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Klamath County green-lights planning to host CourseArc SummerEx; staff requests $50,000 earmark
Summary
Klamath County search-and-rescue leaders asked the Board of Commissioners to back hosting the multi-county CourseArc SummerEx training and to earmark up to $50,000 from the county SAR budget to cover upfront costs. Commissioners voiced support and told staff to proceed with planning.
Daniel Towery, a patrol sergeant with the Klamath County Sheriff’s Office and the county’s Search and Rescue (SAR) coordinator, asked the Klamath County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 21 to approve planning to host CourseArc’s SummerEx training and to earmark funds so organizers do not need to seek repeated approvals for incremental purchases.
CourseArc — described in the meeting packet as a multicounty collaboration among Northern California and Southern Oregon search-and-rescue teams — runs a four-day event (two principal training days) that Towery said provides advanced skills training such as rope rescue, wilderness CPR and mission coordination. “We train together as a course hour unit. That way, when we are called to assist on one of these... we’re not meeting these people for the first…
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