January 28, 2000 MD/DC Chapter APPA Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Montgomery Community College
Germantown, Md.

Attendees: Willy Suter, Sheri Vucci, Rita Sato, John Jensen, Dennis Bohlayer, Pat Tate, Bob Burhenn, Kevin Petersen, Gary Viola, David Rouse

Absent: Harold Tinsley

Convened 9:10 am

1. March 10^th Meeting Agenda
• Willy discussed the arrangements he has already made with Tom Lowman from the Germantown Campus and talks with Mike Whitcomb in regards to the meeting schedule and other arrangements.  Willy is still having trouble getting in touch with the representative from SOLAREX but foresees no problems after talking with Mike.  There are actually two projects going on at the college; one is the photovoltaic one already up and the second is a solar/thermal project currently under design.  They may have something for us for the March meeting.
• The second track will be a management/training track set up by Willy and Wally.  The exact topic is not know yet.
• The third track is going to be a discussion on Pest Management and Control done jointly by “Buck” Long of the Naval Academy (David)  and the pest control people at UMCP (Rita).  These two people will get together and come up with the topics and plan out the presentation.
• The schedule was set up as follows:

                                                               i.      8:30 - 9:00             registration

                                                             ii.      9:00 – 9:15            welcome and opening remarks by Tom Lowman and/or Mike Whitcomb

                                                            iii.      9:15 – 9:45            Business Meeting; discuss results of OC, plug MBTI, plug scholarships, talk about email notifications and update of mailing list; anything else about upcoming events

                                                           iv.      9:45 – 10:00            Break

                                                             v.      10:00 – 11:00            Education Sessions

                                                           vi.      11:00 – 12:30            Lunch

                                                          vii.      12:30                        depart in personal vehicles to Frederick for SOLAREX tour

                                                        viii.      1:30 - ?            SOLAREX Tours

2. Sheri passed out the ERAPPA Newsletter schedule so all board members will know the deadlines to get any articles into Bob.
3. The Board decided on the hot lunch option for the March Meeting.
4. The mailing for the March meeting is going to try to go out the beginning of the week of February 7^th so all information must be to Bob by no later than February 4^th.  Bob is going to include the tentative schedule for all events this year.
5. Spring/Summer Meeting at the Zoo
• Board meeting is April 28^th in the physical plant conference room the same place as last time.  We will directions out to the new people.
• Meeting is June 2, 2000 in the Auditorium, Board conference room and all three classrooms.  This is in the building at the top of the hill near parking lot A.
• Sessions planned are:

                                                               i.      ZERESCAPE and Irrigation Water Management (Willy)

                                                             ii.      Special Water Treatment concerns with the introduction of Chloramine in place of Chlorine for water purification in domestic water systems. (Robin from the zoo with Sheri’s help)

                                                            iii.      Building Automation Systems and interconnectivity and inter-communications problems (Dennis)

• The lunch will be the picnic lunch as planned from last year.

6. The September meeting
• This will be at UMB. Pat and Gary will make the final room arrangements and give us further information later.  Pat might also look into a behind the scenes tour of the Aquarium.
• Sessions planned are:

                                                               i.      Team Cleaning (Gary and Pat)

                                                             ii.      Design and Construction topic; possibly move management with large “Domino effect” type of projects (Pat)

                                                            iii.      A Management/Leadership development type presentation put on possibly by Michelle and/or Ellen (Sheri and Rita)

• Elections to be held at this meeting
• Board Meeting is schedule July 21^st; again exact location not know at this time (Pat/Gary)

7. MBTI
• Tentatively scheduled to be hosted by Catholic University (Bob/Kevin)
• June 21,22,23; rooms have been reserved and appear to be at no cost.
• Bob still has to get meal costs and look into the cost/availability of dorm rooms for anyone needing overnight accommodations.
• Sheri will handle registration and money.  She will get Bob a copy of last years registration form to use in setting up a mailing.
8. Mailing list and registration forms are going to be updated to include the registrants email and phone numbers.  Hopefully we can start sending out reminders and other information via emails.
9. Other Miscellaneous Topics
• Partners in Education – replaced the old PETS Program.  This years circuit speaker sponsored by ERAPPA is Jim Cole.  We should look into hosting a program with him this summer possibly combining it with an Orioles Game (see below).
• Orioles Game – Pat gave us all the various details on the estimated ticket prices and bull pen party prices.  Pat and Willy are going to try to coordinate something here to find out more of schedules for ball games and also Jim Cole’s scheduled availability to see if these two event could be combined.  The other option discussed was to keep them separate and do the ball game as a social event to include family etc.
• PGMS Field Day – Willy discussed this and how we should promote it to get a good attendance at AU in July.  We might send out a flier to our membership separately.
• Scholarships – Dennis has not been in touch with Harold but saw the new ERAPPA application on the back of the last ERAPPA Newsletter.  He noted no dates for submission.  Willy/Dennis will check to find these out so we can get the applications in for the Chapter scholarships in time to forward the ones that do not get awarded locally to ERAPPA.
• Golf Outing – Dennis and John agreed to begin this planning process.  They will look at places centralized and in the July/August time frame.  They will look into getting Business Partners to contribute and participate as much as possible.
10.   Meeting adjourned at approximately 11:45 to take tour of rooms to be used for the March Meeting.  We came back to the conference room for lunch before leaving.

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