President Denise Baker called the meeting to order at 2:15pm. She thanked the
North Central District for Hosting the meeting and thanked Margaret Allsbrook
for the Refreshments. A copy of the Agenda was passed out to the membership
(attachment 1)**
Susan Condlin recorded the minutes until the Secretary arrived.
Susan Hamilton served as Parliamentarian
Dee Furlough provided an inspirational thought "Rising to the Challenge"
Deborah Stroud, NC District President welcomed the group to the North Central
District and recognized the NC District for the hard work that they have done.
Tracy Davis made a motion to dispense with the reading of the March 8, 2002
Board of Director's meeting and accept as posted to the Web. Seconded by Frances
Turner. Motion Passed.
Committee appointed to review the Minutes of this meeting:
Evelyn DeLoatch
Shenile Rothwell
Theresa Clark
Evelyn DeLoatch, VP- Public Affairs, thanked the members for getting the
committee reports to her and Susan Condlin for doing a great job with the Web site.
Roll call of Board of Directors:
Present: Denise Baker, Frances Turner, Susan Hamilton, Marilyn Wells, Tracy
Davis, Susan Morgan, Carrie Thompson, Dee Furlough, Margaret Allsbrook, Shari
Farless, Evelyn DeLoatch, Shenile L Rothwell, Deborah Stroud, Candy Underwood,
Theresa Clark, Susan Condlin, Dr. Sandy Zaslow.
Agnes Evans and Debra Myatt arrived late to the meeting.
Maurene Minton, Darlene Barefoot and Nancy Ostergaard-absent.
By-Laws: Frances Turner
Copies of By-Law's Recommendation (attachment 2,2a.2b) were passed out, posted
on Web 30 days in advanced.
Susan Morgan made a motion to approve Recommendation 1, Section 2, Debbie Stroud,
seconded . Motion passed.
Board of Directors approved by-law's Recommendation and will submit for approval
to general membership.
Budget: presented by President Baker in the absence of Mauren Minton-Treasurer
(Attachment 3) Any member of the Association-request from the Treasurer or Secretary
can receive a Copy of the budget)
Historian: Margaret Allsbrook
2001 Report is posted on the Web, 2002 report to be submitted to the Web
(Attachment 4)..
Motion made by Debbie Stroud to accept the report and 2nd. by Dee Furlough.
Motion passed.
Nominating Committee:Theresa Clark
All seven Districts submitted names for Officers. A slate of officers for 2003
is complete. (Attachment 5). Federation Nomination was added to the 2003 list
of Officers.
Motion to accept the slate of officers by Dee Furlough, seconded by Shenile
Rothwell. Motion passed.
Annual Session: Frances Turner
2002 Annual Meeting Theme "Rising to the Challenge through Leadership, Excellence
and Transition. She reviewed the week activities.
130 total registrations
10 partial registrations
19 paid Guest
17 retirees
Tracy Davis made a motion to accept the Report and Margaret Allsbrook seconded
it. Motion passed.
Awards and Recognition: Tracy Davis-Vice President
Professional Development: Dee Furlough-Vice President
Members Resources: Shenile Rothwell-Vice President
Only 2 Districts sent in Reports (attachment 8)
6 new Agents
127 retirees
List of deceased Agents distributed.
Debbie Stroud made a motion to accept the report. Margaret Allsbrook seconded
it. Motion failed. A discussion of the report was held. Debbie Stroud motion
to amended the report with corrections. Seconded by Shari Farless. Amendment
passed-Report accepted as amended.
State Life Member: Carrie Thompson
No Report
Will have a meeting with Retirees at this State Meeting-2002
Announcements:
Evelyn DeLoatch reminded the Board that by September 1st to submit to her
"Challenge 2002" form. (Attachment 9). District Presidents were encouraged
o push district members to submit the form directly to Evelyn DeLoatch.
PILD (Public Issues Leadership Development) all members were sent a package of
materials. Package was sent to District VP's for Public Affairs.
