Purchases

• Eight generators.
• Four satellite phones.
• Stockpile of two years of personal gear for CERT classes.
• Voice of Vashon emergency broadcast improvements
• Voice of Vashon feasibility test of licensed on-air, Island-wide “TIS” system.
• Radio cache for a sixth Local Area Communications Center.
• Medicine, backboards, supplies for trauma center.
• Emergency food and cooking equipment, water distribution“bladders,” container storage for shelter equipment.

Training/Recruiting/Public Awareness & Education

• Historic community-wide preparedness and awareness drill (VIFR newsletter & other indirect support).
• Numerous paid/unpaid ads and community events for recruiting of volunteers.
• Distribution of several thousand household preparedness checklists.
• Neighborhood Emergency Response Organizations increased from about 20 to over 80 neighborhoods.
• Two CERT classes (savings of VIFR CERT budget).
• New Community Contacts Team formed for crowd/rumor control.
• Intensive weekend seminar for volunteer support in trauma center.
• Purchase of volunteer management software to aid certifications, tracking of hours, regular communications to volunteer base to aid retention and training.
• Training for emergency food service volunteers.

Volunteer Hours

• Conservative estimate of 4,865 hours in 2006.
• System for tracking hours not yet in place (volunteer management software pending).
• Includes only hours estimated by a poll of eleven active individuals.
• Does not include participants in CERT courses, EOC team drills, ARES drills, other group activity participants.
• Conservative estimate of value of hours =$97,300
• Value based on study by UPS Foundation which set a value of $20 on volunteer hours
• Many of these volunteers receive pay far above $20 per hour in their professional lives.