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- BID : $RACESBUL.266
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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: AUXILIARY RADIO SERVICE
- CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
- 2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)262-1603
- Landline BBS (FIDO) open to all: (916) 262-1657
- RACESBUL.266 DATE: March 22, 1993
- SUBJECT: MGT - RACES CANNOT BE CONFINED TO ONE DEPARTMENT
- A paragraph that appears in the new RACES plan format is
- paraphrased directly from the FCC Rules and Regulations. It
- states:
- "RACES resources are considered a facility available to all
- government services as required. Specific channels are not
- assigned exclusively to any one service."
- We bring this up because we hear, albeit infrequently, that
- a RACES unit reportedly serves only one department in its juris-
- diction. A RACES organization can be created only by the authori-
- ty of a jurisdiction's civil defense or emergency management
- director. That director may, in turn, delegate the day-to-day
- management of the RACES to a department head within the same
- jurisdiction.
- By the same token, city civil defense or emergency manage-
- ment officials may, by agreement, have the county organization
- serve the needs of all jurisdictions therein. We encourage this
- management approach wherever possible. It can make management and
- utilization of a limited resource more effective.
- A county RACES cannot, for example, simply serve one county
- department. This is a violation of the FCC Rules and defeats the
- intent of the RACES. If a county CD or emergency services admin-
- istrator has delegated the RACES program to, say, the sheriff,
- the RACES program must serve equally the needs of all county
- departments --- not just the sheriff. If it fails to do so it
- cannot be called the Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service. It
- may also run the risk of close scrutiny for the possible use of
- Amateur Radifor business purposes.
- ---Stanly E. Harter,
- Auxiliary Communications Service Coordinator
- kh6gbx@wa6nwe.#nocal.ca.usa.na (916)262-1603
- EOF
-