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ST. CROIX COUNTY
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING
TO: Clarence Malick, Chairman
St. Croix County Board
FROM: Chris Bethke, Chairman
Art Jensen, Chairman
COMMITTEE TITLE: Extension Ag Committee/Resource & Education Committee
Land & Water Conservation/Resource & Education Committee
DATE: February 3, 2004
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Agricultural Services & Education Center
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
ADOPTION OF AGENDA
DATE OF NEXT MEETING
ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES
ACTION ON VOUCHERS
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT
• Federal Budget Report
• State Budget Report
• County Budget Report
• Personnel
• WACEC
AG AGENT'S REPORT
• Dairy Road Show
• Ag Lenders
• Western Wisconsin Renewable Energy
• Fair Board
• Western Wisconsin Farm Income Tax Seminar
• Positioning Your Business for the Future
• Waste Milk Pasteurization Study
• Large Dairy Group Meeting
• Building A Vision Financial Workshop
• BSE Update
• Pesticide Applicator Training
• Grain Marketing Series
• Alfalfa Management Program
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• Personal Contacts
RESOURCE AGENT'S REPORT
• Small business Management Education
• Comprehensive Planning Education
• Drinking Water Testing Programs
FAMILY LIVING AGENT'S REPORT
• Strengthening Families PowerPoint
• Childhood Literacy
• HCE Leader Training
• Family Resource Center
• Foster Care Recruitment
PARK'S REPORT (Land & Water Conservation Committee/Resource & Education Committee)
• Director's Report
- Bills /vouchers
• Park House
• Picnic Tables — Glen Hills
• Park Host Agreement — Glen Hills
• Park Map
• Deposit Software Program
• Letter — Hudson Tourism Center
NEW BUSINESS:
ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE
POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING:
ADJOURNMENT
(Agenda not necessarily presented in this order.)
SUBMITTED BY: Kim Reaman
DATE: January 28, 2004
COPIES TO: County Board Office
County Clerk
News Media/Notice Board
Committee Members
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Ag & Extension/Resource & Education Committee
February 3, 2004
Agricultural Service & Education Center Convened: 12:30
Baldwin Adjourned 2:10
Present: Leon Berenschot, Ronald Raymond, Art Jensen, Chris Bethke, Lois Burri, Lee Milligan,
James Janke, and Mary Lestrud.
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Bethke.
Date of next meeting was set for March 2, 2004.
Jensen moved that the agenda be adopted as presented. Burri seconded the motion. Motion
carried.
Raymond moved that the previous meeting's minutes be approved. Berenschot seconded the
motion. Motion carried.
Jensen moved that the vouchers be approved. Raymond seconded the motion.
Administrative Report
The committee discussed the performance review process for agents and agreed to provide
written feedback on a form to be mailed to them from the Extension Office. Performance reviews
will be discussed at the March meeting.
Agriculture Agent Rcport
Milligan participated in the Western Wisconsin Ag Lenders' Conference. Ninety area ag lenders
participated in the conference.
The Western Wisconsin Dairy Program was held in Menomonie with a number of dairy
producers from St. Croix County participating. Milligan will be seeking to host this event in
2005.
Twenty people participated in the Western Wisconsin Income Tax School for agricultural
producers. This is a new program and given the feedback the program will be held again in 2005
and possibly an estate planning in late fall or winter.
Milligan participated in the Western Wisconsin Renewable Energy Cooperative annual meeting.
They have met their funding goal from producers and are taking bids on the primary lender.
Construction is expected to begin late spring or early summer.
Milligan met with a group of dairy producers with employees. Barb Nelson and Wendy Kramer
of Public Health met with the group to discuss services available to employees. There was
considerable interest in some of the services.
Several St. Croix County producers participated in the Positioning Your Business for the Future
in Menomonie. This was a successful educational program.
Individual contacts were made concerning dairy and beef nutrition, facility design, land rental
rates, farm business planning, and beginning farming.
Milligan has also cooperated in beef hay nutrition and waste milk pasteurization studies.
In February, Milligan will be teaching and/or coordinating soybean aphid management in 2004,
BSE update, pesticide applicator training, grain marketing, alfalfa management, and farm
business analysis management programs.
Family Living Agent's Report
Lestrud showed a PowerPoint presentation on the Strengthening Families program, which will be
held for parents and their 10 -14 year -old children, beginning in March. All the churches and
middle school guidance counselors received promotional materials. She discussed childhood
literacy programs, which she is working with for young moms including teen moms. Lestrud
wrote a grant to be able to purchase books for future childhood literacy programming that she
hopes to do at Grace Place Homeless shelter, and Head Start. She started her third class at the jail
with five men and a woman. Lestrud also wrote grants this month to support the Reading
Festival program, summer 4H sewing camp, and parenting newsletters. She shared a call from a
parent who said that she files all the newsletters and refers to them often. She was happy to learn
that the Family Resource Center will receive $60,000 from Otto Bremer over the next three years
to expand programming including the Latino audience. Lestrud will participate in six hours of
strategic planning with the Family Resource Center Board of Directors and staff during
February. John Bred has contacted Lestrud about helping him develop a foster care recruitment
plan. Lestrud will meet with Bretl next week and also share with him some e curriculum materials
on working with children who have reactive attachment disorder.
Lestrud is teaching three programs for the public this week on insulin resistance and it's
relationship to carbohydrate consumption and its effect on weight gain.
Resource Agent Report
Janke has met with the new Director of the UWRF Small Business Development Center. He is
hopeful that the SBDC will be able to schedule management counseling sessions every month
rather than every two months. The next session has been scheduled for February 19. Janke has
counseled 6 clients during January.
Janke assisted the Town of Hudson to write the Plan Commission ordinance.
Four Drinking Water programs are scheduled for this spring and early summer: Hudson, Warren,
Troy, and Kinnickinnic.
Raymond moved to adjourn. Berenschot seconded.
Respectively submitted,
Art Jeri
Secretary
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