Policy Council Meeting
Sunday, July 20th at 1 PM, in Park Suite, Roosevelt Hotel

1. Opening
    Recognition of the call for the meeting
2. Announcements
3. Recognition of the Minutes from the Boston Winter PC Meeting
4. Budget proposal and implications.
    Budget proposal and a statement on implications by David Andersen (including 9 attachments).
5. Conference Site Selection for 2005 and other conference related issues.
   • Site proposal selection policies by George Richardson and Bob Eberlein.
     • SD conference format and location
   • Conference design policy by Bob Eberlein.
   • Site proposals for 2005 by Jim Lyneis and Bob Eberlein.
   • Program Chair selection policy by George Richardson.
6. Splitting the responsibilities for VP Publications and Chair of the Awards Committee.
    Proposal by the current holder of these two offices, John Morecroft.
7. A Business Award and Committee
    Proposal by Alan Graham
8. The Free Subscription Offer from Wiley
   Proposal by Pål I. Davidsen:

   In the last PC meeting, a number of responses were recommended to the offer by Wiley to offer free copies of SDR to system dynamicists who could not afford paying for membership. I propose as follows:

   1. I will announce the offer from Wiley at the Sunday PC meeting. I will ask members of the PC meeting to nominate candidates, names and addresses, of the people they nominate and a very brief description of why they nominate a specific person. Any member may nominate several candidates.
   2. I will propose an ad. hoc committee headed by Bob Cavana to select the people that, in their opinion, should receive the gift.
   3. We will execute the decision one way or another, - possibly by asking one of our sponsors to finance the mailing of those issues.

9. Reports from VPs and Editor
   All reports will be short and on the web ahead of the conference. The reports will not be presented in the meeting and PC members are expected to have read the reports prior to the meeting. Those who report will entertain questions from the PC:
   • Executive Director Roberta Spencer on Home Office & PC issues;
   • VP Meetings James Lyneis;
   • VP Publications John Morecroft;
   • VP Chapters and Members Ginny Wiley;
   • SDR Editor Brian Dangerfield;
   • Publisher Wiley's Report
10. Reports from Chapter Representatives
• Japanese Chapter Report
11. Analysis of Home Office Activities
    A model of the Home Office and its Policy Implications by David Peterson & Kevin O'Neill
12. Report on Environmental SIG
    The report and proposal will be short and on the web ahead of the conference. Anastassios Perdicoulis will entertain questions in the PC
    Environmental SIG by Anastassios Perdicoulis;
    • Environmental Dynamics / Sustainable Development Award Proposal
    • Publication partnership (skip to page 2).
    • Annual Report
13. Web Committee
    Proposal by Pål I. Davidsen (after discussion with potential members at the conference).
14. VP Mandates Committee
    Proposal by Pål I. Davidsen (after discussion with potential members at the conference).
15. New Discussion Items
    • Proposal regarding Dana Meadows Prize by Yaman Barlas