I_WMRC_2024A 07/30/2024 09:08:30 AM Committee Summary PUBLICSTAFF SUMMARY OF MEETINGINTERIM COMMITTEE WILDFIRE MATTERS REVIEW COMMITTEE Date 07/30/2024 Attendance Baisley X Boesenecker E Exum X Lynch X Marchman X Mauro X Weinberg E Will E Velasco X Cutter X Time 09:08:30 AM to 03:09:30 PM Place Old State Library This Meeting was called to order by Cutter This Report was prepared by Samantha Falco Hearing Items Action Taken hPresentation from the Mental Health Trust Board Committee Discussion Only hPresentation from Garfield County 911 Committee Discussion Only hPresentation from the Colorado Tourism Board Committee Discussion Only hPresentation from the Colorado State Forest Service Committee Discussion Only hPresentation from the Nature Conservancy Committee Discussion Only hPresentation from Western Resources Advocates Committee Discussion Only hLunch Committee Discussion Only hPresentation from the Center of Excellence Committee Discussion Only hPresentation from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care Committee Discussion Only hPresentation from Fire Adapted Colorado Committee Discussion Only Presentation from the Mental Health Trust Board - Committee Discussion Only 09:09:25 AM Chief John Wilson, Lousville Fire District; Joseph DePaepe, Trust Administrator; and Paula Lowder, Claims Consultant, shared information on the Behavioral Health Program Operational Summary regarding the Colorado Firefighter Heart, Cancer, and Behavioral Health Trust that was funded through SB22-002. The summary can be found here: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/mental_health_trust_board.pdf 09:19:50 AM The presentation included on the impact of the trust, the claims processes, and the growth of the fund. 09:37:39 AM The committee asked questions about the funding, future appropriations, and anonymity of the program. Dianne Criswell, General Counsel of the Trust gave information to the committee on future appropriations. Presentation from Garfield County 911 - Committee Discussion Only 09:40:26 AM Carl Stephens, Director, Garfield County 911, gave a presentation on the Garfield County 911 Center. The presentation included information on the efforts being made for language access, success in maintaining staffing, misuse of the 911 system, and policy surrounding 911 operations. 09:47:50 AM The committee thanked the county for their efforts. Presentation from the Colorado Tourism Board - Committee Discussion Only 09:53:31 AM Tim Wolfe, Director, Colorodo Tourism Office gave the following presentation to the committee: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/colorado_tourism_office.pdf 10:02:58 AM The presentation included information on efforts made though various social media and outreach campaigns, crisis communications plans, crisis recovery support, the Welcome Center Program, and their weekly newsletter. 10:11:03 AM The committee commended the Tourism Office's efforts regarding wildfire outreach. The committee asked questions regarding campaigns and different partners, how communities become a destination marketing organization, and the impacts of smoke. Presentation from the Colorado State Forest Service - Committee Discussion Only 10:27:13 AM Christina Burri, Deputy Director, and Amanda West Fordham, Associate Director Science and Data Division, with the Colorado State Forest Service gave the following presentation: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/adaptive_management_in_colorado_0.pdf 10:28:45 AM The presentation included information on adaptive forest types in Colorado, treatment effectiveness, monitoring forest treatments, monitoring technologies, the statewide forest carbon inventory, regional differences, and forest health monitoring. 11:04:45 AM The committee asked the presenters questions regarding the effectiveness of forest thinning, outreach to other organizations, technology being used to measure and monitor fuel loads, and the Larimer County fireshed program. Presentation from the Nature Conservancy - Committee Discussion Only 11:23:25 AM Rob Addington, Director of the Forest and Fire Program, and Parker Titus, Prescribed Fire Crew Supervisor, with the Nature Conservancy Colorado gave the following presentation: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/forest_health_and_th.... 11:28:37 AM The presentation gave an overview of Colorado's forests, a review of different wildfires, longterm impacts, loss of forest acreage burned annually by wildfire in Colorado, thinning, and prescribed fire. Mr. Titus went into further detail about prescribed fires as a wildfire mitigation practice, the benefits to ecology and people, the impacts of mitigation, and successes of prescribed fires. Presentation from Western Resources Advocates - Committee Discussion Only 11:54:36 AM Rebecca Samulski, Executive Director, Fire Adapted Colorado, and Brendan Will, Policy Advisor, Western Resource Advocates, continued the joint presentation with the Nature Conservancy on behalf of Western Resource Advocates. The presentation is a continuation of the Power Point provided by the Nature Conservancy. 11:57:14 AM The presentation included information on the Flume Creek prescribed burn, issues with enabling prescribed fire use, regulatory, funding, liability, training, and capacity barriers, and recommendations. 12:12:32 PM The committee asked questions regarding notifying prescribed fires on private land, regulation of prescribed fires, incentivising prescribed burning, and local control of prescribed fires. Lunch - Committee Discussion Only 12:28:36 PM The committee recessed for lunch. Presentation from the Center of Excellence - Committee Discussion Only 01:34:27 PM Ben Miller, Director, Center of Excellence gave the following presentation to the committee: https://coleg.box.com/s/t9p3l0tbddktlrndzota0x8gv9eq9sqk 01:37:10 PM The presentation included an overview of the Center of Excellence, the Colorado Team Awareness Kit (CoTAK), and other work the Center of Excellence is doing. 02:03:30 PM The committee thanked the Center of Excellence for their work. Presentation from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care - Committee Discussion Only 02:14:07 PM Cari Frank and Clare Leather with the Center for improving Value in Health Care gave a presentation regarding wildfire and ozone impact on health. The presentation given to the committee can be found here: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/civhc-wildfire_and_ozone_presentation.pdf The report mentioned to the committee can be found here: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/civhc-wildfire_and_ozone_impact_on_health_data_set_0.xlsx Presentation from Fire Adapted Colorado - Committee Discussion Only 03:02:02 PM Rebecca Samulski, Executive Director, Fire Adapted Colorado came back to the dais to present on behalf of Fire Adapted Colorado. The following is the presentation given to the committee: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/fire_adapted_colorado.pdf 03:04:46 PM The committee asked questions regarding modeling, constructing new homes, and insurance companies. 03:07:37 PM The committee discussed future meetings. 03:09:30 PM The committee adjourned.
