Nelson called the meeting to order at 9:40 AM on August 20.

Final Committee Reports:

Nominating: Carolyn Langley thanked the candidates for running and announced the following officers:

Pres: Peggie Lewis
Pres Elect: Spring Williams
Vice Pres: Danelle Barco
Sec: Theresa Clarke
Treasurer: Natalie Rountree
Treasurer Elect: Wallace Simmons
Chair of nominating committee for 2005: Nelson McCaskill

Annual Conference: Peggie asked that all participants fill out the green evaluation forms. Spring will be the new Annual Conference chair.

Constitution: Nina Crawford indicated that Howard Scott will be the incoming chair of the committee.

Diversity: No applications were submitted for this year's award. Stan Dixon is the incoming chair.

Treasurer: Laurie Lewis asked members to give what they could to the enrichment fund because it will help us balance the budget. All receipts are due for payment by September 3. The final report will be posted to the web. Natalie is the incoming chair. The 4-H Development Fund has given our association $500, for operating purposes.

Membership: A recommendation was made to increase the budget for programming for new members. The goal is to reach 150 paid members so that we can reach the 4 DSA level.

Professional Development - Dale Panaro indicated her committee is making a recommendation to work on the professional development scholarship forms slightly!

PRI - Indicated that they will host Share Fair next year. They are working on web pages for their committee and mentioned that Thearon McKinney will need to submit the name of any Hall of Fame recommendation from North Carolina.

Programs - Judy West said over 40 entries were submitted by 20 members for this years Share Fair. The Western District received the grand prize for having the largest percentage of members participating in Share Fair.

Rapport - Bridget Kirk thanked the committee and indicated the chair elect would be Julie Jones.

Recognition - Juanita Bailey thanked the committee for their hard work on Thursday evening. 41 applications were received and judged. January 7 is the deadline for awards for 2005.

Old Business:

A vote was conducted to see whether the 4-H association would support ESP as a member of Federation. The vote proceeded with the following results: 44 votes for 4-H allowing ESP to join Federation. 10 votes were cast against allowing ESP to join Federation.

New Business:

Budget - Receipts are due to Laurie Lewis by September 3.

Peggy Lewis encouraged the membership to attend the National Meeting of 4-H Agents to be held in Oklahoma City in November.

The NC District presented an invitation to the Winter Board meeting in January.

Nelson installed new officers and board members.

Upon motion the meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Barbara Dunn Swanson
NCAE4-HA Board Secretary