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Vote on the Incoming CWEA Slate of Officers
As a member of CWEA, you are invited to attend CWEA’s Annual Business Meeting and vote on the incoming CWEA Slate of Officers. This year, the voting session will occur April 3 at 11:00 AM—11:30 AM before the Awards Luncheon at CWEA’s Annual Conference. You do not have to register for the Continue reading
Mandatory Webinar for Local Section Treasurers
If you are a Local Section Treasurer, please register below for this one-hour webinar training to help make your job as treasurer a whole lot easier. Presidents and Liaisons are invited and encouraged to participate.
CWEA is hosting this webinar to help all local section treasurers with their treasurer responsibilities.
What You’ll Learn at the Webinar
- Why financial reports are so important to the proper functioning of CWEA
- The basic budget reporting and planning requirements
- How to complete the budget and planning forms
Come ready with your questions and helpful advice you would like to share with your fellow treasurers.
Date and Time
Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PST
How To: Local Section Website – Creating a Sponsor Slider
Learn how to add your sponsors to your Local Section website:
How To: Local Section Member Roster
Learn how to download your Local Section membership roster: Download PDF instructions
How To: Local Section Website – Adding Photos to Flickr Albums
Learn how to add photos to the CWEA Flickr album and add them to your website.
Hot To: Local Section Website – Creating Posts
Local Section training video on how to create posts in WordPress:
How To: Local Section Website-WordPress Overview
For Local Sections: Watch this as an overview of the WordPress web program that your site is built on.
Volunteer Opportunity: P3S Committee Secretary
P3S Secretary needed for next year from the North. It’s a four year commitment from Secretary, Vice Chair, Chair, to Past Chair. The P3S Secretary prepares and distributes committee meeting minutes; Prepares, mails, and e-mails notices of committee meetings to Northern Section members if from the Northern Section or Southern Continue reading
Students and Young Professional Committee Seeks Secretary – FILLED
The Students and Young Professional Committee is seeking a secretary for the 2019-20 year. Send your interest to Megan Barillo.
Email Phishing Scams
We wanted to alert all CWEA leaders about an email scam appearing to come from CWEA’s President Kevin Calderwood. Any urgent message appearing to come from a fellow board member, local section board member or CWEA staff requesting money or gift cards or transfer of funds is a scammer. Please consider Continue reading
Seeking Volunteer Co-Chair – Student Poster Competition AC 2020 Reno
We have an educational outreach/event coordination volunteer opportunity for the upcoming Student Poster Competition at the 2020 CWEA conference in Reno. If you are interested in this opportunity, please let Monica Myhill know. For the 2020 Annual Conference in Reno, CWEA will be joining NWEA (Nevada Water Environment Association) for Continue reading
Email Correspondence Maintenance
In general practice, when sending your section newsletter emails, or any all member email blasts, please remember to use the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) when entering the “send to” information. This will keep your email tidy, along with keeping all recipient’s email addresses private.
California Laboratory Buyers Guide
We’re dedicating the Fall 2019 edition of our magazine to all things laboratory. Stories include: ELAP regulatory updates; outstanding lab professionals; columns; toxicity regulations; lab equipment and more! Plus our-first-ever lab buyers guide. We’ll provide several directory pages of lab services and lab equipment providers. Download the flyer here.
Budgets Due
Volunteer on a Conference Committee
Want to help plan some great upcoming conferences? Sign up on the below sites:
New 2019-2020 Award Deadlines for Local and State – Take Note
IMPORTANT NEW AWARD DEADLINES TO BE AWARE OF
Due to the Annual Conference in Reno, falling on March 31 – April 3, the Members and External Relations (MER) committee has moved the deadlines of the 2020 Awards program.
Please take note of the following dates for the awards schedule:
June 1 – Awards program goes live at awards.cwea.org.
If you have changes to make to your committee awards, please send to Megan Barillo no later than May 15.
December 9 – Final local section winners are due to CWEA.
Local Sections will need to decide on the winners of their awards by this date. Either by sending the winners list to Megan Barillo or selecting the winner inside the judging portal of awards.cwea.org.
December 12 – Section winners are sent to committees for state review.
Committees will receive all section winners for review as well as all CWEA and WEF nominations that are not sent via the Local Section.
February 10 – All state winners (from committees) due to CWEA.
Committees will need to decide on winners either by selecting their 1st, 2nd and 3rd (where applicable) place winners inside the judging portal or sending to Megan Barillo.
February 17 – 21 – MER approves winners; winners are notified; plaques are ordered; AC materials finalized.
The selected winners must be approved by the MER committee before nominees can be notified. Nominees will be notified by email by the MER chair and invited to attend the Annual Conference at the early bird rate.
Plaques for outgoing committee chairs should be ordered the same week.
March 16 (TBD) – Award plaques delivered to conference site
CWEA Committee Chair Information for 2019-20
Changing Committee Chairs? Download the Committee Chair Request Form for 2019-20. Complete the form for your Committee and return it to [email protected] by March 15. If this is your last year as Committee Chair, please be sure to email Megan Barillo at [email protected]
2019 Local Section Treasurer’s Orientation Webinar
CWEA Board Members Approved for the 2019 Election
As a member of CWEA, you are invited to attend CWEA’s Annual Business Meeting and vote on the incoming CWEA Slate of Officers. This year, the voting session will occur April 12 at 11:00 AM—11:30 AM before the Awards Luncheon at CWEA’s Annual Conference. You do not have to register for the Continue reading