HEART minutes January 18, 2012

Fire Training conference room,  Sullivan and Marietta  6:00 pm

Meeting called to order by Donna Breidenbach; President.  Special note was made that Nan & Sue were the 1^st to arrive!  Donna introduced Alida King of Intermountain Search Dogs.  Alida said they were hosting the National Search Dog Alliance Conference.  It is to be held at Camp Reed April 25 – Apr 29, 2012.  They are looking for volunteers for the dogs to find.  They will need about 10 per day.  They would prefer subjects for the entire day 9 – 5, but are happy to have someone for ½ days 9 – lunch and lunch – 5.  She requested this be passed on to anyone who may be interested.  Her contact information is:

Alida King   alidakl@yahoo.com     509-995-6650

There was introduction of new board members and all members.

Committee reports;   Welcome committee, Sue & Nan are reworking the requirements in the packets;    Sheltering Committee, Donna;    Rescue, Carl no activity;    Finance & Logistics, no one present

Executive Board met once 12/26/11

Recap of the previous months activities; IFAW deployment, had enough closer responders so cancelled HEART, was noted that IFAW has different criteria to respond.  AHA call out for sheltering.

Presidents Report; Donna would like to add this to our monthly meetings to make HEART members more aware of our contacts.  Nan is our representative to the Disaster Council.  Donna represented HEART at VOAD, she would like a volunteer to be our representative.  She said that the E-board would like to have quarterly social meetings instead of semi-annual.

Goals for 2012; slack water training, large animal training with the Faux’s, trailer training in cooperation with SCRAPS (risk management will certify to drive), First aid training, Training with SCRAPS on search warrants and picture taking, Acquiring new members and retaining them, Hazmat training, PIO for HEART…..anyone interested.

Nicole from SCRAPS discussed the McMullen case and gave HEART a copy of the book “Cause and Effect Necessary Care 4 Equines”.

Meeting Adjourned

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