AWWA Minnesota Young Professionals Committee

Wednesday, September 1, 2004

Meeting Minutes

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

 

  1. Attendees

 

David Brown            Progressive Consulting Engineers (PCE)

Glen Gerads            City of Bloomington

Chris Glassing            American Ductile Iron Pipe

Jason Janisch            American Ductile Iron Pipe

Doug Klamerus            SEH

Jeff Yeschick            PCE

Brian Zinnel            PCE

 

  1. Approval/revision of minutes of last meeting.  Minutes approved.

 

  1. Approval/revision of agenda for today’s meeting.  Agenda approved.

 

  1. Past Action Items

 

    1. Host 3 facilities tours per year.  Plan for next facility tour. 

                                                               i.      Discussion of this item postponed until next meeting.

    1. Have a presence at the MN Section Conference including a booth, posters, etc.  David Brown will lead effort.  Discuss nametags for Young Professionals.  Volunteers to staff YP/membership booth. 

                                                               i.      At the Annual Conference yellow ribbons will be attached to the nametags of people who are Young Professional committee members.   Anyone who has been to an YP committee meeting will get a yellow ribbon. Doug will let Steve Schneider know that a total of 50 yellow ribbons marked “Young Professionals” will be sufficient for the next few years.  Dave will mention significance of yellow ribbons at the YP committee introduction speech on Wednesday at the Annual conference.

                                                             ii.      Jeff will contact John Crooks about including the YP Meet & Greet into the program schedule and about permission to have an insert to the conference program with information about the Meet & Greet and a description of the yellow ribbons.  Inserts will be printed on yellow paper to match ribbons.

                                                            iii.      Membership committee will share their booth with the YP committee. We will need committee members to staff the booth during the vendor exhibit at this year’s conference.  Dave send out an email asking for volunteers to staff the booth.

    1. Create a YP Committee brochure including purpose statement, goals, etc.        Brian Zinnel will lead effort.  Draft copies available from Brian. 

                                                               i.      Dave will distribute draft brochure file to YP contact list for feedback.  The description of a young professional will be changed from “up to 35 years old” to “less than 15 years of experience” to be more inclusive.  The brochure design is adequate.  Brian will obtain costs for printing 100 color copies.  Brochures to be available on website, at conference booth, and at YP Meet & Greet.

    1. Chose a community service project.  This is tabled until October 2004 meeting.
    2. Host four social events per year plus the MN Section Conference meet and greet for young professionals.  Meet and greet will be held in the evening at a small suite at the conference.  Chris and Jason will lead effort.  Discuss meet and greet. 

                                                              i.      The YP Meet & Greet (M&G) will be held Wednesday from 5 – 6 PM at the Owatonna Holiday Inn during the conference.  M&G will be in the boardroom with two large round tables and a buffet table.  Chris will set up reservation with the hotel.  The MAC social event directly follows the M&G, so the YP group can all go there together – will be more inviting for first-time attendees.  The YP Committee will pay $200-300 of the M&G cost as budgeted, and American Ductile Iron Pipe has offered to cover the rest of the cost. 

    1. Web site.  Need someone to work with Stew Thornley to get Young Professionals Committee information on AWWA MN Section web site.  Brian will coordinate.
  1. New Action Items

 

    1. Annual Conference Tasks

                                                               i.      Meeting location, date and time.  See below.

                                                             ii.      Staffing booth with membership committee.  Discussed above 

                                                            iii.      Other ideas.  A YP mailing sign-up sheet will be available at booth and Meet & Greet.

                                                           iv.      Annual Conference Golf Outing: The YP decided it would be fun to golf together. So far Dave, Jeff, Chris and Jason will be golfing.  Let’s get more people if we can.  Call any YP member if you are interested.

                                                             v.      Election of Committee Officers.  Committee members agreed that for now a Chair and Past-Chair would be sufficient for officers. A new Chair will be appointed each year.  Past Chair will mentor chair and do work of the secretary/treasurer.

  1. Schedule Next Meeting.  The next YP committee meeting is planned for Thursday, October 7, 7:00 AM at the MN Section AWWA Annual Conference. Doug will contact Steve about scheduling the meeting place and time at the conference.  Dave to send RSVP email to get accurate estimated attendance for breakfast meeting at conference.