Notes from Chapter Meeting

November 9, 2005, 1 to 4 PM

West Sacramento City Hall, West Sacramento CA

 

Attendance:  20+                                                                

 

Board Members Present: Lorri Peltz-Lewis, Harold  Feinberg, Robert Thomas, Karen Beardsley, David Hansen, Charmaine Yeung, Karen Beardsley, Diana Carolan, Geney Terry

 

      I.      Welcome attendees to Fifth Chapter meeting; meeting called to order by Geney Terry

 

  II.      Sponsor acknowledgement- Thanks for your support!

1.    Refreshments provided by: ESRI, California Office.

2.    Meeting Host: City of West Sacramento. 

 

      I.      Announcements:  Geney Terry provided a summary of Chapter status after the URISA meetings in Kansas City.

1.    The Northern California Chapter of URISA now has full status as a Chapter.

2.    The Northern California Chapter was recognized at the URISA meetings with an award for organization and development of programs within the first year of existence.

3.    Attendees were encouraged to join as Chapter members. Annual dues are $40.00 ($20.00 for students). Members will not be charged for URISA sponsored workshops held by the Chapter

4.    The next Chapter meetings will be in February and April 2006. Dates, locations, and times for those meetings will be available on the Chapter web site. (http://www.norcalurisa.org)

5.    The next annual conference for URISA will be in Vancouver, British Columbia, September 26-29, 2006.

 

  II.      Elections - Karen Beardsley and Robert Thomas announced the process for election of the Board for the Chapter for 2006. The nomination and election process will be handled via email and nominations are now open for all Chapter members. The Officer positions are:  President, President-Elect, Past President (This will be Geney Terry), Secretary, and Treasurer. Nominees for these positions must be members of URISA (National) in good standing. In addition, there are four Member at Large Director Positions on the Board who need not be members of URISA. Elections will be closed by January 1, 2006.

 

III.      Presentations - The remainder of the afternoon program on Disaster Recovery was organized by Diana Carolan and Lorri Peltz-Lewis.

 

1.    Diana Carolan introduced Greg Jones of Tuolumne County who spoke about their experience in developing a disaster recovery plan. He talked about maintaining system operations for business continuity at various levels of disruption including full disaster when a formal plan goes into effect.

 

2.    Geney Terry then presented the role of GISCorps in the response to Katrina in the Gulf area.

 

3.    Lorri Peltz-Lewis then talked about the development of disaster recovery plans at Bureau of Reclamation and testing of those plans during system service interruptions.

 

4.    Diana Carolan presented “Disaster Recovery Plan Lite” for Nevada County and the issues associated with attempting to develop a plan.

 

5.    The meeting then split into small groups to work though several disaster scenarios affecting local business systems.

 

a)    Notes from Group 1 – no other group notes are available at this time.

 

IV.      Final meeting announcements and thanks to our Sponsors and Speakers

 

    V.      Additional note: Signature pages for the Northern California Chapter Board Conflict of Interest Policy were collected and maintained by Dave Hansen at the meeting. These include: Harold Feinberg, Charmaine Yeung, Karen Beardsley, Diana Carolan, Lorri Peltz-Lewis, Robert Thomas, Geney Terry, and David Hansen.