COBB AREA COUNCIL
ONLINE PUBLIC MEETING
Thursday September 17, 2020 at 6:30pm
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Draft Meeting Minutes
1. CALL TO ORDER at 6:35
Roll Call: Cindy Leonard Secretary here, Cathy McCarthy Chair here, Frank Lincoln Treasurer here, Jessica Pyska Vice Chair here, Jake Strickler (not present), Chris Nettles here
2.Approval of Agenda motion to approve by Eliot, seconded by Chris, all approve
3.Approval of Minutes from September , 2020 motion to approve: Eliot, seconded Chris, all in favor.
4. Short Announcements Cobb Resource Hub is open Tues/Thurs noon-4
5. Treasurer’s Report- Frank $49.99 to renew Quicken account only expense this month.
Cobb Area Council General fund: $1,715.36
Blackberry Cobbler Festival $3,316.53
Cobb Resilient: $1,456.28
Cobb Safe: $851.23
Economic Development (from Calpine): $1,300
Rebuild NorthBay (for Hub office): $835.50
T-Shirt Fundraiser: $4,503.89
Wilder than Wild: $161.31
6. Committee Reports
Firewise Communities: Magdelena, Cindy, Glenneth,
Cindy says Rainbow Bridge event was a great success! Look for articles in Record Bee and Lake County Bloom
we have a rack card being designed for the Hub with the information about the Hub.
Glenneth is planning an event October 17th from 10-1:00 at their Jones Creek crossing Firewise neighborhood. They have a website and also will have a Zoom meeting next thursday at 6:00. Call Glenneth if you would like to help. tiny url.com/jonescreekcrossing
Magdalena ~ SSCRA has 3 more communities to bring to the area as a goal for the CalFire grant. Gene is working on a website for Group 3.
Dottie and Damon Bates are working on another Firewise Community for the Loch Lomond area in Group 5.
Communications Committee- Mel
It was a busy month for the communications committee. There are about 120 members now. Two new GRMS operators.
There is a new Ham operator class coming up in Kelseyville next month.
CAVERN.mobi has a lot of links for information about current fires.
The overnight watches during a real time fire is very comforting.
Economic Development Committee
AHEAD Grant Update- Eliot
budget is on track (spent $73,686.46 of the $200,000)
half of the loan fund has been loaned out
Collaborative Marketing Initiative- Jessica
Abby the Facebook page is now live: explorecobbca.com
Karen has been taking lots of photos for the content
Kim Lewis produced 4 logos to get feedback.
The website basic structure is done
7. 2020 Fire Season Update – Paul Duncan
Current fire status in Lake County: our fire is looking pretty good, homes burned or damaged property needs to be reported to CalFire, 95% containment, small smokes will pop up, but we have resources to jump on it.
North of us they have 100 miles of fire line to contain in very rough terrain.
The goal is to get all the small fires out before they get to 10 acres.
Mike Wink is at the fire in Fresno and they are making good progress there.
Red flag warning this weekend on the East side
8. Update: response to letter to OES to request the September test to be louder and longer. They actually cancelled that test because of fire activity. She has asked if this could be done in October but has not heard anything back.
9.Update: Presentation to Lake County BOS on 5th Anniversary of Valley Fire: Jessica has created a video to re-cap the 5 years of progress and recovery in the Cobb Community.
We would like to make a presentation to the BOS with items that we still need here for more progress to be made. We need their help.
There is a slideshow that Jessica created to outline what our thoughts are as we move from recovery to development.
10. Date of Next Meeting: October
11. Adjournment at 7: 47 Motion by Cindy, seconded by Eliot, all in favor.