AWWA Minnesota Section - Young Professionals Committee

11:30 PM, Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Angeno's Pizza & Pasta, 13588 80th Cir N, Osseo, MN 55369. (763) 420-8200

 

Meeting Minutes

 

  1. Sign in and Introductions
    1. Attendees included Dave Brown, Pat Shea, Jeff Yeschick, Todd Butz, Drew Hess and Chris Glassing.
  2. Agenda revised and approved. Motion Chris Glassing, Second Pat Shea.
  3. Reviewed and approved distributed minutes from May and July 2005 meetings.  Motion Chris Glassing, Second Dave Brown.
  4. Unfinished Business
    1. Set YP Committee budget and action items for 2006 Budget - $500 budget for last year. Following action items and budget were approved by YP committee:

                                                              i.      2006 Budget (Total = $1100) and Action Items

1.      YP Meet and Greet at Annual Conference - $400 ($300 last year)

2.      Host four social events - $100 per event, total $400

3.      Host three facility tours - $0

4.      Host one water tower model competition - $200

5.      Publicize Young Professionals Committee - $100

                                                             ii.      Dave Brown will present above budget to MN section for review and approval.

    1. 2004/2005 action items. 

                                                               i.      Host 3 or 4 facility tours per year. 

1.      Two tours completed this year

2.      Proposed Cold Springs Brewery tour. Pat Shea will schedule with Cold Spring Brewery. Plan tour for sometime in mid-September to allow adequate time to advertise.  We agreed that we want to invite everyone and not just YP’s or potential YP’s.  Pat will have one of his staff prepare a brochure for the brewery tour within the next week.  After input and revision from YP members, we will send out the brochure in PDF format to MN Section members.

                                                             ii.      Create a presence at the MN Section conference for young professionals.  

1.      Events

a.       Annual YP committee meeting and Annual Conference Meet and Greet

                                                                                                                                       i.      Set dates and times. Publish meeting and meet and greet in program. Determine conference room location.  Committee meeting on Wednesday, October 5 at 3:45 to 5:00 PM, Meet and Greet on Thursday, October 6, 5:00 to 6:00 PM. Dave Brown will call Dave Schulz to make sure these are included in the program and find out room locations.

                                                                                                                                     ii.      Budget for food and beverages.  We increased our budget request from $300 to $400 in anticipation that more people will attend on Thursday evening than on Wednesday evening.

                                                                                                                                    iii.      Chris said he will make sure that our YP brochures are available at the registration booth at the Annual Conference.

                                                          iii.      Community service project

1.      New project idea.

a.       Water Tower Competition.  Drew explained what he learned by reviewing the documents on the Florida section’s CD.  We agreed that this is the community service project that we want to work on for the next year.  Budget will be $200.  Dave to call Stew Thornley or Jon Eaton to get contact information for teachers in Drinking Water Institute. These teachers will probably be receptive to a water tower model competition at their schools.

                                                           iv.      Host four social events per year plus the MN Section conference meet and greet. 

1.      Two social events completed.

2.      Recommendations for other social events.  Next social event will be immediately following the brewery tour.  Pat Shea to arrange.

  1. New Business
    1. Chris asked whether we wanted to get the fresh ideas program going in the MN Section next year or whether we should table it.  General consensus was that if there was people with time to make it happen we should do it.
    2. Chris also suggested that we get back to inviting Section Committee chairs to the YP committee meetings so YP’s can learn more about the other committees.
  2. Action Items (10 min)
    1. Dave

                                                               i.      Send YP 2006 budget and action item information to MN Section Sec/Treas by August 1.

                                                             ii.      Call Dave Schulz to confirm that YP events are going to be on the program for the annual conference in October.

                                                            iii.      Contact Jon Eaton to see if we can send our brewery tour notice  to all MN Section members.  Can that be in the monthly email?

                                                           iv.      Contact Stew Thornley/Jon Eaton regarding Drinking Water Institute contacts.

    1. Chris

                                                               i.      Research fresh ideas more and provide information at next meeting.

                                                             ii.      Provide YP brochures to registration table at annual conference.

    1. Pat

                                                               i.      Get brochure created for upcoming tour with Cold Springs Brewery.  Email out to YP committee members by next Tuesday for review.

  1. Schedule Next Meeting (5 – 10 min). 
    1. Next meeting will be in conjunction with the brewery tour.  Pat needed to contact Cold Springs Brewery to set up a date that works well for them and us.  Planned date would be sometime in second week in September.