District 7 Spring Meeting Minutes

April 19, 2017 FFA Center

The Spring Meeting of the District 7 Agricultural Educators was held on April 19, 2017 at the Ohio FFA Center.  The meeting was called to order at 4:05 p.m. by Tom Holton.

Meal was provifrf by David Little from iCEV. David gave a small presentation about his programs.

John Henry from Central State University also gave a short presentation about Central State University now being a land grant university and some of the changes they are making in the school.

• Secretary’s Report: Alyssa Bregel- Previous Minutes were submitted to the District webste.  

• Deb Burden

• Treasurer’s Report- Jake Wuebben

• Balance is about $5,200

• Motion to accept reports- Scott Sharp
• Second to accept reports- Megan Moorman
• Reports passed

• Delegate Council—Tom Holton

• Tom gave an overview about the new summer conference schedule and encouraged everyone to attend.

• Legislative-Scott Sharp

• Scott encouraged everyone to become members of OAAE and stated a few reasons why everyone should be members of the professional organization.
• Budget: nothing has changed with funding with the deficient because of the efforts by OAAE and it’s partners.

• Membership-Gina Neff

• Pay your dues and talked about the benefits of joining these groups
• Talked about the grants that members can apply for and awards.

• CDE Skills—Debra Burden

• Discussion on the District Job Interview contest with it being so lengthy.

• Sub-District Job Interview elimination- how many teams to allow at District Contest.

1. Matt Dotson moved that top 2 teams per division from every sub district can move on. Gina Neff second. Motion Passed
   

• Deb asked for suggestions on the Policy Guide- there were none
• Novice Parli. Pro. changes- there will be only 8 team members with still 6 abilities, the seat with nothing highlighted is the member.
• May 23rd is the next meeting. They will be voting on the following:

• Only have substitue for some CDE’s. The test scores follows the student. Our District was in favor of this with a vote of 9 - 2.

• Camp Board—Adam Staley

• No report

• Trophies—Jeff Tilley

• Just a reminder to check the website for correct spellings and results BEFORE plaques are printed. Top 2 teams and top 3 individuals
• www.acffa.org/d7

• Mentor- Jena Kemmerer

• Nothing
  

• Advisory Council--Matt Weade

• None

• Alumni-- Jeff Ellis

• There is a gun raffle going on. Go to the website for more information.
• The Alumni is now giving all State Officer’s lifetime membership.

• New Business

• Calendar:

• All locations are set

• Brandon Thomas moved to adjourn the meeting and Chris Turner second. Motion Passed
• Ohio Department of Education gave a brief ODE update and presentation. This presentation was sent out via email.

• Next meeting will be August 24 at 4PM at the Ohio FFA Center.

Respectfully Submitted,

Alyssa Bregel

Alyssa Bregel

District 7 FFA Secretary