From: Richard Parker [mailto:richardparkerdc@gmail.com] 

Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:05 PM 

To: Jerry Hodge 

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thomas.patzner@us.schneider-electric.com 

Subject: Re: Distribution Transformers Committee Meeting Budget 

Hi all, 

Thanks for your responses to Caitlin's email. We are looking are various meeting scheduling and 

funding options and will be in touch with you shortly, hopefully tomorrow, once we have fuller 

information about the various options. 

I will also circulate a draft agenda tomorrow so please stay tuned. 

See you on Thursday. 

All best, 

Richard Parker 

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Jerry Hodge <jhodge@howard-ind.com> wrote: 

Caitlin:

 

In reading the responses of other committee members concerning this meeting room 

issue, it does seem like DOE should have had a plan to provide meeting rooms for this 

important DOE transformer committee to meet and make decisions. However, we don't 

want this issue to hinder or delay our important mission of setting efficiency standards. 

We will pay our pro-rated share of the cost to insure that this committee has a place to 

meet and make the necessary decisions in a timely manner. 

 

Sincerely;

Jerry

 

Jerry Hodge 

Consulting Engineer, E.E., M.S., P.E. 
Retired V.P. & G.M. of Pole Type Transformer & Regulator Div. 

Howard Industries Inc. 

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Cc: Richard Parker 

Subject: Distribution Transformers Committee Meeting Budget 

Dear Distribution Transformer Stakeholders, 

 

My name is Caitlin Johnson and I have been working with Richard Parker at Navigant 

Consulting to help organize the series of meetings that you will be attending as part of the 

upcoming negotiated rulemakings on distribution transformers. As you know, the first meetings 

are going to be held this month (later this week for the MV group, and towards the end of the 

month for the LV group). I am currently working on finding appropriate times and locations for 

the remainder of the meetings. Although we were able to book space with DOE for many of 
them, there are still a few dates for which we have not been able to reserve space in DOE, so we 

have been searching for outside facilities instead. 

 

One of the spaces that is available to us on one of our necessary dates, Nov. 9-11th, is the 

conference center at Pew Charitable Trust in downtown DC. I have drawn up a tentative budget, 

attached to this email, for booking the Center. The budget breaks down the tentative price by 

organization, based on which committees they participate in and how many people they are 

sending. It also includes a potential pro-rated price, in which the cost for nonprofit organizations 

is halved (though, of course, all of this can be negotiated). 

 

Please let me know what you think of this budget and whether it seems appropriate, because we 

need to book a space for this meeting as soon as possible. Additionally, if you know of any other 

spaces that may be available to us (either for this date, Nov. 9-11th, or some date in early 

December), please let me know! We would be eager to hear your suggestions! 

 

Best, 

Caitlin Johnson 

 

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