THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The organizing committee is comprised of seven members
from the amateur radio community here in the Lubbock County area. The District
RACES Officer who chairs the committee is Clinton Thetford. The other six
members are Lee Kitchens, Koy Carson, Steve Slay, Kendal Stanaland, Rod
Huckabay and Carl Petmecky. These members represent nearly every interest
and every formally organized amateur radio effort in Lubbock County, such
as The Skywarn severe weather group, The Lubbock Amateur Radio Club, The
Lubbock Amateur Contest Club, the Caprock Repeater Club and others as well.
Besides being representatives of these interests, each member also brings
additional personal skills to the committee in various different ways such
as experience in governmental relations, communications and teaching skills
and technical skills which help in the organizational process. The Lubbock
County RACES/ARES organization is just that, an organization. It is being
designed and structured in such a way as to utilize the skills and knowledge
of each of the varied clubs and amateur interests in Lubbock County, when
called up to help by any of our governmental agencies. There are no club
dues as this is not a club. Funds for this organization are primarily donations
which will be tax-deductible since we are a non-profit organization. Any
individual who is interested in helping with emergency communications,
amateur radio operators and non-amateurs alike are welcomed. It is not
the intent of this organization to combine or attempt to restructure any
of the clubs or interests in Lubbock County as that would defeat the major
purpose of establishing The RACES/ARES organization. Our main goal is to
utilize each club, group, interest, and individual, and each of their specialties,
in a composite effort when activated by our governmental agencies.
One last note about the committee. One of the committee’s
strongest desires is to avoid the old “Too many chief’s and not enough
Indians” syndrome that all too often destroys good organizations. The committee
members are your representatives in all your interests and efforts in both
supporting and making this organization work and work well. Your ideas
and opinions are very important to them in making good sound decisions
in our needs and goals and how to accomplish them. It is the committee’s
goal, through your input, to develop our amateur radio community into a
very professional and efficient resource, so that when we are needed, any
and all of us will know what to do and how to accomplish our task at hand,
without the “chief and Indian” problem. Team work is the greatest asset
we want to develop.
TRAINING
Training will be one of our major priorities in the months
to come. It takes some time and effort to put together these training sessions.
We will be doing these as fast as we can in order to get every one up to
speed on what we need to do. In addition to classroom sessions, we will
be also be setting up practice exercises to help everyone become familiar
with how the Lubbock County Emergency Communications Plan will work. In
the future there are also plans to set up a RACES/ARES net on one of the
local repeaters to practice simulated traffic practices. We hope and encourage
each one of you to participate in these. The purposes for this are two
fold. The first is to help each one of us to get familiar with our tasks
at hand. The second is to help us work out any organizational procedures
that may need to be changed to make things run smoother and more efficiently.
Again, your input is very important to the making this work and work well.
Your help and participation is appreciated.
THE END RESULT WE HOPE TO ACHIEVE
Our goal is to organize and develop all of the varied
interests and resources in the amateur radio community in Lubbock County
into one very good resource that the community we live in can utilize when
called upon in their time of need. Each amateur radio operator and non-amateur
alike are equally important in our efforts to accomplish these goals. Our
radio skills are important, but just as important in any emergency situation
are the skills, knowledge, and personal experience each of us use in our
everyday lives to make a living. There is no way we can ever anticipate
or train for every possible incident that may ever occur. But with the
vast amount of experience and knowledge we all have as a whole, our ability
to adapt to our needs to accomplish our goals and tasks is greatly enhanced
when pooling these skills and knowledge into one resource and working as
a team. It is our goal and responsibility through training and teamwork
to see that:
1-when activated we have a plan to follow that is versatile
in accomplishing our community’s
needs
2-when we get on site and setup, we will all be able
to recognize what needs to be done
3-we can all do any of the various tasks that need to
be done
4-we can all feel good about what we accomplished through
our efforts in working together after we are done.
5-we have fun and enjoy the learning experience together!!
6-NO CHIEFS, NO INDIANS, JUST TEAMWORK.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP AND PARTICIPATION....!!!!!!
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