Minutes of April 2009 phone conference

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Attendees: Faith Peppers, Virginia Morgan, Elaine Edwards, Dee Shore, Ruth Borger, Martha Filipic, Mark Tucker.

Update on document:

Writing Team submitted the updated document. They did a great job of capturing the spirit of the discussion and clearly outlining the project. Next Step: We are now waiting for Sonny’s approval so we can post it to the site.

Team Updates and Next steps:

No team leaders from any of the objective teams attended, so no update on progress within the objectives is available. If you would like to submit a report in writing, please email it to Faith.

Function Team Reports:

- Research – M. Tucker was the only representative from this team present. He hasn’t heard from the research group. He will follow up to check and see what’s going on. And, he will solicit a timeline from the group so other teams can begin planning action steps based on the research.

- eXtension CoP – 10 people have joined the group; Martha will reissue the invitation to join. It’s discouraging when people don’t respond to the invitation. Next step: draft a set of easy to understand instructions on using the site to share information. Martha also suggests that we again poll the group to make sure everyone still wants to be a part of this group. Members of the group who don’t have an eXtension ID need to establish one so you can join the group.

- Tool Kit Team – Elaine – waiting for more direction before asking for samples.

- Training Team – Spokesperson training, being prepared to offer through eXtension; ACE double session to introduce the concept of issue management and dealing with the issue of budget reduction.

Questions:

Sonny – (1) The group had questions about funding. Do we have funding for this project? How much? How is it to be used? How do we access it? Or, if we don’t have funding, is it part of our mission to seek funding and should we set up another team to begin working on that?

(2) Can we issue an invitation to Robin Adams to join the group to represent the 1890 institutions? Her contact information is:

Robin Adams, Communications Director School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences North Carolina A&T State University 336-334-7047 (telephone) 336-334-7674 (fax) radams@ncat.edu

Reminders:

- Our next call is the first Friday in May, that would be May 1. The call instructions will be the same, but in case you didn’t save them, here they are again:

Long distance calls originating within the U.S.

• Conference Bridge Dial toll free 1-866-652-6689

You will be prompted to enter the Conference Bridge Code 900 followed by #

- If you are a member of this group and are not assigned to a team, Martha will post the teams with descriptions and current members on the eXtension site, please go look at the teams that are available and sign up for a team. If you have not signed up for a team by the May conference call, we will make assignments based on which teams need additional members and your assignment will be sent to you.