**Interagency Committee on**

**Federal Advisory Committee Management**

**September 16, 2008**

**Held at the Legacy Hotel and Meeting Centre**

**Rockville, MD**

**Committee Management Office (CMO) Training Seminar -- Fall 2008**

**Agenda**

**[Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008]{.underline}**

8:30 -- 9:00 am **[Registration/Coffee]{.underline}**

9:00 -- 9:20 **[Welcome]{.underline}** Robert Flaak, GSA

-   Introductions

-   Seminar Materials

-   Seminar Administration

-   Seminar Overview and CMO Survey Results

9:20 -- 9:30 **[Interagency Committee on Federal Advisory
Committee]{.underline}**

> **[Management (IAC) -- Business Meeting]{.underline}**
>
> Robert Flaak

-   June 5, 2008 Meeting

-   FACA News Clips

-   Future IAC Meetings

-   FACA Management Training Course

9:30 - 10:30 **[Performance Measurement for Advisory
Committees]{.underline}**

\- Advisory Committee Engagement Survey (ACES) Robert Flaak

\- Measures with Meaning.... Tim Sherer & Khanna Johnston, EPA

\- Input from Seminar Participants

10:30 -- 10:45 **[Break]{.underline}**

10:45 -- 12:00 pm **[Managing Appointments]{.underline}** Robert Flaak

-   Committee Members

-   Chair and Vice-Chair

-   Committee Management Officer (CMO)

-   Designated Federal Officer (DFO)

-   Input from Seminar Participants

12:00 -- 1:15 **[Lunch (Buffet on-site)]{.underline}**

1:15 -- 2:50 **[Presidential Transition Topics (Panel)]{.underline}**

> \- [Introduction]{.underline} Robert Flaak, Director, Committee
> Management Secretariat, and Deputy Executive Director, Office of
> Policy Initiatives, GSA
>
> \- [Presidential Transition at GSA]{.underline} Neil Skidmore,
> Director, Office of Program Performance, Office of the Chief Human
> Capital Officer, and GSA's Internal Transition Team Leader
>
> \- [Transition at the Environmental Protection Agency
> (EPA)]{.underline}
>
> Tim Sherer, Associate Director, Officer of Cooperative Environmental
> Management, and EPA National Program Manager for FACA
>
> \- [Transition at the Department of Homeland Security
> (DHS)]{.underline} Georgia Abraham, Committee Management Officer, DHS

\- [FACA Program Guidance on Preparing]{.underline} Robert Flaak

> [for Advisory Committee Transition]{.underline}
>
> \- [Discussion/Q&A and Input from Seminar Participants]{.underline}

2:50 -- 3:00 **[Closing Comments/Evaluations]{.underline}** Robert Flaak

3:00 **[Adjourn]{.underline}**

**Minutes of Remarks by Mr. Robert Flaak, Director, Committee Management
Secretariat (CMS) General Services Administration given before the
Committee Management Officer (CMO) Training Seminar: 9:00 -- 9:30 a.m.**

The meeting was called to order at approximately 9:20 a.m. by Robert
Flaak, Director, Committee Management Secretariat (CMS). Mr. Flaak
explained that the Committee Management Officer (CMO) Training Seminar
is designed for CMOs and Designated Federal Officers (DFOs), and that
this seminar (held for the second time) is taking the place of the
regular quarterly Interagency Meeting (IAC Meeting) that is normally
held in September.

Mr. Flaak requested that everyone to look at the Interagency Committee
materials in their Seminar notebooks (Tab 3). He reminded the CMOs that
as emphasized in the June 5, 2008 Interagency Meeting, they should be
working on their Annual Comprehensive Review (ACR) data. This is
especially important this year. People are scrutinizing agencies' data,
with the transition almost upon us. Dr. Ken Fussell reported that Health
and Human Services (HHS) is largely completed, and it has a total of 256
committees. Mr. Flaak pointed out that this result shows that timely
completion is manageable for any agency. It is very important to get the
ACR's completed as soon as possible.

Mr. Flaak then asked everyone to look at the Interagency Committee on
Federal Advisory Committee Management (IAC) meetings handout and note
the dates. He added that the Secretariat is expecting retirements soon
and to anticipate openings on the CMS staff.

He reported that Maggie Weber has prepared formal consultation guidance
which includes a flow chart, and these materials will be available soon.
Mr. Flaak also added that Ms. Tabitha Dove will be the new Executive
Secretary for Interagency Committee on Federal Advisory Committee
Management starting in December 2008.

He suggested that everyone look at the Federal Advisory Committee Act
Training handout and note that the December course is already full with
the March course filling up quickly. Thirty-one 31 people are enrolled
in the March session. He reminded the attendees that the package
includes the FACA news clips, adding that FACA is always in the news. He
also mentioned that after the election he expected to start weekly
transition conference calls, which the FACA community has found
supportive to the transition process in the past.

He concluded the meeting by reminding everyone that the next IAC meeting
will be held on December 11, 2008. He noted that when we gathered for
that event, the 2010 FACA Conference would be only a year away, in FACA
time just over the horizon.

**Action Item:**

Agencies should continue to enter in their ACR data in order to meet the
deadline of November 28, 2008. We all want to avoid being noncompliant
with FACA reporting requirements.

**Handouts:**

1.  FY 2008/2009 Schedule of Interagency Meetings

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1.  FACA Training Dates

2.  FACA News Clips

**List of Attendees**

[Name]{.underline} [Agency]{.underline}

1\. Karen Akins ED

2\. Susanne Bolton NSF

3 Bonnie Cambell HHS -AHRQ

4\. Nalini Close DOL

5\. Carmen Colston HHS-AHRQ

6\. Debbie Connors GSA

7\. James Dean GSA

8\. Tabitha Dove GSA

9\. Vicki Ellis EPA

10\. Robert Flaak GSA

11\. Sharon Freas-Winkler HHS-CMS

12\. Jim Freeman DOD

13\. Victoria Fresenko DHS

14\. Ken Fussell GSA

15\. Deborah Grant-McCannon HHS

16\. Theresa Green HHA-FDA

17\. Lisa Hough DOT

18\. Tonya James TREAS

19\. Khanna Johnston EPA

20\. Phyllis Jordan DOS

21\. Lori Kowalski EPA

22\. Donald Malinowski HHS

23\. Elizabeth Millington HHS-CDC

24\. Olga Nelson HHS

25\. Joanne Paskar USAID

26\. Wendy Payne FASAB

27\. Kathy Plowitz-Worden NEA

28\. Diane Rausch NASA

29\. Carly Richmond HHS-CMS

30\. MacKenzie Robertson HHS

31\. Rachel Samuel DOE

32\. Angel Saumure TREAS

33\. Leigh Sawyer HHS

34\. Tim Sherer EPA

35\. Julianne Shinnick DOS

36\. Neil Skidmore GSA

37\. Anna Snouffer HHS-NIH

38\. Jennifer Spaeth HHS-NIH

39\. Judith Sparrow HHS

40\. Katherine Stanley NWBC

41\. Carolyn Stevens HHS

42\. Lela Vandecar GSA

43\. Maggie Weber GSA

44\. Karen Wheeless FCC

45\. Frank Wilson DOD