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Agenda Work Group
Meeting Minutes
October 18, 2001
Members present:
Kowetha Davidson
Linda Gass
Jeff Hill
James Lewis
Barbara Sonnenburg
Other attendees: LaFreta Dalton (phone)
Bill Murray
The meeting was called to order by the Acting Chair, Kowetha
Davidson.
The first order of business was to appoint a new WG Chair,
since Al Brooks resigned from ORRHES. Kowetha Davidson
asked Barbara Sonnenburg to accept the Chair, and she accepted.
Sonnenburg and Davidson jointly chaired the meeting.
The agenda for the December is largely determined because
of the shortened September meeting. The times on the agenda
for the morning session on Monday, December 3, 2001, were
in error and had to be modified. In the afternoon session,
the discussion of the Mission Statement was moved from
the Work Group (WG) reports to a separate section, with
no change in the time. On Tuesday, the public comment session
in the morning was reduced to 15 minutes and a break added.
There were several changes in the afternoon schedule. LaFreta
Dalton, Designated Federal Official, will make the necessary
changes.
The WG strongly objected to having Rebecca Parkin, GWU,
come to the meeting for a short (15 min.) update on the
Health Education Needs Assessment, and to Mary Ann Downey,
Decision Bridges, Inc., come for a 30-minute talk on the
consensus building workshop. They also objected to devoting
a 1-hr block of time on the agenda for the ethics training,
since it could be done by videotape.
The AWG thinks that too much time is being devoted to
non-technical issues. The technical issues need to be fully
aired at the ORRHES for two reasons. First, some ORRHES
members are not part of the PHA WG and are unfamiliar with
the technical issues involved. Second, a member of the
public has charged that ATSDR is thwarting the FACA process
by having much work done by WGs, specifically the PHA and
the Health Needs Assessment WGs.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:00 PM.
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