Cayuga Lake Watershed Network
Doc. #2008-
Program Committee (formerly Outreach Committee) Retreat
December 5, 2008

Present: Ed Harwood, chair; Rebecca Ruggles; Roxy Johnson; Judy Pipher and guests Ronda Fessendon, Ruth Richardson, John Mawdsley, and Daniel Carrion

We held a retreat starting 2pm, for 3 hours, at the Network office. Two new members have joined this cte. – Joe Cambridge, and Rebecca Ruggles.

Our primary goal was to establish a direction for the Watershed Network's activities for 2009, not specific to any one committee. The method was outlined by Ed:

• Divergence including past activities
• Convergence – categorizing and setting priorities
• Budget considerations
• Plan of work
• Commitments

The convergence was not completed at this retreat, and another retreat was scheduled for January 30. A large list of ideas to be prioritized were developed.

Judy asked for approval of a "weeds" conference. It was decided that Ruth would work with her.

The PayPal "donate" button was added to the website by AWP, and Judy added a temporary Christmas gift messsage to accompany it.