AISWCD Planning Focus Area Committee Minutes
June 10, 2007
Directors Present: Advisors Present:
Aaron Ferguson, Chairman Cindy Moon
Terry Bogner Ruth Book, NRCS
Jake Klein Chris Davis, IEPA
Darrell Roegge Erin Pate, AISWCD
Kenny Vosholler Pam Peter
Jim Bell Jannifer Powelson
Annyce Winter, ISWCDEA
The Annual Meeting/Awards Task Force met on Monday, June 11, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. Chairman Aaron Ferguson called the meeting to order.
Motion by Beckhart, second by Roegge to accept the minutes as presented. Motion carried.
Erin passed out agenda for Summer Conference to those who were not present at Annual Meeting Task Force, and went of the logistics.
NEW TASK FORCE FORMED
There was a Farm Family Award task force formed. The task force will have a brief meeting at Summer Conference. The following were appointed to the task force: Terry Bogner*, Kenny Vosholler, Darrell Roegge, Stacy Stremsterfer (who won’t be at the meeting at Summer Conference), and Gary Zwilling. Aaron Ferguson will ask Gary to be on the committee. * Denotes Chairman of the committee.
Aaron reported a building task force will probably be formed in the future.
AISWCD Technical Position Task Force
John Beckhart will be the Chairman. An email will be sent out to try and recruit other members.
Partner Reports
IEPA – Chris Davis reported Jim Nelson’s position has been extended to July 2008.
319 grant applications will be coming due in August.
NRCS – Ruth Book reported contribution agreements totaled forty three counties for a total of $472,000. There will be another EQIP signup for CNMP only.
NRCS has been directed to come up with a new cost list, which will no longer be called a cost list, it will be a payment schedule. Instead of components, the name will be called scenario.
Meeting adjourned at 1:45 p.m.
Minutes taken and recorded by:
Cindy Moon