Wage & Investment Reduce Taxpayer Burden (Notices) Meeting Minutes

March 2, 2006

Participants (Panel Members)

• Michael Guthman. Westport, CT
• Allena Kaplan, Anaheim, CA
• J T Wright, Carrollton, GA
• Martin Romeril, Bethlehem, PA
• Marilynn Clapp, Boise, ID
• Lee Congdon, Washington DC
• Max Scott, Baton Rouge, LA, Vice Chairperson
• Allen Scioli, Saginaw, MI, Chairperson
• Mary Suther, Dallas TX
• Lee Stieger, Leavenworth, KS
• David Meister, Franklin, WI
• Warren Wong, Rochester, MN
• Joe Hurr, Dayton, OH

Not Present

• Sanford Searleman, Glenn Falls, NY
• David Jones, Sacramento, CA

Staff Members

• Sallie Chavez, Analyst
• Nancy Ferree (DFO)

Program Owner

• Sidney Gardner, SBSE Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Representative

Guests

• Larry Garner, Center for Economic Progress

Welcome
Committee Vice-Chair, Max Scott welcomed everyone.

Roll Call
Program Analyst Sallie Chavez took the roll call and quorum was met.

Review/Approval of Prior Meeting Minutes
The prior meeting minutes were approved by consensus.

Face-to-Face Meeting
The Hilton Garden Inn has been secured for sleeping and meeting rooms. The print center tour is planned for the new members. The hotel is one block from the people mover. The travel day is 5/17, the tour is the morning of the 18th, and the meeting will begin in the afternoon of the 18th. All day meeting on the 19th and _ day on 20th. Return travel will occur on the afternoon of the 20th. Further details will follow.

SBSE SPOC Rep, Sidney Gardner
There are some items that are lined up for the panel members to work on (DAT scoring)

Sub-Committee Reports
Dynamic Project Team Stub Review activity: Lee Stieger reported on the activity performed on the notice stub. This is considered a focus group activity. J T Wright also participated. A response and thank you was received from the IRS. This activity will be captured on the committee report.

DAT Scoring
Sallie has the W&I notices in order and will send them out for scoring by next week. Once they are completed, they will be on the agenda for the face-to-face meeting.

Sub-Committee list
Sallie will send the list of all the sub-committee teams to Max. She will also send the spreadsheet with the priority list with assignments.

Marilyn mentioned she has not seen a package for Detroit. The hotel is the Hilton Garden Inn in Detroit. The downtown people mover is within one block of the hotel.

Allena is ready to start DAT scoring.

Martin will be contacting the sub-committee members with the notices from the annual meeting to compare the scores and norm them.

Lee Stieger enjoyed the opportunity to be involved on the DPT stub activity.

Mary Suther will go from the notices meeting to the area 5 meeting. She will be out of the country thru April, but will be back by the face-to-face meeting. Nancy will ask Jenny Reyes and Patti Robb to work together on travel for members who are going from the Notice meeting to the Area 5 meeting.

Warren Wong asked about a schedule for the teleconferences for the rest of the year. Are there are list of goals and objectives? A sub-committee is working on the values, goals and objectives.

J T Wright did send a copy of the suggestion regarding the values, goals and objectives and Jim Cesarano and Sidney Gardner said they are moving forward to address the team’s concerns.

Sidney Gardner thanked everyone who worked on the stub project. There may be some systemic limitations, but they will give it their best shot. Thanks to everyone in advance for working on the DAT teams.

Meeting Close
The committee chair Scioli adjourned the meeting.

Next meeting is scheduled for April 6, 2006 at 11:00am eastern time, by teleconference.