AQIP Green Initiatives/Recycling Action Project Team Kick-Off Meeting

February 15, 2013

Present: Sponsor, Larry Gawthrop, Co-Chairs, Lisa Poma and Larry Juchartz, AQIP Support, Dale

Weighill, and Members: Wendell Brandon, Carri Farah, Becky Gale-Gonzalez, Desiree Landrigan, Dianne

McClure, Jody Michael, David Rembiesa, and Laura Tripp.

Absent: Ken Martin and Chuck Wade

Welcome by Project Sponsor:

Larry Gawthrop welcomed all in attendance and thanked all for coming. He explained his role on the

team which is to help the team stay on task and serve as a liaison to Executive Cabinet. Larry will be

present at meetings on an as-needed basis. He also introduced Kim Brown, who will be serving as the

official note-taker for the group.

Introductions:

Lisa Poma asked everyone to introduce themselves, state what area they represent and to share

something "green" they are currently doing in their area.

Overview of AQIP Process:

Dale Weighill explained that he was sitting in for Steve Robinson while Steve is serving as the Interim

Dean of Health Sciences. He stated that the project was a result of a survey done in February, 2012. He

provided the following handouts: the 7-step AQIP Quality Framework, the Action Project (timeline and

project goals) and the membership list. Dale's role will be to act as support for the Co-Chairs, be present

at meetings as needed, and to meet with the Co-Chairs between team meetings.

Purpose & Goals of Project:

Larry Juchartz explained that GRiT started as a grass roots organization on campus. The purpose of this

team is to study, brainstorm and recommend institutional-wide recycling/green initiatives that would

enhance or elevate the work of GRiT. Lisa Poma added that there is already a lot that we are doing that

people just don't know about, and that this team might also recommend ways to better communicate

what those are so others can join in.

Current green/recycling initiatives on campus:

Becky Gale-Gonzalez talked about many of the initiatives that are part of GRiT. They have participated

in recycling challenges and Earth Day. They created the "Greeny Award" which is presented to various

individuals and/or teams to raise awareness of recycling here at MCC. She talked about the possibilities

of leveraging resources with other institutions. Training and education is a large part of raising

awareness and getting others on board. Matt's website has a link to Green Initiatives that highlights

things that Physical Plant is doing, the Environmental Club, the Campus Ecology Club and other green­

related activities. The website also helps to raise awareness with students and the community. There

are many tools available to realize energy efficiencies.

The following is a list of ideas from the brainstorming portion of the meeting:

• There are vendors that would like to work with us on recycling efforts

• Create a Suggestion Box to raise awareness of unknown issues

• Decrease amount of print by use of Blackboard

• Possible reduction of waste by re-negotiating Bistro contract and their use of plastic and

Styrofoam

• Create more visibility about what we are doing

• Elevate GRiT and make more prominent on campus

• Energy efficiencies

• Education for the greater community

• Benchmark against other institutions

• Research other best practices

• Inventory waste audit and energy audit

• Leverage resources

• Train and educate

Action Items:

1. Charter/mission statement needs to be written working with basic constraints; financial,

political and contractual

2. Team members are to bring a list to next meeting with everything they know is being done on

campus to recycle. This list will be used to compile one comprehensive list.

3. Come up with "outside the box" ideas

4. Becky will create a working Google document that all team members can review and add to and

can be used to cross reference ideas

5. Schedule Tim Broomfield for the next meeting to give the team an overview of PPO's project of

current and planned recycling efforts

6. Larry J. and Lisa will create a draft for the mission statement

7. Do an inventory of what we are already doing. What can we do better? Additional recycling

efforts?

Other discussion:

• Frequency of meeting

• Setting attainable goals. What do we want to accomplish? How will the goals be measured?

What is the time-line? Will we realize cost savings and efficiencies?

Next Meeting: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 9:00-11:00 a.m., in the CTL area. Lisa Poma will send out

the meeting notice.