Training/Committee/Tasks

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Contents 1 Major work areas 2 Committee members' tasks 2.1 Brett 2.2 Ron 2.3 Craig 2.4 Mike 2.5 Yvonne 2.6 Alieza 2.7 Claus 2.8 Russ 2.9 Karl 3 Suggestions

Major work areas

1. Keep a description of training events that have occurred (used to validate members are being appropriately trained)
2. Develop a plan of training subjects for monthly meetings. Have schedule always at least 6 months out.
3. Find an instructor for each monthly meeting's subject. Arrange at least 3 months ahead. Provide the support the instructor needs.
4. Find an instructor and schedule grant-funded courses. Arrange several months ahead. Provide the support the instructor needs. Register students.
5. Complete grant paperwork after courses are complete.
6. Apply for training grants for the coming year.
7. Announce and promote upcoming training, via annoucements at meetings, e-mails, updating website calendar, provincial e-mail lists, contacting other groups.
8. Determine what provincial and regional training is available to our members by contacting other groups, reviewing mailing lists.
9. Determine priorities for sending and funding students to outside training
10. Identify courses that we should fund ourselves
11. Find an instructor and schedule internally-funded courses. Arrange several months ahead. Provide the support the instructor needs. Register students.
12. Analyze and report on what major training needs are by reviewing critique suggestions, input from members, training records, and minimum training requirements.
13. Chair training committee meetings; prepare agenda; record decisions
14. Oversee committee members; track task assignments; coach; encourage
15. Develop a budget for the expenses categories of the training committee; project where we are and will be in that budget; develop over-all ask for next year's organization budget (August)

Committee members' tasks

Brett

(review: Brett Wuth)

• delegate July GPS, geocaching activity
  • geocaches near Pincher: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?lat=49.465521&lng=-113.950222&dist=100
• develop August Compass bearing activity
• delegate September hike activity
• develop plan for training for - take to preplan in May
  • being a family liaison
  • dealing with spontaneous volunteers
  • dealing with media
  • interfacing with police

Janet,

Can you check where we are in getting in writing what we're supposed to do in getting ARRC numbers?

Supposedly we need to register meeting and searches with AEMA through the ARRC in order to have WCB coverage. However I don't think anyone in Pincher SAR has received the details in writing of what exactly we should be doing. I believe we've only received directions verbally or 2nd hand.

For instance, what events need to be registered? Can a search be registered during or after the event? What are the consequences of not registering? When we next have a WCB claim (as we almost did with the mock search), getting these details right will be important.

Ideally we should be receiving a letter from AEMA, the Fire Commissioner's Office, or SAR Alberta that lays out all the requirements.

If we know what we must be doing, we can make sure we are accomplishing that. We need this information both for the Preplan Committee which sets up procedures for Search Managers and also for the Training Committee which schedules lots of events. My guess is that we may not currently be doing all that we need to.

I brought this up a few months ago and the board said they were going to get the information. I haven't heard anything yet.

Ron

Craig

Mike

As we discussed last month, I'd really appreciate it if you could take the lead on the communications side of our training committee.

To do that you'll need to be aware of what training is planned into the next few months for Pincher SAR. You'll also need to be talking to our neighbours, Crowsnest Pass SAR, Lethbridge SAR (LASARA) and the Lethbridge dog team (CSDA), and finding out any training they have which is relevant.

There's a provincial mailing list (SARA Training Coordinators) where major training opportunities are announced. You'll get those announcements automatically through the PCSAR training committee mailing list.

With all the information you've collected, I'm asking you to be the lead person in getting the word out. If you're comfortable, that means giving the training announcements at the start of each regular meeting (about 5 minutes). That also involves updating our website calendar (wiki) and sending out e-mail to the mailing lists.

The basic information on our communications is here:

http://pcsar.dyndns.org:8080/mediawiki/index.php/Training/Committee#Communications

I'm not sure whether you're comfortable with mailing lists and wikis. If you're not, I'll be glad to walk you through them.

Yvonne

• Organize July GPS exercise
• Organize September hike

At the last training meeting, you mentioned that you were willing to keep some records of what training we've done.

Alieza

• Organize July GPS exercise
• Organize September hike

At the last training meeting, you mentioned that you were willing to keep some records of what training we've done.

Claus

Russ

Karl

• Organize monthly training for July with the help of Ron - Mantracking

Suggestions

See the list of suggestions referred to the Training Committee