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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAg & Extention Committee 08-06-1996AMENDED ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Robert M. Boche, Chairman St. Croix County Board FROM: Vern Dull, Chairman COMMITTEE TITLE: Extension Ag Committee/Resource & Education Committee DATE: August 6, 1996 TIME: 12:30 p.m. LOCATION: Ag Center, Baldwin CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES UNFINISHED BUSINESS: ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT Budget * - Job Descriptions 4-H & YOUTH AGENT'S REPORT - National 4-H Agents Conference, .Grand Rapids, MI, Nov. 5-10 - County Fair Report - Plat Book Update - Interstate Exchange RESOURCE AGENT'S REPORT Development Plan Survey Analysis of County Economy Business Counseling Groundwater Project NEW BUSINESS: ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: AGRICULTURE AGENT'S REPORT - Farm City Day - National Ag Agent Award - Educational Programs SUMMER_ ASSISTANT'S REPORT County -to -County Exchange Clothing Revue Foods Fair 4-H Camp WI State Fair PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S REPORT - 1996 Tire Program Final Report - Sept. Household Hazardous Waste Program - 1997 Work Program & Budget ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented in this order) SUBMITTED BY: Lee Milligan DATE: July 24, 1996 COPIES TO: County Board Office County Clerk News Media/Notice Board Committee Members ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Robert Boche, Chairman St. Croix County Board FROM: Tom Dorsey, Chairman COMMITTEE TITLE: Land Conservation/Resource & Education Committee DATE: August 6, 1996 TIME: 8:30 a.m. LOCATION: Ag Center, Baldwin CALL TO ORDER ROLL CALL ADOPTION OF AGENDA DATE OF NEXT MEETING: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Reports• DNR NRCS FSA RC&D West Central Area Education Activities Farmland Preservation Compliance Priority Watershed Projects - Kinnickinnic - South Fork of Hay River Conservation Credit - Mike Kinney - St. Croix Lakes Cluster - Rush River Landowner Survey Glen Hills Watershed - Structures 1, 2 and 3 Wildlife Damage Program Baldwin Ag Building Issue Woodville Recreational Trail Mound Dam Removal NEW BUSINESS: 1997 Preliminary Budget Review - Fee Schedules County Farm Farmland Preservation Applications Subdivision Review - 11:00 a.m. Vouchers ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING: ADJOURNMENT (Agenda not necessarily presented in this order.) SUBMITTED BY: Charles Christenson - DATE: July 22, 1996 COPIES TO: COUNTY BOARD OFFICE NEWS MEDIA/NOTICE BOARD COUNTY CLERK COMMITTEE MEMBERS * ADDITIONS/CORRECTIONS/CHANGES - - --- -------- - - EXTENSION AG COMMITTEE/RESOURCE & EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEETING Ag Center, Baldwin August 6, 1996 Convened: 12:40 p.m. Adjourned: 2:45 p.m. Present: Vern Dull, Tom Dorsey, Ronald Raymond, Art Jensen, Chris Bethke, Lee Milligan, Jim Janke, Kim Reaman, Dave Fodroczi, George Hayducsko The meeting was called to order at 12:40 p.m. Date of next meeting was set for Monday, August 19 at 9:00 a.m. Jensen moved that the agenda be adopted as presented. Raymond. seconded the motion. Motion carried. Bethke moved that the previous meeting's minutes be approved. Dorsey seconded the motion. Motion carried. Bethke moved that the vouchers be approved. Jensen seconded the motion. Motion carried. Administration The Committee reviewed the updated secretarial job descriptions. The consensus was to send them to Deb Kathan with no recommendation regarding job reclassification. Budget review meeting was set for August 19 at 9:00 a.m. Ag Agent's Report Two Dairy Farm Business Summary (DFBS) meetings have been held with 17 participants. Nine ag lenders also participated in a DFBS meeting for professionals. Milligan and four Western District Extension Ag Agents have won state and national farm management awards for their work in developing educational programs with the Dairy Farm Business Summary. Milligan will be attending the National Association of County Ag Agents the first week of September to give a presentation on the program and participate in professional improvement opportunities. Milligan has been involved with a couple of dairy producers working on expanding. Milligan has provided information to a number of producers regarding first generation corn borer problems. 1 Milligan is part of a Western District Ag Agent team developing educational materials in anticipation of problems with the corn harvest. There is the potential for a significant number of corn acres to not reach maturity in 1996. Milligan helped with the dairy portion of the St. Croix County Fair. Farm City Day will be August 10 at the Randy and Mary Demulling farm. Milligan has had several meetings with the committee chairs and is planning the educational tours. Resource Agent Business Janke has been asked to give several presentations regarding the results of the development plan survey. Upcoming presentations include City of River Falls, Village of Roberts, and Village of Hammond. Janke is completing a comparison of responses of different groups within the general public. He is using three groups: area of residence within the county, length of residence, and household income. Specialist Steve Deller worked with Janke to prepare an analysis of the county economy. The report is being edited and will be available soon. Janke and Dr. Charlie Rader of UW-River Falls are continuing their work on evaluating various methods mapping the vulnerability of groundwater to contamination. They had prepared an exhibit to show to the committee, but part of it was stolen while on display in the Geography Department. Planning for the agricultural. chemical collection and small business chemical collection is proceeding. The collections will be held on September 21 at the County Highway Shop in Hammond and the City Garage in New Richmond. Janke and Hayducsko are working together to coordinate the household chemical collection with the agriculture and small business collections. 