Email Vote

The Advocacy Team email vote that ended on Sunday, September 18th at Midnight was approved. All NAB members should make the Advocacy Team applications and outlines avaiable to their regions.
Val Krumm

September 13, 2005 NAB Meeting

NAB Meeting

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Patrick Voorhies (Southern Region President) called the sixth meeting of the 2005-2006 NAB board to order at 8:10 PM (CST) over a teleconference. NAB Board members that weren’t present for the meeting were Sommer McConihay (Northeastern Region President) and Shane Sheridan (Western Region President) who was replaced by Steven Worker from University of California – Davis. Sarah Leidheiser (Conference Coordinator), Justin Bolte (North Central Region President and NAB Chair), and Derrick Goebel (NAB Business Manager) joined the meeting while it was in progress. Byron Garrett from USDA also attended the meeting.

The secretary’s report was the first item of business. Voorhies moved to approve the minutes as posted on the NAB blog and Kyle Fogt (Conference Coordinator) seconded; motion passed.

Next, David Hartley (Reference Liaison) gave an update on the Task Force. A couple of weeks previous to the NAB meeting the Task Force met. The group went through the guide that they are planning on sending to all of the regional conferences for their listening sessions. Hartley also explained that the Task Force has set up a website and a message board. The Task Force is hoping for a lot of discussion on the message board. As an incentive for discussing on the board the Task Force will be giving away an ipod shuffle. The Task Force is also planning on giving away random prizes. The message board is located at: www.ca4h.org/collegiate4h/bb. The Task Force is also setting up a website at www.collegiate4h.org. Both Hartley and Voorhies said that the Task Force meetings are going well, but they are still minus one Western Region member. The next Task Force meeting will be October 2^nd.

Voorhies let the group know that he is setting up a mailing list of all the Collegiate 4-H clubs across the nation. So far there are 69 clubs; this number is not including the Western Region which he is still adding to the list.

Next, Fogt informed the group that National Conference proposals for workshops are available online. They will be due October 14^th. He also said that registrations should on the National Conference website around regional conference times. The 2006 National Collegiate 4-H Conference in Columbus, Ohio’s website is located at: http://ca4h.org/collegiate4h/columbus/.

There were no Web Team applications turned in at the time of the meeting according to Voorhies. He did comment that a couple of individuals had asked some questions about the team. Fogt suggested that hard copies of the applications be available at all of the regional conference. Discussion then started about moving the due date back if not many applicants had sent in their forms by the due date of September 15^th. Voorhies moved that if there are less than four applicants by September 15^th that the due date will be moved to November 1^st. Then the team will be announced shortly after by November 6^th. Fogt seconded. The motion was approved. Worker made note that his vote was an extension. Next discussed concerning the Web Team was who was going to be the NAB liaison. Fogt nominated Voorhies to be the NAB liaison for the Web Team; Voorhies accepted.

The next item of business was the Advocacy Team. Sheridan told Worker and Bolte that the application and guidelines that were sent out earlier to NAB were good. These applications will be sent out for approval. The group then discussed due dates for applications. A deadline of November 1^st will be set for the Advocacy Team applications pending on the vote of approval of applications by NAB. Voorhies moved that there would be an email vote to be sent to Val Krumm (NAB Secretary) by Sunday, September 18^th at Midnight to accept the Advocacy Team applications and outlines; Fogt seconded. Motion was approved. The Advocacy Team will use the same structure as the Web Team and Krumm will be the NAB liaison.

Goebel then joined the meeting and gave the Business Manager report. Currently NAB has $1500 in their account. It was passed that the money asked by the Task Force for their budget be given to them.

Fogt informed the group that Oct 29 – Nov 4 the NAE4-HA Conference (National Association of Extension 4-H Agents) will be held in Seattle, Washington. He talked about the conference and also said that he thought that the conference would be a good way to promote Collegiate 4-H. Fogt is planning on being at the conference and said he’d be willing to set up a booth. He is planning on emailing Cathann Kress to see if he can get a booth set up and to see if he can get some handouts for the booth.

