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CURC Steering Committee
July 11, 2000 Conference Call Minutes
Present - Pete Pasterz, Jack DeBell, Pam Flattich, Pat Chase, Dale Ekert,
Julie Aplington, Craig Barry (NRC), Karyn Kaplan, Keefe Govus
1] Congress Plan updates
Track Programming
Karyn
-- "Recycling as Higher Education" panel
has been approved as an additional session. It looks like the session
will be Monday Sept. 11 from 2-4. No progress yet on coding the track
sessions to alert CURCers to what might be more of interest and/or relevant
to them. Karyn will be working with NRC to move this forward and hopefully
incorporate CURC information/announcements into related sessions. Jack
would like to use the session/audience for promoting some of CURCs work
(Tool Kit, etc). Maybe could do a brief plug for our activities at the
session and have a display/poster in room with more information. Jack
will contact committee chairs to see who wants to share what information
and work with Krista (workshop) and Sara (track session) to incorporate.
SC agenda
Meeting
will be Sat. 9/9/00 5-8 p.m. and Sun. 9/10/00 4:30 - 7 p.m. Need
an agenda for the meeting. Pete will work with past
agendas to try to pull together some ideas of what we should work
on or discuss this year. Pam suggests the educational cookbook and
project
spreadsheet be shared and discussed at meeting. Additional suggestions
should be forwarded to Pete.
Exhibit
booth schedule
Need to
confirm booth staffing and NRC support/funding for the volunteer(s)
working the booth. Craig will find out what funding
opportunities are available this year. Pam will only be able to attend
if some funding is made available so maybe she can be the booth volunteer.
Pete/Krista will distribute a schedule for booth staffing prior to
the conference so steering committee members can staff booth as available/needed.
Council's
reception
Council
receptions are 5-8 Saturday which is during our steering committee
meeting. Do we want to host something social
on Sat. night following our meeting at 8? Could be at the same place
as other council receptions. If so, we'd probably catch the other
councils. Yes, Krista will look into doing something at this location
(Dixie
Tavern). Look into providing a round, some food or something? Funding
for this?
Craig will ask about potential donors for us to contact.
2] Committee Reports
Membership
Keefe
- Intern was terminated due to performance and use of time. Keefe
is trying to pull together a database from what little
the intern did and other information available. She is also working
with NRC regarding issues with the intern and payment for work
not completed.
If you know of any recycling contacts at Colleges or Universities,
please share them with Keefe.
Regionals
Dale
- Contact has been made with Yale and North Texas for preliminary
discussions between the sites and NRC to discuss costs,
etc. No site visits have happened yet but Dale will follow up with
NRC to push the visits and further the site approval process. Luke,
NRC,
and Lance, N Texas, are exploring potential conflicts between having
a spring CURC regional and the Texas Recycling Summit planned for
this October. Thinking they may be able to use the October event
to generate
interest in a spring CURC regional. Need more NRC support to help
determine feasibility of locations, potential conflicts with other
events, etc.
Craig, as our staff support, can help improve this. Dale also would
like Craig to help him get financial figures and budgets from past
regionals,
which he has requested from NRC but not received. We should discuss
our goals for regionals and what we hope to accomplish, who we
hope to reach,
etc. at the NRC conference. Pete adding to agenda.
Purchasing
Jack
-- Received a second round of comments/revisions for the Tool Kit
from Will. Jack is working through these, making amendments
and will be going back to Will for final approval and distribution.
Jack's working with Conservatree to develop an environmentally
preferable product
list for CU. This list will be available to CURC when complete.
3] Accountability x 2
How do we
track ourselves and keep up with our progress, our ability to get things
done, confront our barriers, etc? And how do we use this
accountability method to fill monthly requirement to provide NRC with
an update of council efforts. Pete will share a draft format for this
with everyone for discussion on our next call.
4] August Call Date?
Move call
to August 8 due to scheduling conflicts? Pat and Jack not available
Aug. 8. Kurt, Pete, Julie and Jack not available on the 1st.
Looks like we'll be going with Aug. 8 date.
5] NERC requested
CURC provide access to its membership for announcing the BioCycle Northeast
Regional conference 2000 "Focus on Food Residuals
Management" by:
1) sending
an electronic announcement via RECYC-L; and
2) by giving access to
the CURC member list to send paper copies.
We agreed
to 1), but not 2), in the interest of keeping our member list confidential,
and not engaging in activities which generate what
my be
perceived by some as "junk mail". Pete will communicate this
to NERC.
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