Western Regional Business Meeting

November 5^th, 2006

9:40am Pacific time

UC Davis, California

Schools in attendance

Colorado State University- 4

University of Wyoming- 1

University of Nevada Reno- 2 & 1 advisor

University of California Davis- 3 & 1 advisor

Voting Delegates per school

UC Davis- 2 Kyle, Cindy

Wyoming- 2 Amber

Nevada- 2 Tommy, Jessica

Colorado- 2 AJ, Autumn

Voted to accept the agenda order

Amber-motion

Kyle- second

Voted to approve the minutes as read

Treasurer’s Report

$150.00*

            *does not include dues received for this year from

                        UC Davis

                        CSU

                        Wyoming

                        NMSU

                        UNR

Old Business

•    Club Reports

§University of Wyoming

·   They have been helping their community and are struggling to keep membership requirements (12 member minimum)

§Colorado State University

·   They have been working on community outreach and officer trainings.

·   Each month they have Clover Café where they cook for their state office

·   Gearing up for Round-up in January

·   Have some new freshmen membership

§University of Nevada Reno

·   They have been recognized by their university and have a 10 member standard.

§University of California Davis

·   Membership is down- they only have 4 and their university requires a 5 member minimum

·   They completed Regional conference

·   They are working on You See Davis days and State field day

2008 National Conference

•    They have been working with their College of Ag to make things run more smoothly.

•    They are open to any ideas from clubs in the region

•    Working on getting sponsorships and trying to lover the general cost associated with attending a national conference.

•    They have been trying to determine a theme, and wondered what everyone thought of a “going green” environmental theme.

•    They have been trying to work through some issues and are hoping for a great conference!

Web and Advocacy Team

            These teams are now accepting rolling applications

            If you want more information talk to your regional officers

2007 Regional Conference

•    UNR proposed a conference

•    Location: Lake Tahoe, Reno Nevada

•    They would like help with theme ideas and goals

§Proposed goals

·   More attendance

·   State exchange programs (getting it started)

·   Establish a new club packet for the region

·   Create a submission for the national service project to be associated with the 2008 national conference

·   Would like to see a unified image of the region and have better communication

·   Team building skills

•    Voted to accept the bid

§Shane- motion

§Cindy- second

Website hosting

•    Encouraged officers to set up a private email address for their office, so that the email does not change each year.

•    Voted to move the regional website to the collegiate4h.org server

o Amber- motion

o Kyle- second

Proposed Amendments

            Definition of the Western Region

§Voted to strike Western Canada from the constitution and follow the USDA standard for regions

·   Tommy- motion

·   Kyle- second

            Addition of NAB representative position to the constitution

•    Voted to create a new position for NAB representative that does not have to be the regional president

•    Tommy- motion

•    AJ- second

Standing Rule amendments

§To have monthly regional meetings among the officers and open to anyone who would like to attend from the region

§Voted to amend the standing rule proposal to include proxies

·   Reads as follows:

o In the event that the NAB representative is unavailable and fails to name a proxy, any member of the Western Region executive board is authorized to fulfill the duty.

§Voted to accept the amendment to the proposal

·   Tommy- motion

·   Kyle- second

§Voted to accept the standing rule

·   Tommy- motion

·   AJ- second

Collegiate Life Knowledge

•    Proposed to support Tommy in writing a referendum to the Collegiate Life Knowledge issue to NAB. We will review the document before submitted, through use of the regional listserv.

•    Voted to submit an objection to the CLK program

§Amber- motion

§Autumn- second

(We took a 5 minute recess)

Officer Elections

•    President candidates

§April

§Voted to accept April as President by acclimation

·   Amber- motion

·   Autumn- second

•    Business Manager Candidates

§Amber

§AJ

·   Roll Call Vote

o CSU- 2 AJ

o UNR- 2 Amber

o UC Davis- 2 Amber

o UW- 2 Amber

§6:2- Amber accepted as Business manager

•    Secretary candidates

§Autumn

§AJ

·   Roll Call Vote

o CSU- 1 AJ 1 Autumn

o UNR- 1 AJ 1 Autumn

o UC Davis- 2 AJ

o UW- 1 AJ 1 Autumn

§5:3 AJ accepted as Secretary

•    Regional Representative to NAB candidates

§Tommy

·   Voted to accept Tommy as Regional Representative by acclimation

o Amber- motion

o Autumn- second

New officer team

            President- April

            Business Manager- Amber

            Secretary- AJ

            Regional Rep- Tommy

Strategic Plan

•    We would like to see NAB to produce an implementation plan for the strategic plan

•    We would like to see more communication from NAB to the regions through our regional representatives

•    We would like an email set up for national communications and NAB minutes to be emailed out

•    We would like to see a written format for future members on the procedures and progress that has been made on the strategic plan

•    We would like to see old NAB members and their replacements meet to discuss how to proceed with completing the strategic plan

•    We decided to dedicate 5 minutes at each western regional business meeting to discuss the strategic plan

New Business

            Next Western Regional Business meeting

                        December 4^th, 10pm mountain time

Adjourned the Regional Business meeting at 11:42am pacific time