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Community Needs Assessment Committee • Minutes

Thursday, March 25th, 2004
10:00-12:00am
Porter Meeting Room 512A

Present: Wish Leonard, Shabiran Rahman, Dan Sich
Regrets: Jane Britton, Michele Laing, Jamie Russell
Guests: Janet Wason

1. Approval of minutes from the March 11 th meeting

  The minutes from the March 11th meeting were approved.

2. Business Arising

 There was no business arising.

Wish agreed to act as recorder for the meeting.

3. Extending the Survey

 There was considerable discussion surrounding the number of contacts and responses to the survey. It was decided that it would be worthwhile to extend the survey and make it ‘live’ for the last week of April and the first week of May. This time period was recommended by Rose Padacz of the Office of Persons with Disabilities.

It was felt that if the OPD database did not yield a sufficient number of potential new participants that the survey would not be extended.

Actions:

  • Shabiran will contact Rose Padacz to obtain a list of e-mail addresses for potential participants for the survey
  • Janet Wason , in consultation with Michelle Laing, will update a new cover letter
  • Janet Wason will ensure that an ad about the survey is posted in an appropriate issue of Imprint
  • Shabiran will contact Rose Padacz for an account number to cover the cost of the advertisement

 4. Survey Results

Shabiran had produced a Word document report of the survey results and sent it to the membership. There were some discussions of initial impressions of the report and a need for some cross-tabbing of the results.

Action:

  • All members will review the document and make recommendations for which elements should be cross-tabbed, or any collapsing of categories

5. Article

 Dan reported that he had not received any feedback re his request for input of background and other useful data for the article to be composed re the survey.

Actions:

  • Janet agreed to act as a resource/consultant on background information
  • Dan/Michelle will consult with other members as needed

Next Meeting: Thursday, April 8th, DP 512A

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