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