Night patrol duty staffing has always been a problem. Only a very few of us have wanted to do it. The Friday & Saturday night responsibility is a legacy from the Pritchard days when it was decided that the NSP would cover from the end of the Friday work day until Monday morning work week start. This was workable when the Night Skiing schedule was limited to starting Christmas week through St. Patricks Friday night. I think with the increased schedule it is just to much to expect our small patrol to cover. I have suggested that we should adjust our coverage responsibility from Saturday morning through Sunday night at 4:30pm plus MLK & Presidents Weekend Sunday nights. That is probably doable until we can re-grow the patrol's roster unless we would like to get out of night patrolling responsibility all together.
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3-4 nights a year are fine with me...Friday and Saturday nights are fine also...however, there are times when 4 patrollers can not handle the workload. On the other hand, there are nights when 1 person can do it all. Having 6 patrollers on a weekend night would be best if you subscribe to the play it safe philosophy (which carries a lot of weight when considering liability and accountability in our liturgous society). However, that would likely mean we'd have to put in more like 5-7 nights a year with the number of patollers on the roster currently - likely not very popular with the patrol (or me). This is a tough issue that a larger roster and some more hours from the paid guys may help settle.
I have no problem with three nights per season. Cannot make Fridays however...Dan Wortman
3-4 nights seems more than reasonable to me. We need to get more patrollers on board to spread the load, rather than refusing Friday nights. I would be happy to do all my nights on Friday, and maybe that should be a requirement for locals?? Why don't we get the calander on-line right now, and have the coverage all set up before the season starts??
Good idea on posting the calendar on line. That way patrollers can check the schedule anywhere (office, home) and add/change schedules through the ski season--plus if we had a website-or secured area on the Boyne site, we could post information, pictures, etc...would be kind of fun and keep us all informed and up to date.
I agree that 3-4 nights are ok, and that early calendar availability would eliminate last minute scrambling. Being a local I have no problem doing friday nights only. I think that 4 patrollers' are a reasonable number providing we have 2 reliable snowmobiles. Where we have run into problems in the past with 2 accidents ongoing with only 1 snowmobile. All easy to resolve.
Mike
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