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- Bid : $RACESBUL.291
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- TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES VIA AMATEUR RADIO
- INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
- ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
- FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
- (KH6GBX @ WA6NWE.CA)
- 2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832
- (916)262-1600
- Landline BBS open to all: (916) 262-1657
- RACESBUL.291 DATE: September 13, 1993
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- SUBJECT: MGT: Agencies that say "NO!" - Part 1/2
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- Why does this occur? Why do some agencies say "No" to
- communications volunteers and refuse to call them out? Why does
- an auxiliary communications unit by whatever title --- ECS
- (Emergency Communications Service), DCS (Disaster Communications
- Service), ARES or RACES --- wither and die for lack of agency
- support or inclusion in its on-going activities?
- One real possibility is that the agency administrator may
- need help in working with a group of people he/she is not
- accustomed to having around. Not that he/she isn't a professional
- in their own field, but that the person has little experience
- working with unpaid professionals with an abiding interest in
- emergency communications. Perhaps the key response here is one of
- inter-personal relationships, chiefly between the agency people
- and the Radio Officer. With the right personality and skill, the
- Radio Officer CAN establish the liaison and relationship.
- Another possibility is that the Amateurs take the situation
- for granted without realization. Yet another is that the
- volunteers don't comprehend the agency needs and relationships.
- When did they last show a willingness to help the agency in its
- DAY-TO-DAY affairs? [so as to better understand the agency]
- How have you utilized the RACES bulletins? They are
- addressed to agency administrators, via the Amateur Radio
- Service, to be DELIVERED IN PERSON by an interested Amateur to
- the agency administrator, even if there is no unit, or a "paper"
- unit. Such on-going contact BEGINS the process of familiarization
- and rapport. Where a unit exists, it is the Radio Officer that is
- responsible for the situation. If he/she isn't an INTEGRAL part
- of the agency, get another one!
- The Radio Officer won't learn much about your agency, or
- become an integral part of your staff, by simply delivering a
- bulletin weekly. That's just the door opener. It takes time to
- learn the nuances of personalities, the quirks of procedures, and
- the unwritten aspects that affect the agency.
- (continued in Part 2 of 2 parts)
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- EOM
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