District 7 Spring Meeting Minutes

Wednesday, April 15th, 2015

The Spring Meeting of the District 7 Agricultural Educators was held on Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at the Ohio FFA Center. The meeting was called to order at 4:02 p.m. by President-Brian Breece.

BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES!!

• Tom Joliff presented an update from the Board of Trustees since he is our representative for our region. You are strongly encouraged to complete the survey that was sent out in regards to redistricting to even out schools and members in those districts. Please use the comment boxes to add additional comments, either positive or negative.

• David Little, from CEV Multimedia gave us a short presentation as well as providing us with tonight’s meal.

• Previous Minutes are on the web and they will stand as read.

• Treasurer’s Report
• Balance is $3,844.78
• Reminder that dues are $1 per member each year, and if you haven’t paid for this year yet, you need to do so right away. We are still waiting on 2 schools.
• Moved by Kim Weiss to approve the treasurer report and 2^nd by Tom Holton. Motion passed and report will stand as read.

• Delegate Council—Brian Breece
• Major items from last council meeting were in regards to redistricting which was covered by Tom Joliff earlier in the meeting.
• Coming up on May 7^th, Marysville High School is hosting a Teachers Success Series. Watch your state newsletter for more details.

• Legislative-Scott Sharp
• Scott updated us on the following:
• Reminder to watch emails in regards to Legislative items.
• Farm Bureau is working to resolve the negative state funding issue.
• Farm Bureau is also working on taking CTE money out of the State Share so that we can get all of the money rather than just a share.

• Membership-Gina Neff--NONE

• CDE Skills—Tom Holton
• Outdoor Power—April 24^th at 3:30 p.m.
• Online Testing on Wed. April 22^nd (Grain, Meats, Coop., etc)
• Floriculture—have to take top 4 of your 6 students
• Check Judging Card for scores
• Rachel Scior expressed concern that the list of contest sponsors are not listed anywhere.
• Ag Issues—will be Thursday of Convention
• State OPE will be with State Floriculture
• April 25^th is Ag Communications and Meats Judging
• Tom passed out the rough drafts of the new Urban and Rural Soil Cards.
• There will be no reference books until 2016 but you will be able to download from online.
• The new reference book whenever its completed might be similar to Indiana’s Soil Book.
• There will be a class on it at the Summer Conference.
• A workshop will also occur on July 10^th at Buckeye with the Natural Resources Professional Development Workshop.
• Nursery Landscape—Top 10 goes to finals but there will be a makeup day if it’s a snow day for schools that aren’t allowed to travel on those days, not for those who simply don’t want to venture out that day.
• May 27^th is Tom’s last meeting for the CDE Committee; someone needs to be elected to take his place on the committee.
• January/February CDE’s—will have 1 state contest
• Adam Staley moved that the Animal Behavior Health and Grooming be moved up 1 hour. 2^nd by Jeff Ellis. Motion passed.
• Scott Sharp moved to leave CDE’s as is with no consolidation. 2^nd by Adam Staley. 18 For 0 Against, Motion passed.

• Advisory Board—Rachel Scior—NONE

• Camp Board—Adam Staley
• Camp Registrations are open. $180 registration.
• Don’t forget that there are 1^st year scholarships available for new teachers.

• Mentor—Debra Burden
• All seem to be doing well so far.
• For those who are new, please feel free to call Debra or any other teacher in our district as we would all love to help you.

• Trophies—Jeff Tilley—Absent (Reminders from Brian Breece)
• We will continue to use the same trophy vendor unless anyone objected. No objections.
• Just a reminder to check the website for correct spellings and results BEFORE plaques are printed.
• www.acffa.org/d7

• Alumni—Jeff Ellis
• Lifetime memberships have now increased to $200.

· New Business

o Calendar Dates for 2015-16 School year were tentatively set. Please see the attached schedule. Those that were not in attendance that are hosting a contest, please check those dates as soon as possible to make sure that they work with your school calendar.

o New District Officers were elected and are as follows:

§ President—Rachel Scior

§ Vice President—Tom Holton

§ Secretary—Alyssa Swinehart

§ Treasurer—Susan Metzger

§ Legislative—Scott Sharp

§ Membership—Gina Neff

§ CDE’s—Debra Burden

§ Advisory—Matt Weade

§ Camp Board—Adam Staley

§ Mentor—Susan Metzger

§ Trophies—Jeff Tilley

§ Alumni—Jeff Ellis

o Kevin Williams then gave us updates from ODE. Please see the presentation information in your email.

o Rachel Scior moved to adjourn the business meeting. Matt Dotson seconded it. Motion passed.

Respectfully Submitted,

Debra Burden

Debra Burden

District 7 FFA Secretary

See the 2015-16 Tentative District Calendar of Events on the next page.

2015-2016 District 7 Calendar of Events

(as of April 20, 2015)

DATE EVENT PLACE TIME

8/26 Ag Teachers Fall Meeting FFA Center 4:00pm

TBA OLLC Legislative Conference Ohio Statehouse

9/24 Knox Co. District 7 Forestry CDE Knox Woods 3:00pm

10/1 Soils CDE (Knox County) ____TBA _ 9:00AM (Practice pit opens at 8:00 a.m.)

TBA Fruit sales State wide starting date

11/16 Food Science CDE (max 16/school) Zane Trace HS 4:00pm

11/18 Leadership Night Amanda CC 6:00pm??

11/23 Job Interview CDE Clear Fork 4:00 PM

12/7 Parliamentary Procedure CDE Danville 4:00pm

2/8 Regional Evaluation Meeting (w/District 6) Ohio FFA Center 9:00 a.m.

2/17 Agricultural Sales CDE Pickaway Ross 3:00 PM

2/23 Public Speaking CDE Amanda CC 3:00pm

2/27 Ag/ Power Diagnostics _____TBA (start time depends on heat1or2)

3/9 District Officer Training Fairfield Union 4:00PM

3/15 Ag Mechanics Skills CDE Teays Valley TBA

4/13 Ag Communications CDE Amanda CC 4:00 PM

4/19 Outdoor Power Equipment CDE Teays Valley 3:00pm

4/20 Ag Teachers Spring Meeting Ohio FFA Center 4:00pm