U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Sierra Division 11

Department of Homeland Security
United States Coast Guard
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
District 11NR Sierra Division 11
March 22, 2010 Minutes
Date: March 22, 2010
Time: 1903 Hours
Location: Fire Station #1 Carson City, Nevada

Members Present: Dave Law DCDR, Leon Borden VCDR SO-MS, Dee Dee Kincade IPDCDR SO-SR, Tom Henderson FC 11-01, Jim Kremsner FC 11-03 SO-OP, Jim Snell 11-04 SO-MT, Alex Belleque FC Interim 11-05 SO-VE, John Boyne SO-CM/NS, Tom Komadina SO-CS, Dale Herman SO-FN, Steve Perez SO-HR, Kathy Boyne SO-IS, Vic Beelik SO-PB, Bill Stolz SO-PV. A quorum of the Board was present to conduct business.

Pledge of Allegiance: John Boyne
Guests present: None
Approval of Minutes: Motion made by Jim Kremsner, seconded by Tom Henderson to approve the February 2010 Minutes. There being no discussion the minutes were adopted.

Awards: None
Station Lake Tahoe Auxiliary Liaison Report, BM2 Graham Potter: Not Present.
Coast Guard Liaison Report, Jack Leth: Not Present.
Division Commanders Report, Dave Law: No District meeting prior to our meeting.
IPDCDR Report, Dee Dee Kincade: Nothing to Report.
Vice Division Commander Report, Leon Borden: Leon requests that all pre-meeting reports not be sent in the .docx format. Please convert your Office 2007 Word files to the Office 2003 .doc format before sending.

Flotilla Commanders Reports:
01 - Tom Henderson – Report on file (See Attachment A). Several operational members from 11-01 participated in the Hook Line & Sinker Fishing Derby at Pyramid Lake. The Sierra Sun newspaper ran a story of the Auxiliary/Walt Genest donation of a flat screen TV to Station Tahoe for training and morale. Senior Chief Bennett will be speaking at our next flotilla meeting.
03 - Jim Kremsner – Report on file (See Attachment A). Free Fishing Day will be on June 12. All members are invited to participate to hand out fishing rods and whistles. Uniform of the Day will be Tropical Blues.
04 - Jim Snell - Report on file (See Attachment A).
05 – Alex Belleque (Interim) – Report on file (See Attachment A).

Staff Reports:
SO-CM John Boyne - Report on file (See Attachment A).
SO-CS Tom Komadina – Report on file (See Attachment A). The new redesign of the Division website is up and running. Tom has added a Division Calendar. Flotillas can jointly use the calendar. Dee Dee Kincade will update the calendar for all flotilla events. The Navigator editor had positive comments on the blog that Jack Leth and Dee Walter wrote on dewatering boats on Pyramid Lake. The blogs are taking up a lot of space on the website. Tom asks: How long should the blogs stay on the website as the blogs are taking a long time to load and slowing the down the load time. The Division feels we should have Archives. Tom asked should we allow comments to the Blog? Should we add Facebook and Twitter? FCs were asked to take these questions back to their flotillas. Alex will talk to Irene about security issues. Tom will add the Division staff officers to the website. Tom will make flash links so the email addresses will not be harvested.
SO-FN Dale Herman – Report on file.
SO-HR Steve Perez –Steve is receiving referrals for new members from National. He will direct to referrals to the closest flotilla. Please have the FSO-HR respond to the referrals.
SO-IS Kathy Boyne – Report on file (See Attachment A). Bill Daring taking on IS in 11-05.
SO-MA Ken Willrich – No report received.
SO-MS Leon Borden - Report on file (See Attachment A). Nothing to report.
SO-MT Jim Snell - Report on file (See Attachment A). Jim would like a report from 11-05. 11-05 no longer has a FSO-MT.
SO-NS John Boyne - Report on file (See Attachment A).
SO-OP Jim Kremsner - Report on file (See Attachment A).
SO-PA Carlos Vasquez – No report received.
SO-PB Vic Beelik – No report received. Vic is sending the Direction Finder to all FCs.
SO-PE Dave Law - Nothing to report.
SO-PV Bill Stolz – Nothing to report.
SO-SR Dee Dee Kincade – Nothing to report.
SO-VE Alex Belleque – Report on file (See Attachment A). Both decals with white and yellow background both work for 2010. Blue backgrounds do not.

