[MRIC] Meeting Minutes for 4-21-07

Thu Apr 26 20:02:07 EDT 2007

I would like to make a VERY significant correction to these minutes:

In the second paragraph, last sentence, Al Fitzsimmons, W3YRS, is 
identified as the "...State RACES Officer from MEMA...".  This is 
incorrect.  Al, W3YRS, is the MEMA RACES Officer.  There is no State 
RACES Officer in Maryland.  Any state agency that desires to can form a 
RACES group, and the RACES Officer for such a group would be a peer to 
us and to the MEMA RO, plus they would not be accountable to MEMA.

Please remember, that in Maryland, ALL ROs are equal.  There is no "head 
RACES Officer" in Maryland that the other ROs report to.  The ROs report 
to the Emergency Manager or their designate in the appropriate Emergency 
Management Jurisdiction they are located in.  Please remember, NIH also 
has (or at least had) a RACES group in Bethesda.

73,
Pat Scolla, WB0EGR
Harford County RO & EC

BrettHam at aol.com wrote:
> All ROs,
>
> Congratulations on a very successful MRIC meeting this past  Saturday! 
> Congratulations also on approving a standardized message form for use  when passing 
> messages between RACES jurisdictions. This is a very big  accomplishment for 
> just our second meeting. We are off to a very good start.  Thanks for all that 
> attended the meeting, despite it being the nicest weather  outside so far this 
> year.
>
> I want to personally thank you all once again  for all the many contributions 
> that you made; for helping to move the process  along and not get bogged 
> down; and for keeping the discussion germane and  professional. I am very proud of 
> how you all kept the discussion to the subject  at hand; showed respect for 
> others; and held a legitimate detailed debate. It  was a very fair discussion 
> that continued until no one had anything else to say,  before we voted. There 
> were so many significant contributions I won't be able to  remember them all, 
> but I would like to say a special thank you to Al FitzSimons  (State RACES 
> Officer from MEMA) for making the motion and all his research and  accommodations 
> during this process. 
>  
> Al will be directly emailing the approved ICS-213 form to the ROs in  the 
> next few days using his COMMEX announcement email list. If you do not  receive it 
> by Monday, and would like a copy, please contact him.
>
> I would  also like to recognize Frank Winner for being so accommodating as 
> our  host.
>
> In the absence of our MRIC Secretary, I have prepared the minutes  of the 
> meeting:
>
>
> ---------------- MINUTES ------------------
>
> The following were in attendance of the second MRIC meeting held on  April 
> 21, 2007 at the Anne Arundel EOC:
>
> ANAR - Frank Winner (RO)
> BACO  - Joe Krystoforski (RO)
> CALV - Les Dickey (RO)
> CECI - Dave Gray  (RO)
> HARF - Pat Scolla (RO)
> HOWA - Rich Firestone (Assistant RO)
> KENT -  Bill Clark
> MEMA - Al FitzSimons (RO)
> MONT - Fred Bader (RO)
> PG - Dan  Blasberg (RO)
> STMA - Ray Brown (RO)
> TALB - Brett Hammond (RO)
> WASH -  Carlo Belella
> WICO - Joe Woods
>
> The minutes of the previous meeting were discussed. The following  amendments 
> were made:
>  
> - Change phone number for Joe Woods to 443-523-6061.
> - Under Item 6, change "hose" to "host".
> - Add roll-call votes to the minutes.
>  
> The minutes were accepted with amendments without objection. Updated  minutes 
> will be distributed.
>  
> ------------------- MOTION -----------------
>
> There was a motion by Al FitzSimons, seconded by Frank Winner to remove  the 
> following motion from the table:
>
> MOTION: To adopt ICS-213 as  presented by Al FitzSimons as the standard 
> message form to be used by RACES to  send messages between jurisdictions.
>
> The motion was discussed for several  hours, after which time several 
> amendments were made.
>
> -----------------  AMENDMENT ----------------
> There was a motion to amend made by Pat Scolla,  seconded by Joe Krystoforski:
>
> AMENDMENT: Change the date and time field  of the proposed ICS-213 to 
> yyyymmdd and hhmmss.
>
> ROLL-CALL  VOTE:
>
> YES - ANAR - Frank Winner (RO)
> YES - BACO - Joe Krystoforski  (RO)
> YES - CALV - Les Dickey (RO)
> YES - CECI - Dave Gray (RO)
> YES -  HARF - Pat Scolla (RO)
> YES - HOWA - Rich Firestone (Assistant RO)
> YES -  KENT - Bill Clark
> YES - MEMA - Al FitzSimons (RO)
> YES - MONT - Fred Bader  (RO)
> YES - PG - Dan Blasberg (RO)
> YES - STMA - Ray Brown (RO)
> YES -  TALB - Brett Hammond (RO)
> YES - WASH - Carlo Belella
> YES - WICO - Joe  Woods
>
> The amendment passed unanimously.
>
> -----------------  AMENDMENT ----------------
> There was a motion to amend made by Pat Scolla,  seconded by Joe Krystoforski:
>
> AMENDMENT: Remove the message number field  from the proposed ICS-213 form.
>
> There was some discussion about using the time/date as a means of uniquely  
> identifying a message.
>
> ROLL-CALL VOTE:
>
> YES - ANAR - Frank Winner (RO)
> YES - BACO -  Joe Krystoforski (RO)
