District 7 Evaluation Meeting Minutes

Thursday, April 17, 2008

The spring meeting of the District 7 Agricultural Educators / District Evaluations was held on April 17, 2008 at Lancaster High School. The meeting was called to order @ 4:35 p.m. by President-Jeff Ellis.

BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES!!

• State Department Presentation
• See Steve Gratz’s upcoming email that he will be sending out with the PowerPoint slides.
• Make sure that you are reading the newsletters that Brenda sends everyone through email as they contain very important information.

• Secretary Report
• Moved by Jeff Ellis to approve minutes. Minutes stand as read.

• Treasurer’s Report
• Balance as of April 1st is approximately $3,181.78.
• Reminder that dues are 50 cents per member each year, and if you haven’t paid for this year yet, you need to do so right away.
• Moved by Susan Metzger to approve report. Report will stand as read.

• Camp—Registration is open to register online, please encourage members to attend.

• CDE—Tom Holton
• Reminder about the new changes to the General Livestock finals to determine final placings.

• Reminder to whoever hosts a district contest to get copy of the results to Tom Holton and to Jim and Carol Ogden.

• Trophies—Jeff Tilley
• Cost of trophies this year was $598.50.
• If interested the contacts information is:
• David Finnerty
• 2800 BIS Road Lancaster, OH 43130
• 740-994-0512 Home or 740-215-4327 Cell
• davidfinnerty@sbcglobal.net

• Foundation—None.
• State FFA Board—Loren Young
• Loren commended our district for setting the example of what other district are going to hopefully model after for future years on our evaluation process. District 7 didn’t have any Degrees disqualified at the State Evaluation and only had 1 Proficiency application that was disqualified.
• Alumni—Blue / Gold Classic is in July. Watch for those updates.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

· Paying District Judges. Brian Breece moved to buy $25 Bob Evan’s Gift Cards for our district judges for 2008-09 with Susan Metzger as the purchasing agent. 2^nd by Scott Sharp. Motion Passed.

o It was estimated that we would have approximately 33 judges.

NEW BUSINESS

· Upcoming District Dates

o Jeff Ellis, District Chair tentatively set dates accordingly to the calendar and changes were made at the meeting and email to everyone. If you have any final changes please contact Jeff as soon as possible.

o See attached Schedule.

o Announcements. The OAAE Summer Conference will be held in conjunction with the HOT Conference, June 17-19^th.

· Adjournment

o Motion to adjourn by Steve Priest 2^nd by Jeff Tilley. Motion Passed. Meeting adjourned at 6:00 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted,

Debra Burden

Secretary/Asst. Chair