Old Business:
• Approval of Division Budget – Jim Kremnser made a motion to approve the 2010 Division Budget. Leon Borden seconded. There was no discussion. The budget was approved unanimously.
• Increase of Division Dues – There was a discussion on raising the Division dues as the account balance continues to decrease each year. We choose to be more fugal at the Division level. Jim Snell makes a motion to NOT raise the Division dues. Dee Dee Kincade seconds. The motion was approved unanimously.
• Phifer Award –We had a discussion on Station Tahoe not receiving the Phifer Award.

New Business:
• Event Participation in Local Events – all flotilla events, big or small should be put on the Division Calendar.
• Division OPTREX - We had a discussion on OPTREX dates. Jim Snell will let Dean La Chappell know we have selected July 14 and September 11. Jim has candidates from all flotillas but 11-05. COW Date – Dave will look into a Change of Watch date in November. Steve Perez tells us that ArrowCreek Country Club is not available on Saturday November 6.
Good of the Auxiliary: Vic Beelik is available to come to flotilla meetings to show his Antarctica slide show. The show is approximately 30 minutes.
Notices: Our next Division 11 Meeting will be held April 26 at 2100 hours at Coast Guard Station Lake Tahoe.
Motion to Adjourn: Motion made to adjourn by Leon and seconded by Jim Snell. Meeting was adjourned at 2008 hours.
Respectively submitted: Approved by:
Dee Dee Kincade SO-SR Dave Law DCDR
Attachment A
Division Board and Staff Reports
Sierra Division 11
March 22, 2010

