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CURC
Steering Committee
February 11, 2003 Conference Call Minutes
Present:
Julie Cahillane, Pat Chase, Rob Gogan, Roger Guzowski, Krista Henkels,
Dale Ekart, Ed Newman, Pete Pasterz, Michael Youdelman
Not Present:
Butch Michitson, Carolyn Noack, Laura Pergolizzi, Victoria Silva
1] Work
plan update
Pete sent
the budget and work plan narrative shortly before the call.
A. Issues to be resolved:
1. Workshop Revenue - amount is JUST for the traditional half
day pre-congress workshop and does not include any
other events or afternoon sessions.
2. Revenue Sharing for New CURC Members - The NRC
board had agreed to give us half the money
from new CURC members we brought in in the last year.
This
is zero for 'this' year as we do not have that agreement
in place for next year.
3. Carry forward - balance is still in question,
due to a disagreement of the amount of $
which have been credited
and charged for CURC activities.
Pete
will try to travel to DC to resolve this with staff
and accountant, but the budget and work plan
are not dependent
on this process.
4. Carry over expense - waive exhibit cost for NRC
booth for councils and cost for CURC brochures that
NRC is supposed
to be providing. Krista will
check
with NRC on the brochures.
5. Overhead cost - don't know what our cost will
be for NRC staff time or overhead; Pete will discuss
with Kate.
6. Discrepancies in '02 Workshop Cost - Julie sent
e-mail history of the situation to Krista who will
look into it.
B. Pete will clean up the budget and ask NRC about
relevant pending issues and submit it to them.
2] Elections
A. Ed has a person who's helping to try to get more e-mail addresses
on our member list (have about 260 e-mail addresses out of 440
members). Hopefully
this will happen before we begin sending out election information. If Ed's
person has limited time or can't get through the whole list, maybe the steers
can divide up what's left and do some searching ourselves or by our staff/student
workers (if you have them!). Krista has asked NRC for an updated member list
in case there are new members or their list has any additional information.
B. Timing for elections - plan to send solicitations for candidates out in
February with voting taking place in March. Pat will draft our solicitation
for nominations. Will send out the nomination request by February 24 with
nominations due back by March 7, then ballots out around March 17 and due
back by March
28.
C. Logistics
1. Receipt of votes - Pat can receive e-mail and fax ballots.
2. Reaching those who don't have e-mail - Krista will check with
NRC to see if they can handle getting ballots to those who don't
have e-mail.
3. E-mail distribution of the nomination requests and ballots will
be done by Julie via the CURC e-mail distribution list. Will also send
a note to
RECYC-L.
D. Current steers whose terms are up: Pete, Roger, Rob, Ed, Butch,
and Victoria are up for election. Butch, Roger and
probably Victoria are not running again.
Rob, Pete and Ed indicate they are interested in running
again. Pete and Pat will try to reach Laura about her continued
involvement.
3] Rapid
response
Ed plans
to draft something so we can take a look and determine if/what/whatever
we want to do for a rapid response to try to help
flailing programs. Administrations will some times be affected by
the idea that other people are watching and supportive of what they're
doing on campus. Should be something neutral that supports recycling
on campus not a certain type of program. Our goal should be to encourage
them to continue to recycle not to change or not change how the program
operates. Should be sure we are not responding to a filtered view
of
the situation and that we use this only when we're sure there is
a true issue. Maybe we can send our letter of support to the Recycling
Coordinator who can share it with the appropriate people. Maybe should
be something we share with others that they can use, sign and send
so we support the rapid response but are not the one dictating or
actually
sending the letter.
4] Committee
reports
A. Profiles/Benchmarking will be sent out to members this week. If/when
we get more e-mail addresses in our distribution we will send
it out again later.
And the CA folks will get a reminder about this mid to late April, their
deadline for submitting this information to the state.
B. Working with ROs - Carolyn has established a partnership with MI RO and
they are going to have a CURC session in their conference this year. Ed is
looking into what OH is doing and the potential to partner there. Maryland
is doing something similar with their RO and has approached Pete who is exploring
having CURC partner with them to do this. Anyone who knows what's happening
with their RO's annual conference can try to get a "CURC" session
in the conference. These efforts can be a trial period to establishing a more
concrete way for CURC to work with ROs and conferences.
C. NRC Annual Workshop - Pete has not been able to talk with Pat
from John's Hopkins. Roger also has not reached Pat at Georgetown.
Both will try again.
And Pete will see if the Maryland RO guy has any leads as well. Dale
and Roger are willing to support and provide assistance with
planning but we'd
like someone
more local to be willing to help with it. All of us should start thinking
about themes, topics, speakers, etc.
D. ABCs - Carolyn and Julie have talked to Karyn and Christine. They
are working on finishing the document and making some changes to it
and lending
it to a
more web-based format. They will provide and electronic version for
review upon completion. In the mean time Carolyn and Julie are working
on some general
ideas/comments/feedback for them. Roger used their table of contents
and expanded and contracted some of it for his 'submittal' form (see
below).
5] Call
time and date/NRC rep
Krista is
trying to find us a new Board rep who is available for our calls and
will be with the NRC Board longer
(Krista is 'retiring' from the Board).
OUR CALL
WILL BE CHANGED BACK TO THE FIRST WED. OF THE MONTH, SAME TIME, NOON
EASTERN. NEXT CALL WILL BE MARCH 5.
6] Other
Roger
sent a draft format for submitting additions to our cookbook/ABCs
to make it a 'living,' changing document. Please review this for the
next call.
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