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Amy Lachance Liane Shekter Smith Richard Benzie

Draft Notes: ODWMA Managers Meeting

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Please see Luke’s draft notes -- attached, and provide cornments to me by 1/8/16. | will finalize and place ori the Lansing drive, Thanks, Army Arny Lachance Grand Rapids District Coordinator and Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo District Supervisor Office of Brinking Water and Municipal Assistance Michigan Department of Emvronmental Cuallty Work Cell xxxEND_PAGE:deq18_b300_3141_3141_1

RE: Manager Meeting Bullets

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| would add a couple of bullets: | thought | “rang the bell” to encourage staff to not wait too long to work with systems participating in the 2015 Needs Survey and that we are supposed to have one-third of them submitted by the end of August. | also mentioned the training opportunities and that we were sending 2 staff to EPA’s Small System Training. | also asked that we make employees aware that they should return from this type of training prepared to provide highlights to other staff, at least managers and if appropriate, to other employees that would have benefited from attending the training. | don’t know if this level of detail is necessary, but the “other” modifications to the classification policy potentially involved clarifying what constitutes a living unit vs. simply relying upon the number of beds, which is the current method for nursing homes, dormitories, jails, adult foster care homes, etc. This issue also bleeds over into one of the issues Dana was updating — not assuming a system that is under the population to be classified as a Type 1 system is automatically a Type Ill, as the combination of residents and workers could and often does result in the facility meeting the Type II classification.