Lab Practices Committee for April 19th

Attending Members: Angella Breitenbeck, Mary Lenardson, Anita Friend, Sandy Buchner, Amy Vail, Brian Fry, Mike Andrews, Nasim Ansari

Location and time: Battle Creek Wastewater @ 10:00AM (Battle Creek, MI)

  1. Speaker updates
  2. Gregg Lundy: have the speaker confirmation, the title, the abstract – Gregg will provide a bio and the final presentation by May 10
  3. Amy Vail: have the speaker confirmation, the title, the abstract, and the bio – Mary may be able to be the backup speaker
  4. Dave Johnson: have the speaker confirmation, the title, the backup speaker, the abstract, and the bio
  5. Carol Injasoulian: have the title, the abstract, and the bio – Carol to complete the speaker confirmation form and designate a backup speaker
  6. Paul Krampitz: have the speaker confirmation, the title, the backup speaker, the bio – Angella to request an abstract and remind Paul of the deadline to have final presentation submitted
  7. Cory Bond: have the speaker confirmation, the title, the backup speaker, the bio – Carol to request an abstract and remind Cory of the deadline to have final presentation submitted
  8. Sara Simon: have the speaker confirmation, the title, the backup speaker (Michael), the abstract – Mary to request the bio and remind Sara of the deadline to have the final presentation submitted
  9. Brochure updates
  10. Official seminar brochure has been sent out by MWEA
  11. Student/Educator flyer is available – Sandy emailed the flyer to committee members for distribution to contacts: don’t know if any students/educators are registered yet
  12. Vendor updates
  13. Review a draft survey created by Mary:

-  Question 1 - restructure “preparing for and attending”

-  Question 2 – break into two questions: participated in LPC seminar?, participated in MWEA seminars

-  Provide satisfaction scale with ratings from 1-5

-  Group yes and no questions together

-  Leave a “General Comments” space at bottom for suggestions

-  Mary to update vendor survey and submit

  1. As of 4/12/13 we had 6 vendors signed up
  2. General seminar updates
  3. Speaker gifts are in, Angella will bring them to the seminar. Several additional beaker mugs were ordered for committee members that want one. Cost is $10/mug, please pay Angella.
  4. Facilitators: Angella can moderate AM, Amy can moderate PM, Catherine will be there early to help with registration
  5. Sandy will remind office to bring: raffle tickets, white board to list raffle winners
  6. Anita and Sandy will pass out raffle tickets at lunch, pick up prizes at the end of seminar by registration
  7. Seminar Techie: Carol
  8. Gift drawings: Sandy and Anita
  9. FLUSH updates
  10. Angella asked to have FLUSH tours and activities added to the meeting agenda in the future
  11. Mary agreed to be the Girl Scout point of contact for FLUSH activities
  12. 50 more FLUSH BSA patches are being made for distribution, after these are distributed formal tours with registration will be required to obtain more patches
  13. Possible timeline for another round of tours is September, scout troops are not as active during the summer
  14. General discussion
  15. Topics for 2014 LPC Seminar

-  Amy saw a gentleman give a storm water permitting presentation that was very interesting and informative

-  Hg minimization update

-  up and coming issues

-  safety topics

  1. Operators training – Sandy will collect names/contact info of possible instructors and get it to Jerry Harte (John Standre, Gary DeCock, Carnell Walker, Jeff Johnston, Bob Avery, Chuck Bellmore, retired university professors)
  2. There is a New Professionals meeting on May3rd – tour of the Grandville facility and their new egg digester
  3. Meetings : June 14th Cadillac

July 12 – No meeting

August 9 or 16 – GVSU AWRI & Jackson?

September 20 – Bay City?

October 18 – Wyoming? Kristen to host us?

November 8 – Charlotte?

December 13 – East Lansing - Catherine confirmed