5 Minutes Before

Attention all stations. The Sacramento Valley Multi-city CERT net will begin on the K6MVR repeater at 20:00 hours local time. Thank you in advance for the use of this frequency. This is NAME, CALLSIGN, net control for this evening and standing by for the net.

Introduction

Good evening, this is the Sacramento Valley Multi-City Community Emergency Response Team net. I am NAME, CALL, net control for this evening. This net is for Sacramento Valley CERT teams and residents to discuss aspects of community supported emergency operations in the greater Sacramento area. It meets every Sunday night at 20:00 hours on the K6MVR repeater on a frequency of 147.000 MHz, and a minus offset with a CTCSS tone of 136.5 hertz.

Is there any emergency or priority traffic that needs to be handled first?

• [pause and listen for 10 seconds for any emergency traffic that needs to be handled]

Every week we will have a discussion topic or question for net participants to respond to, about CERT related activities and skills, emergency preparedness, fictitious situations to consider or about current events within the Sacramento Valley. These discussion topics and simulations are designed to promote thought and discussion. As a reminder, CERT teams never self deploy and always take actual actions and direction from their overseeing agency. After roll call, we will ask each station to respond to the question and hold a discussion based on it. After roll call and discussions, we will open the net to any stations with other announcements or traffic.

Today’s question is:

What techniques and training topics has your CERT team found useful for continuous and retraining of your CERT team.

We now ask Davis City CERT members to check into the net.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WS6Z	Wes Hardaker
	KG6SJT	Greg Kruckewitt		Online FEMA classes are good sources of training
	W6KJX	Lucile King		First aid classes are important to retrain in frequently
	KK6POX	Heather Spaulding

We now ask Elk Grove / Galt City CERT members to check into the net.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KC6SGT	George Carrington		Recurring first aid is important -- once a quarter EMR training is excellent but expensive for CERT teams advanced first aid is a good middle ground
	KG6VBM	Jim
	KK6QIO	June		medical refreshment traffic control any of the cert level 3 courses are good next month we have an event drill working on setup, rollout, etc.
	KK6QIP	Jack		EMR training through refreshers schedules are difficult to achieve
	KM6GMR	Dean Thomas
	KN6AZC	Doug

We now ask Folsom CERT members to check into the net.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	AE6LM	Lawrence Mondragon
	K5FWD	David Brock		Monthly training is mostly fixed rotating schedule changes usually only because of EMR issues (Folsom paramedics do most of the training) New medical and rehab unites are pull in new training as well
	AA6CS	Christopher		Setting up abilities for CERT teams to do their own refreshers can help with skills like ropes, etc, that are rarely revisited let people get together outside regular meetings for things like this Have group leads set up and provide training
	KK6BIM	Steve

We now ask Sacramento Metro Fire CERT members to check into the net.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	KM6RIW	Brad		Certifications like CPR and BLS offered once a year Infection control, radio and basic refresher is once a year have walk in nights for CPR, ropes, medical training
	K6ABJ	Aaron		Require a basic refresher every 2 years shortened version of the basic class cvaid.org is a good new website
	KM6RIX	Mike		Participate in all classes you can hands on training is important
	KM6JSM	Matt

We now ask West Sacramento CERT members to check into the net.

We now ask Woodland CERT members to check into the net.

Title	Callsign	Name	Checkedin	Notes
	WA6TQJ	Gary		woodland hasn't been active lately re-reading the basic cert training manual is always a good task "emergency financial first aid kit" is a good book FEMAP1075

We will now accept visitor checkins to the Sacramento Valley Multi-City CERT net.  You do not need to be affiliated with a CERT team to check into our net. All visitors are welcome.  If you're a visiting station that would like to check in, please come now with your callsign, name and location.

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Discussion

We will now move into the discussion portion of this net.  We’ll run through the roster of CERT members and visitors that checked in first and ask them to respond to the question.  Afterward we’ll open the discussion to all stations for additional comments.

• [Run through the roster of check-ins and record answers above]

Additional Discussion

Are there any CERT members or guests that wish to make any additional comments related to tonight's discussion topic?  We will do general announcements after the discussion period.

• [Add any additional comments to the notes above]

General Announcements

Are there any net participants with announcements, CERT activities, event reports or who have other traffic for the net?

• [Record general announcements below]

Closing

Hearing no more traffic or checkins, I will now close today’s Sacramento Valley Multi-city CERT net, at TIME. Thank you for participating and talk to you next week! I would to thank the control operator and users of the K6MVR repeater for the use of this frequency. This is NAME, CALL “listening” or “signing-off”.

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