Call to Order:
President Jo Turner called the Centra
meeting to order on May 20th at 9:05 a.m.
In attendance:
Cathy Allen,
Barb Casady, Bev Coberly, Jim Ollar, Pat
Snodgrass, Rebecca Travnichek, Jo Turner
Minutes
– Minutes from the January 19th 2005 CENTRA meeting were approved as
distributed on the ESP webpage.
Treasurers Report –
The treasurer’s report was approved as submitted. There is currently a total of
$3,547.30 in available operating funds.
Board members discussed the reimbursement to
Nancy Flood for actual cost of attending the JCEP Conference. Cost to attend was
$608.84. National ESP paid MO ESP $300 of that, and we budgeted $250 toward the
cost. Nancy has been reimbursed $550. Rebecca moved to reimburse Nancy the
remaining $58.84. Pat seconded the motion. No discussion. Motion carried.
Jo pointed out that Bob &
Roxanne have been working on membership recruitment.
Committee Reports
- Awards Committee –
Rebecca e-mailed a list of ESP awards and a description of each to ESP board
members following the CENTRA meeting, this information is also on the web
page. Rebecca encouraged board members to nominate colleagues for the
awards. Application deadline is September 12, 2005. Rebecca will also
follow up with Eileen Yaeger to get the list of awards and deadline out to
through Weekly News. Jo asked for suggestions for the Friend of Extension
award. Jim suggested checking with Tom Henderson for possible names.
Beverly Coberly agreed to talk with Tom Henderson and Sandy Stegall.
- Loan and Fellowship
Committee – Pat Snodgrass stated that the committee is looking for ideas to
increase funds in the account. The committee will be meeting next week.
$5,000 is currently all that is available this year to be targeted to
specialist with at least 10 years of service.
- Membership – Jo
pointed out that Bob and Roxanne have been working on membership
recruitment.
- Memorials/Courtesy –
Wilma Jean was unable to be on the CENTRA meeting but emailed an attachment
with the current memorial list to ESP Board members prior to the meeting.
Please notify Wilma Jean with any updates or corrections. It was stated that
Leonard Douglas be added to the list.
- Professional
Development – Missouri ESP recently received word that we were one of four
states to be awarded an Epsilon Sigma Phi Mini-grant for professional
development. Jo thanked Barb Casady for preparing and submitting the
proposal. MO ESP will work with other Extension associations to sponsor a
speaker for annual conference. As a recipient of this $1,000 award, MO ESP
must complete a report when finished and submit an article to the National
ESP newsletter. The focus for this year’s Annual Conference is strategic
community with stakeholders. Jo is seeking ideas for speakers. All members
on the CENTRA meeting agreed to have a membership display booth at annual
conference. Jo will ask Roxanne to coordinate this. Jo will be sending a
draft agenda of Annual Conference for the group to give ideas on how ESP
needs to be involved at Annual Conference. Barb suggested ESP host an open
reception to further get the word out about the benefits and impact of
Epsilon Sigma Phi. It was agreed that we definitely need to have a business
meeting and a time to induct/honor new members.
- Retirement – Jim Ollar reported that he
was having an upcoming meeting with John Parker and after the meeting will
be submitting a newsletter report to Nancy.
- Nominating – Beverly Coberly will be
taking lead on upcoming nominations.
Old Business
No old business was discussed.
New Business
Minutes of the