October 2008 Meeting

NAB Meeting

10/12/08

I. Call to Order – 9:04pm EST (6:04pm PT, 7:04pm MT, 8:04pm CT)

II. Roll Call

a. Northeast – Lisa Richardson, Alyssa Ross

b. North Central –Beth Neil and Beth Fawcett (Conference Liaisons); Mike Razim (Advocacy)

c. West – Absent

d. South – Casey East

e. Secretary – Absent

f. Business Manager – Ashley Buford

g. Ag Consortium Liaison – Absent

h. Advisor – Brenda Allen

i. Absent – Crystal Schauer (Ag Consort, Western), Nocona Canady (Secretary, Southern), Amy Redman and Jessica Falkenthal (North Central), April Mendenhall and Autumn Sheridan (Western)

III. Reading of the Minutes

a. Will be approved at the next meeting, along with the approval of these meetings minutes.

IV. Business Manager’s Report

a. Received notebook from Jasmine

b. Emailed Casey statements from the last couple of years.

c. Reimbursed Jess Falkenthal, $10.19, for domain renewal

d. Sending an updated statement to Sam

e. No budget prepared for this year yet, potential budget will be put together for the next NAB meeting.

f. $500 check sent directly to Colorado State University; $200 check for Minnesota will come directly from Colorado State

V. Committee Reports

a. Crystal contacted Eddie, we haven’t heard back from him yet

i. Once we hear, we will know how to structure our committees

b. Communication and Member Education

i. Workshops!!

ii. Proposals need to be re-sent to regions so that we can have proposals for conference, there is no specific theme

1. There are 3 time slot with 5 workshops per slot. Minimum of 5 workshops and a Maximum of 15

2. DUE OCTOBER 27th

iii. Perhaps some regions can use workshops from Regionals for Nationals

iv. Autumn and CSU, Casey’s groups and Rutgers putting one together

v. Extension personnel CAN do workshops

c. Service

i. National Day of Service

1. National Youth Science Day

2. List of ideas for national 4-h day promotions emailed to regions

d. Advocacy/Web Team

i. Draft of newsletter sent out by next week

ii. Emails about National Day of Service

iii. Web Team was reimbursed for domain renewal

e. Ag Consortium

i. Conference coming up at the end of the year

VI. Old Business

a. Regional Updates

i. Northeast

1. National Day of Service day, new service, members participated (Rutgers as well at Maryland)

2. Speaker coming to Rutgers for OMK

3. Conference going well, planned for the first week in December

a. Information sent our next week

ii. North Central

1. Registration is going well

a. Conference is November 14^th – November 16th

iii. West – N/A

iv. South

1. Conference is November 14^th – November 16^th

a. Everything is going well

b. Conference update

i. Registration is $295 , $30 more for late registrations

ii. Alumni rate is not know yet, ~ $20 more

iii. RCIS sent some funding, maybe on the way

1. $2500 donation

2. Casey will give an email address for Minnesota to contact them

iv. Service project planned and tours almost all sorted out

v. Only waiting on workshops

vi. Welcome bag items needed

1. Mention at your Regional Conferences

vii. Due Dec 13^th, late registration is Jan 5^th

VII. Next Meeting – November 1st

a. Time to be announced, decided by Poll

VIII. Adjournment - 9:35pm EST (6:35pm PT, 7:35pm MT, 8:35pm CT)