The Highlands Neighborhood center had power following the big windstorm, even when many surrounding neighborhoods did not. As a result, the city opened the center to overnight visitors who needed a warm place to sleep. The success of this shelter prompted the HCA president to make thw following suggestion. I like his idea, and would add a shower facility to the list of improvements.
Dennis, Randy, Marcie and Don
Question to each of you. Would it be possible to identify the Highlands Neighborhood Center on Edmonds as a permanent emergency shelter? This center housed over a hundred people during the recent power outage. If this is possible, I would recommend the following.
1. Direct the City Administration to issue an RFQ to accomplish the Following.
a. Installation of a permanent full time generator to support electrical service during power outages.
b. Construction of an additional out building that would be used to store emergency supplies.
c. Identify cost of Emergence supplies to support 200 people for a week.
d. Distinguish associated costs to form a resource team who could quickly be pulled together to man the center during any community emergency.
I know this is a basic request, but as your are aware, we currently do not have in our community any full time facility that can be quickly be set up and manned by qualified resources if we had another long term electrical outage or some other type of natural disaster in our area. Currently the Kennedale Association is looking at pulling together supplies that would be stored in large shipping container that could be used if there is a need.
This is a great start but we need to go beyond that and develop a full time plan that would support a large segment of our community who would need both food and shelter in the advent of another neighborhood emergency. I would like this to be a pilot program and if sucessful expanded to other areas in Renton that would have the same consideration for this type of project.
I would like to talk to each of you further on this subject. If you have a few minutes, please give me a call.
Thanks for you help.
Terry Persson President
Highlands Community Association
Home Phone: 425-228-5848
Cell Phone: 425-306-0320
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