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CURC
Steering Committee
October 20, 2003 Conference Call Minutes
Present: Sheela Backen,
Julie Cahillane, Pat Chase, Jack DeBell, Angie Fowler, Rob Gogan, Ed
Newman, Carolyn Noack, Pete Pasterz,
Not Present: Alana
Levine, Michael Youdelman
1. Nomination
for appointment of our "newest" steer Jack DeBell. Jack is able
and interested in serving on the steering committee again. He plans
to share information from the survey he conducted about surviving tough
times. He’ll have this tabulated in the next week or so and can share
it with steers, members, etc. In line with this, Jack would like to
work on the urgent response letter we’ve talked about providing as
a member service. He also has ties with APPA and would like to contribute
to solidifying a better relationship between CURC and APPA and also
with NWF. Additional tool kits (similar to the soft drink vending one)
are also a possibility for Jack to develop. And he will be networking
with CO schools to get those that are not NRC or CURC members to join.
Jack was nominated (and seconded) for appointment to the steering committee
with unanimous approval.
2. Baltimore wrap up
We about
broke even on the workshop. The A/V equipment made up a significant
amount of the expense. In the future, we should see if
a local school could provide the equipment without the exorbitant fees. The
workshop went well but we have not received evaluation information from NRC
yet. Total attendance was 45 people (10 of which were comp’ed). We may be able
to recoup sales tax, which as a non-profit NRC/CURC is exempt from paying.
Angie has the notes from the CURC Business meeting and will type them up as
a draft and forward them to the steers. The meeting was well attended and there
were some new faces in the crowd.
CURC-related panels
were all well done and timely. Baltimore was a good location and steers
were pleased with the conference overall especially the amount of campus-related
material. Karyn Kaplan did a wonderful job of pulling together the
CURC sessions. Hopefully Karyn will be interested in continuing this
work for future NRC congresses.
A somewhat sarcastic
idea came up to include recycling rates in the US News & World
report’s college ranking system. It would be nice to see some kind
of recognized (and public) benchmarking of waste generation, recycling
per capita, energy usage, etc. from one campus to another. We need
to continue to encourage CURC members to post their campus information
on our benchmarking table.
3. ABC's
Pete has
not had a chance to deal with this yet but will work on moving forward
with the chapters that are ready as soon as possible. Angie
is having difficulty checking/confirming facts and references. There may
be some chapters that are more difficult to verify than others. Pete
thinks there
are probably 4-5 chapters ready to go. Once these are finalized we will assess
which chapters remain and work on review of them. Rob sent Karyn and Christine
a thank you for their efforts.
4. Membership
Angie is
planning to work with state organizations that have disaffiliated with
NRC to see how we can bring the campus people from those
states back to CURC. Also want to continue to try to work with affiliate
ROs to get more campuses to join them and thus NRC/CURC. Pete asked
about the list
of non-CURC members we had at one time. No one recalls this list so Pete
will contact Keefe Harrsion who worked on this a few years ago. Jack
is interested
in having CURC brochures for the APPA event he is speaking at in February.
The stock is probably pretty low right now. Pete will contact Janice Cady
at NRC about reprints. Angie will take a look at the brochure to see
what it has
in terms of membership.
5. Regional Workshop Partnerships
Still hoping
to partner with state or other groups to work in a CURC session or
separate workshop with their existing event.
Pete and others did a few of these over the past year. CA is interested in
working with CURC this year. TN has a college session at their state workshop – too
late for this year but maybe next year we could work with them. Pat is going
to attempt to get a current list of ROs so she and Carolyn can work on getting
a notice out to them regarding planned conferences and CURC involvement. Julie
Muir proposed doing something jointly with the CA collegiate group and the
NRC Congress in San Francisco next year, which the Steering Committee enthusiastically
endorsed
6. 04-05 Work Plan and Budget process
Depending
on NRCs situation we will either get a formal request from them to
submit a budget or we will submit
one to them without solicitation. This would happen early next year so we
need to begin thinking about what items are in our work plan and what
monetary resources
or staff time are necessary to accomplish these goals. Please review the
minutes from the Baltimore steering committee meeting and the member
meeting for our
next call. With this information we can take time on the next call to address
our work plan, member input and begin budget discussions. NRCs budget problems
and the need to finalize agreement on the CURC account balance have made
it challenging to address budget issues. Pete will contact the new
NRC president
about appointing a new board liaison for CURC.
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