The annual election of officers for
the Pennsylvania Search and Rescue Council was concluded during the last
quarterly meeting of the year on Saturday, Dec. 16, 1989. The following persons
were elected:
PRESIDENT: Irv Lichtenstein
VICE-PRESIDENT: Bruce Trego
TREASURER: Greg Sassaman
SECRETARY: Vacant
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
3 Year Term: Martha Ackroyd
1 Year Term: Ken Boyles
Current member of the board Ron
Wisbith's term expires in 2 years.
The Secretary's position is vacant
due to the inability of Tam Hirchak to serve.
The regular quarterly meeting of
the Pennsylvania Search and Rescue Council was called to order by the President
at 1035 hours on December 16, 1989 at the State Fire Academy in Lewistown. The
corrected minutes of the previous meeting were adopted as published.
The Treasurer submitted his report
which is on file. Members were reminded that 1990 dues, $25, were payable and
should be paid before the March meeting.
Greg Sassaman and Lindy Reed (SAVES
Team) were appointed tellers of election to count the mail ballots.
The Publicity and Public Relations
Committee presented the PSARC brochure for use by member teams. The camera
ready copies provide for each team to insert their name, address, etc. when
using the brochure for recruiting purposes.
On motion by Hirchak, seconded by
Wisbith, and passed without opposition all Pennsylvania SAR Council logo
designs, brochure text, patches, and similar materials are to be copyrighted
with the members of the Council licensed to use this material in accordance
with furthering search in Pennsylvania.
The stationery will be run with the
new logo but without an address so that the stock being donated by ARA of
Koppel, Pa. will not be obsoleted.
The Legislation Committee reported
that State Representative, the Honorable Mark Veon, has requested a meeting
with representatives of the Council and state agencies preparatory to formal
introduction and markup of the proposed bill. Comments made by Chester County
EMS were considered, as were responses by President Lichtenstein and Committee
Chairman Wisbith. A tentative date of January 23, 1990 at 10 AM was selected
for the meeting with Representative Veon. There was additional discussion
concerning disaster search and wilderness search. It was the consensus of the
group that wilderness search was the objective of the bill and we should focus
on that arena at present.
Training: Vigilant Hose Company
(SAVES Team) presented its tentative training schedule for 1990.
Greater Philadelphia Searcz and
Rescue is sponsoring a session of MANAGING SEARCH OPERATIONS on.February 17,18
and March 3,4 (4 days) at Penn State Ogontz campus. Registration is $80.
The proposal for a 2 day water
rescue class was discussed and left to each organization's local initiative due
to the difficulty of holding two day sessions at Lewistown.
Election results were announced by
the tellers of the election and published separately.
The meeting adjourned at 1256
hours.