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Ohio State University Extension Ohio Woodland Stewards Program OSU
School of Natural Resources
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3/9/05 1:30 – 3:00 Ag. Engineering Bldg. Members Present:
J.P. Lieser, Jerry Iles, Robert McCall, Dana Oleskiewicz, Joe Bonnell,
Kathy Smith, Chris Zoller and by phone Dave Apsley and Teresa Stone. Secretary Report - Kathy: Approval of December 9th minutes
– Dana moved, Robert seconded – minutes approved. Treasurers Report - Dave: Dave emailed Bill
Hubbard about state dues. 20% of our
ANREP dues come back to the state which equals $5 per member. Since we aren’t at that point yet we don’t
have any funds to report at this time. Teresa asked if ANREP dues can be paid when OEAA
dues are paid? This will be checked
into. Chris brought up Scott Reed’s email about getting
comments on some topics to him for the ECOP task force. Teresa asked if rather than each responding
we respond as a committee. Therefore,
the following comments were drafted with the intent of getting the
memberships input. 1) list 1 or 2 Internal Challenges – One challenge is to
hire enough people with the natural resource background to meet the
needs. This is also impact by hiring
practices. Funding will
definitely be an internal challenge 2) 1 or 2 External Challenges – Building a long term
interest - for watershed groups Getting external
groups to be better collaborators Will clientele be willing
to continue to work with us in the cost recovery phase. Collecting fees may be an issue. The changing
landscape causes an external challenge – increased urbanization Getting family and
youth to become involved. New
technology doesn’t necessarily lend itself to some topics. 3) Challenges that will be posed at CSREES – Funding at all levels
being cut Applying and
implementing grants takes time away from doing other things There seem to be
fewer RFP’s out there Hard to get grants
for some areas of natural resource work Some folks more
interested in agro-tainment than education How to do cost
recovery in a ‘public good’ environment. Unfinished Business Bylaws – JP presented
the current draft of the bylaws and much discussion was had on changes that
needed to be made. One suggestion that
was made for a change is that if the organization is dissolved the remaining
funds would go into the Another suggestion was
to make officer terms longer than 2 years and stagger their elections so that
you wouldn’t be starting with a completely new slate of officers at some
point. JP will take the
comments and make changes and email them to members for ratification. Dave asked if we want
to collect money locally – funds in addition to the $5 we get from
national. This was decided to be
tabled until the annual meeting. New Business President’s
Association – all the professional organizations meet with Keith Smith on a
quarterly basis. ANREP has been
invited to participate. April 26th
is their next meeting date. National Ratification
– an email will be sent to national once the bylaws are ready for them to
ratify. Membership Drive –
Chris has talked to some agents. Maybe
we need to target some specific ANR, CD and 4-H folks to get them interested
in participating. We may need to do
some things to entice folks to join.
Brochures, strategic phone calls, perhaps sponsor something with NACAA
meeting in Web Page – we do have
a web address. Some topics that need
to be put on there are the members list, officers, bylaws, the mission with
links to the national website and other sites such as SNR and Extension. Annual Awards – table
this discussion for future discussion Master Naturalist –
things are moving forward, though there is some struggle with the name
amongst a few of the groups. Next meeting – June 20th 1:30 – 3:00 Will invite the representative for Healthy Water, Healthy People program |
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OSU Extension embraces human diversity and is committed to ensuring that all educational programs conducted by Ohio State University Extension are available to clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, age, gender identity or expression, disability, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, or veteran status. Keith L. Smith, Associate Vice President for Agricultural Administration and Director, OSU Extension TDD
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