Memorandum
Date: August 13, 2024
To: The Honorable Bruno Sabatier, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Susan Parker, County Administrative Officer
Terre Logsdon, Chief Climate Resiliency Officer/Tribal Liaison
Subject: Consideration and Presentation of Cooling, Warming, and Clean Air Center Procedures
Executive Summary:
On August 1, 2023, before your Board was a discussion and direction to staff regarding crafting a policy/plan for standing up warming and cooling centers, and by extension, clean air centers when the basin is inundated by wildfire smoke. Your board directed the Chief Climate Resiliency Officer to convene representatives from the following departments for discussion and policy/plan development:
- Behavioral Health
- Library
- Office of Emergency Services
- Public Health
- Social Services
- Public Services
Additionally, representatives from North Coast Opportunities and the Community Adaptation Program of the American Red Cross volunteered to participate. This representative group began meeting last fall.
At the time the initial item was before your Board, the Chief Climate Resiliency Officer had already gathered managers of area Senior and Community Centers, the Lake County Fairgrounds, North Coast Opportunities (NCO), and the Community Adaptation Program of the American Red Cross to work on a Community Resilience Center Planning Grant application. Additionally, the Community Adaptation Program of the American Red Cross and NCO's Emergency Preparedness In Communities (EPIC) programs had already begun working with Senior Centers whose facilities are not owned by the County and several faith-based organizations to identify barriers to serving as cooling and warming centers and then address those barriers.
The Office of Emergency Services Manager, Leah Sautelet, created and made edits to both of the Severe Weather annexes to the Lake County Emergency Operations Plan: Extreme Heat and Heavy Rains, Snow, and Storms, which the s...
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