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About ReSource St. Louis
ReSource St. Louis Board Members
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Sara Graham
ReSource St. Louis
President
314-754-3989
sgraham@resourcestlouis.org
As the Sustainable Knowledge Manager at HOK, Ms. Graham promotes the use of sustainable design practices in all HOK projects. She leads project teams on LEED reviews and performs LEED documentation. She also conducts research on sustainable design strategies and materials. She assists architectural staff in preparing for the LEED exam and conducts in-house presentations and training. She is a LEED Accredited Professional.
John Prater
ReSource St. Louis
Treasurer
314-512-2114
jprater@resourcestlouis.org
John Prater has served as Director of Facilities for Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company of St. Louis, MO since 1999. Prior to that, he was Enterprise Corporate Purchasing Manager, and National Reservations Department manager. His business background includes senior management positions with Insty-Prints, Inc., IPC Independent Printing Centers, National Car Rental Systems, and International Dairy Queen Corporation. John retired from Enterprise Rent-A-Car on December 31st, 2007, and lives in Lake St. Louis, MO.
Kathy Schweitzer
ReSource St. Louis
Secretary
314-574-4582
kschweitzer@resourcestlouis.org
Kathleen's broad and diverse experiences range from telecommunications to real estate to non-profit management with Habitat for Humanity, where she founded the Habitat ReStore. She currently volunteers with the Better Business Bureau, MO DNR Grant Committee, Choices Federal Credit Union and the Marianist Retreat Center.
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Matt Belcher
ReSource St. Louis
Board Member
636.227.4473
matt@belcherhomes.com
Matt Belcher is an experienced, award winning-builder and nationally-recognized consultant on the subject of green building. He has been actively involved in the St. Louis area residential construction industry for nearly three decades, including six years as a top building code official in the St. Louis region. He founded Belcher Homes in 1993, specializing in building sustainable homes and light commercial construction using low-impact, ecological development. Belcher has also lent his expertise to lobby for green building legislation.
Lee Fox
ReSource St. Louis
Board Member
314-606-2800
lee@foxgroup.org
Mr. Fox is principal of The Fox Group, an environmental communications firm in St. Louis. He was director of environmental business development for the University of Missouri, where he headed up the Missouri Buy Recycled Initiative. Mr. Fox has also worked with the City of St. Louis to develop a pilot curbside recycling program and with the St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District to implement a comprehensive waste reduction and recycling program for area businesses. He served as past president of the Missouri Recycling Association and chairman of the St. Louis County Waste Commission.
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David Bertorelli
ReSource St. Louis Past-President 314-512-2458 dbertorelli@resourcestlouis.orgDavid Bertorelli is the Director of Space Planning and Design for Enterprise Rent-A-Car and is responsible for strategic planning, design, and construction for its headquarters buildings in St. Louis, Missouri. David is leading the company’s effort in implementing environmentally responsible design and construction for its built environment. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and a member of the USGBC. In 2003 he founded ReSource St. Louis and is currently the Past-President.  Randy McLarenReSource St. Louis Board Member 314-275-7400 rmclaren@resourcestlouis.orgRandy McLaren has over 20 years of experience in interior construction. He has worked with Landco Construction for 5 years as its Senior Project Manager and holds superior skills in installing drywall, acoustic ceilings, metal door frames, doors, and hardware. He was named Project Manager of Year in 2001 by the American Subcontractor’s Association.  Bill Seffens
ReSource St. Louis Board Member 314-615-8915 wseffens@resourcestlouis.orgBill Seffens is a Certified Solid Waste Technician and has been a waste management specialist with Saint Louis County Department of Health Solid Waste Management Program since June 2000. His areas of interest include construction and demolition waste management and organic waste management. His primary objective is to further reuse and recycling alternatives and divert these resources from area landfills. He manages the municipal grant program and the demolition waste disposal program for County, as well.  Pat Justis
ReSource St. Louis Board Member 314-554-4301 pjustis@resourcestlouis.org
Pat Justis is the Senior Program Manager - Business for Missouri Energy at AmerenUE and manages the company’s aggressive commercial and industrial energy efficiency portfolio. He is a founding member and is currently chair of the USGBC – St. Louis Regional Chapter. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Missouri and is a Certified Energy Manager.
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ReSource St. Louis History
In the Spring of 2003, a ceiling tile recycling presentation by Armstrong World Industries inspired David Bertorelli and John Prater of ERAC (Enterprise Rent-A-Car) to consider partnering with other corporations, business owners and organizations to achieve the minimum standards to recover ceiling tiles. Shortly after the presentation they invited a small group of facility managers, engineers and architects to gather at Enterprise Rent-A-Car to discuss how to enhance recycling efforts and materials reuse in the St. Louis Region. From that initial meeting, and through strong support from the local IFMA (International Facilities Management Association) chapter, a group was formed with the intent of reducing the amount of construction and demolition "waste" ending up in local landfills. With the large number of major corporate headquarters located in the bi-state St. Louis region, each challenged with being good corporate citizens and improving their surrounding communities, leverage was built which allowed each to work with partnered manufacturers to consolidate, recycle, and often share construction materials. Most of the efforts of the group to reuse and recycle materials were through a cumbersome e-mail list-serv. Additionally, at times it became necessary to have participants in the program store items off-site at the expense of other participants. Finally it was decided that a website would be the most efficient and effective mechanism for getting materials reused or recycled.
Through a generous grant from the St. Louis-Jefferson County Solid Waste District, this group, now incorporated as St. Louis Sustainable Buildings, created this website to provide, not only an online materials exchange, but also resource for the region about sustainable practices for the built environment that includes information on energy, clean air and water and other sustainable building practices.
During the process of creating the website and branding the organization, the Executive Board unanimously agreed to change the name of the group to ReSource St. Louis. Further decisions were made to establish that the organization would become largely web based and provide most of the primary services to its internal and external customers through that medium.
ReSource St. Louis members have grown to be a very committed and resourceful organization that spans private and public, profit and non-profit, and large and small company sectors. Many complementary organizations look to the SLSBC for reuse and recycling information. While providing a true example of the positive things that can happen when the private and public sector work in concert, we hope you find the site to be a useful and valuable resource.
Ethics The Executive Board of ReSource St. Louis wants all of the organization’s actions and information to be as true and accurate as possible. The Board is committed to assuring the integrity of the materials posted and that participants are honest and fair. Unless the integrity of the organization and the site is well established and maintained as positive, it will not be successful. Serious repercussions will occur in the event that anyone jeopardizes the integrity of the website or ReSource St. Louis’ programs and information.
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