April 26, 2008
The SEC Report for March, 2008 is avaible here. The detailed comments part of the report starts out:
This past weekend [April 12-13, 2008], I had our first meeting with all the new Assistant SECs, the Section Manager, the webmaster, Dan Edwards, AG4YU, and Assistant Section Manager Christine Sokol, K4CES. We met in Charlottesville and worked together all day Saturday and ½ of Sunday. The new ASECs are: Dave Damon, K4DND, covering Districts 1,3, and 15; Bruce Freund, K7BC, covering Districts 2 & 4; Joe Safranak, K4JJS, covering Districts 6, 10, & 11; Bill Sprague, K4BW, covering Districts 5, 7, 8, & 9; Mark Jackson, KJ4Y, covering Districts 12, 13, & 14; and Earle Moore, KR4MA, covering digital. Tom MacMullan, KI4ONE, will also be covering Districts 12, 13, and 14, but was not present at the meeting due to family needs.
Follow the link to get the full details.
ARES VA SEC Vision Statement
April 5, 2008
Ron Sokol, K4KHZ
ARES Virginia Section Emergency Coordinator
ARES needs to increase its membership, and reconstruct its infrastructure and chain of command. As it is now, everything in ARES must go through the SEC. That’s going to change. Power and authority are going to be decentralized. Assistant SECs will be overseeing and supervising deployment of operators during communications emergency for their assigned geographical area. They will guide and consult with DECs to see that the ECs find the best training routes for their members. To help in this effort, DECs will be sending their monthly reports to the Assistant SEC in change of their geographical area. The ASEC will then forward the monthly on to the SEC.
I will be looking into the possibility of liability insurance for ARES members. If we are able to attain this insurance, government and non-profit served agencies will feel more secure with our presence and our members will be able to rest assured of not losing their homes or savings in some lawsuit that the Good Samaritan Act may not cover.
In short, I plan to serve only one or two years, trying to assure ARES members that their time, treasure, and talent will not be wasted and that we will be there---when all else fails.
