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CURC
Steering Committee
October 2, 2002 Conference Call Minutes
Present: Julie Cahillane, Pat Chase, Dale Ekart, Rob Gogan, Carolyn
Noack, Pete Pasterz
Not Present: Roger Guzowski, Butch Michitson, Ed Newman, Laura Pergolizzi,
Victoria Silva, Michael Youdelman
1. Austin
Debrief and follow-up
A. Planning
Meeting - Only about half of us were able to make it to NRC and the
CURC planning meeting. Some of our discussion
was not as effective or
thorough as hoped since attendance was lower than usual. Focused more on
current work plan status than on a work plan for next year (current work
plan was just developed in Seattle in January). Spent a couple hours discussing
our concerns about the CURC/NRC relationship with Meg Morris, NRC President.
It was a productive discussion with a lot of listening on Meg's part. This
discussion should improve/resolve issues in our relationship with NRC.
Meetings with past presidents and executive directors haven't
been as positive, and
we haven't had the feeling we were being 'heard' in the past. Meg plans
to be sure new board members understand Council guidelines, rights,
etc.
B. Business Meeting - About 30 members attended. Fewer attendees than
in past years but there were some competing activities that had not been
planned when our meeting was scheduled. Member survey, to be distributed
soon, will include a question about when members prefer to have the business
meeting. Maybe we can incorporate, earlier in the NRC schedule, a social-dinner-business
meeting get-together. Pat will add to the survey a question asking when
members usually show up when they attend NRC. Our discussion included:
working with ROs on doing workshops; plans for the welcome packet; web
page; and standards/benchmarking participation. Members again requested
monthly reminders when minutes are posted. We've found that our member
list and thus e-mail distribution is not as accurate as we had hoped.
Pat is working on updating the list and will send it to Julie when complete
(so e-mail distribution can be updated). When this is done, we can distribute
both the member survey and Dale's 'benchmarking encouragement' notice.
Want to make an effort to put our needs for volunteers/CURC projects
in more concrete terms so people can sign up for specific tasks instead
of for a nebulous committee. All steers should put together a list of
specific tasks they think need to be accomplished and need volunteer
support and forward to Pete.
C. Total
congress attendance was down a bit. Sessions were great and exhibit
hall was good but a bit smaller event and thus a bit less revenue.
2. Work
Plan
Need to
pull together our work plan by December. Will be on the agenda for
our next call. Be thinking about work plan, budget,
etc. for the next year.
3. Welcome
Packet
Christine
von Kolnitz and Karyn Kaplan gave us a draft Membership Welcome packet,
including the "ABCs" of campus
recycling. Pete will distribute the draft to all who were not in Austin.
Those who were in Austin should have the copy they received there. Pat
is trying to reach Keefe to figure out what she was doing for a welcome
packet and what she has left. Will discuss this on our next call when
we have distributed the draft and have more information from Keefe.
4. Vendor
plan
Pete will
resend Mike's ideas for a vendor plan to the steering committee. We
did not get a chance to discuss it in Austin
since there were so few of us there. Hopefully we can discuss it on
the next call and Mike will be able to make the call as well.
5. Committee status reports
A. Benchmarking/standards
-- see above, Dale's effort to encourage CURC members to compile
their benchmarking information is forthcoming.
Kurt Teichert says
there is interest in standardizing energy reduction information and
maybe this can be incorporated into our standards in the future.
NRC has a nice
calculator on their web site for realizing environmental impacts
of recycling. University of VA has a great tracking page on their
web
site.
B. Membership -- If anyone has any additional information for the CURC
member list (additions, corrections, updates, etc.), please send to Pat.
Pat will e-mail Krista to see if we can get an updated list from NRC
as well. Pete has been working to be sure that when members join NRC
through ROs they know there are NRC councils and how to join them.
6. Other
A. PA has
issued a recycling challenge to about 15 PA colleges (http://www.dep.state.pa.us/hosting/rushtorecycle/default.htm).
Believe this idea came from Ed's "Recycle Mania" (RM) contest.
Hope to include more schools in the next round of RM this spring.
B. All steers please be sure to notify Pete if you are unable to make
our monthly calls. It helps to know who to wait for and when we can start
the call.
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