[Sqg-program] More Info regarding the opportunity for FREE (or paid) PSI Membership - FL Local Governments

Fri Jan 7 13:44:44 EST 2011

I encourage all Florida Counties with HHW or SQG programs to contact PSI and sign up for the FREE Affiliate membership as soon as possible.  You can't go wrong!  Better yet if your budget allows go for the Full membership.
The Florida Caribbean NAHMMA Chapter PSI Initiative Committee is working diligently on finalizing the proposal with PSI for a Florida full membership.  Once complete, the committee will start  fund raising efforts.  If you should have interest in being on the Florida Chapter PSI Initiative committee  or have any questions regarding this initiative/proposal please contact the committee chairperson, Bob Madden at bmadden at swa.org<mailto:bmadden at swa.org> or myself at rita.perini at brevardcounty.us<mailto:rita.perini at brevardcounty.us>.   Thank you for your consideration.

Rita Perini
Environmental Scientist
Brevard County Solid Waste Operations
2250 Adamson Rd.
Cocoa, Florida  32926
(321) 633-1888
Fax (321) 635-7903

From: flhhw-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:flhhw-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] On Behalf Of Price, John L. "Jack"
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 10:54 AM
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Subject: [FLHHW] FW: More Info regarding the opportunity for FREE (or paid) PSI Membership - FL Local Governments

If you have any interest in product stewardship, you can't go wrong with an Affiliate (free) membership. As an Affiliate, you can keep up generally with what's happening. Please consider a Full membership: there is a cost but it's scaled to your population and you get a lot more. A Full Membership entitles you to hear more detailed and current information about developments in product stewardship across the nation and around the world. It also gives you a voice in the networking calls, strategy calls and moves you to the top of the list for pilot projects that often turn into statewide or even nationwide product stewardship programs.

Jack

John L. (Jack) Price
Environmental Manager
Waste Reduction MS 4555
Florida Department of Environmental Protection
2600 Blair Stone Road
Tallahassee, FL  32399-2400
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Fax: 850.245.8811
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From: Lisa Gould [mailto:lisa at productstewardship.us]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:01 PM
To: Price, John L. "Jack"
Subject: More Info regarding the opportunity for FREE (or paid) PSI Membership - FL Local Governments

Dear FL County and Municipal Representatives:

We'd like to invite all local governments in Florida to join Product Stewardship Institute (PSI) either as a Full Member or an Affiliate Member.
Florida now has 5 Affiliate local govt. members including:  Brevard County Solid Waste Operations, Sarasota County, St. Johns County Solid Waste Agency, Taylor County Board of County Commissioners, and Winter Haven.
The opportunity to become either a Full or Affiliate member means that you can hear about what is happening with policy and product stewardship, enhance your technical knowledge about product management, and more.  Local governments enjoy a role at PSI that can help you to plan for the future and help save your constituents money:   PSI staff work with manufacturers, state and local governments and others to move the responsibility for the costs of managing products and packaging disposal from local governments to the producers for paint, electronics, mercury thermostats, etc., encouraging source reduction or reuse wherever possible.
PSI Full Members and partners work together on solving complex problems that are too much to solve alone and Full Members are then privy to the "Lessons Learned."
Affiliates benefit by staying in touch with PSI, however Full members are also able to participate in the 12 Networking Calls.  This year, we also offer calls on EPR for Packaging and Chemicals Policy calls developed with NAHMMA.
PSI's Networking calls will begin again in the spring and we would like you to know you that if you can afford the full membership with PSI, that would be best, because the calls will are FREE for you as a Full member as well as other benefits of PSI.  With the packaging series, the NAHMMA / PSI chemicals policy call series, we are offering 16 calls for 2011 which are a cost of over $1880.  The price of a Full membership at $1000 is quite a good deal, then!  For many of you, with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 the fee is only $500 - see table below.

State and Local Government Full Member Dues
Fiscal Year 2011

Fee Categories

Annual dues
(based on population size)

 Less than 25,000

    $250

 Between 25,000 and 100,000

     $500

 Between 100,000 and 500,000

  $1,000

 Between 500,000 and 1.25 million

  $2,000

 Between 1.25 to 3 million

  $4,000

 Between 3 to 5 million

  $6,000

 Between 5 to 8 million

  $8,000

 Greater than 8 million

$10,000

If you are not yet a member it is a simple matter to change that. If you want to be an affiliate member for free, please  go to this link: http://www.productstewardship.us/JoinPSI and click on local government officials / and "Join Now".

Dear FL County and Municipal Representatives:

It was good to see that you and other Florida local government representatives registered for some of PSI's Networking Calls during 2009-10.  I hope that you enjoyed them.

As we wait to hear whether the FL Chapter of NAHMMA can raise the funds to allow ALL local governments in Florida to become Full Members of PSI, I wanted to let you know that we have some interesting networking calls set for the next few months. We will be launching two chemicals policy calls with NAHMMA, a separate 4-part series on packaging stewardship, and an additional 6-part Spring Series. While the chemicals policy calls will be free for all NAHMMA members and PSI Full Members, the packaging calls and Spring Series will only be free for PSI Full Members. While ALL local governments in Florida will be able to access these calls if the NAHMMA funds are raised, individual agencies can still become Full Members, or sign up for the calls on an ad hoc basis. I don't want you to miss out on these opportunities if you are interested.

PSI also offers FREE PSI Affiliate Membership (for those not already signed up), which will at least connect you further to PSI with our free offerings.

I have attached an update on our major programs, as well as our member benefits, which include much more than the networking calls, such as monthly briefings on hot topics. There are two Memberships options available to you:

Affiliate Members receive the following benefits (FREE):

Full Members receive the following benefits
(fees vary by population size)

*         Quarterly Newsletter

*         Quarterly Newsletter

*         Free participation on PSI's 12 product email lists

*         Free participation on PSI's 12 product email lists

*         Free access to monthly Product Stewardship Update Calls

*         Free access to monthly Product Stewardship Briefings

*         Free participation in PSI dialogue meetings and workgroup calls

*         Priority access to PSI staff and contractors

*         Priority selection to participate in a broad range of pilot projects

*         Free participation in Networking Conference Calls (12/year)

*         Receive bi-weekly "Product Stewardship Updates"

*         Participation in government product-specific strategy calls

*         Reduced admission to the annual Product Stewardship Forum

*         Voting capabilities and the ability to serve on the PSI Board of Directors

*         Input into PSI's Strategic Plan

For more information about becoming a member, please go to this link: http://www.productstewardship.us/JoinPSI, or feel free to contact me at (617) 236-4822, or scott at productstewardship.us<mailto:scott at productstewardship.us> if you have any questions or comments on how PSI can best meet your needs.

All the best,
Scott

____________________________
Scott Cassel
Executive Director/Founder
Product Stewardship Institute, Inc.
29 Stanhope Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-236-4822 (ph)
617-236-4766 (fax)
scott at productstewardship.us<mailto:scott at productstewardship.us>
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