Flotilla Commanders Reports
Tom Henderson FC 11-01
Operations
March has been another very busy month for operations. We started with the Polar Bear Swim at GarWoods on March 6th where we provided an Auxiliary Facility as safety patrol. We then provided crew, coxswains & comms personnel for the Hook, Line & Sinker fishing derby on March 13th & 14th. While on patrol for the fishing derby on March 13th, we assisted with Two SAR cases. On one case, Station Lake Tahoe boat 25579 had to use their gas powered dewatering pump to refloat the boat. The second was a case of a small fishing boat taking waves over its transom. We had two auxiliary boats assist the two adults & one child by having one boat tow and the other use their portable electric pump to dewater the boat in route to the boat ramp.
March 13th, we also provided an Auxiliary Facility for a SUP board race at Sierra boat.
At Station Tahoe’s request, we have increased two boat training ahead of their RFO (ready for operations) qualification. To date this month, we have done five two boat training days with three more scheduled for next week. This has been made possible by having Bill Stolz’s boat in the water at Sierra Boat. Bill Stolz has been working very hard to organize crew and trainees for these two boat training days. We also have had trainees from our flotilla and one trainee from 11-03 take advantage of these training days.
Events
March 5th, we had our annual pre-SnowFest Pizza Party at Station Lake Tahoe which was well attended by the flotilla and active duty.
March 6th, we participated in the Tahoe City SnowFest Parade with Station Tahoe. We handed out candy, safe boating wrist bands & Marine Safety information. This year we had six Coasties participate in the Parade.
March 19th, we will present Station Tahoe with a 46” LCD TV for the meeting room. This TV will allow both the active duty and auxiliary to do Power Point & Multi Media presentations & training. The purchase of the TV was made possible by the generous donation from Robyn Genest in honor of her husband Walt Genest.
March 20th, we will be providing a TCT class for Station Tahoe & Auxiliarists.
During our March flotilla meeting, we had a great talk from BM1 Kinstrey about his time in the Coast Guard and what it has like on a boat in the Persian Gulf. For our April 1 meeting, we are honored to have Senior Chief to talk to us about his many years in the Coast Guard. He will have pictures and stories about some of the interesting cases and rescues of which he has been a part. I would also like to invite all members from our Division to this meeting 01-Apr-10 at 1900. This will most likely be the last time for many of us to hear these stories and ask questions of Senior because he will be retiring from the Coast Guard in June.
Jim Kremsner FC 11-03
Our meeting was held March 17 at 1900 hours, a large number of service awards were given as well as a number of operational awards. Dave Young has stepped up admirably to begin member training with NavRules study for future testing. Dee Walters will be teaching the Sexual Harassment prevention course at the next meeting. The boat show was discussed as well as the Melroy as it pertains to the future patrol season. The Kids Free fishing day is coming up in June and all division members will be invited to attend.
BOAT SHOW WRAP UP REPORT
Perhaps the best looking booth ever was presented this year with the intertwining of NDOW with the auxiliary booth. It made for good dissemination of information, with no lag time to correct answers. We sent people over to NDOW and they sent people us so that much was accomplished. The only drawback was that the show was so small, many people felt they were ripped off for the admission cost compared to what they received in the size of the show. Perhaps next year and an improved economy will allow a bigger show.
Jim Snell FC 11-04
MARCH
Nothing going on except for out Flotilla meeting. Our Flotilla meeting was held on 3/16/10 at the South Lake Tahoe Marina Conference Room commencing at 1900.
Awards: Roy Priem was given an Award for 25 years of Continues Service. Stu Harrington given an Award for completing the “AUXSEA” and “AUXCOM” courses.
Old Business: Dick Mc Sorley pass out the “Don’t Move A Mussel!” poster and handouts to be distributed by our members.
New Business: 1) Forms 7029 were once again discussed.
2) DTRAIN was discussed and it looks like only Vic Beelik, and wife, will be attending.
Program for the evening was the “Cold Walter Boot Camp” movie.
APRIL
Our Flotilla meeting will be held on 4/20/10 at the South Lake Tahoe Marina Conference Room commencing at 1900. Current Program plan is to hold an “Operation” or “TCT” Workshop. Develop a plan for Crew/Coxswain Members Training so that they will be ready for QEing at our Division OPTREX. Develop and Publish a “Calendar Of Events” for 11-04
Alex Belleque (Interim) FC 11-05
Public Affairs
