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CURC Steering Committee
December 7, 2005
Conference Call Began at Noon EST
Present: Tracy Artley; Jack Debell; Dana Donatucci; Judi Dunn; Rob Gogan;
Mary Jensen; Ed Newman; Carolyn Noack; Christine Von Kolnitz
Absent: Lin King
1. Follow up on letter
to Kate Krebs & NRC Board
Mary reported that she has not heard back from either NRC Board members
or NRC staff regarding the letter sent last month. Mary inquired about
her next step in garnering a response from Kate Krebs. The Steering
Committee agreed to hold off on direct contact with Kate and the NRC
staff until a CURC liaison is named and the issues presented in the
letter are brought up to the board at their next meeting.
2. Board liaison
Ed followed up on an email from Tracy pointing out that the latest issue
of Mobius announced the Board Liaisons to the other technical councils.
Kate asked, via email, for suggestions from CURC on who they would
like to see as the liaison. Suggestions included Lisa Skumatz, Stampp
Corbin and Board members known by Lin. Rob will send Stampp an email
about his interest in serving as CURC liaison. Ed will contact Lin
King regarding the NRC Board members from California on their potential
interest in serving at CURC liaison. Jack will contact Lisa Skumatz
about her interest in serving as CURC liaison. Judi stressed that the
Steering Committee should work to ensure that the issues presented
in Mary’s letter to the Board be on the Board’s agenda
for their January meeting.
3. Replacement CURC Steering Committee members
Carolyn announced that she will be resigning from CURC. Rob stated that
elections are traditionally held in March and suggested that new members
be placed at that time. There will be 3 open positions. Discussion
turned to finding candidates. Outreach to potential candidates will
include putting a call out to the CURC and RECYC-L listserves, placing
an article in Mobius and contacting people directly. Carolyn will put
together an email soliciting potential CURC Steering Committee members.
Mary inquired about
the history of CURC. Ed stated that Pete had sent him a “history box.” Ed
will send Mary this box. Mary will go through it, scan important documents
and have them placed on the CURC
website.
Tracy will follow
up with Jack on Pete’s recognition award.
4. RecycleMania update
Rob announced that 43 schools have now signed up for RecycleMania and
he believes at least 100 ultimately will participate. He noted the
increase in the number of schools from the southeast that have enrolled.
Rob next reviewed the RecycleMania conference call that occurred the
previous week. Concerns that were voiced by some new participants included
the waste minimization focus and volume-to-weight conversions. Mary suggested
school groupings be placed on the website for schools who do not have
strong athletic competitions. Rob will work on putting these groupings
together. Christine inquired about an updated 2006 media packet. Rob
stated that it will be updated. Carolyn suggested that it be stressed
to other schools that it is fine to borrow others’ promotion ideas
for the competition.
5. Draft work plan
Jack sent the Steering Committee a draft of the next work plan and asked
members to fill in blanks as appropriate. Ed suggested CURC’s
desire to gain sponsorships be included under an Other Money/Sponsorship
section. He also wished to expand upon membership. Ed next detailed
his efforts in having the RO in Ohio change their membership form to
include a college/university affiliation check box. Mary inquired about
the existence of a membership drive action plan. Dana stated that there
currently isn’t one.
Dana stated that
Richard Brundage with NRC informed him that the list of members with “.edu” extensions
on their email addresses has been generated, but it will not be shared
with CURC. He will send
a membership email if provided by CURC. Judi suggested the email go out
after the first of the year. Mary suggested that the email also go out
to RECYC-L. Dana will draft a letter for Richard to send out as a part
of the CURC membership drive and will follow up to ensure that it went
out.
Mary asked the Steering Committee members to read the work plan and
make changes, suggestions, additions, etc. as necessary. Rob suggested
that Jack accumulate the suggestions and details from the Steering Committee
members.
6. 2006 NRC Congress
Rob stated that the group still needs to find a school in Georgia that
it connected with CURC. Mary suggested sending a workshop proposal
to RECYC-L. Rob also stated that he will work to get a Georgia school
signed up for RecycleMania.
7. Joint council update
Ed will send information out to the group regarding the latest on the
formation of a joint technical council.
8. Adjourn
The meeting adjourned at 1:27 pm.
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