As you know, we called for your individual volunteer hours on July 31 for the catch-up period from Oct 1, 2023 thru July 31, 2024.
A BIG THANKS to those of you who responded back then!
Now we're making the second and last call for this USFS fiscal year, the period from Aug 1 thru today Sept 15.
The reason we're stopping short of the end of September is due to the prep time needed to record and process your hours.
A summary level report will appear in Sam Beard's Annual Newsletter at the end of this month, as well as on charts at our Oct 1 Annual Meeting.
If we haven't heard from you yet, please submit your individual volunteer hours since the start of the USFS fiscal year... Oct 1, 2023 thru Sept 15, 2024.
The weekly crew leaders(Bob, Sam, Laura) have already provided their crew's hours by individual, so if you signed an attendance sheet, your hours are already covered.
Basically, report any and all individual time spent in a FOSM activity which pertains to the District.
The following are some guidelines, and not meant to be a comprehensive list:
- any hours serving the District while acting on your own or with companions. This may also include any work done following a weekly crew.
- any hikes with findings or work done which was reported to CTR ('h-e-l-l-o' to you all named in Sally Lowder's Trail Tree Report!).
- any training hours, such as sawyer certifications or medical classes.
- any upkeep hours, such as physical inventory, organizing the Guard Station, purchasing supplies, tool maintenance.
- any administrative hours, such as the website, archives, meetings, project reports, Treasurer reports.
- any hours to plan or work the Snowshoe Classic.
- any Adopt-A-Trail or Adopt-A-Drop hours. (Dan Benton is the Coordinator)
- and be sure to include travel time both ways.
Do not report:
- any hours where you were a part of a weekly crew and entered your name on a sign-in sheet, as those hours are tracked separately.
- any Adopt-A-Highway clean-up hours, as this is an arrangement with NMDOT.
- any Sandia Crest Historic Sign hours at the new roundabout, as this is an arrangement with NMDOT.
- any wildlife drinker hours for Bernalillo County.
For this request, we just need a list of dates and your hours, no location or task description.
We sincerely appreciate everything that you do!
Mike Madden
FOSM President