Disaster Council - Regular Meeting

You're gonna call this meeting to order. This is the disaster El Dorado County disaster council meeting, 05/21/2025. The meeting is being recorded. To start off, if you would please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. Ready to begin. Pledge allegiance to

the flag of United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Alright. Thank you. Alright. To start off so, again, my name is Troy Morton with OES, designee for sheriff Lykoff as the chair of the disaster council. If other disaster council, members themselves, fire operator coordinator.

Capital AG, designee for chief Willingfall.

And designee for CAO's office?

Sue Hennicki, designee for Tiffany Schmidt.

Alright. Thank you. Chief Drennan and chief Ren with the two cities were unavailable today. The council make any necessary additions, deletions, or corrections to the agenda and adopt the agenda. Do any council members have any changes to the agenda? Uh-huh. No. Sue? Alright. I'll make a motion to adopt the agenda. Is there a second on that? Second. Alright. We'll now take a vote on it. Sue, what is your vote to adopt the agenda? Aye. Alright. Thank you. The agenda is approved. Open forum is next.

Open forum is an opportunity for members of the public to address the council on subject matter not on the agenda. Public comments during open forum are limited to three minutes of first person. Individuals authorized by organizations will have three minutes to present organizational positions and perspectives and may request additional time up to five minutes. The total amount of time reserved for open forum is twenty minutes. If you're joining by Zoom, please press the raise hand button. If you're joining by phone, please press 9. We will first take comment in the room. No comment in the room and nobody online.

They're dropping.

They are dropping quickly. Alright. It looks like they might be tied up with shelter and stuff. Discussion item number 25Dash0910, winter season update, Captain Blue Chief.

So this '24, 25 atmospheric rivers was a topic of this, or the twenty twenty four, twenty five, winter. There were two prepositions from local governments, including some state agencies. They included, engines, water rescue, and support for our rescue teams, as well as chief officers as task force leaders, both in the eastern, side of the county as well as the Western Slope. Including mutual aid options to neighboring counties if needed. So if neighboring counties had an unexpected surge or a need for additional resources, when the two strike teams or task force leaders or task forces were established, they knew that we were available to search in the counties that needed, and it was it was symbiotic as well.

All designated sandbag locations in the county were fully operational. They are throughout.

You. There is no public comment in the room on this, and there is nobody online. Discussion number 25Dash0911. Plan updates. We developed an evacuation plan for the Lake Tahoe Basin. Sorry. I'm getting rag alerts.

Yeah. Yeah. Some five nine five. We

developed an evacuation plan for the Tahoe Basin last year. That's a high level public facing document with detailed warning platforms, how we evacuate people, and what primary routes to use. That plan was put out for a thirty day public comments set period of time, which is now closed, and that plan is online. We're in the process of developing an evacuation plan for the Greater West Slope. It'll be the same thing, a general public facing plan to show the public, what we use to evacuate, how we evacuate, and primary routes that we may use for evacuation routes. We can expect that this winter, ending how firestorm goes. Okay. Should you want or have any update on CWPP where that's at?

We had our first virtual Three zero six. Workshop. Sorry.

The first virtual workshop last night. There

were about 20 folks online shortly, I think. Lasted about a half an hour. It's pretty good. We have one more of those. I think we have some stakeholder meetings coming up, and so it's good. But it's currently out and available on the website for a thirty day public comment period.

Alright. Public comment on that item in the room. I don't see any public in the room, and there's many on my own. Discussion item 25Dash0912. Thanks, guys. Yeah. Thank you. Good to see you. Training updates. We're hosting an evacuation workshop in Lake Tahoe Basin on June 21, where all along fire in the basin will come together to discuss how to evacuate the basin during the holiday weekend, and that will be followed by a public town hall the following day.

And, Matt, do you wanna cover the high level points of the evacuation drill in El River Coast?

Absolutely. On Sunday, this past Sunday, May 18, the Lake Hills Fire City Council, El Dorado Hills Fire, and OES all participated. Collaboratively, we'll have the evacuation of Lake Ridge Oaks neighborhood and the door to door through Lake Ridge Oaks neighborhood. It includes the entire dormant peninsula of El Dorado Hills proper, which included Lake Hills subdivision, South Point, Waterford, Summit, and Lake Ridge Oaks subdivisions, followed by a town hall meeting in the Foothill CSD a couple hours later. Had close to a 100 residents in attendance, including agencies from OES, Illinois County Sheriffs, EDH Fire, CAL FIRE, CHP, Oahupert County Blades and Preparedness, pedal control, SMART, Eric Red Cross, CERT, and some Oak Ridge high school students with goodie bags.

Overall, very successful drill in, town hall meeting. The rave and perimeter software, items were pushed heavily. 42 homes in Lake Ridge Oaks were advised that door to door evacuation opt ins. We had about 15 to 20 that participated. And, the OAS message again for RAVE and Perimeter were successful. Over 3,000 residents in the Peninsula received the RAVE perimeter alerts. And, overall, it's a very successful drill and, great reviews on it from the public as well.

Great. Thank you. And there is no public in the room, and there's nobody online. So there is no public comment. Agency reports. The only agencies, we have left are, operator coordinator.

So just got back from the county fire safety council meeting. Chief Blake Nyme as well as, chief Wagner from the Forest Service spoke spoke very well, had a great report. They're anticipating strike team and task force deployments to to increase this year based upon the the weather models, both federal and state side. They both they coincide, especially with the fire behavior analysts. That being said, they're expecting a hotter, drier season with more winds, based on the Lavenia models, which they're predicted to have elevated likely events in a higher country in, the Sierra Nevadas, particularly, Placer, Nevada, Amador, El Dorado, and Alpine Campus.

Again, these are predicted. These are just not absolutes. And everybody in the county is conducting their RT one thirty angle trains right now training right now for preparation for the 2025 season. End of report.

Alright. Thank you. Mhmm. Announcements. Council members will share any relevant announcements, happen now soon? Alright. Next meeting date, 11/13/2025, 1PM, same location. With that, we'll adjourn the meeting. Thank you.