employee resource group<\/a> (ERG) under the DEI umbrella. This route would provide funding for events, but not salary support.\u00a0 There are also yearly guidelines that we’d need to abide by to receive this support.\u00a0 They all seemed reasonable and manageable.<\/p>\nMembers can provide feedback about each opportunity.\u00a0 Dave and Liz will look through the Google Doc before the next meeting and try to categorize things in a way that might be helpful to match funding sources.\u00a0 Let’s try to have a final list with categories by the end of November, which would work for budgeting purposes.<\/p>\n\n
– Seb met with Rick and Tiger for beautifying meadow area near LOSOS. There are constraints from Cape Cod commission (keep natural, native plants). Could use new area behind Redfield as template.\u00a0 Would be nice to create a space that people wanted to spend time in.\u00a0 There’s no outdoor gathering space in that part of campus.\u00a0 Perhaps some sort of open-air gazebo could be included (East Falmouth Elementary has a good example of this).\u00a0 Having functions planned there could remind people about the space.\u00a0 It’s possible that some of the funding to renovate Clark to be dedicated to this project.<\/p>\n
– Did Oyster pond garden install go through ? Yes, the JP student garden was approved.\u00a0 Not sure exactly how far they’ve gotten, but it’s in the works.<\/p>\n
It could be fun to have a social event around pickling\/preserving and\/or sharing recipes from the garden plots.<\/p>\n\n
Yard Sale: Alex contacted property management office and IS. Property management guidelines seem manageable.\u00a0 There’s a $5K threshold that dictates how equipment can be transferred (over $5K any proceeds need to be shared with the gov’t entity that funded it originally).\u00a0 But maybe it’s just a swap and we don’t worry about payment. Seb contacted IS and their concern is security issues like erasing info on hard drives in laptops before disposing of them. Could be good to give labs a deadline for cleanups.\u00a0 There’s a small-scale version of this that is ongoing in Redfield (a pile of things that are up for grabs).\u00a0 Would be good to have a way to share equipment that’s available so that useful things aren’t just sitting around not getting used.\u00a0 Could also be helpful for incoming scientists who could save money for other things if they could find equipment already at WHOI.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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