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Work Credit Program

Fall Clean-up Day will be on Saturday, the 24th of October. The range will be closed all day for the Annual Fall Clean-up Day.

If you have any projects that you feel should be accomplished at the Fall Clean-up Day, please contact Marv Alme, Howard Hall or one of the board members.

Work Credit Coordinator: Marv Alme

Introduction to The Work Credit Program

Each club member is asked to perform six hours of volunteer labor each year. Volunteer work credit for the membership year beginning 1 April 2009 is required to be performed by 1 April 2009. In general, the volunteer work will be performed during the previous membership year. Club members 70 years old or over will be excused from the volunteer labor requirement, as will disabled individuals who request that they be excused from the requirement. Club members who wish to buy out of part or all of the volunteer labor requirement may do so for $10/hour. We estimate that we will log about 2000 volunteer labor hours during the next year. It is important that we identify useful tasks to be performed with this volunteer labor. During this first year of the Work Credit Program, Marv Alme, Past President, will run the program (as his Past President activity). He will work with the board and with the Section Chairmen to identify the tasks that they would like to perform. He will also be open to input from members. A list of currently open tasks follows this paragraph. In some cases a task coordinator is also listed. You are encouraged to examine the list and find tasks match your skills and interests. You can then negotiate a schedule with the task coordinator. If no task coordinator has been identified, contact Marv Alme and volunteer.

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Current Tasks
Task Coordinator
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 September: Once each week, pick up the garbage from all the garbage cans on the range (indoor, rifle, shotgun and pistol), and put new bags into the garbage cans. (One month of this counts as your full credit for a year)  
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 October: Once each week, pick up the garbage from all the garbage cans on the range (indoor, rifle, shotgun and pistol), and put new bags into the garbage cans. (One month of this counts as your full credit for a year)  
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 September: Once each week, clean the restrooms.(One month of this counts as your full credit for a year)  
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 October: Once each week, clean the restrooms.(One month of this counts as your full credit for a year)  
5
 Cut up downed wood in the area south of the Bullseye Covered Range and stack it for later removal.  
6
 Haul wood from the area south of the Bullseye Covered Range to the county landfill.  
7
 Haul building trash from the shotgun ranges to the county landfill. Buildings that were demolished are located out by the fence downrange from the shotgun ranges. If you are planning to load this trash, make sure that the shotgun ranges are closed while you are loading.  
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To the top Examples: What counts for volunteer labor?

The following list is meant to be illustrative, not exhaustive.

Examples of previous tasks
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Task
 Status
Task Coordinator
1
 Paint the women's rest room Completed Kevin Buscher
2
 Paint the men's rest room Completed Kevin Buscher
3
 Inspect the flouresent lights and replace lamps which are burned out Completed Don Shirk
4
 Repair the drywall in the restrooms now that the new heaters have been installed Completed Craig Stinson
5
 Develop potential re-design of Women's Restroom for construction this summer   Richard Stupka
6
 Design and build a pellet splatter barrier for the west end of the rifle range Completed  
7
 Replace water supply to toliet in women's rest room (this means go buy a standard flex supply line, and install it. The club will re-embuse you for your supply costs.    
8
 Remove furnace motor from heater at front of clubhouse.    

To the top The Process - Suggesting a Task and Getting a Task Approved

Approved tasks will be posted on this website with the task leader's contact information. Club members interested in assisting can then contact the task coordinator.

Task initiation/definition can occur in many different ways:

  1. A board member or a section chairman may have a task that he would like done. He can discuss it with a club member or members. If the member is interested in doing the task, then board member should approve the task, telling the member to go ahead (in cases where the board member is confident that no-one else is working on the task), and have the the member should send a short e-mail describing the task to the work credit coordinator, Marv Alme, copying the board member. Alme will reply, providing some standard instructions about how to report work credit and how to get reimbursed.
    • The reasons to coordinate through the work credit coordinator are
      1. so we don't have two people doing the same job, and
      2. so we have a short description of the task that we can incorporate into the spreadsheet when work credit is listed.

The individual will perform the task, and then send work credit coordinator a list of who worked and how many hours. This will be logged in the LASC database.

  1. A LASC a member could come to a board member or section chairman with a suggestion for doing a task. The board member can approve the task, with the club member sending a brief description of the task to the work credit coordinator.

After we do this for a while, we'll all have a better feeling for how the approval process should go. In most cases it probably will be done at the section level. But we also want to make sure we don't have two guys each thinking they're fixing the same hole in the sheet-rock. If you're not sure if someone might already be working on a task, then send an e-mail with the suggestion to the work credit coordinator. The work credit coordinator will respond, either telling the member to go ahead, or tell him who's the task coordinator.

Club members are encouraged to be honest in the way they report their hours. The reality is that for non-professionals fixing things, much of the time is spent running back and forth to the hardware store. This counts as time. Planning counts as time. Buying materials counts as time.

If you have special skills that you feel might be useful to the Club, please send an e-mail to Marv Alme. Skills that immediately come to mind are welding, wiring, plumbing, heating/air conditioning and general mechanical, because those are the tasks in our immediate future. But don’t be limited by this list. For example, we need someone to volunteer to paint the women’s rest room.

Getting Credit & Tracking Credit Hours

There are two ways to report work credit:

  1. Pick up one of the small cardboard cards just inside the door to the clubhouse. Fill out the card, fold it, and drop it into the slot of the "cash box" just to the right of the door to the men's restroom.
  2. Send e-mail to Marv Alme with your hours and a brief description of what you worked on. (Your description of what you worked on doesn't have to be a novel. The reason for the description is that we are trying to get a sense of what volunteer labor it takes to run the club.)

Work credit will be logged by the Work Credit Coordinator. Entries will be made based on input from the task coordinators. E-mails will be sent to members periodically so that each member can understand his/her work credit status.

This volunteer labor is a significant Club asset, and by logging the labor, we will be able to see how effectively we are using this asset. Status reports will be published both on this Work-Credit Web Page and in the Club Bulletin.

To the top 2008 Status Report :

For the membership year beginning 1 April 2008, our first major project was remodeling the classroom area of the clubhouse.

The next major activity was the annual Spring Clean-up Day which took place on Saturday, the 26th of April.

Fall Clean-up Day will be on Saturday, the 25th of October. The range will be closed all day on the 25th of October.

If you have any projects that you feel should be accomplished at the Fall Clean-up Day, please contact Marv Alme, Howard Hall, or one of the board members.

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