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How do your local responders work with Emergency Directors, Selectboards, and Treasurers on managing incidents?

GO 191 Incident Command System/Emergency Operations Center Interface

August 14, 08:30-15:30, Norwich Police Department

Technical description

This course will enable the participants to develop an effective interface between the Incident Command and the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) by applying Incident Command System (ICS) principles. This 1 day course will introduce you to the roles of the Incident Command System (ICS) and Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) during emergency operations, and discuss ways to develop an ICS/EOC interface implementation strategy or action plan for your community. The target audience includes personnel associated with on-scene Incident Command, and EOCs and Multiagency Coordination (MAC) System entities.

Registrations must be done through the state’s Learning Management System website: https://vermont.csod.com

If you need assistance with that system, please contact Brittany Marquette at [email protected]

Efficiency Vermont has provided grant funding to Regional Planning Commissions to support local energy committees and municipalities and to connect regional and local energy plan implementation efforts to Efficiency Vermont and Comprehensive Energy Plan goals. The funding will allow RPCs to provide technical assistance in the formation and development of local energy committees and to support the work of established local energy committees in specified areas tied to objectives for promoting energy efficiency and driving action.  Supported activities of this grant funding include:

1. Working to encourage the formation of new energy committees and enhancing the impact of existing energy committees
2. Facilitating regional meetings and roundtables of energy committees
3. Coordinating local Button Up and other events to promote thermal efficiency
4. Use data resources such as the EAN Dashboard, and provide training to local energy groups
5. Organize residential weatherization and home heating workshops
6. Develop and distribute model zoning and subdivision regulations to support energy efficient building and design
7. Organize regional workshops on electrical efficiency programs for commercial applications
8. Distribute information on energy efficiency incentives

TRORC has scheduled the first regional energy committee meeting for

Thursday, September 5^th at 6:30 pm at the Bethel Town Hall, 318 Main Street 

TRORC will outline the new Efficiency Vermont grant, opportunities, projects and schedule.  Please come with your calendars and ideas about how TRORC can help implement your town’s energy efficiency and conservation projects.

Light refreshments will be provided. 

 Please RSVP and direct questions to Dee Gish at [email protected] or 802-457-3188

October 17, 2019

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

VA Hospital, White River Junction

Agenda

1. Call to order and introductions– Bruce Martin, Chair
2. Approval of minutes for 8/22/2019 (attached)
3. Action on TRORC Invoice.
4. Treasurer’s report – Brad Salzmann, Treasurer
5. Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) – Mariah Whitcomb
6. Action and discussion on LEPC12 schedule change from bi-monthly to quarterly meetings.
7. Other Business/Upcoming Trainings
   1. SERC meeting – LEPC consolidation update
   2. LEPC12 website
   3. LEPC plan template

LEPC12 Next meeting – December 19, 2019 at TBD

This double-header training will first review (5:30-6:30) how local land use bodies (DRBs, Planning Commissions, ZBAs) should be making decisions, and then will follow up (6:45-7:45) with a review of the powers of subdivision bylaws and the useful concepts of density and conservation subdivisions.

For many rural areas with little development, the subdividing of land is much more of a land use issue than types of uses. Creation of roads, house placement, strange lot lines and shapes, and protection of natural areas can all better be addressed in subdivision bylaws than usually under zoning.

Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP here by 10/11

Our region is participating in a housing study called Keys to the Valley. The Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission, Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission, and Southern Windsor County Regional Planning Commission are partnering to better understand the housing challenges facing our communities and to develop strategies for tackling those challenges. Please join us to learn more about the project and share your experiences with housing issues in the region.

Following this talk, Deanna Jones will present on the Homeshare Project. The Thompson Center is training to be a Homeshare satellite office. Homesharing can be a rewarding way to find housing and connect people who are living alone and willing to share a home as long as they meet the basic requirements. Come to this talk to learn more on the benefits of homesharing.

Learn where water quality restoration and protection efforts have been identified in your basin. Find out who your local watershed partners are and how you can help to protect surface water quality in your community. Join the Stevens, Wells, Waits, Ompompanoosuc & CT River Direct Tributaries (Basin 14) State Watershed Planner for a presentation and discussion on the 5-year update to the Basin 14 Tactical Basin Plan. Attendees are encouraged to provide feedback on the plan and its priorities. All are welcome!

Learn some best practices on how to develop a Municipal Enhanced Energy Plan and how these adopted plans work in the Section 248 Process.

Register for this FREE webinar here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/0978dc4feb3b9918c5b9141539e44ee6 

A presentation will be made on the duties and responsibilities of Emergency Management Directors in Vermont. 

Quintown Regional Energy Committee Interest Meeting
Rochester Town Offices
February 20, 2020
6 – 8 p.m.

Agenda
*light refreshments will be provided*

1. Introductions
2. What does TRORC bring to the table
3. What is an energy committee?
4. Current energy issues; electricity, thermal, transportation
5. Process of developing a sub-regional energy committee
6. Future implementation actions
Please RSVP to Kevin Geiger at [email protected]. Feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested!