DRAFT MASWCD MINUTES
Regular Meeting
June 16, 2010
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Steve Radcliff, President Tom
Lambert, Area II Kenny Lovelace, Area III Beverly Dometrorch, Area IV George Engelbach, Area V Dan Greeson, Area VII David
Dix, Treasurer Peggy Lemons, Executive Director Not Present Fred
Feldmann, Past President Bruce
Biermann, Area I Ben
Gorden, Area VI Steve Huber, Area VIII |
Henry Heinze, Area III Alternate Richard Hoelscher, Area V Alternate Sandy Hutchison, Employees Association Dwaine
Gelnar, NRCS S Bryan Hopkins, DNR SWCP Director Bill Wilson, DNR Soil & Water Program |
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President Steve Radcliff welcomed everyone and called the
meeting to order at 1:00 p.m.
NRCS Report: Dwaine Gelnar was in attendance representing
NRCS. J. R. Flores was attending a
meeting in
Commission Report: Bryan Hopkins stated the Governor is very engaged on the
MRBI initiative and there is significant value in having a positive story like
that. He stated the Work Group meeting
went well. He felt it was a modest
beginning for multiple workshops. We
need to look at how we manage our self and the environmental benefits of our
program. He stated a summary of the Work
Group meeting should be sent to the Work Group members next week. Farm Bureau is holding its resolution meeting
next week and Richard Fordyce will be attending representing the Soil and Water
Program. They are working on the
schedule for the Area Meetings, hoping to be able to double and not use the
full 2 weeks time frame. They are also
working on workshops for the Training Conference. He stated he wanted to make sure it provides
training and professional development.
Anything that has a connection to land stewardship or water stewardship is
relevant to our program. The Technician
II training will be starting again and Bryan Hopkins said he also wants to
start on the specialty training as well.
Bruce Biermann joined the meeting by telephone at 2:00 p.m.
Missouri River Team Meeting:
Bruce Biermann reported by telephone on the meeting he attended for the
Missouri River Team in
Bruce left the meeting at 2:20 p.m.
Commission Report continued:
The discussion on the Area Meetings continued. Bryan Hopkins stated he was looking at the
week of August 23 and the end of the week of August 16. Some of the dates are being determined by
availability of facilities, and they are also trying to arrange the dates so
there is less impact from the State Fair.
Bryan Hopkins then talked about the time accounting system. He stated he plans to go statewide with this
shortly after the start of the fiscal year.
There will also be a new accounting plan to roll out during the next
fiscal year. There will be no advance
allocation this year, so Districts will need to get their quarterly reports in
on time in order to get their next quarter allocation of funds. The SAMS rollover for the state will occur
between June 25 and July 7, during this time there will be no payments sent out. Bryan Hopkins also stated the Commission
would be discussing the Nutrient Management and Pest Management practices
during their July meeting. He hopes to
get a clear direction on what they want to change in the program, do we use
federal rates or continue with the state rates.
The Commission has also expressed some level of interest in a 10%
flexibility mid-year adjustment for the cost-share allocations. They are looking at adding to resource
concern funding instead of moving funds around. He stated that the cost-share will probably
be under-spent this year and they will be able to use this unspent cost-share
for the mid-year adjustment. They will
still need to stay within the budget authority.
Employee Association Report: Sandy Hutchison stated their board had its
first meeting after the new rules requiring some form of training during the
meeting for employees to be eligible to claim mileage for attending. She stated the training was on the Employee
Assistance Program and Cafeteria Plans.
Their next meeting will be held in August. She also reported on the Work Group meeting
she attended.
Steve Radcliff introduced Dan Greeson, the new Area Director
for Area VII replacing Sharon Gifford.
Dan is from
Quorum established by roll call.
A motion was made by Tom Lambert to approve the revised agenda,
Beverly Dometrorch seconded. Motion
carried unanimously (5-0).
The minutes from the March 29, 2010 meeting were approved as
presented. Motion for approval made by George
Engelbach, Tom Lambert seconded. Motion
carried unanimously (5-0). The minutes
from the April 12, 2010 conference call were approved as presented. Motion for approval made by Tom Lambert,
Beverly Dometrorch seconded. Motion
carried (4-0) with George Engelbach abstaining from the vote.
A treasurer report was given by David Dix. He stated the mileage rate is now at 37 cents
per mile. To date 89 Districts have paid
their MASWCD dues in full and 3 have paid partial dues. A list of who has and
has not paid by area was distributed. The
bank balance is quite a bit less than this time last year ($12,000), but the
amount of funds in CD’s is increased a similar amount ($10,000). George Engelbach motioned to approve the
treasurer report and file for audit, Beverly Dometrorch seconded. Motion carried unanimously (5-0). Treasurer report for the MDC CREP grant was
also presented. The current CREP
agreement will end June 30, 2010. There
will be an administrative fee of 5% to be retained from the CREP funds less the
$10,000 pre-payment for administration received last year. A motion was made by Kenny Lovelace to approve
the CREP account report. George
Engelbach seconded. Motion carried unanimously (5-0).
MDC Report: No report.
Old Business: The Area Meetings have already been discussed and there was
nothing further to add.
There will be election in every area this year. Information has been sent out to the
districts each of the Area Directors are from to help them get started on
nominating committees. Information has
also been put in recent newsletters and will also be sent out to all the
Districts letting them know how to submit a name for nomination.
The Board reviewed a draft agenda for the 2010 Training
Conference. The agenda has the main
meetings separated so they do not overlap.
Kenny Lovelace motioned to approve the draft agenda with the addition of
the MASWCD Reorganization meeting. Tom
Lambert seconded, motion carried unanimously (5-0). Several theme and logo designs were
reviewed. A motion was made by George
Engelbach to approve the Cooperative Conservation theme and logo for the 2010
conference. Beverly Dometrorch seconded,
motion carried unanimously (5-0). The
Board discussed what type of speaker/
entertainment to have at the banquet on Tuesday
evening. It was decided to check out
local entertainment from Branson to see who might be available. Another possibility is Tom Stevens from
Brownfield Network as a speaker. NRCS
Chief Dave White is being invited to speak at the Opening Session. A reminder
will be sent out to the Districts about award nominations. Also the call for resolutions will be sent
out. The Board discussed how to get
items for the live auction. It was
decided to first ask the Districts for donations, then after Area Meetings to
contact local businesses for donations for the live auction. Beverly Dometrorch stated she knew an
auctioneer that might be able to do the live auction. Henry asked about the resolution from last
year’s meeting on building ponds in wooded areas. This resolution has not come up before the
Commission yet.
New Business:
Monsanto has contributed $500 toward the speech contest for this
year. Steve Radcliff had contacted the
Litton Foundation about the possibility of funding from them for the speech
contest. A grant was submitted and
approved for $1500 for the contest and they are discussing sponsoring this as a
permanent endowment. The Area Directors
need to line up judges for the FFA District contests for the speeches.
Peggy reported on the NACD Executive Director meeting she
attended in
George Engelbach reported more on the Rural Summit
meeting. There are videos of the meeting
on the NRCS web site.
No additional discussion on the Work Group / Task Force
meeting. Bryan Hopkins stated he will be
sending out a report to the committee members in the next few days.
AREA Reports:
Tom Lambert reported a lot of his area is under water, he feels a lot of
landowners will want to do conservation practices this fall.
Kenny Lovelace said his area is real wet. He said there will probably be a lot of
disease in the soybeans and they expect a lot of prevented planting.
Beverly Dometrorch said she had received a call from a
District Manager who was concerned about MOSWIMS being set up to run
continuous. She said about ¾ of her
districts are waiting to see how things go, most are too wet to get any field
work done.
George Engelbach said the southern part of his area is not
as wet and they are getting some planting done.
There is a field day set up for stream bank erosion in his area at the
end of the month.
Correspondence:
An e-mail was received with an invoice for dues to the Missouri River Team
that provides input to the MRRIC committee for
Other Business:
The information for the quilt block for the NACD quilt was
received. The theme this year is
forestry and they are requesting blocks representing state trees. Peggy will get the block done and sent on to
NACD.
The next regular meeting will be September 7 in
Respectfully submitted,
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____________________________ Peggy Lemons, Executive Director |
___________________________ Steve Radcliff, President |