Steering Committee minutes, July 15, 1997
July 15, 1997
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Steering Committee Minutes, July 15, 1997

Addy, Wynns, Evans, Oates, Thomas, Bonthius, Evans, Teeter,
Schaffer, Feuer, Botwinick

1. CoChairs will be Bonthius (Tompkins), Oates (Schuyler) and
Teeter (Cortland). Botwinick will serve as Treasurer. President
x to be named later.

2. SC members will follow-up on delinquent members: Schaffer -
Groton TA, CSEA 605, Cortland Firefighters; Thomas - Operating
Engineers and other Building Trades; Evans ~ CU Police and
Operating Engineers local at CU; Addy - IBEW 241, Masons, lLabor-
ers, ICSDEA; Wynns - Teamsters.

At next meeting, Co-chairs or SC, consideration will be given to
investing some of our funds, to earn a higher return.

3. We will seek to hire a half-time Coordinator for a six month
period, beginning September 1. Among other duties, Coordinator
would take leadership in organizing the integration project with
Southern Tier Councils. Bonthius, Oates and Thomas will form a
committee to produce a job description and coordinate the hiring
process.

4. Oates and/or Bonthius will try to liaise with UAW 2300 so that
our Council is fully involved in this important struggle. In
particular they will seek to participate in regular Monday
afternoon planning meetings.

5. A resolution endorsing and committing our CLC to the Union

Cities initiative was moved by Oates, seconded by Schaffer, and t
passed unanimously. It will be considered by the next General
Meeting. The Steering Committee will take up the strategic

planning process necessary to move forward as a Union City.

6. The Labor Day picnic will adopt as its theme this year the
Livable Wage issue. All ideas about how to implement this are
welcome, as are nominations for friend and goat (to be decided at
GM). Wynns will get raffle tix printed up. Thomas is chairing

Labor Day committee,

7. Next General Meeting will be Wednesday, August 13 at 7:30, at
Building Trades Hall (Plumbers and Pipefitters), 701 West State,
Ithaca. Cathy Thomas will make a presentation on the Building

Trades COMET program,