IEP board members:

IEP is aggressively moving to refine its political and Public Relations 
program for this fall and next year.? IEP must continue to be a leader in 
developing workable solutions for California's energy crisis.? To do this we 
must continue to formulate solutions and then effectively communicate to 
policy leaders.? There will be a two-day meeting on September 28-29 to 
develop IEP's positions and communication plans.

The first meeting will be a?policy development meeting.? Persons attending 
this meeting should be able to articulate your company's position on 
solutions and issues as they are discussed.? If your company has position 
papers available please provide those to Katie Kaplan (Kaplan@iepa.com) for 
distribution.? The goal of this meeting is to agree on IEP's suggested 
solutions to California,s problems and to develop answers to potential 
allegations from ongoing investigations.

The second meeting will be with pr/political representatives of your company. 
They will develop a communications and political plan based on?the solutions 
and positions developed by the policy group.? Please send to this meeting 
those individuals who will be the contact person for public relations efforts 
and be able to commit the company on the short notice, often required by PR 
events.? Also send your Government relation,s spokesperson or your Sacramento 
lobbyist who is ready to develop and implement a political plan.

It might be helpful if your internal PR/Government relation,s person attends 
both meetings. 

Please identify PR and political professionals from your company that will be 
available to contribute to this effort; it is crucial that the decision 
makers attend the meeting in order for the message to move forward in an 
aggressive fashion.

The first meeting will be September 28-29 at the IEP offices in Sacramento. 
Thursday September 28th, will be the Policy Development Meeting followed by a 
working dinner with the Political/PR Group.? Friday morning the Political/PR 
Group will continue discussions and conclude around noon. ? 


Please reply with the name, e-mail and phone number if each person and which 
group they will be participating in, no later than Thursday, September 20. 
Materials, agenda and further information will be forthcoming next week.

Please let me know if you have any questions.


Thank you in advance for your attention to this important matter.


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Katie Kaplan

Manager of Policy

Independent Energy Producers Association

(916) 448-9499

kaplan@iepa.com

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