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Minutes of the Board of Directors Special Meeting of the of the Iowa Association of County Extension Councils
October 25, 2007 via teleconference
Those members present: Sybil Soukup, Denise Maier, Russell Kurth, Dawn Marnin, Ron Fransen, Kenny Hennings, Pat Griffin, Connie Cannon, Caroll Schreiber, Scott Bahr, Rick Rosburg, and Brian Waldstein. Also present: Mark Settle and Julie Baumler
IACEC President
Sybil Soukup called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. Denise Maier presented
the secretary’s report. Corrections were noted and made to the minutes from the
October 10 meeting. Dawn moved to approve the minutes from the October 10, 2007
meeting, as corrected. Ron seconded the motion. The minutes were approved as
corrected.
Pat stated that the partnership agreement committee has tried to communicate with council members and CEEDs. He has received no feedback from anyone other than a letter from Polk County. He feels that the PA committee did a good job of analyzing and putting together a template/format on what should be in the partnership agreement to calculate the fair share for each county.
Ron contacted 12 counties in SE area. They were all supportive. Rick noted that Laurie did a good job providing the information quickly after the meeting in a clear, easy-to-understand format. There was concern in the “swing” of cost to counties that shared a CEED from one year to the next. There is concern from counties who are bumping up against their maximum valuation.
Pat clarified that the CEED-sharing piece of the current (FY05-08) cost-share agreement was used as an incentive to explore sharing a CEED. He also noted that those counties who are currently sharing CEEDs might have had additional increases in their share – not just due to the CEED sharing being changed to 75%.
There is a thought that if ISU tightened its belt as tight as the counties have, then we might not need to come up with as many total dollars.
Russ moved to accept the partnership agreement as proposed. Brian seconded the motion. The motion carried 11-1, with Connie Cannon voting “no.”
Sybil will draft an e-mail to send to liaisons and CEEDs letting them know the outcome of the vote. She will also communicate with Jack about the vote.
Connie asked how IACEC can support counties that are in need due to the hardships placed upon them by the partnership agreement. Pat noted that ISU will work with counties if they feel they can’t work with the current agreement. This is a topic that can be discussed at future board meetings.
Brian moved to adjourn the meeting. Russ seconded the motion. The motion carried and the meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Denise Maier
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