March 12th – 14th, our flotilla worked with Flotilla 11-3, and the Nevada department of wildlife in the Reno Boat Show. The use of our “Tiny Tots” program, along with PFD panda along with the Melroy from Flotilla 11-3, and Bobby the Boat from NDOW where a great success. We had the chance to reach a number of boaters, and strengthen our presence in the local boating community. The joint effort of Flotilla 11-3, 11-5, and NDOW, was a great benefit to all, and received very well.
Public Education
March 20th, we held our first public education of the year. All of our students pass and said the benefited greatly from the class.
Operations
March 13th & 14th, we were able to provide crew for auxiliary vessels on patrol for the Hook, Line & Sinker fishing derby.
Feb meeting Boat show info we will be with NDOW and the Boating Class will be March 20 for signups from Boat Show. Class to held at IGT. Computer Class and Sexual Harrasment Classes given to members to meet requirements.
Staff Reports:
John Boyne SO-CM
SO-CM: I provided the Auxiliary Communications Unit on Saturday March 13 at the Hook Line and Sinker Fishing Derby at Pyramid Lake and Bill Leoppard provided the ACU on Sunday March 14. The Saturday communications between assets on the water were excellent.
Tom Komadina SO-CS
1) Redesigned Division 11 site up and running
2) If anyone has things they would like published, let me know. For example, things that you would like published to the Division Calendar (which by the way, if someone in each flotilla is interested, they can enter the items themselves through a simple web interface).
Other new CS items in the Division:
Flotilla 3: New Flotilla Calendar, new boating info mailing list
Flotilla 1: Calendar with all of Flotilla 1 activities for the next few months
For interest sake, this is a list of key phrases entered into Google Search that resulted in them referring searchers to the Division 11 web site:
This is a summary of number of visitors to our blogs for this month so far. They include people who are 1) subscribed to our rss feeds ( XML (RSS/Atom) 2) Robots such as Google, Bing or Yahoo 3) People arriving by clicking on a bookmark or link (browsers). Excluding the robot searches, we have exceeded 4000 visitors this month on the blogs alone thanks to excellent articles and photos posted by our Division members. Also, check the Commander’s blog, Commander Dave Law has posted the monthly Division reports there, and Secretary Dee Dee Kincade has her minutes posted there for you to read.
Kathy Boyne SO-IS
Since the February Division Meeting:
North Lake Tahoe, South Lake Tahoe, and Reno Flotilla FSO-IS's have not reported any problems.
Carson City Flotilla FSO-IS resigned. I have asked for and received permission to train (one on one)
the new appointee to FSO-IS. He/she would need to take the C-10 Course when it is offered in
2011, hopefully it will be on the West Coast.
There is a rumor that the C-10 Course is a weeklong event. That is incorrect. The C-10 Course
is 2.5 days with a day before and a day after for travel. This; course is taken under orders and
is reimbursable regarding travel, food and lodging.
The hours members stood watch and signed for at the RENO MOTORSPORT EXPO held at the
Convention Center in Reno on March 12-14, 2010, has been entered. A REMINDER: travel
time, prep time, parking fees, and mileage are reported on the ANSC 7029.
The following was sent from DSO-IS, Marilyn McBain:
I have had a lot of questions on mileage and expenses to be reported on the new 7029 form. The mileage should show the total miles driven during the report period shown on the 7029 which
had NOT been covered by any other reimbursement. The expenses the same, only report expenses
that were not covered by any other reimbursement. Do not include the cost of fuel for your mileage
as the government will calculate the cost of mileage by the government mileage rate which changes
periodically throughout the year. WHEN DOING DATA INPUT: Only report the mileage and expenses once per form.
It does not have to be shown on each mission and it makes no difference which of the five missions it is reported on. The total mileage and expenses may be retrieved from AUXINFO under the MEASURES.
The E-Forms for ANSC-7029 and ANSC-7030 are still being worked with by the powers that be.
The forms we have available can be filled in on line and USPS mailed or can be scanned and sent
as attachments to emails to your FSO-IS.
If you are looking for the summary of hours for Mission 99A-99E, they are found in AUXINFO.
The summary for Mission 99 is no longer tallied on the UNIT SUMMARY REPORT.
Jim Snell SO-MT
In General:
On 3/6/10 Dick Clark Challenged the AUXSCE Test, Charting and Written. His Chart was sent back to the SAR Training School, New Procedure, on 3/8/10, and I was notified that it was received approx. one week later. On 3/13/10 I gave five Written ReTakes and all six tests were sent to DIRAUX, on 3/15/10, who will foreword them to the SAR Training School for grading. I also notified my contact at the school and she promised they will be graded in a timely manner.
