Dane County

Minutes - Final Unless Amended by

Committee

Local Emergency Planning Committee

Consider:

Who benefits? Who is burdened?

Who does not have a voice at the table?

How can policymakers mitigate unintended consequences?

Monday, June 9, 2025

1:30 PM

Hybrid Meeting: Attend in person at Dane County

Emergency Management (2982 Kapec Rd) Emergency

Operations Center; attend virtually via Zoom

A. Call To Order

The meeting was called to order by Vice Chair Bubenzer at 1:32pm.

Other present:Monika Chrzaszcz, Shawn Dahl, Darin Gudgeon, Zander Johnston,

Denise Kelley, Darlene Pintarro, Carrie Meier, and Colton Ritchie

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Present

CHARLES TUBBS, BURLIE WILLIAMS, NATHAN BUBENZER, PATRICK

ANDERSON, DAVE DRESSER, JEFFREY KRONING, AMANDA MORGAN,

TREVOR BANNISTER, and DAVID LARSON

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Excused

TIM MROWIEC, DAVE VOLENBERG, JOE DEMORETT, and THANE

WESTERMEYER

B. Consideration of Minutes

FEBRUARY 2025 LEPC MINUTES

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Attachments: FEBRUARY 2025 LEPC MINUTES

A motion was made by DRESSER, seconded by KRONING, that the Minutes be

approved. The motion carried by a voice vote.

C. Action Items

None

D. Presentations

Space Weather - Shawn Dahl, NOAA

E. Reports to Committee

Madison Fire HazMat Team Report

Darlene reports on known HazMat team responses.

March 14th - Waunakee, SAIA Freight, A semi-trailer was leaking out the back with a

small vapor cloud visible. No hazmat concerns found, contractor called in for further

remediation and clean up.

May 3rd - Madison, Water main break near Sterns Packaging Corporation and chemicals

possibly going into Starkweather Creek. HazMat team tested PH levels in the water,

levels were normal and chemicals were not off gassing. Contract called in for further

remediation and clean up.

May 12th - Madison, NCD Technologies, fire and explosion in one of the labs. Employee

was using red phosphorous at the time of the incident. HazMat team tested air quality

upon arrival and found some off gassing. Sealed the room for a bit and then ventilated.

Contract called in for further remediation and clean up.

Darlene shared copies of the letters that were sent to the companies along with a list of

spills that have been reported through the DNR hotline.

EPCRA Report - Pintarro

This is a difficult time of year for EPCRA. Tier II reports are due in by March 1st, but

reports continue to get reported through mid-April. Darlene has to take the information

submitted to the state through the Tier II reports and extract the information to all the

other programs that are used for planning.

Darlene circulated a copy of her list of facilities to be updated, she noted there are

already 12 changes from the list of 46 that will need to be accounted for and adjusted.

There is no update to the EPCRA grant, the status remains ready for commission. In

previous years the awards have come out at the same time as the EMPG awards, which

was around September. EPCRA is a state grant.

Committee Membership Vacancies

Amanda Morgan had left the media field and taken a new position with the State

Climatology Office. Amanda has recommended another journalist, Charles will be

reaching out to her to see if she is still interested.

Dave Volenberg has retired from Hydrite. The requirements for the Committee is to have

two representatives from planning facilities. With the current appointments, that

requirement remains to be fulfilled. Joe is with Madison Water Utility and Dave Larson is

with the VA Hospital. Quorum would remain unchanged.

Committee Member Reports

Patrick Anderson advised there will be a training on August 9th hosted by the Wisconsin

EMS Association on Hazardous Materials and Railroad Safety for EMS providers.

Training will be held at the Verona Fire Department. Flyers will be passed along once

received.

F. Future Meeting Items and Dates

The next meeting will be Monday, October 20, 2025 at 1:00pm. Location will be

determine closer to the meeting.

G. Public Comment on Items not on the Agenda

None