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CURC
Steering Committee
December 5, 2001 Conference
Call Minutes
Present: Julie Cahillane,
Pat Chase, Alec Cooley, Pam Flattich, Roger Guzowski, Keefe Harrison,
Krista Henkels, Karyn Kaplan, Butch Michitson, Pete Pasterz, Rob Gogan,
Julie Muir, Erica Spiegel
Not Present: Kate
Krebs
1] Seattle
plans
a]
Track sessions update
Nothing
new, all are a go. Information on the sessions will be included with
a CURC NRC schedule, which
will be sent to Recyc-l,
the post card, etc. Keefe will review the schedule and handle post
card and CURC member notices. Julie will send to Recyc-l.
b] SC meetings agenda
Pete, please note suggestions, additions, etc. for the agenda as
follows. We should add to our agenda developing guidelines
for replacing steering committee
members and for our regional balance. Also, Roger inputted that we
should take a look at our goals, and projects with an eye towards
the need to
regroup and/or redefine them and our target audience. Pete will work
on timing of the agenda. Roger suggested keeping time frames
loose so we don't
have to cut ourselves off before finishing an issue. Pam suggested
grouping related agenda items together.
c] Workshop
Update
Krista
- workshop is good to go, and we have a couple more speakers to add.
Natural Step is on as before.
d] Informal/Member
Gatherings and Meetings
All are
set and are included in the schedule to be sent out to Recyc-l, etc.
2] Discussion
with Alec Cooley and Julie Muir, CA Collegiate Recycling Council (CCRA),
on "Cookbook" collaboration:
UC Davis had an agreement with the Integrated Waste Mgmt. Board (IWMB)
to write a manual, " 'How To' Models and Manuals for State Agencies and Public
Colleges and Universities." The manual covers how to develop and manage
campus recycling/waste reduction programs. Publication of the manual is on
hold as IWMB has said they will not pay for the document because it doesn't
meet the scope of work. There is currently a legal battle over this. CCRA is
trying to figure out options - break ties with the IWMB and rewrite, CCRA buy
the document and get it published, etc. Question to CURC is how does CURC want
to be involved? CURC had looked into developing a "cookbook" of educational
ideas. Before that was completed, members began talking about doing a broader
manual to include more than educational ideas. It was at that time that CURC
got wind of what CCRA was doing and wanted to learn more so we didn't duplicate
efforts. If the document is re-written by CCRA, CURC or some collaboration,
it could be used without concern as to what IWMB does. The document could be
a good member benefit for both CCRA and CURC. The longer the current document
sits the more likely it is that information in it will be outdated and/or no
longer useful. The web may be the best place for publication due to ease of
access, updates, etc. If anyone is interested in being involved and writing
a new manual, rewriting chapters, etc., contact Julie Muir <juliem@pssi.stanford.edu>.
A collection of white pages or some other format may be a better way to go
than a "textbook" type document.
3] SC member appointments
Due to the current regional balance of steering committee members,
Ed Newman was nominated, seconded and voted in. Victoria Silva,
as the only candidate
for Midwest Regional Representative, was nominated, seconded and voted in.
Pat will notify the parties.
4] Committee Reports
a]
Outreach
Rob discussed
the problems with accessing the "members only" section
of the web site. NRC is having problems with its ISP that are causing this
and is working to correct it. Sometimes access problems have to do with differences
between state rosters and information given to NRC. We do need to work on this
in order to move forward with our attempts to get people to access and update
the benchmarking section. The inter-school competition started in Ohio can
be use to help promote not only campus recycling but also interest in using
the CURC Benchmarking data. Pete will send out a message to RECYC-L to let
people know what's going on with access and update the information as possible.
b] Membership:
Keefe
is busily coordinating calls to all on the CURC list to update
the membership database. There are some problems with area codes
but
they plan to e-mail and then US mail anyone they can't reach via
phone.
Pam will look for a list of area code changes to share with Keefe.
5] Other
January call - Pete will send out an e-mail to reschedule the January
call since it falls the day many of us return from the long holiday
break.
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