Kansas City EWRI Chapter

Planning Meeting Minutes

Wednesday08/18/11, 5:30–6:30pm

CDM Office – Ward parkway

Attendees: Steve Hansen, Burns & McDonnell; Jeff Evans, HNTB;Elangovan Karuppasamy, Marc Schlebusch, CDM; Tom Simmons, USACE

Board Members not Present:, David Silverstein, Burns & McDonnell; Angela Mason, USACE

Call to Order (Elango)

Secretary’s Report

  • None
  • Steve Hansen and David Silverstein will work on budget for upcoming year. Dave said we need to submit budget info to ASCE soon. All agreed that we should ask for some small amount of funding for initiatives this year. **(This wasn’t discussed. I assume it’s still on the table.)**

New Business

  • The September meeting is all set. Marc will check on what technology the venue has.
  • Speakers for November were discussed. A national speaker was discussed, but the expenses seem like they would be prohibitive.
  • The idea of having a luncheon centered around an ACSE webinar was discussed. The consensus was that it should be feasible; that it would likely have to happen at the office of one of the board members, in a large conference room (HNTB or B&M after remodeling), due to the technology requirements. These are fairly affordable and might be attractive to our members as an opportunity for more formal training and PDHs.Everyone will mull this over and keep their eyes out for possible webinars.
  • Tom has a good candidate for a presentation on this year’s flooding. He will get an abstract for circulation. The group consensus was that we might want to save that one for the combined meeting and a larger audience.
  • We are still in need of a speaker for November

Officers

  1. Chairperson–Elango
  2. Chairperson Elect - Angela Mason
  3. Treasurer - Steve Hansen
  4. Dinner Chair – Marc Schlebusch
  5. Attendee Chair–Tom Simmons
  6. Secretary – Jeff Evans
  7. Web Chair –Open

Elango asked all to send their contact information to him so it can get posted to the website and also provide to ASCE.

Planning for 2011-2012

Dates for 2011-20121 meetings

  • Lunch Meetings – 9/7/11, 11/2/11, 1/10/12 ( with ASCE), 3/7/12, and 5/2/12
  • Planning Meetings – TBD

Leftover Topics – the following assignments arestill on the table:

  • KCMO or what other cities are doing or will be doing from engineering standpoint – Dave to check with KCMO, other Board members to check with their contacts
  • MARC Speakers Bureau– Marc to check with MARC?
  • EPA, Water QualityRegulationperspective– Dave to contact Region 7
  • USGS- Water quality and groundwater – Dave to contact USGS
  • Low impact development – Marc to contact city contacts
  • Climate change or other relevant research– Angie and Elango to contact KU, Sara – UMKC
  • USACE topics – Tom will check with Brian Rast on the possibility of another presentation by the Corps.
  • Other topics – Jeff will check with HNTB staff for interesting presentations.
  • Other topics – Board to suggest ideas.

Summer Planning Meeting

Next planning meetingto be held in October -Elango will send out email requesting available dates to meet.

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