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| style="width: 20%" |Address Facility Contraints | | style="width: 20%" |Address Facility Contraints | ||
|We currently can reliably use only the PF&R Training Center Main Classroom on weekends. The classroom components are limited to 60 people, because more makes it impossible to take questions. Managing 60 already demands a lot from instructors. Diligent searching by staff and NETs have not turned up other suitable facilities, at low or no cost. We have placed classes at locations such as Terwilliger Plaza as a convenience to some trainees. But there is added overhead for staff, and the quality of the learning environment is more difficult to maintain. '''[JVK note: Does the new burn pan help open possibilities? - ''No.'']''' | |Likely, this issue is not solvable at this time. We currently can reliably use only the PF&R Training Center Main Classroom on weekends. The classroom components are limited to 60 people, because more makes it impossible to take questions. Managing 60 already demands a lot from instructors. Diligent searching by staff and NETs have not turned up other suitable facilities, at low or no cost. We have placed classes at locations such as Terwilliger Plaza as a convenience to some trainees. But there is added overhead for staff, and the quality of the learning environment is more difficult to maintain. '''[JVK note: Does the new burn pan help open possibilities? - ''No.'']''' | ||
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| style="width: 15%; background-color: #B8F5D0; text-align: center; color: black" |<big>'''Proposed'''</big> | | style="width: 15%; background-color: #B8F5D0; text-align: center; color: black" |<big>'''Proposed'''</big> | ||
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|Increase Available PF&R instructors | |Increase Available PF&R instructors | ||
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* Decide whether recruiting more PF&R Instructors is feasible at this juncture, or should be | * Decide whether recruiting more PF&R Instructors is feasible at this juncture, or should be deferred to future budget cycles. | ||
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| style="width: 15%; background-color: #B8F5D0; text-align: center; color: black" |<big>'''Proposed'''</big> | | style="width: 15%; background-color: #B8F5D0; text-align: center; color: black" |<big>'''Proposed'''</big> | ||
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* Staff should continue to focus on training trainers, not delivering classes themselves. The latter is unsustainable. | * Staff should continue to focus on training trainers, not delivering classes themselves. The latter is unsustainable. | ||
* The upfront investment can be high, but so is the return. In the long term, | * The upfront investment can be high, but so is the return. In the long term, volunteers' willingness to instruct for reduced rates, and for free, constrain costs. | ||
* Ongoing management and vetting of instructors is critical, so that volunteers continue to know that training offered by PBEM is high quality. | * Ongoing management and vetting of instructors is critical, so that volunteers continue to know that training offered by PBEM is high quality. | ||
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| style="width: 5%; text-align:center" |<big>'''NET 5A'''</big> | | style="width: 5%; text-align:center" |<big>'''NET 5A'''</big> | ||
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| style="width: 20%" | | | style="width: 20%" |Encourage Teams' Autonomy While Maintaining High Standards | ||
|‘Autonomy’ does not mean ‘chaos’. Continue to foster initiative, and reward integration of those efforts within established NET policy and priorities. | |‘Autonomy’ does not mean ‘chaos’. Continue to foster initiative, and reward integration of those efforts within established NET policy and priorities. | ||
'''JVK note:''' '''Agreed, but not sure this belongs in a strategic plan if a strategic plan presupposes maintaining a status quo. ''- The point is to monitor teams' training approaches, and propagate good ones.''''' | '''JVK note:''' '''Agreed, but not sure this belongs in a strategic plan if a strategic plan presupposes maintaining a status quo. ''- The point is to monitor teams' training approaches, and propagate good ones.''''' | ||
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| style="width: 20%" |Find new grant funding | | style="width: 20%" |Find new grant funding | ||
|Meet with the Office of Grants and Funding to discuss potential funding streams | |Meet with the Office of Grants and Funding to discuss potential funding streams beyond General Fund, UASI, and SHSP. | ||
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| style="width: 15%; background-color: #B8F5D0; text-align: center; color: black" |<big>'''Proposed'''</big> | | style="width: 15%; background-color: #B8F5D0; text-align: center; color: black" |<big>'''Proposed'''</big> | ||
