Presented at the 29 October 2014 Annual Meeting
- VashonBePrepared partners sent three volunteers to assist in the response to the Oso landslide disaster. They worked in the Snohomish County Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
- Incorporated lessons learned from those volunteer responses in Vashon Emergency Operations Center logistics/resource request procedures.
- Collaborated with Chief Hank Lipe and Assistant Chief George Brown to create a hypothetical major landslide scenario as a foundation for planning and exercising disaster response on Vashon.
- Conducted a community leader summit meeting to assess Vashon’s preparedness needs.
- Based on the summit, created a Marketing Task Force which developed three programs to improve readiness of Vashon homes, neighborhoods and businesses:
- An appeal for home preparedness with a twist, pets and livestock giving advice to their humans.
- Open for Business! workshops in partnership with the Vashon Chamber.
- A revitalized outreach for the Neighborhood Emergency Response Organization (NERO) and Are You Ready? campaigns.
- Helped produce an eight page Winter Ready insert in the Beachcomber newspaper.
- Completed the Vashon community annex to the Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan. Served on the Plan Steering Committee.
- Launched Vashon participation in the multi‐state Cascadia Rising earthquake exercise planned for 2016.
- Began formation of a Vashon Auxiliary Communications Service, building on the partnership with the local Ham Radio community.
- Participated in dozens of training sessions with our partners, such as:
- Training at the King County Emergency Coordination Center,
- Monthly drill nights for the Vashon EOC Team,
- Extensive classes and drills conducted by Vashon’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program,
- Many new Ham Radio operators licensed in the CERT program,
- Formation of the nation's first Equestrian based CERT group.