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Subject: BUL345 MGT ACS/RACES Plans 3/3


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INFO:    ALL COMMUNICATIONS VOLUNTEERS IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE
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    (W6SIG@WA6NWE.CA)  PH: 916-262-1600, 2800 Meadowview Rd.,
    Sacramento, CA  95832. Landline BBS, 916-262-1657 (Open
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BULLETIN 345       MGT ACS/RACES Plans 3/3
Release Date:      September 26, 1994

    ACS/RACES relationships are based on leadership and
cooperation, NOT on hierarchical power positions. Hence, no one
level of ACS or RACES Radio Officer has more authority than
another, such as a county RACES Radio Officer over a City RACES
Radio Officer, or a State Radio Officer over a County Radio
Officer. Each Radio Officer serves the one government for which
he/she is the unpaid government public safety communications
employee. Each has the responsibility and authority only for THAT
specific jurisdiction, state, county or city. These three levels
of government involved with RACES plans work on the basis of
mutual aid and cooperation, NOT authority. Part of that
cooperation is submitting city plans to the county and county
plans to the state for approval-concurrence. As a matter of self
protection a jurisdiction may reasonably require official
signatures on a plan before it concurs.

    The level of communications nets for an ACS/RACES plan
are basic. A city plan addresses city to county, intra-city, and
maybe inter-city communications. A county plan addresses county
to state, intra-county, and possibly inter-county communications.
A state plan addresses state to counties, intra-state government,
interstate, state to Federal government, and possibly state to
public utility and other essential communications. There is no
FEMA or Federal RACES. However, a Federal government radio
station may enter a RACES net. Such net levels are graphically
depicted in the new California State plan. An emergency
communications reserve plan should reflect current conditions,
not plans long out of date. A communications plan does not
discuss what might be or what is planned for the near future.
Remember the old saying about the best laid plans of mice and
men?

For a copy of modern county and city plan formats, send a 3.5"
disc with return SASE mailer to this office; For DOS it is in
ASCII but WITHOUT graphics. For the MAC, its in MSWord 5.1 with
the graphics. For the printed State of California plan with
graphics plus annexes for the transportation and health
departments send a check for $11 payable to the State of
California and request the "l994 California ACS plan".
EOM.