╨╧рб▒с>■  )+■   (                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ье┴M Ё┐є bjbjт=т= "АWАWє       lиииииии╝6666 B ╝с╢ZZZZZZZZ`bbbbbb$Ч ╖ оЖиZZZZZЖ,ииZZЫ,,,ZRиZиZ`,Z`,4,`ии`ZN АEv╔mй╚╝z6м"``▒0с`e ╬^e `,╝╝ииии┘ This letter is an offer to open a dialogue between the County of Dukes and its Emergency Management department and your office that may amplify your efforts to regionalize the dissemination of emergency information and disaster resources during and after disasters. Our Emergency Management department, in the past, was asked by MEMA and FEMA to devise and implement a plan to distribute 38 pallets of pre-positioned MREs and 76 pallets of bottled water among the 7 towns of the County, the Federally recognized Wampanoag tribe, and the County. This entire effort was devised and implemented by the County, successfully, within three weeks. In 2007, the County Emergency Manager initiated an effort to form a chapter of the Medical Reserve Corps. On MarthaТs Vineyard, this is a partnership of the 6 town Board of Health agents, the MarthaТs Vineyard Hospital, The Wampanoag Tribal Health office, theCounty Emergency Management department and the Cape & Islands Health Coalition. The County also hosts the MarthaТs Vineyard Medical Reserve Corps. The County EM acts as the Logistics Section Chief and Transportation officer for the activation of the Island Emergency Dispensing Site. This also is an example of our spirit of partnership, as this appointment was made by the health agents of the 6 towns of MarthaТs Vineyard. Notwithstanding the legislative imperatives put forward in MGL c 34A Sec. 16 B, which limits the actions that can be taken by county government and, conversely, the assistance that you can legally call upon from us during times of disaster, we believe that we can be a valuable asset which would help you to implement the necessary regionalization of the dissemination of emergency information and disaster resources in these times of ever decreasing funding and manpower downsizing. We believe that these Island partnerships that we are forming fall within the purview of MGL c34 A Sec. 16 (C),[УBased on the need to develop effective services to meet problems which cross city or town boundaries and which cannot be met effectively on an individual basis by the cities and towns, or the state, this chapter shall be construed as intending to give the county power to establish innovative programs and to perform such regional services as the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the General Laws permit and to establish such other programs and services as may from time to time be permitted.Ф] and we would like to talk with you to see if there are ways that we can make your job easier. 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