National Business Meeting 2009 Minutes

National Business Meeting 2009 Minutes

1) The 2009 National Collegiate 4-H business meeting was called to order at 5:23 PM (CT) on February 21, 2009 by Casey East (Southern Region President and NAB Chair).
2) The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance and 4-H pledge.
a) United States Pledge led by Charlotte Jackson
b) 4-H Pledge led by Autumn Sheridan
3) Roll call by Ashley Buford
4) Reading of the past year’s minutes by Lisa D. Richardson
a) Casey Broils (?)- Move to accept the minutes to accept the minutes
i) Kylee Grant (Kansas State University) seconded
ii) Motion passed unanimously
5) Business Manager’s Report – Ashley Buford
a) Beginning $2,670.40
b) Ending $3, 691.81
c) 2009 Dues - $1070.00
d) Budget added to the website so that all of those interested can view them.
i) Discussed in detail
e) Allen Nasworthy UGA - moved to accept as read
i) Keith Carrell – Purdue seconded
ii) Report unable to be placed on the screen at current moment
iii) Autumn Sheridan(CSU) moved to table the report to the end of meeting
(1) Kelly Jo (Mizzou) seconded
(2) Motion passed unanimously
6) Old Business
a) Committee Reports
i) Partnerships – Jessica Falkenthal (North Central Region 1st Year)
(1) NAE-4HA
(2) Discussed committee in detail
(a) Our relationship with National 4-H Headquarters (Charter Status, Further Establishments, Strategic Plan)
ii) Organizational Affairs – April Mendenhall (Western Region 2nd Year Representative)
(1) NAB Handbook
(2) Section of Strategic Plan has been completed
iii) Diversity – Lisa Richardson
iv) Communication and Membership Education – Crystal Schauer (Ag Consort)
(1) Updated the website
(2) Workshops for National Conference for NAB to be involved and to take some stress off of the Planning Committees
(a) Things you can take back to your own clubs
(3) 4-H related services project
(4) Follows National 4-H Headquarter Mandates
v) Service – Casey East (Southern Region President, NAB Chair)
(1) Discussion of the National Service projects as mandated by last year’s meeting
(2) Many of our clubs have begun to do this on a school and state level
vi) Advocacy – Melanie Skaggs (2nd yeah interim president Southern)
(1) Promotion during National 4-H Week
(2) Club of the Month feature created on the website; two clubs chosen per month
(a) Recognizes clubs for being active
(b) Lets other clubs know what you are up to
(i) Will lead to further communication between groups and sprouting of new ideas.
vii) Web Team – Jessica Falkenthal (North Central Region 1st Year)
(1) Website being update
(2) More than 1500 new users every month, more than national collegiate 4-H membership
viii) Ag Consortium – Crystal Schauer
(1) Attended the two board meetings sponsored by AG Consort
(a) Davenport, IA by John Deere - August
(b) Twin Cities by CHS - January
(2) Board meeting spoke about the website
(a) Made up of all of the Collegiate Agricultural Organizations that are on a campus
(b) Done to give students first access to internships and jobs
(c) Workshops that the Consort has founded available on the website
(i) Written for you with activities and times
b) Current National Service Projects – Melanie Skaggs, Southern Region 2nd Year
i) OMK
(1) Hero Packs
(2) Ben Brown moves to continue to support OMK as a National 4-H Project
(a) David Moss Seconded
(b) Heather Williams moved to have discussion about OMK
(c) Allen Nasworthy seconded
(d) Friendly Amendment made by Heather Williams to change the name.
(i) Ben Brown Accepts the Friendly amendment to his motion to change the name to Speak Out For Military Kids and continue as a national service project
1. Allen Nasworthy seconded
2. Motion passed unanimously
ii) Access 4-H
(1) Workshops 2 & 3 created topics and videos for this website to encourage more kids and students to be involved
(2) Helps with training, travel grants and fundraising.
(3) Charlotte Sanford-Crane made a motion to accept Access 4-H as a NSP
(a) Keith Carrell seconded
(b) Motion passed unanimously
iii) Digital TV Transition
(1) Helping people in your community set up your digital TV converters
(2) New date is in June
(a) Some states have already transitioned
(3) Kelli Jo moved to discontinue Digital TV as a national 4
(a) Kalli Estes seconded
(b) Motion passed with __in favor of and 2 abstentions
(c) Some states have already transitioned.
7) New Business
a) Integrating the National 4-H Mission Mandates into the National Collegiate 4-H Strategic Plan – Jessica Falkenthal (North Central Region 1st Year)
i) NAB will talk about in meetings as it cannot expand at this time
(1) Looking at ways of incorporating mission mandates into our strategic plan
(a) Will talk to Ryan Schmiesing
b) Constitutional Amendments
c) By-Law Amendments
d) New National Service Projects
e) Business Managers Report – Continued from above
i) Allen Nasworthy moved to go back to the presentation of the Budget
ii) Kalli Estes moves to take the Business Manager’s word for the budget
(1) Kalli Estes strikes the previous motion
iii) Budget was placed on the projector for everyone to see
(1) Allen Nasworthy – asked a question for the NAB Leadership Grant
(a) Explained by Jessica Falkenthal
iv) Keith Carrell moves to accept report as presented
(1) Josh Sander seconded
(2) Motion passed unanimously
8) Announcements
9) Adjournment
a) Allen Nasworthy Moved to adjourn the meeting
i) Kylee Grant seconded
ii) Motion passed unanimously