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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)
- 2800 MEADOWVIEW RD., SACRAMENTO, CA 95832 916-262-1600
- LANDLINE BBS OPEN TO ALL 916-262-1657
- RACESBUL.306 RELEASE DATE: December 27th, 1993
- SUBJECT: MGT - Observations - Part 2/3
- I don't wish to imply that our RACES and other volunteer
- government communications programs were not free of this in California
- before the State Legislature undertook to turn this around. Following
- authorizing legislation the State Office of Emergency Services
- initiated a fulltime volunteer communications coordination effort in
- 1985 that has paid dividends ever since.
- Our State cannot tell the counties what do any more than counties
- can dictate to cities. Therefore it is important for state government
- to maintain a fulltime leadership role to maximize the positive and
- productive use of unpaid communications professionals in government
- service. It is such commitment to a program that makes ACS, RACES or
- similar communications reserve a success --- not disasters.
- On the same multi-state RACES program trip I had the opportunity
- to talk with and meet several county radio officers. Almost all of
- them receive the RACES Bulletins by packet radio, by mail, and/or by
- computer disk. They had established successful programs under their
- emergency management officials. Some called it RACES. Others called it
- the Auxiliary Communications Service, the Sheriff's Communications
- Reserve and by other names. All agreed that their programs either
- always or finally succeeded for several reasons, as given in the next
- Bulletin.
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- HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
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