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<br />D. Oliveira <br /> was not familiar with that. There have been a least two or three <br />different administrators since Troy left. D. Oliveira felt that this is a great <br />opportunity to hear what has been discussed previously and what gap still exists. <br />With that mass notification device or system that was mentioned earlier, one of <br />the things we’re trying to do now is change provider to get a better service to <br />include the outreach to the TTY service to provide that contact. But right now, <br />that isn’t available. <br /> <br />J. Souza <br /> advised that with most deaf people, English is not their first language. <br />James inquired if there were plans to have an interpreter signing those <br />messages and also if there would be one at the shelters. James stated he got <br />his First Responder training, has a nice certificate on my wall, but there have <br />been no further trainings, no notifications about what we’re supposed to do. <br />James was curious as to how we can get the deaf community more involved. <br /> <br />D. Oliveira <br /> felt that this is a great venue because it’s identifying what was <br />started, what hasn’t been kept up, and what we can follow through on. He’ll try to <br />stay in better contact and work closer with them on how to address these things <br />because who better to reach out to than the community that has the solutions <br />that will work. <br /> <br />A. Mitchener <br />recently had staff training for all of the Summer Fun workers, and <br />announced to them to sign up for this city watch mass alert. Emergencies may <br />not be happening where we live, but where we work, and so we need to prepare <br />kits for our cars, kits for our office, and know if there is an alert, especially if <br />you’re in a tsunami zone. <br /> <br />D. Oliveira <br /> stated that people are at work, at school, at home, you have kids, you <br />have people that need assistance, it’s how do we account for that and tract them <br />because disasters happen at the most inopportune times. And we may not know <br />who needs assistance, so we’re turning to Office of Aging, and Elderly Activities <br />Division for needed services, people who already are connected to the <br />community in providing whether it be transportation or other services, because <br />we don’t maintain a directory of who has needs and would need assistance at the <br />time of a disaster. We have to find solutions that would work most of the time. <br />We can’t cope with every scenario, but part of it is creating that accountability <br />network with those other agencies that provide services and making sure they <br />are there when something happens so that we can identify who may need <br />assistance. <br /> <br />The other part of it would be mass notification. Although you’re signing up for <br />where you work and where you live, for the most part the messages go out <br />islandwide. With almost every message that is sent out, there is always <br />someone who will complain – why are they being notified when they don’t even <br />live in the area. They’ll say I don’t want this message. Mr. Oliveira stated that <br />unfortunately that’s just the nature of where we live, but they do the best they <br />can. <br /> <br />P. De Lima <br /> stated that another good thing is “friends calling friends” because <br />sometimes they didn’t receive the text, they didn’t have their TV on or the siren <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />