FB, Greg. Would I assume correctly that you are the chairman of this subcommittee? Jim Jim Weaver, K8JE, Director ARRL Great Lakes Division 5065 Bethany Rd. Mason, OH 45040 E-mail: k8je@arrl.org, Tel.: 513-459-1661 ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio -----Original Message----- From: Greg Sarratt [mailto:gsarratt@arrl.org] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:01 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: RE: [arrl-odv:17824] RE: [arrl-odv:17815] EmComm Advisory Committee? The PSC is studying this. At the January 2009 PSC meeting, it was moved to establish a sub-committee to study a structure of a committee to study emergency preparedness response and assist the manager of emergency preparedness and response. There are two members of the NERPC on the sub-committee and a report of recommendations will be ready at the July meeting. 73, Greg Sarratt, W4OZK -----Original Message----- From: Kay Craigie [mailto:n3kn@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:53 PM To: arrl-odv Subject: [arrl-odv:17824] RE: [arrl-odv:17815] EmComm Advisory Committee? [I sent this nearly 2 hours ago and it hasn't come through to me. Sorry if it causes a dupe.] During the NERPC study, I asked the group to consider whether or not the PSAC/ECAC should be revived. No one said yes. There are so many hams with so much expertise in the field that the rigid one-representative-per-Division structure of Advisory Committees seemed ill-suited to the task of ensuring that the Board and Staff have the most timely, highest-quality input reflecting a diversity of viewpoints. Having just 15 or 16 (if Canada's included as it is on the other AC's) voices seemed to the committee to make the funnel just too small. It would also make a Director's life a credible version of hell to have to choose just one person from a large number of possible appointees in his or her Division -- some of whom have great big axes to grind and do not listen at all well to viewpoints different from their own. The NERPC volunteers suggested a different model, if a committee of volunteers is thought to be desirable, and that is the PR Committee. Because it is not an Advisory Committee, the PR Committee is not limited to one representative per Division and so it's possible to achieve both geographic balance and a wide range of skill sets and viewpoints. We were looking specifically at input from the field to HQ, but that does not rule out the same input being available to, say, the Board's PSC as the basis for policy recommendations. I have appended the relevant two pages from the NERPC report. The relevant section starts about halfway down the first page. 73, Kay N3KN