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- Bid: $RACESBUL.313
- Subject: RB313 Semantics 3/7 - Coordinators
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- TO: ALL ES, CD, AND PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTORS VIA AMATEUR RADIO
- INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CALIFORNIA
- INFO: ALL AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS
- FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
- (W6SIG@WA6NWE.CA) Ph: 916-262-1600
- 2800 MEADOWVIEW RD., SACRAMENTO, CA 95832
- LANDLINE BBS OPEN TO ALL 916-262-1657
- RACESBUL.313 RELEASE DATE: February 14, 1994
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- Subject: MGT - Semantics - Coordinator 3/7
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- COORDINATOR. This is probably the most misunderstood word in this
- field. It is a common title in California but prohibited in
- Hawaii government. It appears that most coordinators are
- facilitators and have no authority. For those coordinators who
- indeed have authority to provide direction and control, we feel
- they should have another title. In the future we shall provide
- you a very illuminating article written by a newspaper reporter
- on the public confusion over the title coordinator. To add to the
- confusion, some coordinators are really planners who are neither
- facilitators or managers.
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- EMERGENCY COORDINATOR OR "E.C.": The title of a volunteer
- appointed by the American Radio Relay League, an association of
- Amateur Radio operators who sponsor a special interest group
- called the ARES or Amateur Radio Emergency Service. The ARES
- provides vital health and welfare communications and support to
- disaster relief agencies such as the Red Cross, the Salvation
- Army and others. In some cases an ARES EC may develop an
- agreement specifying that ARES people will "switch hats" to
- provide RACES support to a local government agency. Where the EC
- is the RACES Radio Officer it takes an exceptionally well
- qualified person not to confuse those two distinctly different
- roles: the RACES is only Public Safety communications and the
- ARES is predominantly public service. The title Emergency
- Coordinator is also used by some jurisdictions in another context
- and has no connection with Amateur Radio.
- (3 of 7. Continued)
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