<p>Lab Practices Committee for April 19th</p><p>Attending Members: Angella Breitenbeck, Mary Lenardson, Anita Friend, Sandy Buchner, Amy Vail, Brian Fry, Mike Andrews, Nasim Ansari </p><p>Location and time: Battle Creek Wastewater @ 10:00AM (Battle Creek, MI)</p><p>1. Speaker updates </p><p> a. Gregg Lundy: have the speaker confirmation, the title, the abstract – Gregg will provide a bio and the final presentation by May 10</p><p> b. Amy Vail: have the speaker confirmation, the title, the abstract, and the bio – Mary may be able to be the backup speaker </p><p> c. Dave Johnson: have the speaker confirmation, the title, the backup speaker, the abstract, and the bio</p><p> d. Carol Injasoulian: have the title, the abstract, and the bio – Carol to complete the speaker confirmation form and designate a backup speaker</p><p> e. 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</p><p> f. 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</p><p> g. 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</p><p>2. Brochure updates</p><p> a. Official seminar brochure has been sent out by MWEA</p><p> b. 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</p><p>3. Vendor updates</p><p> a. Review a draft survey created by Mary: </p><p>- Question 1 - restructure “preparing for and attending”</p><p>- Question 2 – break into two questions: participated in LPC seminar?, participated in MWEA seminars</p><p>- Provide satisfaction scale with ratings from 1-5</p><p>- Group yes and no questions together</p><p>- Leave a “General Comments” space at bottom for suggestions</p><p>- Mary to update vendor survey and submit</p><p> b. As of 4/12/13 we had 6 vendors signed up</p><p>4. General seminar updates a. 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.</p><p> b. Facilitators: Angella can moderate AM, Amy can moderate PM, Catherine will be there early to help with registration</p><p> c. Sandy will remind office to bring: raffle tickets, white board to list raffle winners</p><p> d. Anita and Sandy will pass out raffle tickets at lunch, pick up prizes at the end of seminar by registration</p><p> e. Seminar Techie: Carol </p><p> f. Gift drawings: Sandy and Anita </p><p>5. FLUSH updates</p><p> a. Angella asked to have FLUSH tours and activities added to the meeting agenda in the future</p><p> b. Mary agreed to be the Girl Scout point of contact for FLUSH activities</p><p> c. 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</p><p> d. Possible timeline for another round of tours is September, scout troops are not as active during the summer</p><p>6. General discussion</p><p> a. Topics for 2014 LPC Seminar</p><p>- Amy saw a gentleman give a storm water permitting presentation that was very interesting and informative</p><p>- Hg minimization update</p><p>- up and coming issues</p><p>- safety topics</p><p> b. 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)</p><p> c. There is a New Professionals meeting on May3rd – tour of the Grandville facility and their new egg digester </p><p>7. Meetings : June 14th Cadillac</p><p>July 12 – No meeting</p><p>August 9 or 16 – GVSU AWRI & Jackson? </p><p>September 20 – Bay City? October 18 – Wyoming? Kristen to host us?</p><p>November 8 – Charlotte?</p><p>December 13 – East Lansing - Catherine confirmed</p>