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BCTA Almost Spring Newsletter Feb 2012 BBrriittiisshh CCoolluummbbiiaa TTrraacckkiinngg AAssssoocciiaattiioonn BCTA Newsletter Spring 2012 Page 1 of 10 BBrriittiisshh CCoolluummbbiiaa TTrraacckkiinngg AAssssoocciiaattiioonn SAR NEW INITIATIVES FUNDING APPROVED FOR 2012! Good News to shake off those winter From the Editor. As you saw on the blues! Following a formal request from front page – the Association was the BCTA in early January, the National recognised by the RCMP with the SAR Secretariat (NSS) in Ottawa, Certificate of Appreciation for the approved an amendment to the New dedication and high standards displayed Initiatives Fund (NIF) Contribution under difficult circumstances by the Agreement (CA) allowing the transfer of Trackers who worked the Sparwood funding and a one-year extension to the search and police investigation. Kudos program. This will permit the BCTA to to all of the GSAR Volunteers and continue promoting tracker training, Trackers who responded to the task! facilitate courses, and provide members and instructors with some In This issue: This issue contains the reimbursement of out-of-pocket summary of the BCTA Board meeting expenses. held on 29 January. As well, now that funding has been approved for 2012, BCTA-sponsored GSAR Tracking there is a review of the reimbursements course announcements for spring, which may be claimed by BCTA summer and fall 2012 will be posted on Member students, instructors and host the website calendar as soon as they can GSAR Group course coordinators. be confirmed. Towards the end of 2011, some 11 GSAR groups in BC had Reminder 2012 Memberships: BCTA expressed interest in hosting tracking membership renewals are due by 1 May courses. Host group Training Officers 2012. and/or course coordinators are reminded to contact the BCTA Regional Directors As some of you may be aware, I as soon as possible in order to initiate snowbird in Arizona during the winter planning and set dates for courses at months. Some of my favourite locations their locations. See the website for hiking and practising tracking are in www.bctracking.org the Superstition Mountains and the Saguaro National Parks. But there are With the roll-out of our own BCTA also some places not to hike, as southern Training video and some tweaks to the Arizona is a major back-country courses, we look forward to more and highway for human as well as drug better GSAR Tracker training this year! smugglers between the Mexican border and the major centres of Tucson and Phoenix. Volunteers aren't unpaid because they're worthless, volunteers are unpaid As Trackers, we have all heard of, because they are priceless! and/or read Jack Kearney’s book on tracking. Besides the US Border Patrol and Homeland Security, there is a special group that works for US BCTA Newsletter Spring 2012 Page 2 of 10 BBrriittiisshh CCoolluummbbiiaa TTrraacckkiinngg AAssssoocciiaattiioonn Immigration and Customs Enforcement Board Meeting Summary ICE, a group of Native American Trackers known as the “Shadow January 2012 Wolves”. A/Treasurer’s Report: With the In this newsletter, the Tracker Tales transfer of unspent SAR NIF funds to section features several articles about the new fiscal year, the Association can this group of trackers, that I found very reimburse instructors and interesting, and I expect you will too! students/members some of the cost of Also, I hope our friends in the RCMP, attending courses. Canada Border Services, Parks and Conservation, and First Nations also take There will be new 2012 reimbursement note – and give us a call to see about forms available from course coordinators training in this “dying art” of Tracking! and lead instructors, and on the BCTA www.bctracking.org website members-only link. Correctly completed claims forms may be collected by course coordinators or lead BCTA Executive and Directors 2012 instructors, or otherwise need to be mailed in within 7 days of completion of President: Win Koch the course. Vice President: Bart Bjorkman Secretary: Vacant Training Committee : The following A/Treasurer: Alison Rose courses are announced or in final planning; details are on the BCTA Regional Directors: website www.bctracking.org SE: Jerome Liboiron SW: Vacant – Contact Peter Wilson 23-25 March Naramata/Penticton TKA Central: Kelly Carnochan & Advanced North: Dwaine Brooke Vancouver Is.: Peter Wilson 27-29 April Kelowna Train The Trainer/ Instructor course Committee Chairs: Membership: Peggy Shelley 11-13 May Princeton UTS TK1 & SC Training: Bart Bjorkman Communications: Win Koch 25-27 May Salt Spring Island TKA Policy: Dwaine Brooke 25-27 May Kelowna Something new: Contact information at: Dog Handlers and Adv. Trackers. http://www.bctracking.org Tracker Training Video is in final editing and should be ready by March. It will serve two purposes – as a “If everyone is in agreement – promotional tool and as a training video. then someone is not thinking!” Tracker Callout list is being finalized George Patton and should be sent to PEP by