The following is being sent on behalf of Yvonne Lawley:

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We have made great progress towards our goals of preparing the seed storage and processing rooms for the anticipated March 31st closure. Thanks to many for making time to complete the needed activities in the seed storage, processing, and drying room spaces by our target dates (list below).

Our plan has a list of final activities that will need to take place the last week of March and will require a group of people to work together. The Point Transitions committee met this week and we believe that most of these activities could get done in one day if the preparatory work has been completed and we have a team of 8 people. Please mark your calendars for Tuesday March 26th at 9 am and plan to have at least one member from each lab group that works at the Point participate. We will start with a brief planning meeting in the Point coffee room to get organized into teams for specific tasks and to coordinate our efforts for the day.

Yvonne Lawley

Action Items to Prepare for March 31 facility closure

By March 15

* Remove all seed and containers from the blue and orange metal shelving units in the seed storage room

By March 22

* Techs from each program to pull out samples and seed bins from seed storage and drying area and move into SeaCan or Glenlea storage. * Large storage containers from drying room moved to processing room or seed storage area. * Finish sample processing and bag cleaning so that equipment can be moved * Created an inventory list of processing equipment and place labels on equipment

By March 31

* Equipment on wheels moved to designated area within processing room. * Heavy equipment that is hard to move is moved into the drying room * Blue and orange metal shelving units will be dismantled with components stored in the seed storage building near the overhead door. *

-- Dr. Yvonne Lawley Associate Professor of Agronomy and Cropping Systems Department of Plant Science University of Manitoba

222 Agriculture Building 66 Dafoe Rd Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 (Tel) 204-474-6504 (Fax) 204-474-7528 yvonne_lawley@umanitoba.ca