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Minutes of SWANA Rocky Mountain Chapter Monthly Board of Directors Meeting17 May 2005, Teleconference ATTENDANCE:Present: Curt Ahrendsen, Debby Barton, Laurie Batchelder Adams, John Briest, Leonard Butler, Roger Doak, Stephen Gillette, Dick Sprague and Cathryn Stewart Absent: Cindi Etcheverry Minutes are in order of the agenda and not necessarily in the order of discussion. CALL TO ORDER: Meeting called to order at 7:08 as 9 of 10 directors present. ADOPTION OF AGENDA: Gillette/Doak moved/seconded to adopt agenda. Motion carried unanimously. MINUTES:Batchelder Adams/Ahrendsen moved/seconded to approve 19 April 2005 meeting minutes with one correction to the spelling Cathryn Stewart’s name. Motion carried unanimously. TREASURER:Treasury Status: Checking balance is $9,643.56, Savings is $16,786.11 and e-loan investment loan is $10,000. Program Budget Status Report: No report as Yuma program not yet reconciled. There were 22 registrants (approximately $550 income) and costs are estimated to be less than $400. Ahrendsen plans to complete the reconciliation and update reports by 31 May 2005. COMMITTEE REPORTS:Membership/Newsletter: Butler listed several members whose membership lapsed in March and April. Doak will follow up with CDPHE names, Batchelder Adams will follow up with the QwestDex contact. Two individuals have moved to other venues. No listing for new members provided. Goal for newsletter is by 27 June with articles due to Sprague by 10 JUNE 2005. Following articles discussed (with names assigned).
Programs: Yuma program appeared successful, had planned for 12 to attend but had 22 registered. Etcheverry has the evaluation forms. Doak, Gillette and Butler all reported on follow up discussions and perceptions that the topics were good, there is a desire for more outreach programs of this type by SWANA, having information on the webpage will be beneficial, and some have tentatively committed to attend Glenwood Springs annual meeting. Butler commented that having a local stakeholder such as Alberta Naill or a local organization such as the NE Colorado Operators group really helped the success of the program. Butler thanked CDPHE (via Doak) and Briest for their presentations. Annual Meeting: Call for papers/abstracts has a deadline of 3 June, there have been none received to date. Gillette has requested his household hazardous waste manager to contact either Etcheverry or Doak about possible presentation on the partnership activities of Larimer County with Recycle America. This topic may fit into the recycling, reuse, composting and related venue topic. Another topic potential would be the results of the 2005 recycling, composting, and scrap tire data recently received. Doak will check on the status of the 2005 landfill questionnaire analysis. Charles Johnson, CDPHE, has indicated a willingness to be a speaker at the meeting. Another topic discussed was the status of single stream recycling - Gillette will follow up with Denver. Discussion held on having Ken Niswonger give Yuma presentation at the annual meeting. Future special program (for next year) may be to host a ½ day discussion on lab results, lab testing, statistics and sampling. The hotel is reserved with check sent for the deposit, menu is selected and items in place. Butler requested that the working budget be forwarded to all board members by 10 June 2005 to help determine sponsorship requirements, registration fees, and guidance on goal for profit to support scholarships. Partnering: The meeting in Yuma went very well. Charles Johnson is open to future partnership participations with Colorado SWANA. Scholarship: No response to date on the scholarship application. The information was sent out with deadline of 1 June 2005. Semester is now completed at CSU. Some lessons learned include a personal visit with professors in related solid waste/recycling fields or visiting actual classes on campus that are discussing solid waste or recycling or related fields. The amount is $500 and question raised if this was enough. Consensus was to send an email blast to members to let them know in case they have a student or know of a student that would be interested in the scholarship. Last month’s meeting had discussed inviting the awardee to the annual meeting (meeting costs paid) and/or pay for one annual SWANA student membership fee. Consensus was to develop a survey for members to complete at the annual meeting to obtain guidelines on the scholarship. This will also be mentioned in the newsletter. The $225 award was sent to Gunnison County and the individual plans on attending the Glenwood Springs meeting. Washington County was sent a letter as a follow up to the Yuma meeting to clarify training requirements of CDPHE and the benefits of SWANA membership. Both letters are attached to these minutes. Nominating: Nothing to report at this time. Legislative: SB 141 awaiting Governor Owen’s signature. HB 1256 died in the Senate mostly due to changing source of funding from solid waste fee to utilizing recycling fees from education. Batchelder Adams will submit final legislative table update after 6 June or sooner depending on signature status on SB 141. International Board: Batchelder Adams had previously emailed discussion points to the board members. Among suggestions for improvements or ideas for national to consider for WasteCon or other items:
Webmaster: Briest will forward the April minutes for posting to the web page as they have been approved. No new invoices received. There are 4 sponsors now on the webpage. Larimer County will be a fifth member. Briest asked directors to advertise the webpage to potential sponsors. Doak mentioned the Colorado webpage several times during the NE Operators’ training session; however several of those attending still do not have internet access or just recently obtained access. Per comment from one individual at the training, they do look at the presentations posted to the webpage. (See discussion above under Programs) Boulder Symposium/Conference: Steve Ridzon of National is still looking for two speakers on Arid Landfill topics. Sprague delegated contact to either Butler or Briest for national SWANA for the conference. If anyone is interested or can make suggestions for topics or presenters, contact either Butler or Briest or call Steve Ridzon at 1-800-467-9262, ext 241. HDR may be willing to have a presenter - Sprague will follow up. OTHER BUSINESS:Banner Upgrade: Batchelder Adams will purchase before annual meeting. Next board meetings: Sprague offered to host the June board meeting at the HDR offices in downtown Denver. He and Barton will provide the “continental” breakfast. Meeting will be Tuesday, 14 June beginning at 7 am. ADJOURNMENT:With no further business, Gillette/Doak moved/seconded to adjourn the meeting. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 am. ATTACHMENTS:
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