March. The selected individuals will be notified BCTA Newsletter Spring 2012 Page 3 of 10 BBrriittiisshh CCoolluummbbiiaa TTrraacckkiinngg AAssssoocciiaattiioonn via e-mail to confirm their availability All nominees/volunteers must be BCTA on the list. members in good standing and be willing to stand for election at the 2012 Tracker Advisor list of SC and TK2 Annual General Meeting. The with additional GSAR TL, SARM and nominees/volunteers will need to be ICS training is going through final approved and appointed by the Board in vetting. Individuals will be contacted to an Acting capacity. Following the AGM confirm availability and the list will go elections, the term will be for a period of to PEP. up to two years. Instructor ID cards are being produced 2012 Reimbursements and will be mailed out soon. The BC Tracking Association is very Membership Renewals are due 1 May grateful to the National Search and 2012. Application forms are available Rescue Secretariat (NSS) for the transfer on the BCTA website. We presently of SAR New Initiatives Fund (NIF) to have 43 members who have 3-yr 2012 and the one-year extension to the memberships to 2013. We also have an project. The agreement is “To additional 23 new members rolled-over establish, maintain and oversee to 2012 from the courses in late fall. proven and consistent human tracking Welcome to the Association! training standards in the province of BC with the primary goal to have Help Wanted every certified ground SAR volunteer BCTAS Regional Directors in BC trained to a minimum of Track Aware.” The BC Tracking Association Society requires volunteers to fill the positions of This extension to the agreement will Regional Directors throughout the enable the Association to provide Province of BC. The duties include: certified tracking instructor training and liaising with PEP Regional Managers, In-House GSAR tracker training in BC SARA Regional Directors, GSAR British Columbia at considerably training officers and trackers within the reduced costs to Association members. region, providing tracking training materials and advice, facilitating What this means to BCTA Members is tracking training, assisting other that they will be subsidized and/or may Regional Directors and providing claim reimbursement for some training reports, as required. Directors are voting costs based on the agreement criteria, as members of the Executive Board of summarized below. Directors and play a great role in furthering Tracker Training in BC. Association members wishing to attend a BCTA sponsored tracking course will For further information or to nominate have to pre-pay all the associated tuition a suitable volunteer for any of the above and fees up-front when they register for positions, please contact a course. However, following the [email protected] successful completion of the course, they can submit a reimbursement claim to the BCTA Newsletter Spring 2012 Page 4 of 10 BBrriittiisshh CCoolluummbbiiaa TTrraacckkiinngg AAssssoocciiaattiioonn BCTA, which may include the taxes for two people, or campsite fees, following: etc. with receipts. Meal packages during the course may also be reimbursed. In In-House Novice/ Track Aware/ return, the BCTA will expect certified Advanced Up to 10 BCTA sponsored instructors to sign a letter of support, In-House classes could be offered in hours-in-kind, to volunteer to instruct at 2012. BCTA Members will pay a tuition In-House courses. fee of $50 per In-House course, which is not claimable. Members may be entitled BCTA Certified Instructors assigned to claim reimbursement for by the Training Committee as designated transportation if they live more than 40 instructors on BCTA sponsored courses km one-way from the training location, may be reimbursed for out-of-pocket up to a maximum of 500 km for one expenses, including travel, meals and round trip at the rate of 50 cents/km. accommodation, within prescribed Car-pooling is encouraged. Only the limits. Instructors will volunteer their driver may claim the mileage. time for travel and instruction, and will Accommodation and meals are at the not be compensated for their hours. student’s expense and are not This is how the Association can offer the reimbursed. lowest possible tuition rates to In-House students. Tracker 1, 2 and Sign Cutters Members may be offered BCTA Course Coordinators of GSAR groups sponsored advanced Universal Tracking hosting BCTA sponsored courses may Services (UTS) courses and may be able be reimbursed for training manuals, hall to claim reimbursement for the UTS rentals and other costs associated with tuition of $175 (Cdn), plus transportation organizing and running a course. Details if they live more than 40 km one-way will be provided by the BCTA Regional from the training location, up to a Director when a sponsored course is maximum of 500 km for one round trip requested. at the rate of 50 cents/km. Accommodation and meals are at the student’s expense and are not Claims Forms for reimbursement will reimbursed.
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