made showing the different types of emergencies that have happened in the last four or five years and how they were handled at the state level and at the local level. The plan for Orange County does not need to include a plan for every type of emergency but it does need to be a multihazard plan. He described the four phases of emergency management - (],) mitigation, (2) preparedness, (3) response and (4) recovery. These are described in the material Myers distributed and which is pant of the permanent agenda file in the Clerk's Office, John Link asked if there was any state assistance to help counties identify the individual responsibilities of each office. Myers responded stating that there are two types of training exercises available, The Disaster Law of 1974 was discussed. Myers described the followed in declaring an area a disaster area, A process must bepincplacehthatuwauld include an assessment team who would evaluate the total damage. In closing, Myers emphasized that everyone who works for the County would have a role in an emergency. Mutual aid agreements between the County and the cities need to