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CURC
Steering Committee
May 7, 2003 Conference Call Minutes
Present:
Sheela Backen, Julie Cahillane, Pat Chase, Dale Ekart, Angie Fowler,
Rob Gogan, Alana Levine, Ed Newman, Carolyn Noack, Pete Pasterz
Not Present:
Krista Henkels, Michael Youdelman
1] Election
and Appointments
For the
first time this year we did not have enough nominees for vacant openings.
Had 4 names on the ballot and quite
a few write-ins. Not all write-ins were eligible or interested. Five
of seven steering committee positions were filled. Steering committee
will
appoint people to the vacancies. Rob Gogan is interested in serving and
is willing to fill one of the two spots. That leaves one remaining spot.
Sheela indicated Jack DeBell might be interested and she will call him.
Dale will be leaving us and thus another space will be vacated.
Regarding
those who weren't members - Ed will contact Jim Petuch. And Julie and
Pat will try to contact the rest.
This call
will serve as the introductory call for new steers and officer appointments
will take place during the June call. Alana has a potential conflict
with the first Wed. of the month call but will attempt to change that
and let us know if it's a problem.
2] Baltimore
Workshop [s]
Do we want
to do a workshop again this year - agreement that it is a beneficial
event. Cost is an issue with current budget
climate across the nation. However the workshop is CURC's main revenue
source. Will continue our effort to balance affordability with revenue
needs. Dr. Flora sounds interesting. Karyn Kaplan is interested in
organizing the workshop. Pat is willing to help organize. Julie will
e-mail Pat and Karyn (and the rest of the steers) to confirm plans.
Ed's suggestion is to encourage people attending the workshop to
fill out profiles and benchmarking information. Karyn had a similar
idea.
We also discussed incorporating the ABC's (see #4) into a Workshop
session.
Karyn has
lined up 5 sessions for the general NRC Congress.
3] Work
Plan and Budget
As a council
of the NRC we submit a work plan and budget for approval. Pete has
not received confirmation on the status
of our work plan or budget approval. He has been asking NRC for this
information to no avail at this point and will continue to keep at
NRC to solve this lingering question. Pete is also still struggling
to come to an agreement with NRC regarding our account balance. He
will be going to DC to meet with NRC later this month to go over
this and come to a resolution. Hopefully by our next call he will have
the
answers to these questions.
4] ABC's
Carolyn
and Julie have the draft, which is in a basic web format, and are
going to go through and edit it. Karyn and Christine would
like to see the guide 'announced' at NRC in Baltimore. Angie offered
to help if we need another person.
5] Web Page
Two issues
relating the ABCs document:
A. Web development of the document - person, cost, etc. NRC has
staff to do web development but Pete needs to confirm with
NRC what the
options are for
support of our document. Ed might have someone who can help with the
web development at no charge. Karyn has someone who could do
web development
for a fee.
B. Members only access - NRC has restored "member only" access to
their site again but CURC sections do not yet have this. Pete will ask NRC
about restoring it to appropriate parts of the CURC site. Would be a good idea
to offer access to some part of the ABCs to the general public to entice them.
6] Rapid
Response letter
Ed sent
a draft. Please review the letter for discussion on our next call.
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