Hartley made a recommendation to NAB to make sure that there would be some kind of orientation to tell what USDA and Collegiate 4-H can do together. Garrett is new to the program and Hartley thought it’d be a good idea to have an USDA employee assigned to the Collegiate 4-H organization. Bolte said he’d get in touch and follow up with Garrett. There were a couple other USDA employee names that were brought up also to be talked to about becoming a national advisor.

The next NAB meeting will be Thursday, October 13^th at 8PM CST via teleconference.

There is a new listserv for NAB. It is: c4hnab05@googlegroups.com.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:30PM CST.

Respectfully Submitted,

Val Krumm

NAB Secretary

August 25, 2005 NAB Meeting

NAB Meeting

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Justin Bolte (North Central Region President and NAB Chair) called the fifth meeting of the 2005-2006 NAB board to order at 9:10 PM (CST) over a teleconference. NAB Board members that weren’t present for the meeting were David Hartley (Reference Liaison), Derrick Goebel (NAB Business Manager) and Sommer McConihay (Northeastern Region President).. The task force made an outline of items of business they’d like to accomplish for the year. One of those items is to have regional listening sessions. At these listening sessions at least one Task Force member will be present. The Task Force is currently working on questions for the sessions. All notes from each region’s listening session will be given to the Task Force.

The Task Force also worked on a budget to be worked on through NAB. The Task Force
is requesting $241 from NAB for materials such as announcements and a message board website. The message board will be set up on the Task Force’s website at http://c4htaskforce.blogspot.com. The Task Force also recommended that NAB hold a new member and delegate voting session held 23 hours in advance before the business meeting that would last around an hour and a half. This would let those delegates voting know what will be addressed at the meeting as well as let new members learn what goes on and how a national business meeting is done. Kyle Fogt (Conference Coordinator) thought this would be a good idea to incorporate into the regional meetings, that way the region can address the issues together. Bolte suggested that the regions should be given agendas for the Task Force events and issues for regional conferences.

The first item of old business was over the Advocacy Team. Shane Sheridan (Western Region President) said that applications will be made available soon. An email vote will be conducted to approve the application.

Next, Fogt discussed N4-HYDC. He went over the sheet he sent out earlier to all NAB members. There will be issues of youth and governance discussed for two of the four workshops that National Conference delegates will attend. There will be professionals from Ohio that will be aiding to the workshops. Also, Fogt informed NAB members that on the National Conference website (www.columbus2006.org) there are proposals that Collegiate 4-H members can complete for presenting a workshop at conference. Proposals are due October 14^th.

Voorhies next talked about club establishment. He will graph out an email which will be sent to all clubs explaining how all clubs will be asked to fill out papers as if they were new clubs. Voorhies will work on this email with Goebel.

The next item of business discussed was the Web Team. Voorhies has not received any applications yet. Web Team applications are due September 15^th. All NAB members are to let their regions know of this opportunity along with the Advocacy Team. If there are not many applications turned in by the initial date, the date may be extended along with the Advocacy Team due date.

To finish up old business, Sheridan moved to approve the Task Force funds; Voorhies second. Motion was approved.

The first item of new business was Fogt informing NAB that the National Conference website is up. The Ohio State University conference planning committee will keep updates on it frequently. The website is www.columbus2006.org.

Next, Regional Conference dates were announced. Bolte said that the North Central Regional Conference will be hosted by Kansas State University October 14^th – 16^th, and the cost is at $85. Sheridan said that the Western Regional Conference will be hosted by Colorado State University October 20^th – 23^rd, and the cost is at $130. Voorhies said that the Southern Regional Conference will be hosted by Oklahoma State University November 17^th – 20^th and he knew that the Northeastern Regional Conference will be hosted by Cornell University.

The next NAB meeting will be Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 8PM (CST) through the same teleconference number used for this meeting. Any NAB members that need to be, will be, reimbursed for long distance purchases.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:50PM (CST).

Respectfully Submitted,

Val Krumm

NAB Secretary