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Msgid : $RACESBUL.207
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