EEOAC Minutes – January 5, 2005 EEOAC010505v1

Southwest Region

January 5, 2005

Attendees: Jeremy Rusin, Jessica Kondel, Laura Tezer, Rick Rogers, Nancy Fisher, Rod Miller, Jeff McLain and Jerrold Norton. Absent: Jessica Matson, Carlos Garza, Brian Cluer, Eleanor Domalaog and Rick Wantuck. Maria Harris and Rosemary Troian were present as advisors.

Jeremy Rusin opened the meeting at 1:05p.m.

Vice-chair Jeremy Rusin started by having the new members introduce themselves. Rod Miller is the Executive Officer at the SWFSC in La Jolla. He’s had a long time interest in EEOAC and is happy to be involved again. Jeff McLain has worked 6 months with NMFS. Previously he had worked with the Fish and Wildlife Service as a Fishery Biologist. Jerrold Norton has worked for the federal government for 30 years and is a fisheries oceanographer at the Pacific Fisheries Environmental Lab in Pacific Grove, CA.

Then the existing members introduced themselves: Jeremy Rusin is the tuna/dolphin coordinator in the Long Beach office. He’s worked for NMFS for 1.5 years. Jeremy has been the Acting Chair of the committee since Tim Price’s illness. Rick Rogers works out of the Arcata office. Laura Tezer is the travel coordinator at the La Jolla lab and has been doing that job for 4 years. Previously she worked for the IRS for 10 years. Jessica Kondel is a NOAA Corps officer assigned to the Long Beach office. Right now she is doing a temporary one month stint in Silver Spring. Nancy Fisher is the sole administrative person in the Sacramento office. She’s been on the EEOAC for a year and has worked for 7.5 years for the federal government. In the EEOAC, she has headed up the Personnel Subcommittee.

Advisors: Maria Harris has been a non-voting advisor to the committee since its inception. She is the head of personnel in Long Beach. Rosemary Troian is staying on as advisor at the January and February meetings. She is the outreach coordinator at the La Jolla office.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES

The minutes of the Dec. meeting were approved.

OFFICERS’ REPORTS

There were no officers’ reports.

SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS

The Subcommittees did not meet in December.

OLD BUSINESS

Short reports were given on the functions of the various subcommittees. New members need to decide where they would like to work.

With regard to diversity, Jeremy said that the definition of diversity already fit under the umbrella of EEOAC and he didn’t see any need to change the name of the committee. This is up for further discussion.

There was a discussion on funding the intern workplan. Basically, the money would have to come out of program funds. EEOAC has never had a budget.

NEW BUSINESS

Election of officers took place and the results are:

Chair – Jeremy Rusin

Vice-Chair – Jessica Matson

Secretary – Jessica Kondel

Vice Secretary – Nancy Fisher

ANNOUNCEMENTS

It was announced that Scott Hill gave a presentation at an after school program.

Also, an open house was held on the David Starr Jordan ship on Dec. 14 and 15 for about 80 students from the David Starr Jordan High School in Orange County. Ship people and scientists from the SWFSC personed exhibits and answered student questions. Jim Milbury took pictures.

Anyone doing outreach should try to get digital photos for possible submission to the NOAA Report or some other venue.

The next meeting will be Feb. 2 at 1:00 p.m.

The meeting adjourned at 1:50 p.m.

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