April 9, 2019 JTC Call

Conference Line: 1-919-541-5230

Attendees

Julie McDill (MARAMA); Michael Vince, Ron Hensley (CenSARA); John Hornback and Doug Carson (Metro4/SESARM); Zac Adelman (LADCO); Jason Sloan (AAPCA); Phil Assmus (NACAA); Jim R. (PA DEP); (VA DNR); Jason Rayfield (AAPCA/Mecklenberg Co); (Knox County); Brian Foster (TCEQ), Mark Buford (NW Clean Air Agency WA), Cecily Bell (DC), Leisa Bush (CARB); Adam Baumgart-Getz, Eric Baker, Kristin Riha, Vicki Sandiford, Mary Ann Warner, Rob Lashinski (EPA)

Agenda

• Roll Call
• Call Introduction and JTC Leadership Discussion - John Hornback
• Review February JTC Call Action Items – John Hornback
• Agency Updates: EPA, AAPCA, NACAA, ECOS
• Potential National Training Program Planning Meetings: conference call with EPA in early-June; face-to-face meeting in late-August - John Hornback
• Steering Committee and Work Group Updates – John Hornback, facilitator, and work group co-leads
• JTC and WG Recruitment - Zac Adelman
• MJO Issues and Efforts Roundtable - MJO Directors
• Wiki Tutorial Webinar: demonstration for WG co-leads on how to access and edit the National Training Program Wiki @ LADCO, optional for at-large JTC members; webinar registration link - Zac Adelman

Call Notes

Call Introduction and JTC Leadership Discussion

• MJOs are leading this call as EPA figures out their proper role on the JTC, with help from Mary Ann
• John is the co-lead of the Steering Committee and will temporarily lead this call, but looking for feedback on new ideas, goals, and participation in the JTC
• National Training Strategy is guiding the direction toward a cohesive plan
• Request for items to add to the agenda, none received

Review February JTC Call Action Items

• Zac – give Mary Ann access to the LADCO Wiki and she will post project update status reports on the Wiki; status: Mary Ann given a login 2/21
• Rob – schedule a meeting with Mary Ann and Adam to discuss stack test training; status:
• John – talk to Adam about supplemental information he is getting from Rg. 4 on monitoring training; status: Awaiting additional updates on likely intentions of Region 4 to offer Q/A training in the fall of 2019.
• John – talk with Julie and Kristin about APTI 450 and 468 courses and relationship to CEMS courses; status: John and Kristin talked about the hierarchy of major course topic areas and overlaps. John offered a diagram showing a possible layout of course structure.
• MJOs – provide the list of instructors they use to Kara; status: ongoing
• Kara – compile a master list of instructors; status: complete, sent to Training Delivery Work Group 3/28
• MJOs – contact Zac if they want to pilot the draft evaluation form which consolidates evaluation questions for the course, instructor and logistics; status: ongoing
• Mary Ann – schedule a special JTC meeting for the wk of Feb. 18 to discuss the Steering Committee’s draft straw proposal for organizing the JTC; schedule JTC meetings for April 2019 – Feb. 2020 for the second Tuesday of even numbered months at 1 – 2:30 pm ET; status: complete, calls held 2/21, 3/8, 3/22

Agency Updates: EPA, AAPCA, NACAA, ECOS

Potential National Training Program Planning Meetings: conference call with EPA in early-June; face-to-face meeting in late-August

Steering Committee and Work Group Updates

JTC and WG Recruitment

MJO Issues and Efforts Roundtable

Wiki Tutorial Webinar: demonstration for WG co-leads on how to access and edit the National Training Program Wiki @ LADCO