Dane County  
Minutes - Final Unless Amended by  
Committee  
Emergency Medical Services - Operating Practices Subcommittee  
Consider:  
Who benefits? Who is burdened?  
Who does not have a voice at the table?  
How can policymakers mitigate unintended consequences?  
Thursday, February 11, 2021  
2:30 PM  
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A. Call To Order  
The meeting was called to order at 2:35.  
10 -  
Present  
SCOTT ALLAIN, CHRIS DENNIS, JEFF DOSTALEK, STEPHANIE LEHMANN,  
JENNY MINTER, JEN ROMAN, JIM WICK, STEVEN WUNSCH, GARY ZIEGLER,  
and ERIC LANG  
6 -  
Absent  
SCOTT BAVERY, CHRIS CARBON, ERIK SEVERSON, CORY HROMOTKO,  
ROBERT SALOV, and BRANDON RYAN  
Guests: Kevin Weber, Kevin Fosso, Cindy Gustavson, Scott Russell, Jerry McMullen,  
Brian Goff  
Staff: Carrie Meier, Eric Anderson, Rick Lange, Courtney Wassertheurer  
B. Consideration of Minutes  
OPERATING PRACTICES SUBCOMMITTEE JANUARY 2021 MINUTES  
2020  
MIN-432  
Attachments: January Minutes  
The minutes were approved.  
C. Discussion  
Items  
Active Threat Document Review  
No concrete next steps with document, but Meier wanted it to get looked at again. Goal  
after 2020 adoption was to have agencies train on it and do tabletop exercises. Would  
like to hear where this stands within members' municipalities and how DCEMS office can  
help facilitate training and getting this back on the forefront. The plan was to come back  
a year later to see what changes may need to be made. Lang asks if there are any  
training documents that would be created by the county that would help municipalities  
facilitate training. Plan was to work with Joselyn to have them come in and help organize  
the tabletop exercise "game", then decide if it was something we would purchase and  
rotate around the county. Meier willing to start that conversation again to get this  
resource. Under current county orders, could pull together a group of 40 in person for a  
tabletop as long as there is no eating. Mount Horeb started planning last year to do a  
training this summer; hoping that they still can, but not sure. Middleton planning on  
applying for grants for exercises. Meier asks if it would be helpful to have a Zoom  
session just to review basics on the document to refresh people’s memory of the  
contents. Ziegler mentions Reunification Plan as those two documents go together.  
Committee Make-Up and Priorities Update  
The last EMS Commission meeting discussed committee makeup. Subcommittee  
chairs, Meier, and Commission Chair Plotkin to meet and come up with a proposal. EMS  
Commission does not meet until March. This subcommittee will continue to meet unless  
told otherwise.  
D. Presentations  
E. Reports to Committee  
F. Future Meeting Items and Dates  
G. Public Comment on Items not on the Agenda  
H. Such Other Business as Allowed by Law  
Meier shares that Anderson has thrown together a virtual base hospital training on Zoom  
if anyone is interested in scheduling a training.  
Wunsch asked about MCI kits and additional requests that were made. Meier will have  
staff start ordering and putting together additional bags. Wunsch also asks for an update  
on the replacement ambulance for R30. Last Meier heard was that the delivery will be in  
May. Alliant Energy Center is working to find a contractor to sit in the parking lot rather  
than having R30 staged there. Would like to get it back in service, but currently figuring  
out a good replacement option. Until then, R30 will remain out of service.  
I. Adjourn  
The meeting was adjourned at 3:36pm.  
Minutes respectfully submitted by Courtney Wassertheurer.