NAB Meeting
Patrick Voorhies (Southern Region President) called the fourth meeting of the 2005-2006 NAB board to order at
The first item of business was officer reports. Sommer McConihay (Northeastern Region President) and Voorhies each talked about state conference taking place in their regions. Voorhies and Ephgrave also informed the group about the Southern Regional Conference which is being hosted by
The next item of business was the secretary’s minutes. Krumm moved to approve the minutes as posted on the NAB blog; McConihay seconded. Motion passed.
Old business consisted of a Web Team update from Voorhies. So far Voorhies has not received any applications. Voorhies has worked on having an article to be posted about the team on the USDA website. Applications are posted on the NAB blog at http://collegiate4hnab.com/ and at http://www.geocities.com/src4h/webteam. The application deadline for the Web Team is
New business started with discussion of the Advocacy Team. Ephgrave and Sheridan have been working on the application. Ephgrave said that she planned on sending out the application within the week. She explained that the set up is very similar to the Web Team. The similar structure and format between the two is because it had been said that the teams needed to be equal and the teams should mirror each other. Ephgrave had a few questions to the board about the discussion of portfolio material which was brought up at the June meeting. Discussion was made that portfolio material is not required but is highly looked upon. Ephgrave will send out the Advocacy Team application to all NAB members and then there will be an approval vote through email. Applications will be due on
Voorhies then reminded Fogt that there should be a couple of hours set aside in the National Conference schedule for interviews. Then talk flowed into orientation meetings for both teams. Ephgrave suggested that orientation meetings for the Web and Advocacy Teams should be later in the night of announcement of the teams or the next morning. All NAB members thought having an orientation meeting was an important item to fit in the schedule. Fogt brought up the idea that meetings could be held at the same time with new and old NAB liaisons at the meetings and then to have the new NAB orientation meeting a half hour or so afterwards.
New business continued with Fogt talking about partnering with N4-HYDC. Fogt said that N4-HYDC is a leadership group of 4-H and he thinks it would be a good opportunity for Collegiate 4-H to partner with the group. It would be a way to show what Collegiate 4-H is all about and it’d be a way to give back. Fogt brought up that he thought it’d be good to incorporate N4-HYDC at the National Conference through personal development workshops. Fogt will send out an information sheet through email to NAB. He would like NAB support on this idea of having workshops about personal development and club development.
Voorhies then brought up the national service project. The national service project is a service project which is completed at a National Conference every three years and then local clubs are suppose to incorporate the national service project with their community service for the next couple of years. The idea is not known very well. This years National Conference is the year of the national service project. Voorhies concluded by saying that the national service project could work with the partnering with N4-HYDC.
Next, Goebel gave the financial report. There is currently $1300 in the account; this is without an outstanding bill to Haley Cook (
The next item of business was a Task Force update from Voorhies. Voorhies said that Harley and he worked on a proposal which was sent out to the Task Force a couple days previous. Voorhies will send the proposal to NAB who can then reply back to him with ideas to give back to the Task Force.
The final item of business was on club establishment. Voorhies said that on the National website currently there is a set of guidelines for new clubs to follow to be recognized nationally. This was adopted at the Pittsburg National Conference in 2005. There are ten steps for clubs to follow in the first year and three the second year. He then asked if NAB wanted all clubs to now go through these steps because currently there are no records for present clubs. McConihay brought up the university name approval which was a heavily discussed issued at the past National Conference. She brought up that maybe clubs could get a letter of approval from their state extension offices if they did not have university approval. Discussion then moved on to how the NAB Business Manager will keep records. There was then an extensive discussion about the approved club establishment rules.
The next NAB meeting will be
McConihay moved to adjourn the meeting at
Respectfully Submitted,
Val Krumm
NAB Secretary
