4-H COUNCIL MEETING for April 8th, 2009

Meeting called to order by Melba Riel at 4:53pm.
Those in attendance: Melba Riel, Anita Raddatz, Corinne Olsen, Cheryl Bartholomew, Karen Poe, Calan Olsen, Flo Yearsley, Debbie Lambson
Recited pledge of allegiance and 4-H pledge.
Minutes of March 14th council meeting approved unanimously with motion 1-Karen and motion 2-Anita.
1. Financial Report-Current financial report presented by Debbie. There will be some changes made when they take the sticks back and get heavier sticks for Karen Poe’s project. They are waiting for leather samples from Tandy Leather.

2. Executive Team minutes: Copies passed out to those in attendance and used as the agenda.

3. Website update: Anita is going to hold a blogging class for Debbie Lambson, Matt Palmer, and Cheryl Bartholomew. They are in the process of adding blogs to the 4-H website. They joined Flicker so they would not be limited on the amount of pictures they could use on the website. It cost $25.00 for a year.

4. Reports: a. Nominations/elections committee: Karen said that there was no response so far. Corinne said that she would be willing to continue as secretary. Corinne suggested that Cheryl call Elizabeth Hveem to help with county ambassadors.

b. YLT/Ambassadors: Cheryl and Anita will mentor the region ambassadors. They are looking for a parent to help them.

c. Service- Karen didn’t get anywhere with the National Federation for the Blind. They were not very helpful. Ron Poe made over 50 rain sticks from the supplies left from the music workshop. They looked great and they will be distributed to schools in the county.

d. Expansion and Review- Anita will send out the survey on the first of May and they will be due at the end of May. There will be additional and more specific questions than was on the last survey. This will be sent to volunteer leaders.

e. County Clubs: Birding/needlepoint-Melba reported that things are going well. She has 4 in her Fairview club
and 4 in her Mt. Pleasant club so far. However, she reports that she may
be add a location.
Rabbitry/Dog/Goat- Flo Yearsley reported that they had a meeting today & 17 members signed
up.
Scrapbook-Cheryl reported that there are 7 members in Spring City and 2-3 here. Cheryl would
like to do a scrapbook camp this summer.
GPS- 6 kids went Saturday and almost finished mapping Spring City’s fire hydrants. They will
meet again on the second Sat. of May from 9-11am to finish. The plan is to finish and
present the map to Spring City in June.



f. Promotion/marketing: Anita met with Suzanne Dean from the Sanpete Messenger today. We will be putting a 1”x2” ad in the paper twice a month (every other week). It will list the 5 topics-Science, Technology, Healthy Living, Engineering, and Citizenship. The website will be on the bottom of the ad. Suzanne will give us a 30% discount and if it is paid before print there will be another 10% discount. It will cost $28/month less 40%. Anita wants us to have an ad in the Fair, Election, and Home & Garden inserts that the Messenger does. The nice thing about these inserts is that they go to every home in the county. The Home & Garden insert costs $150.00 for ¼ of a page. There will also be a 27 sec. commercial on Centra.com (channel 10) that will be free of charge if Anita makes the commercial.

g. Sanpete County Fair: Anita would like to find a way to divide the exhibit building in half so that we could keep our side open longer. Cheryl has panels that may work for this. Calan Olsen is organizing a project called “Fun on the Farm”. It is a series of buildings that will be located in the county fairgrounds. Children will participate in various activities like: collecting eggs, feeding chickens, milking a cow. At the end they will market their goods, get play money, and trade it into the store for a treat (apple, string cheese, etc.) Calan would like to set up an account through 4-H where people could send in donations to complete this project. Account approved unanimously with motion 1-Karen and motion 2-Cheryl. Checks would be written to Sanpete County 4-H and Debbie would add new line item to budget and keep track of the money coming in and out. Next county fairboard meeting April 20th 8pm.

h. Contests:
April 18th- Talent Show 4pm at Spring City church
Audience members will be given a comment checklist to fill out. No judges.
No 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Everyone will receive an Awards of Excellence.
April 18th- Demonstrations 2pm at Spring City church (sign up for a time)
May 16th- GPS/Robotics
June 20th- Favorite foods
??? Fashion Review

5. Workshops:
May- “What has 6 legs?” Entomology workshop (Olsen family) - $100 approved unanimously for use in workshop with motion 1-Anita and motion 2-Karen.
June- Plant Science (Matt Palmer possibly in charge)
July- Heritage (Cheryl)-Karen is doing a class on animal hides, Cheryl will do “All About Me” books, Melba will do a Utah map.
August- “Strut Your Stuff” (Melba)- Cheryl Spencer’s kids will do class on paper cutting. Mr. Spencer will do watercolors. Checking with Sandy Schoppe on drawing. Melba needs teen helpers.
September- Marine biology
October- Perform & Record
November- Holiday crafts

6. Scholarships/Ambassador selection: They will meet on April 16th, Thursday at 9:30am to choose ambassadors and scholarship winners.

7. New business discussed:
a. JYC meals: Following same menu as last year except no caffeine drinks. Price increased by 12%.
JYC costs $100 and is from June 29th -July 1st . Will discuss at next meeting if going to give stipend.
b. Installation of new ambassadors: Will be done at May 9th council meeting. Could give them a pin, t-shirt, etc. Will plan something nice to honor ingoing and outgoing.
c. Inventory of backroom will be done in May.



d. State calendar items:
May 15th- Adventure Camp Applications due (Need to discuss possible stipend)
June 1st- Junior Youth Conference Applications due.
June 29th-July 1st- Junior Youth Conference at Snow College.
July 1st- State Contest Registration due
July 11th- 4-H Lagoon Day
July 13th-15th- State Contest
August 24th- Sanpete County Fair entry day
August 22nd-29th- Sanpete County Fair
Sept. 1st- TLT applications due
Sept. 3rd- Entry day for State Fair
Sept. 10th-20th- Utah State Fair
Sept. 18th- 4-H Day at the State Fair

Adjourned at 6:50pm with motion 1-Cheryl and motion 2-Karen.

Next 4-H Council meeting: May 9th at noon.