Community Preparedness Team Strategic Plan: Difference between revisions
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|style="width: 20%"|'''Evaluate, and move the BEECN District Coordinator program out of its pilot phase.''' | |style="width: 20%"|'''Evaluate, and move the BEECN District Coordinator program out of its pilot phase.''' | ||
|[https://volunteerpdx.net/index.php/VSF_14.01.03:_BEECN_District_Coordinator District BEECN Coordinators] are a new volunteer position position currently piloted in Districts 2 and 4. With PBEM no longer employing 1 FTE to manage the BEECN program, BEECN maintenance and monitoring has fallen to the remaining PBEM CPT team. Absorbing that additional workload in-house has dragged down BEECN Readiness Scores, as testing, maintenance, and restocking caches has been deferred. The purpose of a District Coordinator is, for each resource in their District, solve simple maintenance fixes, request inventory refills, coordinate BEECN radio tests, and provide leadership. The program only began in the Fall of 2025 with District 2 and 4, and it is too soon to say if a District Coordinator can help pull up scores. But if the program is successful in the pilot Districts, PBEM will expand it to Districts 1 and 3. | |[https://volunteerpdx.net/index.php/VSF_14.01.03:_BEECN_District_Coordinator District BEECN Coordinators] are a new volunteer position position currently piloted in Districts 2 and 4. With PBEM no longer employing 1 FTE to manage the BEECN program, BEECN maintenance and monitoring has fallen to the remaining PBEM CPT team. Absorbing that additional workload in-house has dragged down BEECN Readiness Scores, as testing, maintenance, and restocking caches has been deferred. | ||
The purpose of a District Coordinator is, for each resource in their District, solve simple maintenance fixes, request inventory refills, coordinate BEECN radio tests, and provide leadership. The program only began in the Fall of 2025 with District 2 and 4, and it is too soon to say if a District Coordinator can help pull up scores. But if the program is successful in the pilot Districts, PBEM will expand it to Districts 1 and 3. | |||
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| | |'''Recruit 40 more Amateur Radio Operators (AROs) and assign them to fire stations.''' | ||
| | |Each fire station is the radio traffic relay point for multiple BEECNs (sometimes as many as five or six). If a fire station does not have at least one ARO assigned, all of the BEECN caches tied to that fire station are unlikely to be able to pass radio traffic up to the EOC. | ||
At this time, 20 fire stations do not have ''any'' AROs assigned. Program-wide, BEECN needs to recruit, train, and assign a minimum of 34 AROs to get on solid footing. | |||
The recruitment process for AROs is challenging. AROs have to become licensed amateur radio operators, and then undertake hours of additional training to learn how to operate a fire station orange kit. Since the system relies on amateur radio, by FCC rules, the AROs must be volunteers and not City employees (unless they volunteer their time without pay). | |||
Success recruiting more AROs will require dedicated attention from PBEM staff and the help of Multnomah County’s amateur radio community. | |||
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