Report Your Hours By The 10th !!!

Please report any hours for trail maintenance separately from other hours.  We have the list of attendees at the monthly meeting, so you do not need to report those hours.  In addition, if you attended any FTA activities, the activity leader will report those hours.  But everything else is very important!

Activity Leaders: be sure to send in those forms!!!

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Some members wonder “what counts as FTA hours?” Below are guidelines from the state.

If the activity or event benefits the Florida Trail Association and/or the Trail, it counts as volunteer time. Volunteers who participate as described below are eligible to count their hours as volunteer hours. Remember to include your travel time when calculating your hours.

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Examples of activities or events that benefit the Association or the Trail:

1. Work on the trail (maintenance, trail building, repairing/maintaining equipment & tools, etc).
2. Administrative work (i.e., as a state officer/director, planner, record keeper, chapter officer or committee member)
3. Staffing an FTA information booth or working any other type of outreach activity.
4. Learning skills that can be used on the trail or for support of Association operations (i.e., tool or safety training, leadership skills, trail building skills, administrative skills used in support of Association operations, public relations skills, communications skills, marketing skills, etc.) at scheduled training classes, seminars or workshops, or at chapter meetings.
5. Planning and leading an activity, hike, event, conference, or workshop.
6. Participating in a conference, seminar, workshop, or meeting that benefits the Trail or the Association.
7. Presenting an educational seminar or workshop or teaching a trail or administrative skill.

In general, ANY volunteer activity may be counted that when accomplished, provides some form of benefit to the FTA either directly on the Trail or indirectly in support of the general operation of the Association.

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Alligator Amblers Volunteer Hours may be reported to . . . .

Jackie Kelley - fax 239 278 4227 - jacquelyn.kelley@gmail.com

Hours for the previous month are due by the 10th of the following month in order to be reported correctly.

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