HomeMy WebLinkAboutAg & Extension 08-07-07 NOTICE OF MEETING AND AGENDA
ST. CROIX COUNTY AGRICULTURE & EXTENSION COMMITTEE
August 7, 2007 9:00 a.m.
Agricultural Service and Education Center
1960 8' Ave., Baldwin, WI
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
DATE OF NEXT MEETING — September 4, 2007
APPROVAL OF VOUCHERS
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT:
• Federal Budget
• State Budget Report
• County Budget Report
- 2008 Budget Instructions
- 2008 Preliminary Budget Discussion
• WACEC
• Personnel
• Strategic Planning
• Other Administrative Items
- Chancellor's visit
OLD AND NEW BUSINESS:
AGENT'S REPORTS:
Resource Agent
• Pete Kling
- General Report
Ag Agent
• Lee Milligan
- Farm City Day
- Irrigation Issue
- Crop Update
Family Living
• Joan Sprain
- Drug Court
- Strengthening Families
- HCE and Memorandum of Understanding
4 -H Youth Development
• Kimberly Reaman
- County Fair
- 4 -11 Summer Assistant Reports
- Area Animal Science Days
Horticulture Agent
• No Report
ADJOURN
SUBMITTED BY: Kimberly Reaman
DATE: July 27, 2007
Copies to: COUNTY BOARD OFFICE NEWS MEDIA/NOTICE BOARD
COUNTY CLERK COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Items for County Board approval must be submitted to the County Clerk's office by
Wednesday morning preceding a County Board meeting.
7/27/2007 4:07 PM
Agriculture & Extension Committee
August 7, 2007
Agricultural Services & Education Center Convened: 9 am
Baldwin, Wi. Adjourned: 10:30 am
Present: Ronald Raymond, Lois Bum, Bill Peavey, Gene Ruetz, Sharon Norton - Bauman, Lee
Milligan, Pete Kling, Kimberly Reaman, Joan Sprain, and Summer Assistants, Heather Pederson
and Jenelle Laska.
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Ron Raymond.
Date of next meeting was set for September 4, 2007
Reutz moved that the agenda be adopted as presented. Burn seconded the motion. Motion
carried.
Reutz moved that the previous meeting's minutes be approved. Peavey seconded the motion.
Motion carried.
Burri moved that the vouchers be approved. Norton -Bauman seconded the motion. Motion
carried.
Administrative Report
Federal Budget —no report.
State Budget — It will be months before the state budget is ready.
County Budget:
• Reaman discussed the 2008 budget that will be proposed. It's incomplete at this time
because the line items entered by Finance have not been finished.
• Meeting to review the completed proposed budget will be August 23, 9 am.
WACEC — no report
Personnel — no report
Strategic Planning — This fall we have an opportunity to gather input regarding important issues
UW Extension should address. UW Extension values the input from county board members and
is expecting us to involve the St. Croix Co. Board in this process. Staff will be interviewing a
number of county board members to gather their thoughts on important county issues. Staff will
also use other methods to gather information from county residents. All will be compiled and
submitted to the district by December 31
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Other Administrative Items:
• Chancellors visit — Sprain thanked all members who joined the staff at the fair to meet
with the Chancellor. It's the first county fair he has attended. He would like to return
again next year. HCE members, 4 -H Leaders, Fair Board staff, Public Health staff all
meet informally to share information regarding Extension. Direct feedback from the
chancellor was very positive and he thought we were "wonderful." He had not fully
realized the important role UW Extension played in the implementation of county fairs.
He was especially impressed with the educational nature of 4 -H judging.
4 -11 Youth Development Report
County Fair — The fair went very well. Final exhibit reports are not available yet. The state
legislature has restored $100,000 for state aid to county fair premiums for the Junior Fair. Fair
evaluation meeting is August 21.
4 -11 Summer Assistant Reports — Heather and Jenelle reported on their responsibilities in July
and the events they are leading in August.
Area Animal Science Days — There event was very successful with 300 participants from
throughout the western part of the state. Judging was conducted in dairy, livestock (beef, sheep,
swine and retail meats) and horse. Additional hands -on workshops were conducted with llama
and goats.
Family Living Agent's Report
Drug Court- Sprain will be providing financial management counseling to Drug Court
participants starting in September.
Strengthening Families - 10 -14 sessions will be offered in Somerset and Hudson this fall.
Sprain recently reviewed the Memorandum of Understanding with the HCE Board to help clarify
UW Extension's role with HCE clubs.
Ag Agent's Report
Farm City Day will be hosted by Bill and Opal Haase located north of Somerset on August 11.
Milligan coordinates the educational tours.
Kling and Milligan are developing a water quality and management education program with the
Town of Stanton. There are some concerns about the increased amount of irrigation systems and
its effect on the water table.
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The crops are suffering from lack of moisture. Milligan is meeting with the Farm Service
Agency to discuss the potential of applying for a declaration of disaster in St. Croix County.
Resource Agent's Report
Kling gave an update on the bio- energy grant and stated that four bio - energy roundtable
discussions are scheduled for this fall and early winter. Roundtable #1 scheduled for September
in Chippewa/Eau Claire will focus on bio- energy developers and regulators, #2 is scheduled for
October in Spooner will focus on woody biomass, #3 is scheduled for mid - October in Pierce
County and will focus on woody biomass, and #4 is scheduled for December in St. Croix County
and will focus on agriculturally produced biomass.
A bio - energy workshop is scheduled for October 23 -25 in Wisconsin Dells and a bio- energy tour
is being planned later this fall to Iowa to learn more about community -scale bio- energy facilities
in order to better determine what technology could be applied here in Western Wisconsin.
Meeting adjourned by the Chair.
Respectfully submitted,
Gene Reutz
Secretary
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