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Assembly of Extension Program Leaders Executive Committee

Conference Call (Feb. 2, 2007)

Participants:  Jack Thigpen, Chair; Jim Hurley, Chair Elect; Paula Cullenberg, Secretary/Treasurer; Pete Granger, at-large rep;  Paul Olin, at-large rep.

1. ExComm reviewed terms for members.  Jack is beginning a 2-year Chair term; Jim is beginning a 4-year term – 2 years as Chair-Elect and 2 years as Chair; Paula is in year 3 of a 3-year term as Sec/Treas; Pete has one more year in a 2-year at large term and Paul Olin is beginning a 2-year at-large term.
2. Budget review.  The University of New Hampshire is the keeper of the Assembly’s funds. Our current balance is about $9,000.
3. SGA is meeting in Washington DC the week of March 5th.  Jim will be the Assembly’s liaison to the SGA’s Program Management Committee and Jack will act as such for the SGA’s External Relations Committee.  Ralph Rayburn has been serving on the Law Centers advisory board – we will let him continue in that role. They will report back to the Assembly after attending.  A full list of liaisons to the rest of Sea Grant’s groups is below.

Sea Grant Assembly EXCOMM Representatives 2007

4. Sea Grant Week – Planning for the Assembly meeting at Sea Grant week includes: Jack Thigpen, Jim Falk, Mike Spranger, Brian Allee.  Local arrangements will be coordinated by  Jim Fawcett and Paul Olin.
5. Assembly 2008 meeting will be held in Washington State.  Pete Granger will take the lead on that meeting.
6. Awards. Outreach award to be presented at Sea Grant week – Paul Olin will manage this and Jim Hurley will help out.  Wick award (to be presented at the Assembly 2008 meeting) will be coordinated by Pete Granger.
7. Jon Kramer has put forth a plan for a new network for SGA.  It creates a network advisory council made up of 8 people (see attached pdf for outline of this).  Paul Olin suggested that the four network leaders be ex-officio members of the SGA board. This would allow for a more direct line of communication. This also gives us all one less meeting to attend and avoids the need for an intermediary step.  The ExComm agreed that this will be our suggestion to the SGA.  
8. ExComm meeting during SGA.  Meeting will be on Sunday, March 4th at 1 pm.  Also on the agenda will be Brown Bags, SG Academy, using the Assembly for communicating with Congress.  Brian Allee, John Woeste, NSGO and Paul Anderson will be invited.

Meeting adjourned at 2 pm EST.

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