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CURC Steering Committeee
July 6, 1999 Conference Call Minutes
Present: Krista, Pete, K2, Nancy, Roger, Julie, Sheri, Rob, Kerry, Kurt,
Fritz, Christine, Jack
1. NRC council agreement
Pete NRC working
thru a task force on RO agreements- NRC Board approved agreement in
May as written in Draft 3- all are joint members of RO & NRC
RO's will have organizational membership & 1 vote for every 2 RO
members.
Council Task force is just now getting info on Coucil agreements - want
to have final agreement for Board vote at September NRC meeting.
CURC issues
financial
control & accountability
staff time & financial
support
membership tracking
membership profiling
Pete
to fax out Council Policies & Guidelines –
Fritz checking on
email availability- think about them & have email
dialogue concern about concentration of power within the RO's.
CURC's Workplan for NRC- Pete's faxing out copies
2. Regionals/nationals
Tara Pike at UNLV,
Christine checking on dates & locations in Carolina
maybe preceeding CRA in Ashville, Northern Midwest or Texas location
still up in the air- maybe Dale at Univ. of NE. National workshop- brochures
are in process,
K2's working on food for events, working on figuring out how to order
out food for events at the congress. K2 will yell when she needs help.
3. Standards
Kurt sent out info
on 5/31/99- spreadsheet includes some revisions- Kurt considers this
spreadsheet good to go. Kurt will resend spreadsheet
to SC & the SC needs to complete spreadsheet & get it back to
Kurt by July 22 to ensure that everything works. Put on web now, Fritz.
Kurt plans to hire student that will help with this.
4. Strategic planning
Pete- Kurt- CURC
working on strategic plan- vision of what CURC will be in the future-came
together with Mission statement & key issues & annual
workplan. Planned to continue to work on 3 year plan. Need to come up
with timeline & process to work more on workplan & come up with
issues for Sept. meeting. Mission Statement- 4/6 is latest version. question
of how specific to be with where folks would be coming from North America
vs. international, who we target envi program leaders vs facility people,
higher educational inst or all institutions?, resource & waste management
issues? into sustainable concepts? need to make it clear to people what
our targets are & be inclusive with general info for others. Kurt
will resend the Mission statement to SC & set up a timeline to get
us to next conf call- early to mid August response time. Send out to
general membership by mid August & early Sept to send to CURC membership
for comment. (be Everything to everyone... to a point) Need clarification
on Strategic Plan & where we are with it. Kurt thinks he might be
able to pull info together... maybe. Kurt will pull something together
on this is where we think we're at. consistent with NRC mission statement
Kurt will contextualize NRC mission statement & CURC mission statement.
5. Regional rep issues
contacting affected states- Julie will host conf call for regional reps
to discuss how they want to work
6. Workplan
Jack has questions
re: payment of conference calls & reimbursement
of expenses. CURC has $600 for conference call reimbursement. Outcomes & action
steps - NRC can reimburse for outcomes provided there's no conflict of
interest. will discuss at next conf. call. Pete will fax copies to Nancy & Rob.
7. Agenda for steering committee meeting
SC members- submit
info to Sheri- need flip charts for the Steering committee meeting
on Fri & the members meeting on Monday.
8. Steering Committee minutes
will be considered ok if no comments are received by 1 week after conference
call. Next steering committee call August 3 at 12 eastern time.
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