Greetings:

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Thanks for the responses I have received regarding the IEP policy/PR meeting. 
?Unfortunately, we must change the dates of the meeting due to a few 
scheduling conflicts including the NCPA Annual Meeting. The new dates are 
Monday, October 2 and Tuesday, October 3.? 

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Please respond with the names of who will be attending no later than Friday 
September 22. 

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Let me know if you have any questions, I apologize for any inconvenience that 
this may of caused for you or your companies.

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Thanks,

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Katie Kaplan

Manager of Policy

Independent Energy Producers Association

(916) 448-9499

kaplan@iepa.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: Katie Kaplan [mailto:kaplan@iepa.com]
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 3:57 PM
To: Stephanie Newell (E-mail); Sandi McCubbin (E-mail); Curtis Kebler; Dave 
Parquet; Eileen Koch; Frank DeRosa; Greg Blue; Jim Willey; Kent Fickett; Lynn 
Lednicky; Randy Hickok; Rob Lamkin; Scott Noll; Susan J Mara; Trond 
Aschehoug; Jeff Dasovich; Bill Carlson; Bill Woods; Bob Escalante; Carolyn 
Baker; Cody Carter; Curt Hatton; Dean Gosselin; Doug Levitt; Duane Nelsen; Ed 
Maddox; Ed Tomeo; Frank Misseldine; Hap Boyd; Jack Pigott; Joe Greco; Joe 
Ronan; Jonathan Weisgall; Ken Hoffman; Marty McFadden; Milton Schultz; Paula 
Soos; Pete Levitt; Robert Frees; Roger Pelote; Steve Iliff; Steve Ponder; Ted 
Cortopassi; Tom Heller; Tony Wetzel; Ward Scobee; William Hall
Cc: Julee Malinowski-Ball; Jan Smutny-Jones; Steven Kelly; Kelli Norton 
[knorton@mcnallytemple.com]; Ray McNally; Karen Edson
Subject: Message on Behalf of Jan Smutny-Jones
Importance: High

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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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