The new AUXSCE Procedure 1/11/2010 now requires the anyone taking or challenging the course must have taken AUXACN and passed. Prior to this revision it only applied to those who wanted to be a Train The Trainer.
Have asked the FSO-MTs for a list of possible candidates for the next Full, 32 hr, class. Still awaiting an answer.
Flotilla 01:
TCT Class Offered on March 20.Jerry Collins is coming to Tahoe to conduct a TCT (Team Coordination Training) class on Saturday, March 20. This is a joint class for both Station Tahoe and the Auxiliary. It is difficult to get a facilitator to come to our area more than once a year. If you are planning to become Boat Crew this year or need your 5-year renewal PLEASE try to make this class. Otherwise you will have to take the class outside the area such as the Past Captain’s Fair in August at Coast Guard Island Alameda. The class will start at 0900 at Coast Guard Station Lake Tahoe. The class is approximately 6 hours. We are planning a potluck BBQ for lunch (weather permitting). As of March 16 there are 5 Coast Guard and 12 Auxiliarists signed up for the class.
We are conducting on-the-water training regularly with the Coast Guard. Bill Stolz emails invitations to join the training. This is a perfect time to train with the Coast Guard and prepare for Boat Crew. Several members from 11-01 and one from 11-03 are taking advantage of the excellent training opportunity.
Member Achievements:
Chris Minedew was sworn in as a new member.
Bill Leoppard received a Specialty Training Certificate and ribbon for passing the AUXCOMS course.
Pat Walter received a Specialty Training Certificate and ribbon for passing the AUXSC&E course.
Steve Perez received a Certificate of Sustained Service Award and ribbon for 785 cumulative hours.
Bill Stolz received a certificate for Annual Service Performance Award and ribbon for VE, a certificate for Annual Service Performance Award and ribbon for operations, a Specialty Training Certificate and ribbon for passing the AUXSC&E course, a certificate for AUXSC&E Train the Trainers Award, and a Certificate and pin for achieving AUXOP.
Tom Henderson received a Specialty Training Certificate and ribbon for passing the AUXSC&E course.
Dee Dee Kincade received a certificate for Annual Service Performance Award for Public Education.
Dee Dee Kincade
Member Training Officer
Flotilla 11-01 North Lake Tahoe
Flotilla 03:
I will be offering a NAVRULES study group starting Wednesday starting at 6PM in the meeting room at Round Table Pizza. There will be lots of homework. You will pass the exam. Everyone is welcome to join. Members of 05 are expected to attend.
There has been some interest expressed for AUXOP classes. I will start holding AUXOP classes after the conclusion of the NAVRULES test.
There are several members, including myself, that are looking towards CREW and COXSWAIN qualification. July has been suggested as a date to get QEs scheduled.
We have no FSO-PE. This is an opportunity for you to volunteer. There is a Public Education class scheduled for March 20 (Saturday).
Respectfully submitted, Dave Young FSO-MT
Flotilla 04:
AIS program, walk the dock program has been scheduled and that list sent to all by District.
Handed out posters and literature for distribution.
Will try to schedule Advanced First Aid and CP classes for us.
Dick McSorley
FSO-MT
Flotilla 05: No Report Provided.
Mike Arnold
FSO-MT
John Boyne SO-NS
SO-NS: Flotilla 11-03 reported they had no activity in March. There were no reports received from the other Flotillas. FSO-NS's are reminded to make sure that the aid verifiers in their Flotillas that need to take the five year requal exam have contacted the DSO-NS.
Jim Kremsner SO-OP
With the Presidents day and KBUL fishing derbies behind us we are at a lull on Pyramid lake, however Bill Stolz and Jack Leth have been busy with 2 boat training and a polar bear swim as well as a paddleboard event. The Regatta season will soon be upon us and operations will be on a roll. A report will be forth coming in the next week or so with events for our operational personnel. It has been suggested that the end of July or the Beginning of August will be the best time for an OPTREX event for our division.
Alex Belleque SO-VE
Initial allotment of VE decals from ANSC have been mailed to all Flotilla’s per ANSC. The division resource allotment has yet to be received, it is expected in early April. For all people or persons who do a high number of vessel exams, please be understand that the district is doing their best to get us decals. We should have more decals in April. If you are planning of a VE day or blitz, please do the best you can with the decals you have, even if you know you will not have enough for what you would like, please do as many as you can. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. As always be sure to visit http://rbsafety.d11nuscgaux.info/ve/ve.html for the most up to date information. Our current District VE count is at 729 as of 3/15/2010.