4-H Agent's Report National 4-_H,A_ ents Conference --This Professional development t;ppo��aru�y will be hela November 5-10 in Grand Rapids, MI. Seminars offered include Workforce Preparation, Building Life Skills, Preparing Youth for Active Citizenship, Biotechnology Education, Volunteer Risk Management, Marketing 4-H, Working with Local Budgets, as well as specific project subject matter offerings. County Fair Report --Entries for the 1996 County Fair were 5,868, up about 300 from last year. The number of actual exhibits will be reported in September after the final County Fair reports have been computed. The number of volunteers helping in the youth building were also up from the past. Special contacts for volunteer help included: letters targeted to individuals who worked at the Fair in the past but are not associated with the 4-H program and would not have received the 4-H Family Newsletter, targeted letters to 4-H trip recipients reminding them of their obligation to help at the Fair in return for 2 financial support from the 4-H Leaders' Association. The 4-H/FFA Meat Animal Committee worked very hard on the auction. Total funds generated through the sale was almost $20,000 higher than in 1995. Fair evaluation meetings will be conducted in September and October. Plat Book Update --The majority of information (village maps, school district maps, government directory, church directory, etc.) provided by the St. Croix County 4-H Leaders' Plat Book Committee was delivered to Cloud Cartographics July 29. There is still some missing information which needs to be compiled and delivered to Cloud Cartographics. The delivery date for the new Plat Book is mid to late October. Interstate Exchange —Chaperoned by Vi Roquette and Mary Hensley. All the delegate matches were very close. Wisconsin delegates were placed with host members and families with whom thev had a lot in common and everyone got along very well. The bus waited 1/2 hour for one delegate before departing. The delegate and her family caught_ up with the bus in Chicago. y Planning Department's Report Fodroczi reviewed a list of July vouchers totalling $710.09. Jensen moved that the July vouchers -De approved as presented. Dorsey seconded the motion. Motion carried. Fodroczi also gave an update on staffing. Troy Gansluckner was laid off on July 31, 1996. The job description for a Recycling Technician that was developed by the Committee was approved by the Personnel Committee on July 16, 1996. George Hayducsko has assumed the position of Recycling Technician effective August 1st. The position rating and related salary range for the new position will be determined by the Hay Evaluation Team and Personnel Committee in the coming weeks. 1996 Tire Program: Hayducsko gave a final report on the 1996 Tire Program. About 250 tons of tires were collected and shipped from 24 local sites throughout the County. All program costs were paid for by a DNR Tire Grant and user fees paid by participants. A summary report of a survey of program participants was also presented. Almost half of the participants learned of the program through the County Newsletter, "Your Wasteline, " and 89 % thought the program should be, offered annually. 1996 Hazardous Waste Collection Program: Hayducsko and Janke updated the Committee on preparations for the combined agricultural household hazardous waste clean sweep program to be held on Saturday, September 21st. Drop-off sites will be offered in Hammond, Hudson and New Richmond. Small businesses will be able to participate for a fee by pre -registering. The newsletter will feature the program as the cover story and be distributed about three weeks in advance. 3 1997 Budgets: Fodroczi presented 1996 status reports and 1997 proposals for the Waste Management, Recycling and hazardous Waste budgets. Fodroczi reported that due to the withdrawal from the service agreement for the incinerator without litigation and shifting staff costs, the Waste Management budget should have a 1996 year-end surplus of $175,000. Fodroczi recommended eliminating the Waste Management budget for 1997, pending allocation to another budget, such as Corporation Counsel, of any needed legal services for the continuing ARR bankruptcy proceedings. Dorsey made a motion to eliminate the Waste Management budget for 1997. Jensen seconded the motion. Motion carried. Fodroczi presented a proposed 1997 Recycling budget of $220,000. It was increased by $30,000 from the 1996 budget to include a 1997 tire collection program. If another possible round of DNR Tire Grants are authorized for 1997, the tire program would be shifted to a separate account from recycling to allow all County municipalities .to_cartiripate, A11 nrojecte-d local costs of re-c -cyIt b ; C included under Line 790, Grants and Contributions. All budget costs are reimbursable through the County's annual DNR Recycling Grant. Raymond made a motion to approve the 1997 Recycling budget as presented. Dull seconded the motion. Motion carried. Fodroczi presented a proposed Hazardous Waste budget of S47,603. It would fund a similar program to 1996 that includes collection of agricultural, household and small business hazardous waste. Small business collection would be all funded by participant fees paid directly to the program vendor. The program would be allocated 175 hours of the Recycling Technician's time and personnel costs. No available grants are anticipated for 1997. Raymond made a motion to approve the Hazardous Waste budget as proposed. Jensen seconded the motion. Motion carried. Jensen moved to adjourn. Bethke seconded the motion. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned Respectfully submitted, Art Jensen Secretary pmh !