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THE FORUM ESTABLISHED TO FACILITATE THE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION REGARDING ALL ASPECTS OF CONTINGENCY PLANNING IN BOTH THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTORS, INCLUDING BUSINESS INTERRUPTION AVOIDANCE, BUSINESS RESUMPTION PLANNING, CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS, AND DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING.

MINUTES General Membership Meeting February 20, 2014 2:00 – 4:00 PM

Attendees:

Member Company Member Company Althoff, Sandra MasterCard WorldWide McDonough, Shawnee Anheuser-Busch, LLC Arnold, Rich Disaster Recovery Journal Mitchell, Whitney Scottrade Backer, Cindy MasterCard WorldWide Seton, Steven Edward Jones Bonno, Tim RGA Sladek, Cindy Arch Coal Buehler, Marsha Rabo AgriFinance Smith, Clifford Retired Bridgers, Janet First Clearing, LLC (Wells Fargo Steffen, John Charter Communications affiliate) Cannon, Michael Centene Corporation Stephenson, Marc Charter Communications Carroll, Lisa Edward Jones Taylor, Roxann World Wide Technology, Inc. Deachan, Molly Edward Jones Van Zanten, Helena MasterCard Worldwide Greenway, Roy Arch Coal Westrich, Eric Express Scripts Jurado, Richard Forest Pharmaceuticals Knebel, Lara Scottrade

Guests Company Guests Company Wiss, J Express Scripts Jurado, Richard Forest Pharmaceuticals Dave Reddick SLU Durnbaugh, Gregg Monsanto

The January General Membership Meeting of the MidAmerica Contingency Planning Forum was held on Thursday, February 20, at National Weather Service, 12 Missouri Research Park Drive, St. Charles, MO, starting at 2:00 p.m.

MCPF President Shawnee McDonough welcomed all in attendance and thanked the National Weather Service for hosting the meeting.

A. Previous Meeting Minutes The January meeting minutes are available on the MCPF web site: www.mcpf.us

B. Program Updates The following upcoming meeting dates and topics are planned:

March 20 – Ameren Emergency Operation Center Tour at 1901 Chouteau Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103 https://www.ameren.com/sites/aue/pages/home.aspx.

April 17 – Exercise Design One-Day Class 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM – Limited Capacity - at Charter Communications, 12405 Powerscourt, St. Louis, MO 63131. Attendees are required to take the FEMA Independent Study Course, IS-120A "An Introduction to Exercises” prior to the class date.

May 15 – TBD

June 19 – TBD

Offers to assist with future meeting sites and speakers should be directed to John Steffen at [email protected] or 314-543-2656. - 1 - THE FORUM ESTABLISHED TO FACILITATE THE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION REGARDING ALL ASPECTS OF CONTINGENCY PLANNING IN BOTH THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTORS, INCLUDING BUSINESS INTERRUPTION AVOIDANCE, BUSINESS RESUMPTION PLANNING, CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS, AND DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING.

C. Treasurer’s Report The Treasurer’s Report was provided by Helena van Zanten. The group has a balance of $6,379.05 in the checking account.

D. Membership Report Members are encouraged to renew their membership via the MCPF website: www.mcpf.us. Enrollment is open for new members as well.

E. Upcoming Activities Upcoming activities that may be of interest to MCPF members include:

 SLU “Business Continuity after a Disaster” Panel Discussion: 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Thursday, March 6, 2014 – St. Louis University, Busch Student Center, Room 170-171. Doors open at 5:30 pm for beverages, appetizers & networking; Program begins at 6:00 pm.

 DRJ Spring World 2014 Conference: March 30 – April 2, 2014; Orlando, FL: http://www.drj.com/events/spring-world-2014/homepage.html

 Continuity Insights 2014 Management Conference: April 28-30, 2013, New Orleans, LA: http://cimanagementconference.com/

 DRI 2014 Conference: May 18 – 21, 2013, Atlanta, GA: http://driconference.org/

 DRJ Webinars - http://www.drj.com/special/webinars/

 Missouri SEMA Training Schedule – http://training.dps.mo.gov/sematraining.nsf/TrainingSchedule?OpenForm

F. New Business / Announcements / Miscellaneous

 Continuity Insights Management Conference April 28-30, 2013, New Orleans, LA – Free Registration Raffle o Congratulations to Cindy Sladek, winner of one complimentary registration to Continuity Insights Management Conference.

 Meeting Attendance -- Please remember to sign-in at the meetings to ensure you are counted for attendance. For those who are CBCP or otherwise certified, this will assist you in meeting your certification requirements. For guests, this will enable us to keep track of our visitors for follow-up and collaboration.

 ‘Linked In’ link now on the MCPF Website

 Check our website for upcoming announcements: www.mcpf.us

G. Featured Topics:  Group Discussion – February 2014 Expected Weather & Warning Systems – Facilitated by MCPF Board of Directors – See MCPF website (www.mcpf.us) under ‘Meeting Minutes and Presentations’ for slide presentation.

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 High Level Notes from the Discussion: o 122 offices around the USA (6 Regional offices) o Each office covers 125 miles o St. Louis office covers 40 counties o 6 offices in Missouri (Every office has 2 backup offices) o 23 Staff (10 meteorologists) 24x7x365 o Doppler Radar has improved weather forecasting o 24 hours is very accurate (7 days not so much) o Back up power for the Weather Office & the Radar (2 generators) o 99% of all data comes from NOAA o Biggest challenge: Budget (Do more with less) o Computer Weather Models are not perfect o Goal is to have a great 24-36 hour forecast o Storm spotters report data that can be accessed by all o 70% of tornado warnings are false o Norman, OK originates tornado warnings o Facebook & Twitter are used by NOAA-STL to share data o Satellite data is good if no clouds are present o “Ensample” forecasting uses an average of all computer models o Discussed various weather theories

Congratulations to our Attendance Prize Winners:  Cindy Sladek  Michael Cannon

The next meeting will be the on Thursday, March 20 – Ameren Emergency Operation Center Tour at 1901 Chouteau Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103

Recorded by: Kim Battig, MCPF Secretary, Office: 314.566.7009