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October 8, 2008 (Recessed Meeting) Page 988 <br />The Board of Commissioners for the County of Cabarrus met in recessed <br />session in the Multipurpose Room at the Cabarrus County Governmental Center <br />in Concord, North Carolina on Wednesday, October 8, 2008, at 8:30 a.m. <br />Present - Chairman: H. Jay White, Sr. <br />Vice Chairman: Joni D. Juba <br />Commissioners: Robert W. Carruth <br />Grace M. Mynatt <br />Absent - Commissioner: Coy C. Privette <br />Also present were John Day, County Manager; Mike Downs, Deputy County <br />Manager; Pam Dubois, Deputy County Manager; Bobby Smith, Emergency Management <br />Director; Steve Langer, Fire Marshal; Aimee Hawkins, Communications and <br />Outreach; Kay Honeycutt, Clerk to the Board; and Lyndsay Hayes, Deputy Clerk <br />to the Board. <br />Call to Order <br />Chairman White called the meeting at 8:33 a.m. <br />Cabarrus County Emeraenev Management Briefing <br />Bobby Smith, Emergency Management Director and Steve Langer, Fire <br />Marshall, presented a PowerPoint presentation entitled, "Cabarrus County <br />Emergency Briefing, October 6, 2008". Issues addressed in the presentation <br />included the following: <br />• Statutory authority <br />• Established priorities <br />• Emergency Management Staffing <br />• Phases of Emergency Management <br />• Preparedness <br />• 2008 Exercises <br />• Response <br />• Recovery <br />• Mitigation <br />• Emergency Operations Center (EOC) <br />• Activation of the EOC <br />• Board of Commissioners' role in the EOC <br />• Emergency planning <br />o Fixed Nuclear Facility Planning (FNF) <br />o Large Public Venues <br />• Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) <br />• Functional annexes <br />• Notification and warning <br />• Evacuations <br />• SNS (Strategic National Stockpile) Plan <br />• Sheltering <br />o Special Needs Shelters, <br />o Identified Gaps <br />• Specialized response <br />• Cabarrus County TaskForce 21 <br />o Mission <br />• Hazardous Materials/Decontamination Units <br />o HAZ MAT Detection Equipment <br />• Urban search and rescue <br />• Land search team <br />• Water rescue team <br />• County Animal Response Team (CART) <br />• Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) <br />• Homeland Security <br />o Presidential Directives <br />o Funding <br />o Capabilities Assessment <br />• Interoperable Mobile Communications Unit <br />• Communication Towers <br />• Response Equipment <br />• Regionalization <br />• Capabilities Assessment <br />