Reminder to all operators:

Saturday September 4th, 2010 will be the board meeting at 10am in room G-25 of the Genesee County Administration Building

ALSO,

Saturday September 4th, 2010 will be the monthly siren test.  The net will begin at 12:30 on the 147.260 repeater with the test commencing at 13:00.

Greater Genesse Search and Rescue will be holding it’s first Ground SAR Operations class. This will be a requirement for search deployment.

We are inviting folks form all around the county and there are only 25 slots available, so please sign up early if you’re interested.

Sign up on the YAHOO group list at: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/GC_SAR/database?method=reportRows&tbl=2

Dates & Times

September 10th, 17:00 – 22:00 Search and Rescue Awareness Lecture (Awareness portion not required if attendee can prove prior attendance )

September 11th, 11:00 – 22:00 Search and Rescue Operations Field Training

September 12th, 09:00 – 16:00 Search and Rescue Operations Field Practical

Cost: $10.00 (Hot dog dinner is provided on the 11th)

Lecture Location Mundy Township Fire Hall 4011 W Hill Rd. Swartz Creek MI (GPS may recognize it as either Flint OR Swartz Creek)

MSCG attained its official 501(c) (3 ) Public Charity status dated July 29, 2010, with an effective date of exemption starting January 25, 2010 . It was a lot of hard work and frustration for a few of the board members. There was a boat load of paperwork and deadlines involved and we happen to be doing this during multiple IRS policy changes. It was sort of a moving target at times. Please thank those board members involved when you see them. This status means that all donations made to MSCG are tax deductible.

Over the next week or so we will be implementing a new text based paging system to our members. This will allow us to get the word out of a MARET/MSCG activation to many more people then what we are restricted with due to numbers of pagers. If you are interested in being on the call out list and you have not already contacted us, please email or text Tom, WC5B at wc5b@mscginc.org with your cell number and cell provider information.

All pagers MUST be turned in as soon as possible for new programming requirements and maintenance alignments. Once programmed they will be re-issued. Please assist us in getting this done quickly. Ultimately they need to get to Dale KC8ZXF, but any board member can get them to the right place.