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Ms. Grady stated that they were meeting next week which was an extra meeting. <br /> Mr. Harrington asked them if they wanted to go two weeks from then and go back on <br /> the second and fourth, <br /> Ms. Grader stated that they would be on the third or on the tenth. <br /> (Further discussion ensued regarding the next dates for meetings.) <br /> Mr. Ball suggested that they tentatively go for the third. <br /> Ms. Grady stated that that would he fine with tentative dates being the third and <br /> seventeenth. <br /> F <br /> E. Emerizency Planning-and Homeland Securi BCDHE <br /> Mr. Harrington warted to let thein know that Mr. H ufelder wanted to go before the <br /> selectmen and discuss all of the things that they were doing at the regional level <br /> through their emergency preparedness sub-committee. They were going to talk about <br /> the infectious disease control plan, the emergency dispensing site for flu pandemics, <br /> small pox or any other type of action if they were going to have to do a mass <br /> vaccination. The DPH had given them a deadline of January 3 1", 2005, to.care up <br /> with four sites to hold mass vaccinations. They weren't sure if they were going to do <br /> the schools. If there was already an event the Quashnet school was the emergency <br /> shelter. They did not want to confuse both items. They didn't really want to at mid- <br /> location because it would hog the emergency response center down for police and <br /> fire. So they were still in the process of figuring that out. Chief Baker was involved as <br /> the chair of the regional planning committee. There were people who were trying to <br /> get the regional emergency planning committee mittee to address this on a regional basis. <br /> Mashpee may not have enough people to hold four sites. The protocols they were <br /> giving them they.needed 8.5 people per site. They were not going to have three <br /> hundred and twenty people just for labor alone to give out shots. They were going <br /> from flu, which could be one minute, to a person with small pox, which was four or <br /> five minutes per person. The protocol they gave therm was way off. They were <br /> basically giving therm one minute per person for small pox. It was not realistic. So <br /> there were other things that they were addressing. Dr. Mantel had been working with <br /> him on this project and with Sean O'Brian, George Heufelder and George Baker. <br /> Chief Baker had been pushing the issue to try and do it regionally. They were all <br /> going to be drawing from the same labor force. There was going to be a ton of <br /> overlap unless they put a regional plan together. He wanted to make them aware <br /> before Mr. Baker comes and they go to a meeting with Selectmen and Mr. Baker <br /> explaining why he was there with him, Mr. Baker was going in support ofthe BOH. <br /> They were the ones that were going to have to write the plan. The county was going <br /> i to be involved with a regional plan. He wanted to let the board know what they were <br /> up as far as the emergency preparedness part of it. There were five different plans that <br />