Location: Upper Sayles
Time: 8:30 am
Present Mihaela Czobor-Lupp, Danette DeMann, Ellen Farnham, Fadi Hakim, Sara Hooker, Kristen Vellinger
Absent Chris Clark, Joe Concannon, Daniel Groll, Forrest McKnight, Fred Rogers, Iris Wang
Secretary: Claire Milsted
Handouts
Kristen handed out two documents: A summary list of proxies and a compilation of the full texts of the proxies.
These lists are sorted into categories, and then the basically-identical resolutions within each category are grouped together.
Case Law System
Some of the resolutions on our list have shown up before, and received “yes” votes from the trustees. We will address these precedents in our meeting with the trustees. We will also discuss the possibility of implementing a formal system with the trustees.
Resolutions discussed
We discussed the resolutions on the first part of the list. We agreed to look further into the following resolutions, so we assigned them to various members of CRIC:
-Adopt GHG Reduction Goals (Report): ExxonMobil.
-Hydraulic Fracturing (Community Impacts): EOG Resources and ExxonMobil. Sara will look into this.
-Report on BPA Use: Coca-Cola. Ellen will look into this.
-Fadi and Mihaela will look into the resolutions dealing with political contributions. We have “Lobbying Expenditures Disclosures” resolutions from 3M, Altria, Coca-Cola, CVS Caremark, IBM, and PepsiCo. We have a separate, but very similar, Political Contributions resolution from CVS Caremark which asks for a semiannual report as opposed to an annual one, among other small differences. Finally, there are resolutions dealing with political contributions through trade associations at IBM and PepsiCo. Fadi and Mihaela will confer on Sunday.
We aim to have our work sent in by Tuesday, then we will refine it at next week’s meeting.