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COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT
May 9, 2014
MAYOR AND TOWN COUNCIL
GREG LARSON, TOWN MANAGER
MEETING DATE: 5/19/14
ITEM NO:
SUBJECT: ACCEPT THE DONATION FROM SPANSION INC. OF EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES FOR THE LOS GATOS
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (CERT) PROGRAM,
VALUED AT APPROXIMATELY $30,000.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Accept a donation from Spansion Inc. of emergency preparedness equipment and supplies,
valued at approximately $30,000, for the Los Gatos Community Emergency Response Team
(CERT).
BACKGROUND:
Spansion Inc., a high technology company in Sunnyvale, is relocating to a smaller campus and is
disposing of a large quantity of emergency preparedness supplies, equipment and storage
structures. Los Gatos CERT leader Mary Battling is an engineer with Spansion. Working with
Spansion Senior Manager of Facilities Terry Maloney, Ms. Battling obtained approval from
Spansion for the entire emergency preparedness cache to be offered for donation to the Los
Gatos CERT program.
Los Gatos emergency management and CERT staff examined the supplies and equipment and
identified approximately $30,000 worth that could be placed into service with Los Gatos CERT.
Items include a wide variety of items, among them three compact shipping containers equipped
as incident command posts, pack set radios, first aid and medical supplies, lights, an electrical
generator, cots, blankets, chemical toilets, shelters, shelving, fire extinguishers and a large
quantity of personal protective equipment
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MAY 9, 2014
MAYOR AND TOWN COUNCIL
SUBJECT: DONATION OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS SUPPLIES
DISCUSSION:
The Los Gatos CERT program is comprised of neighborhood teams distributed around the
community. Currently the Vasona and Kennedy North neighborhoods are populated with CERT
members, but neither area has a neighborhood incident command post structure to which those
CERT members would deploy after a disaster. Permission has been obtained from Netflix, and
from the Santa Clara County Fire Department, Shannon Fire station, to site and equip command
posts, using the structures, equipment and supplies obtained from Spansion. It will be around
those facilities that the Vasona and Kennedy North CERT teams will be established and
organized.
It is commendable that Spansion has offered to donate this equipment and supplies that otherwise
could have been sold; that Spansion Senior Manager of Facilities Terry Maloney has gone to
extraordinary lengths to facilitate making these valuable items available to Los Gatos CERT; and
that Los Gatos resident, CERT leader, and Spansion engineer Mary Bartling initiated and
participated in all aspects of this project.
CONCLUSION:
Staff recommends that the Town Council accept the donation of emergency preparedness
supplies and equipment, valued at $30,000, from Spansion Inc. for the Los Gatos Community
Emergency Response Team (CERT).
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT:
Is not a project defined under CEQA, and no further action is required.
FISCAL IMPACT:
None.