> YES - CALV - Les Dickey (RO)
> NO - CECI - Dave Gray  (RO)
> YES - HARF - Pat Scolla (RO)
> YES - HOWA - Rich Firestone (Assistant  RO)
> YES - KENT - Bill Clark
> YES - MEMA - Al FitzSimons (RO)
> YES - MONT  - Fred Bader (RO)
> YES - PG - Dan Blasberg (RO)
> YES - STMA - Ray Brown  (RO)
> YES - TALB - Brett Hammond (RO)
> NO - WASH - Carlo Belella
> YES -  WICO - Joe Woods
>
> The amendment passed 12 to 2.
>
> -----------------  AMENDMENT ----------------
> There was a motion to amend made by Dan Blasberg,  seconded by Frank Winner:
>
> AMENDMENT: To remove the message boxes from the  proposed ICS-213.
>
> ROLL-CALL VOTE:
>
> YES - ANAR - Frank Winner  (RO)
> YES - BACO - Joe Krystoforski (RO)
> YES - CALV - Les Dickey  (RO)
> YES - CECI - Dave Gray (RO)
> YES - HARF - Pat Scolla (RO)
> YES -  HOWA - Rich Firestone (Assistant RO)
> YES - KENT - Bill Clark
> YES - MEMA -  Al FitzSimons (RO)
> YES - MONT - Fred Bader (RO)
> YES - PG - Dan Blasberg  (RO)
> YES - STMA - Ray Brown (RO)
> YES - TALB - Brett Hammond (RO)
> YES -  WASH - Carlo Belella
> YES - WICO - Joe Woods
>
> The amendment passed  unanimously.
>  
> ---------------- MOTION --------------
>  
> There were no more motions to amend the motion on the floor. There was no  
> more discussion, so a roll-call vote was taken on motion on the floor:
>  
> MOTION: To adopt ICS-213 as presented by Al FitzSimons [and amended above]  
> as the standard message form to be used by RACES to send messages between  
> jurisdictions.
>  
> ROLL-CALL VOTE:
>  
> YES - ANAR - Frank Winner (RO)
> YES - BACO - Joe Krystoforski  (RO)
> NO - CALV - Les Dickey (RO)
> YES - CECI - Dave Gray (RO)
> YES -  HARF - Pat Scolla (RO)
> YES - HOWA - Rich Firestone (Assistant RO)
> YES -  KENT - Bill Clark
> YES - MEMA - Al FitzSimons (RO)
> YES - MONT - Fred Bader  (RO)
> YES - PG - Dan Blasberg (RO)
> YES - STMA - Ray Brown (RO)
> YES -  TALB - Brett Hammond (RO)
> YES - WASH - Carlo Belella
> YES - WICO - Joe  Woods
>  
> The motion passed 13 to 1.
>  
> ------------------------------
>  
> Ed (AA3X) gave a presentation on automating ICS-213 and other forms using a  
> PC program he developed and made available to all.
>  
> Al FitzSimons gave an update on the state drill scheduled for April  26.
>  
> Terry Sapp (DHMH) gave an update on the Pandemic drill scheduled for  August. 
> There is not any specific participation of RACES requested, but each  
> jurisdiction is welcome to participate per their EM.
>  
> The list of ROs was updated and approved by unanimous consent, without  
> objection. An updated list will be distributed in a subsequent email.
>  
> The list of Maryland RACES Frequencies was updated and approved by  unanimous 
> consent, without objection. The updated list will be sent in a  subsequent 
> email.
>  
> There was a motion by Dan Blasberg to provide DHMH with our complete list  of 
> Maryland RACES Frequencies so all our frequencies could be programmed  into 
> all the DHMH ready-kits. The motion passed by unanimous consent,  without 
> objection.
>  
> Rich Firestone talked briefly about the web site he and Dave Prestel were  
> preparing to develop. There was general consensus that they should go ahead and  
> start to develop it, with the understanding MRIC has no budget.
>  
> Dan Blasberg presented a list of all HF frequencies that were available for  
> RACES under the old rules. There was general consensus he should progress with 
>  more detailed recommendations for HF frequencies for state-wide HF net(s) 
> using  these frequencies as a starting point. The discussion will be continued 
> on the  email reflector this summer, with the objective of running some trial  
> nets during the fall COMMEX prior to our November MRIC meeting, so we  can 
> vote on this in November.
>  
> Pat Scolla and Joe Krystoforski gave a presentation on RACES Recruitment,  Tr
> aining and Retention.
>  
> Frank Winner gave us a tour of the AA EOC.
>  
> There was discussion on agenda items for the next meeting. The consensus  was 
> to focus on finalizing HF frequencies for state-wide nets so we could vote  
> in November. There was also consensus to make digital communications our next  
> priority, and begin discussions on standardizing a digital mode for state-wide 
>  RACES communications at our next meeting.
>  
> The following people tentatively agreed to look into making  presentations at 
> our November meeting:
>
> Dan Blasberg - HF nets
> Joe Krystoforski - MT63
> Associate of Brett  Hammond - APRS packet
> Associate of Dan Blasberg- WinLink
> Associate of Dan  Blasberg - ATV
> Associate of Joe Krystoforski - DSTAR
>
> The next MRIC meeting is scheduled for November 10, 2007 at the Howard  
> County EOC from 10:30 until 15:00. The 2008 MRIC meeting schedule will be  
> discussed at that time.
>  
> The meeting was adjourned at 13:05.
>  
> Brett Hammond
> Chairman, MRIC
>
>
>
>
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