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Item K8BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY Meeting Date:Wed. April 15, 2009 Bulk Item: Yes No X Division: BOCC Department. Commissioner Di Gennaro Staff Contact Person/Phone #: Tamara Lundstrom 305 289-6000 AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Approval of appointment of Billy Wagner to the Duck Key Security District Advisory Board. ITEM BACKGROUND: Mr. Wagner is a long standing resident of Duck Key and has been a driving force; serving the Keys community for three decades as an advocate for public safety and hurricane preparedness issues. Mr. Wagner will replace Brian Walsh, who declined reappointment. PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION: CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES: STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS: TOTAL COST: INDIRECT COST: COST TO COUNTY: REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes _ No BUDGETED: Yes No SOURCE OF FUNDS: AMOUNT PER MONTH Year APPROVED BY: County Atty OMB/Purchasing DOCUMENTATION: Included XX Not Required DISPOSITION: Revised 1/09 Risk Management AGENDA ITEM # Monroe County Boards and Committees Appointment Information Board or Committee: Duck Key Security Advisory Board Commissioner Appointing Member: Mario Di Gennaro. (BOCC District 41 Name of Member: Address: Mailing Address: Billy Wag lamer 302 Banyan St. (Duck Key) Marathon, FL 33050 Same Phone Numbers: Work: N/A Horne: 305 743-0605 Cell: 305 942-6546 Fax: 305 289-9290 E-mail: bill Mao er _ bellsouth.net Date of Appointment: April 15 2009 Reappointment: No Date Term Expires: April 15, 2012 Name of Person Being Replaced: Brian Walsh — Declined reappointment on 3/03/09, term ended 4/01/09 Fulfilling Term of: N/A Misc. Info: Mr. Wagner has been a driving force in public safety and hurricane preparedness in Monroe County, the State of Florida, nationally, and in the Caribbean for three decades. William "Billy" A. Wagner, Jr,, CEM Emergency Management specialist Dewberry Experience Education Billy is recently retired as Senior Director of Emergency Management for B.S., Geology with a minor in Monroe County which includes both Mainland Monroe and the Florida Keys. He meteorology, Tulane University held that position for 25 years this being his 26 Hurricane Season! Professional Affiliations Billy has over 30 years of public administration and management with extensive experience in emergency management disaster response and planning, Awards particularly with tropical cyclone and severe weather events. In his current • Excellence in Emergency position he is responsible for public administration and management of a Management Award from comprehensive emergency management system, which includes disaster the Florida Emergency mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. Billy's actual disaster response Preparedness Association experience includes many severe weather events, tornados, tropical storms, for outstanding weather hurricanes, floods, oil spill response, mass immigration and urban search and warning coordination and rescue collaboration with the National Weather Service Billy had the direct responsibility for the coordination of the response to the (NWS) following Tropical Cyclone Events: 1981 TS Dennis, 1982 Hurricane Alberto, • Neil Frank Award, the 1983 TS Isidore, 1985 Hurricane Kate, 1987 Hurricane Floyd, 1990 TS Marco, highest award given by the 1991 TS Fabian, 1992 Hurricane Andrew, 1994 TS Gordon, 1995 Hurricane National Hurricane Conference Erin, 1996 Hurricane Bertha, 1996 Hurricane Lili, 1998 Hurricane Georges and • Emergency Management IS Mitch, 1999 Hurricane Floyd, TS Harvey, Hurricane Irene and Hurricane Director of the Year In Michelle., 2004 Hurricanes Charlie, Ivan. Frances, Jeanne and 2005 Dennis, recognition of dedicated Katrina, Rita and Wilma. service to the citizen of Florida for Emergency Other related experience and practices include direct coordination with the Management Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center and World Meteorological accomplishments Origination and Committee Team Leader for the FEMA /Corps of Engineers • NWSEO Paul Revere Call Hurricane Georges, Bertha, O"l, Fran and Floyd Response Assessment. Billy is to Action Award for going the only Emergency Management representative on the American Society of above and beyond in Civil Engineers Task Committee, which developed a set of guidelines on wind alerting the public and the damage investigation, for publication as an ASCE Manual of Practice emergency management community of the Billy is one of the original founders of the Federal Emergency Management impending peril from Agency's Hurricane Liaison Team (HLT). This select group of Emergency proposed cuts to the NWS Management professionals with hurricane experience is specially trained to serve budget in the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The primary role of the HLT is to • Robert C. Sheets Annual provide support to Federal, State and local officials whenever a tropical cyclone Award for contributions to threatens the United States and its territories in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf hurricane preparedness for of Mexico basins to insure that the emergency management community has the South Florida information needed to take proper actions in responding to the event. • Florida