ASP Meeting Notes - 4/26/11

• Anthony reported that at the last Inland Empire Section Meeting he read in the notes that the meeting before Fred had announced that he wanted to purchase two new computers for the studio, two for the GIS lab and a new server for the GIS lab, all using department funds.

• Brian officially received Chris’ resignation this week; the bylaws state that other board members will have to cover his duties until we find a replacement.

o Brian & Ali will work this week on getting a ballot process underway.

• Brian made a request to have someone attend the upcoming Request Justification Meeting of the ASEWU on Wednesday April 27^th at 6:40 in Cheney.

o Will discussed attending, but needed to know how long it would last.

• Ali brought up the issue of the difficulty in getting emails passed along through Rose and discussed having the process run through her. We discussed the issues with FERPA, but it seems that if Rose sends and email to all members of the Planning Dept and explains the situation to them, giving them the opportunity to “Opt-Out” of having their email passed along to another student, then we might be covering our bases, in terms of liability. Brian is going to discuss with Rose further.

• It was brought up again that we will be asked for funds from the community garden group. Will mentioned that Nicole from the Inland Empire section said they have funds to match whatever ASP donates.

o It sounds like the school is worried about summer maintenance of the garden.

o Someone asked why we don’t try something similar at the Riverpoint Campus

§ Brian mentioned talking with Senator Murray’s staff about the soil mitigation work they are doing on our campus and further discussing this idea with them

• The Tech Committee was discussed again; it sounds like it will consist of Jeremy, Anna, Ryan, Muhammad and possibly Chris.

o Jeremy reported that the monitors have issues in the studio, but it appears that the actual computers work ok.

o The Surplus Dept was contacted and asked, “do we have to purchase parts from you if they are intended for campus use and not personal student use?” Jeremy was told that if the computer parts are for campus use, then we can moved into the 3-year rotation cycle instead of the 6-year (meaning when computer parts are rotated out of the labs every three year, we can have access to them/be on the list for them)

o Jeremy will put together a needs analysis

• Will brought up the issue of off-hour access to the building/computer labs. Supposedly he has come to campus over the weekends and has been told by security that the labs are closed, therefore he cannot get in to the building.

o Brian is going to discuss the issue with Rose to possibly have her send a letter to security, telling them it is ok to let students with a EWU pass into the buildings over the weekend.

• Karl & Kevin want to have a Studio-Cleaning Pizza Party

o The decided date was Saturday May 7^th at 11AM.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:30 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Ali Kara

Brownfield Conference Volunteers Needed!

We could still use a few more student volunteers for the State Brownfield Conference May 12-13, only 4 students so far. We're only two weeks away, so will you please push this out again? Registration fee of $60 can be waived in return for their help. They just need to contact Adrienne Dorrah at Dept of Ecology FIRST: ador461@ECY.WA.GOV

Melissa Wittstruck

Speakers Announced at the Northwest Brownfields & Land Revitalization Conference

The first annual Inland Northwest Brownfields Conference brings a network of public and private sector project proponents together for an open dialogue on brownfield redevelopment efforts and plans in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana. This day and a half conference will focus on brownfield issues specific to Inland Northwest communities through workshops, interactive breakouts, and plenary sessions.

Keynote Speakers Announced:

Jason Wheaton
The Regional Real Estate Market: A Developer's Perspective
Thursday, May 12
As an expert in his field, Jason unravels the mystery of what developers look for in a potential project and the realities of the current market. Hear the glimmers of hope and how the market is turning around. Right now Kendall Yards is transforming the river front in Spokane with new housing opportunities and proximity to the downtown. Learn how Greenstone approached this project and moved it forward in a depressed real estate market.

Yoram Bauman, PhD
Stand-Up Economist
Thursday, May 12
Dr. Yoram Bauman has appeared in TIME Magazine, on PBS and NPR, and on YouTube, where his videos have over 800,000 hits. Yoram lives in Seattle and appears regularly at the Comedy Underground as part of a political comedy benefit show called Non-Profit Comedy that has raised over $75,000 for local non-profits. He has a BA in mathematics from Reed College, a PhD in economics from the University of Washington, and spends his non-comedy hours teaching in the UW environmental studies program, researching the economics of climate change, and campaigning for environmental tax reform. In July 2011 he's heading to Beijing for 5 months as a visiting scholar at UIBE's Global Institute for Low Carbon Economy.

Visit the conference website http://conferences.wsu.edu/conferences/brownfields/default.aspx for more details on the speakers and programs.

Position opening for a graduating planning student

My name is Kent Jarcik and I am serving as City Planner for the City of Williston, North Dakota. The Planning Department is currently looking to fill a new Planner I position. Please see position description brief attached. Please forward this announcement to any graduating planning students you think might be interested. The position is geared toward a graduating student. The City of Williston is referred to as a boom and bust oil community. The region is currently experiencing an extreme boom with 175 drill rigs currently operating in northwestern North Dakota. There is an estimated 2,000 job openings in our region as a result of the boom with no available housing. The impacts and pressures that places on small rural agricultural communities is significant. I believe this position would be an excellent opportunity for a graduating student to gain a variety of experience in current and long range planning.

City estimates of our current population are about 17,000.

In regard to the housing statement above, we would assist a successful candidate in trying to locate housing

Thank you.

Kent Jarcik
City Planner
Williston, ND
(701)577-8104

APA Scholarship Applications Due

APA Washington Chapter Scholarship applications are due to me no later than 5 pm on Friday, April 29th, 2011.

Thanks
Rose

Studio Computers

Students:

I realize that we have problems with the computers in the studio. I am in the process of trying to find the funds to purchase two new computers and monitors; however, you need to know several factors.

First, your tech fee does not support the studio computers. It does support work you need to do for regular classes. The studio computers are for studio work and for faculty field projects. You need to use the computers in the computer lab and other labs on the Cheney campus for your normal work such as papers.

Second, you do pay a lab fee for some of your courses. These funds are used for maintenance of the studios. These fees are marginal. For example, the course fee for most of the those courses is approximately $17. If you take the number of students in the class times the fee, you can generate the income. If a class has 15 students in it, the income is $255. The cost for a roll of large scale copier paper is $50. The cartridges for the copiers are $200. The annual maintenance fee for these copiers is over a $1000. Thus, you can see that the course fees are not keeping up with the costs associated with them. We try to make up the difference from our contracts with clients but when the materials used in the two studios are for personal printing, we have no way to sustain the costs.

Therefore, you all need to be patient and utilize the computer labs when you should and the studio computers for studio work only.

Fred A. Hurand, Chair
Department of Urban Planning, Public and Health Administration
Eastern Washington University
668 N. Riverpoint Blvd.
Spokane, WA 99202
509-828-1217
fhurand@mail.ewu.edu

ASP Meeting Annoucement

There will be an ASP meeting on Tuesday, April 26th at 11:45 in the planning studio.