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CURC
Steering Committee
January 8, 2003 Conference Call Minutes
Present:
Julie Cahillane, Rob Gogan, Roger Guzowski, Dale Ekart, Carolyn Noack,
Pete Pasterz, Victoria Silva, Michael Youdelman
Not Present:
Pat Chase, Butch Michitson, Ed Newman, Laura Pergolizzi,
1] 03-04
Work Plan update
Pete is
still working on the budget line for our work plan and will distribute
the plan to everyone when that's complete.
We are still waiting for a budget deadline from NRC. We will most
likely need to use our 'carry forward' balance to accomplish work plan
items,
and this balance still needs to be reconciled. Pete will try to travel
to DC in February to resolve the carry forward balance discrepancy.
Pat has
compiled the member survey results. The summary was forwarded to all
steers during call. Pat has a spreadsheet with additional information
that will be available soon. From member comments it looks as if our
work plan is on track based on what members want from us.
Do we want
to make the summary of the survey available on the web site? Yes… Julie
will talk to Pat about format and getting it to Kurt for posting.
2] Committee
Reports
a. Profiles/Benchmarking - Dale put together a prompt to get people
to complete their campus profiles and benchmarking. It was being
held till the member survey
was complete. The plan is to send it out at the end of January. CA schools
must submit their annual reports to the state by the end of March… We
might want to do a targeted reminder to CA members to complete CURC benchmarking
information in line with that timing. Dale will review the prompt note and
work with Julie to get this out at the end of the month.
b. Member
packet/ABC's - Pete has talked to and updated Karyn on the status of
this. We need to come to some agreement on what needs to be done to
make it available to members through our web site. Pete will talk to
Karyn about web person, cost, etc. Ed's sent a note making some good
points about moving forward with the document and there is general
agreement that we'd like to get this finalized and soon. Carolyn and
Julie will go through the document and try to make some basic changes
as needed. Julie will talk to Karyn and Christine about an electronic
version and what's happening currently. If there are re-writes to be
done, we will identify those and talk to Karyn and Christine as needed.
The document should be presented as a compendium of ideas from some
CURC members and invite others to submit their own experiences or ideas
if different from these. It would be good to have a format for people
to submit their experiences. Roger will work on drafting this format.
c. Baltimore
pre-congress workshop plans - Some of the member survey comments were
directed towards the workshop, and we need to work on identifying someone
to handle workshop planning. Pete will contact Pat Moran, John's-Hopkins,
about local people interested in involvement with workshop planning.
Roger will contact Pat Dollar, Georgetown, about it as well. Dale and
Roger have stuff from the regional workshops and can help with planning.
d. CA Manual
- Latest is that the Waste Mgmt. Board might now be willing to agree
to release the rights to the manual to UC Davis. This manual is written
from a different perspective than Karyn and Christine's ABCs but there
is some duplicative information. If it is released, at some point it
would be nice to talk to them about linking CURC/our web site to the
document or information wherever it is available.
3] Changing
Call to 2nd Wednesday
Krista Henkels,
our NRC Board liaison, is unable to make our calls due a conflict with
the day. It is beneficial for
us to have an NRC representative on our calls… Would anyone have
a problem with shifting our calls to the second Wednesday of the month?
All on the call are OK with this change.
***CURC
STEERING COMMITTEE MONTHLY CONFERENCE CALLS WILL NOW BE HELD THE SECOND
WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH. CALL WILL BE HELD AT THE SAME TIME, NOON EASTERN.***
4] Elections
Based on
past timing we would need to send out a solicitation for nominations
sometime in February with the ballot out by March. Would
be good to again have both out-going and newly elected steers on a conference
call together (this would be the April call). Julie can distribute the
ballot to members through the e-mail distribution list. Maybe Ed's student
worker could help handle the votes/responses - Pete will ask him. Pete
will also look into current terms and who is up for re-election. Possibly
NRC could handle the fax ballots.
Board development
is the responsibility of all steers. We should all think of CURC members
who might be interested in the steering committee and talk to members
about running. Those who responded to the member survey have shown
signs of interest in CURC. Those active on RECYC-L and at our conferences
are potentials as well. We should be sure the call for nominations
encourages self-nomination.
5] RECYCLE
MANIA
FYI, 7 schools
are participating in the Ohio-initiated Recycle Mania this round. For
more information, go to http://www.facilities.ohiou.edu/fm/departments/recycle/recyclemania.htm.
Harvard and Yale are doing a side 'Ivy League' competition.
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