Emergency Preparedness Association Billy spearheaded the development of the position of HLT coordinator which is Professional of the Year responsible to contact the State and Local emergencies managers assuring that Award for endeavors to they have received all the NHC products pertaining to the event and briefing save the funding the NWS budget; the TPC/NHC them on any changes which may take place regarding the system between WS NWS budget, and the N advisories. This position also has the responsibility of setting up the conference Southern Region Office calls between the NHC and the emergency management community and high - and liaison work the level officials being affected. This also includes Puerto Rico and the American NHC Virgin islands. He also handles any calls made to the NHC that are emergency • FEMA's highest award, the management related. William "Billy" A, Wagner, Jr., CEM Program Manager Director's Award. Some of his national involvements include testifying before the United States Senate Sub -Committee regarding FEMA and local emergency management response to Hurricane Andrew; Testified in Governor Lawton Chiles "Lewis Report" hearing regarding impact of Hurricane Andrew including the response; Was instrument in getting Congressional support regarding the critical need to maintain a fully staffed National Weather Service in Key West, Florida; Participated in over 20 nuclear power exercises; Directed the emergency response for the Florida Keys addressing the Cuban immigration crisis; Participated in numerous full scale US Coast Guard oil spill exercises as a member of the Unified Command; Testified in a Congressional Field Hearing at the National Hurricane Center regarding funding cuts effecting personal and operations; Testified before the Senate Sub -Committee on Science, Technology and Space regarding the National Weather Service fiscal budget. Intrically involved with the first Southeast Florida Regional Evacuation Study completed in 1983. Started in 1981 and completed in 1993 for the Counties of Monroe, Miami -Dade, Broward and Palm Beach. As re -study was started in 1989 and completed in 1992. Attended segments of the Corp of Eng tri-stale study. Work with Brian Jarvinen, Chief of the Storm Surge Group of the National Hurricane Center for over 20 years. Involved in many post storm surge surveys From Hurricane Alicia 1983 through Hurricanes Rite 2005. Spent many hours with Brian Jarvinen and Dr. Wilson Schaffer addressing storm surge problems along Florida and the U.S. Coast line. As well as the Virgin Island and Puerto Rico. Participated in many Corp of Eng evacuation studies workshops over a 25 year period. Involved in many workshops in outreach programs involving evacuation studies in historical evacuation responses in Florida Has had the opportunity every coastal county in Florida including the inland counties which were impacted by an evacuation in Florida and boarding states. Truly under the importance of the technical data reports in the evacuation studies and how the results are used in the emergency management communities planning process. As well as transmitting this information to the emergency responders and those citizens who are at risk and must respond. Invited as the instructor for the emergency management component of the World Meteorological Workshop at the National Hurricane Center for over 15 years with the primary emphasis of the importance of the data produced of the evacuation studies and this data being used by the emergency management community for planning and response. The most recent post storm involvement included Hurricanes Charlie, Ivan, Frances, Jeanne, Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Lundstrom-Tamara From: Brian Walsh [Brian.Walsh@Halliburton,com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:41 PM To: Lundstrom-Tamara Subject: RE: Reappointment to the Security District Board Tamara, My recent purctiase of a house in Cape Coral and o-her commitments make it impossib continue serving on the Duck Key Security Advisory Board. Please withdraw my name consideration. Thank you, Brian D. Walsh From: Lundstrom-Tamara [Lundstrom-Tamara@MonroeCounty-FL.Gov] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 1:25 PM To: dfiammang@TAFTLAW.com; Brian Walsh Cc: nevi1688@bellsouth.net Subject: Reappointment to the Security District Board Donna and Brian, Your respective appointments to the Duck Key Security District Advisory Board are expiring the first of April. Vjould you like to continue serving on the Board? Comm. Di Gennarc would be happy to reappoint both of you at the March 18, 2D09 BOCC meeting if you would be interested. Please confirm as soon as possible, our agenda item filing deadline is coming the end of this week. Thank you, Tamara Lundstrom Tamara Lundstrom Executive Assistant Commissioner Mario Di Gennarc Monroe County Com:uissioner - District 4 9400 Overseas Highway, Ste. 210 Marathon, FL 33050 Pn: 305 289-6000 Fx: 305 289-4610 HELP US HELP YOU! Please take a moment to complete our Customer Satisfaction Survey: http://monroecofL.virtuaitownhall.netiPages/MonroeCoFL_WebDocs/css Your feedback is important to us! Please note: Florida has a very broad public records law. Most written communications to or from the County regarding County business are public record, available to the public and media upon request. 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