Hi Everyone!
We wanted to make sure that you understand the importance of checking in to a mission, a training, an exercise, or even a social event that is posted.
From a safety perspective, CCDC has the responsibility of making sure everyone is where they need to be at all times, in case we do have a critical emergency situation when we must account for our volunteers. If you signed up and arrived, then we have your attendance recorded in case we need to assemble somewhere near the mission site. If you signed up and did not arrive, then we contact you to make sure you are okay regardless of why you did not make it to the mission. Checking in is about accountability too.
Note: If you see a posted mission, do not respond to it in ReDI and then arrive at the mission, we consider that action as a Self-Deployment which is the Number #1 Violation of CCDC rules and regulations. You will not be granted access to the mission and will be sent home.
(In special circumstances, the Volunteer Coordinator or POD Commander might have contacted a volunteer and asked them to come to a mission but they have been added to the roster by an officer of CCDC.)
From a hours perspective, the importance of checking in is not just for you to have a way of accumulating volunteer hours for yourself, but CCDC has certain reporting requirements with which we need to comply with Federal and State agencies as part of the County Department of Emergency Services.
Cathy has been diligently auditing the hours for the past six months. This is a tedious and thankless task that she has taken on in order to make sure that our hours are accurate for reporting to these agencies and for your records as well.
We hope that you have a clear understanding of the importance of checking in and that you will continue to check in for these reasons.
Thank you for your understanding,
Judy McKinney and Cathy Pensyl
