Operating Team Call Minutes - 1/31/09
Conference Call # 1
7:00p.m. - 9:00p.m.
Call in #: 712 451 6000 x 697449
Facilitator: Lauren
Note taker: Corie
WELCOME
REVIEW CALL ETIQUETTE
INTRO ROUND
North to South round - UC Paradise, UCD, SRJC, SFSU, CCSF, Stanford, Cal Poly SLO, UCSB, Cal Poly Pomona, UCLA, LAVC, UCSD, SDSU
* Name
* Role in operating team
* At the leadership retreat we talked about personal sustainability, so please share one thing you do to keep your body and mind healthy.
Lauren - Co Chair - rock climbing
Cameron - Temporary Regional Coordinator for N CA - weight training
Ashley - Newsletter - dance classes
Tessa - Online Communities Manager - gym and write
Tiffany - Council Call Coordinator
Corie - Co Chair of Operating Team - meditate
Rosie - Newsletter - meditate
Becky - Board of Directors/Responsible investing - composting
Jared - Convergence Coordinator - eat a banana and surf
Holly - website Co-director - hikes by the beach
Michael - ESLP Coordinator - Party
Ryan - Advisor to Operating Team - free time
Pam - Advisor to Operating Team - Yoga, hiking, surfing
REVIEW PURPOSE OF CALLS
Trying to reconnect the web that we created over the weekend. We are making sure everyone is in the know.
TIME FOR QUESTIONS IF ANY
No questions.
SHARE FIRST STEPS, GOALS AND DATES
South to North round
Each person has about 3 minutes, to share:
* Updates on your first steps that you’ve taken in your role.
* Share 3 realistic goals that you have thought of for your role.
* Share 3 upcoming dates that you have brainstormed that can be added to a timeline.
* Share requests for information, content, support, or collaboration from the group.
Holly
• Moving the website to a new system that is more interactive
• Sent out a form for biographies for the operating team people by February 4th
• March 1st hopefully there will be a brand new website
• link to the form for the Bios https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEQ4ZjVYenc0U3Z4bEVzeXFUekFYdkE6MA
• Please also send a headshot to [email protected] to accompany the bio and provide a real face of the CSSC for all to see! The shot should be no smaller than 200×200.
Jared
• Sent out the survey about things you want to see at the CSSC Convergence 2010 Get link for the Convergence Survey
• By the end of the week set up a team of the CSSC members that want to be part of the convergence planning
• Started talking to the non-profits
• Already have a team working on the Veg Fund Application
• Talking to Riki Ott - just need to get her travel taken care of
• Ryan - can you clarify the process to be part of the convergence team?
o Three different groups
o 1) Advisory Committee - creative input but no time to do the work
• Jared will provide updates bi weekly and you can give input
o 2) Statewide level Help - People that have ideas and time. This includes conference calls and google group
o 3) Campus team - UCSD students
• April 30-May 2nd is the set date for the convergence!!!!!
Joy
• My 3 goals are 1. Contact all the community colleges and four year
• colleges in the Los Angeles area and inform them about CSSC and how
• great it is! and to inform them about our next convergence! 2. Be
• available to meet and talk with college clubs/and or individuals who
• would like to learn more about the CSSC 3. Hold regular pot lucks in
• the Los Angeles area to build camaraderie and unity among all the Los
• Angeles CSSC students.
Becky
Board of Directors
• Board of Directors were excited to hear about the leadership retreat
• The Board wanted to be sure that there was a good communication between Board and Operating team to make sure there is no overlapping
• The board members likes the idea of rotating the representatives on these calls
Responsible Investing
• UC Regents Committee for investing is on Feb 23rd
o 1) Online petition 3) Teach in on February 18th 2) get students to attend
o Ask students to circulate this information to your UC
o Send RI info
Rosie
• Wednesdays have the newsletter go out
• Creating a mission statement for the CSSC Newsletter - get mission statement from Rosie
• The information for the content is due by this Wednesday
• Make sure everything is done on time and to give people enough time to turn in content which you can send to [email protected]
• Ryan - the newsletter goes out to over 1000 students, so this is a great way to publicize any opportunities
• Lauren - roles that are unfilled
Michael
• Check in with all the schools that have ESLP and actually physically go to all those schools.
• Talk to schools that want ESLP
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Corie
• 1) Having one on ones with people from the operating team call
• 2) Connecting the right people - ex) making sure that things that are done are publicized through the newsletter
• 3) Working on the next operating call
Tiffany
• Sunday Feb 28th is the next council call
• Tentative date of April 17 or March 28th and April 21st
Sam
• Regions have been spilt up and emails will be sent out
Tessa
• Brainstorming how to gain more fans on facebook
• Get an estimate for the spring convergence
• Make CSSC more relevant on other networks such as Twitter
• Post flyers at Strengthening the Roots Convergence
• Contact all the campus Chapters and give the flyers there
• Link to flyer
• Holly suggested being on “linked in”
• The facebook link is facebook.com/sustainabilitycoalition
Cameron
• Going to be on the call for Powershift
• Find more schools to add to the coalition
Lauren
• Making sure people can comfortably communicate
• Creating a toolkit of best practices to save our documents and maintain steps for the next generation
• Keep doing one on ones and working on the agenda calls
Pam
• Check in with regional coordinators and see where they are at in terms of establishing their own conference calls
• Checking in with campaign coordinators
Ryan
• Have made an internal webpage for the operating team as a central resource for us
• sustainabilitycoalition.org/operatingteam
• This is where we share resources for the operating team
• Ask Ryan if you want to set up an email address
• Tried to set up an address for everyone so it would send it to the whole team - but for now this isn’t working!
• Working with Holly to have the new website in March! This will simplify the website and it will now make it easy for you to build your part of the website!!!!!
• Maintain strong communication with everyone and maintain the momentum
• Support everyone in their role and invites everyone to contact him
CLOSING NOTES
* Establish next call time
* Connect with Ryan or Pam one on one between this call and next call
* Follow up with others on the team as necessary
* Take initiative
* Ask for help
CLOSING ROUND
* What are you excited about?
* What are you plans for collaboration in the near future as direct responses to goals and time line shared?
Criticisms
Becky - designate a greater at the beginning of the call
Jared- wants contact for Michael (the ESLP coordinator)
Pam - next steps for everyone as a group
• 1) Send bios to Holly
• link to the form for the Bios https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEQ4ZjVYenc0U3Z4bEVzeXFUekFYdkE6MA
• Please also send a headshot to [email protected] to accompany the bio and provide a real face of the CSSC for all to see! The shot should be no smaller than 200×200.
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• 2) Send Convergence survey
• 3) Become a facebook fan - facebook.com/sustainabilitycoalition
• 4) Send content to Rosie for the newsletter - [email protected]