DISTRICT PRESIDENT'S REPORTS:
District Reports are attached and will be posted to the Web
Northwest (attachment 10)
Northeast (attachment 11)
North Central (attachment 12)
Southwest (attachment 13)
Southeast No Report
South Central (attachment 14)
West (attachment 15)
Business:
FCS Update: Dr. Sandy Zaslow, Assistant Director, FCS
*Thanks to Denise Baker for doing a good job this year.
*Many changes in FCS, Retirements and job changes-Many are
leaving for the School System.
*ECA (Extension & Community Associates) changes will be
Challenging- Robin Roper will handle this area. She
Wants better linkage with Agents and increase membership.
*Family Resource Management Specialist position -unfrozen-
Will be filled
*Academic Program-Degree conferring program moving ahead
UNCG-Family life/Parenting-NCSU-UNCG joint effort
Marketing-Dr. Carolyn Dunn working on this. "Draft form of FCS Annual Report".
*Specialist needs to attend some the FCS Agents meeting to forge a closer
relationship.
*FCS agents are doing great programs
*Declining Staff/ FCE
| Year | FCE | 4-H | Agricultural |
| 1993 | 142 | 85 | 185 |
| 1997 | 125 | 93 | 191 |
| 2000 | 128 | 88 | 192 |
| 2002 | 82 | 94 | 230 |
*Dollars are getting scarce, it is getting more competitive-within the
Organization. Be focused-our voices will be heard.
National Update
National membership -2880-active members
Some states are downsizing
Budget
By-laws - no change, items being discussed:
Not everyone is FCS Major
Hiring PA'a instead of agents-can they join the National
Association.?
Getting enough Members to "run" for a national office
Public Affairs-External Marketing-Visibility.
Strategic Plan on the Web.
New management company- The Franklin Management Company
Southern Regional Workshop (JCEP)
Dallas, Texas -February 2002- Good meeting- Excellent Speaker-Rick Miller.
Southern Regional Workshop-2003 -Asheville, NC
Evelyn DeLoatch and Frances Turner -delegates
PILD- -April 27-May 1, 2002- Washington, DC
great conference
Denise Baker-Evelyn DeLoatch-delegates. The visit to Capital Hill is worth the
trip
-need to know who you are visiting.
Federation Report:
Lobbyist Issue-political issue, can't approach the Legislators
"Salary" increases. Rodney Sawyer wants to have Associations hire a Lobbyist
to work on behalf of Extension staff. After a discussion it was decided that
more questions need to be asking and answered, before providing support to this
Issue.
The Webmaster for Federation for 1 year will be Susan Condlin-FCS
Requested one page summary (Federation) of what has taken place since last
meeting- One page summary was developed.
Horn of Plenty:
Held in Winston-Salem- Good Horn of Plenty. Maurene
Minton did an excellent job. Will be in Greensboro is 2003.
Web Site Update:
The President commeded Susan Condlin for the job she is doing. She usually post
items to web on Wednesday mornings.
Hope Hunt maintains the retirees web page and is doing a good job.
Association purchased our domain name from Hope and pays a yearly fee to her to
maintain the name.
2003 NEAFCS Annual session Delegates:
Delegates are chosen on a rotation base. With the change of the membership
count - delegate number is down. Administration provides $400.00 travel support
per delegate (7 delegates. Corsages for our DSAs are provided by the District).
North Carolina Association of Family and Consumer Sciences - NCAFCS:
Dense Baker and Frances Turner attended the State meeting in Fayetteville,
March 2002.
Deborah Howard will be state president of this organization in 2005.
State Association Issues
Decrease in Membership-new Agents taking on" new rolls" that they are not
familiar with.
Treasure
The treasure has less money to work with.
Other Association support and Annual Conference.
Did not send State support to 4-H (money request) .
Presidents' to attend the other Associations Meeting.
(Do we invite them and do we pay for them?) .
Need in writing a Memorandum of Understanding on this issue.
Federation president who attends other Association meeting is a guest and the
Association pays for this (out of host District pocket)
Announcements: See Agenda (attachment 1).
Meeting adjourned 5:27 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Agnes R. Evans
NCEAFCS 2002 Secretary
**Attachments referred to in these minutes are in the Secretary's book
