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History of GTBACP In the summer of 1997 Tami Smyrski who was the contingency planner for Raymond James organized an informal meeting of other contingency planners in the Bay area to explore the interest in forming a formal organization. They met once or twice more before she resigned her position. Bay Area Contingency Planners Coalition BACPC was adopted as the groups name. Karen Haider took over the contingency planner position in February of 1998 and inherited her notes and mailing list.