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- Msgid : $RACESBUL.207
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- TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES/OFFICES VIA THE ARS
- INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
- ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
- FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
- 2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)427-4281
- RACESBUL.207 DATE: Feb. 3, 1992
- SUBJECT: MGT Strengthening your emergency services staff
- QUESTION: To have a RACES unit for our government, we need
- to only appoint a RADIO OFFICER, right?
- REPLY: That's a start, but there's more to it than that.
- The Civil Defense or Emergency Services Director, or designee,
- appoints the Radio Officer. Then its the responsibility of that
- Radio Officer to appoint (as a rule) assistants and/or alternates
- which should be subject to your approval for reasons to be
- indicated. Initially the Radio Officer thinks in terms of
- communications, but as the relationship between the emergency
- management agency and the Radio Officer deepens, the astute Radio
- Officer finds ways of assisting in the fields of administration,
- management, and sometimes even in that of affecting short and
- long range policies.
- In general we think in terms of three levels of responders to
- any type of emergency: Level 1 is fully registered, trained, and
- serves on regular, frequent, staff basis. The Level 2 volunteer
- is registered, likely untrained and often
- intermittent in participation. Level 3 people are unregistered,
- training uncertain, not at all interested in belonging to the
- government agency, but willing to come out and 'help' at times of
- his/her own choosing. What is said here refers only to Level 1
- people.
- The well selected Radio Officer, like the well selected paid
- staff of the agency, is familiar with the span of control and
- selects assistants who specialize in specific activities: such as
- administration, operations and technical. These key assistants
- may well be properly subject to your approval as the appointing
- authority since in some instances you may have to work directly
- with them instead of the Radio Officer (if he/she were away, ill,
- or injured for example.)
- Here, the position to which the Radio Officer reports, or
- responds to, is the RACES Coordinator (as well as what other
- title may apply locally). With a minimum of oversight the Radio
- Officer should carry out the day-to-day matters; but with the
- clear understanding that all policy matters should be approved
- first by the RACES Coordinator. We encourage the creation of such
- depth in the RACES organization and finding means and ways to use
- the volunteers besides just radio communication operators and
- equipment providers! ---Cary Mangum, W6WWW, California Chief
- State Radio Officer
- EOM
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