Executive Committee & Administration Subcommittee Update
Posted by Chuck – February 1st, 2006
Executive Committee Meeting, March 2006 – Committee Meeting Minutes
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
BEEF PROMOTION AND RESEARCH BOARD
KANSAS CITY AIRPORT MARRIOTT HOTEL
MARCH 16, 2006
1. Call to Order and Introduction of Guests – Chairman Ken Stielow
2. Establish a Quorum
3. Approve Agenda
4. Welcome, Orientation, Question/Answer Session for New Executive Committee Members
5. Approve Minutes of February 1, 2006, Meeting
6. Financial Report – Treasurer Dave Bateman
7. Operating Committee Report – CBB Chairman Jay O’Brien
8. Executive Committee Subcommittee Report (If needed)
• Administration Subcommittee
9. Status of State Marketing Plans
10. Status of State Audit Reports
11. Brand or Trade Name References
• State Partnership Approval
12. Litigation Update
13. Joint Committee Appointments
14. Other Business
• Future Dates and Locations for both Operating and Executive Committee Meetings
June 7-8, 2006 – Amarillo, TX
July 10, 2006 – Reno, Nevada (Summer Meeting)
September 13-14, 2006 – Denver, Colorado
December – TBD
15. Executive Session
16. Adjourn
Cattle Industry Annual Convention, February 2006, CBB Administration Subcommittee - Committee Meeting Minutes
CBB Administration Subcommittee and CBB Executive Committee – Convention Update
Feb. 1, 2006 – The Beef Board Administration Subcommittee wants all cattle producers – and any other interested parties – to know that they are welcome to attend any and all checkoff committee or Board meetings.
The invitation is meant to apply not only to the meetings under way as part of the 2006 Cattle Industry Annual Convention in Denver this week, but to all meetings of checkoff committees throughout this and all years.
Members of the Administration Subcommittee, which makes recommendations regarding administrative issues of the checkoff to the CBB Executive Committee – met here at 7:30 this morning and quickly reported their resulting recommendations to the Executive Committee at that group’s 9 a.m meeting.
Under the direction of its chairman Charles Miller, a Kentucky cattleman, the CBB Administration Subcommittee concluded that it may be unclear to some producers who are not members of the Beef Board or any other organization that meets during the Cattle Industry Convention that all checkoff meetings are open to anyone who wants to attend.
With that in mind, the committee recommended that, in the future, a letter be sent with all convention registration materials noting that invitation.
“We want to make sure that we’ve not implied in any way that these committee meetings are just for committee or CBB members,” Miller said. “Anyone who is interested in these goings on could walk through that door and join us at any time. We need to make sure that producers who pay into this checkoff know that.”
USDA Ag Marketing Services rep Kenny Payne further reminded committee members said that while registration is required for many Cattle Industry Convention events, the checkoff meetings are open whether or not a person is registered for the convention. In addition to the letter with registration materials, then, the CBB Administration Subcommittee suggested pre-meeting press release invitations and/or other public announcements about the open nature of checkoff meetings.
In other action, the subcommittee reviewed and discussed meeting evaluations that they received from other Beef Board members regarding the cattle industry convention in summer 2005. Noting that some of the issues addressed in those evaluations were about joint industry committees – which include representation from the Federation of State Beef Councils, as well as the Beef Board – the subcommittee recommended that the CBB Executive Committee direct CBB staff to coordinate reactions to those evaluations with the Federation.
CBB Executive Committee
As soon as the Administration Subcommittee meeting wrapped up, the CBB Executive Committee started its meeting next door, during which it received a report about, discussed, and subsequently endorsed both of the subcommittee’s recommendations. In addition, the Executive Committee received a financial report from the Beef Board’s secretary/treasurer, Kansas cattleman Ken Stielow, and listened to staff reports about the results of the latest checkoff-funded Producer Attitude Survey. That survey indicates that producer support for the checkoff remains at a 10-year high of about 73 percent and that a growing number of producers – 75 percent – can accurately name at least one program that the checkoff is currently funding. That’s up 10 percent from just six months ago.
The Executive Committee also discussed sentiments shared by other CBB members during recent phone discussions with Executive Committee members trying to gauge what checkoff topics seem to be of highest interest in their individual areas of the country. Those topics then are identified as items to discuss at the Beef Board’s “Update Session,” slated for 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 2, in Colorado Convention Center rooms 108/110/112. Among issues noted were identification of the separate but coordinated checkoff roles of the Beef Board and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association; ideas for improving the current checkoff; the structure of CBB meetings; the goals of the proposed Long Range Plan, and beef quality assurance issues.
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The Cattlemen’s Beef Board Executive Committee is made up of 11 members elected by the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, including its three officers and another eight members elected at large. The immediate past chair of the Beef Board also serves on the committee as an ex-officio member, for advisory purposes. The Executive Committee operates under the direction of, and within the policies established by, the full board, and is responsible for carrying out Beef Board policies and conducting business and making the decisions necessary to administer the terms and provisions of the Act and Order between meetings of the full board.
The CBB Executive Committee has one subcommittee, which will meet from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the Directors Row J Room of the Adam’s Mark Hotel. The CBB Executive Committee will get a report from its subcommittee when it meets from 9 a.m. to noon that day, in the Directors Row I Room of the hotel.
Current members of the CBB Executive Committee include:
Jay O’Brien, TX, Chair
Al Svajgr, Nebraska
Ken Stielow, KS
Carl Carbtree, ID
Richard Nielson, UT
Dick Nock, CA
Sugie Sartwelle, TX
Donald Stewart, Importer
Dave True, WY
Lucinda Williams, MA
Stan Zylstra, IA
Nelson Curry, KY, Ex-Officio
Cattle Industry Annual Convention, February 2006 – Executive Committee Minutes
Draft Agenda
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
BEEF PROMOTION AND RESEARCH BOARD
ADAM’S MARK HOTEL
DENVER, COLORADO
FEBRUARY 1, 2006
1. Call to Order and Introduction of Guests – Chairman Jay O’Brien
2. Establish a Quorum
3. Approve Agenda
4. Approve Minutes of September 22, 2005, Meeting
5. Financial Report – Ken Stielow, Treasurer
6. Action to Affirm Immediate Past CBB Chairman’s Continued Service on Executive Committee
7. Executive Committee Subcommittee Reports
• Administration Subcommittee – Charles Miller
8. Status of State Marketing Plans
9. Status of State Audit Reports
10. Compliance Report – Steve Barratt
11. Brand or Trade Name References
• National Partnership Approvals
• State Partnership Approvals
12. Litigation Update
13. Other Business
a. Producer Attitude Survey Results
b. Reports on Executive Committee telephone calls to CBB Members
c. Federation Working Group Report – Myron Williams
d. Future Dates and Locations for Executive Committee Meetings
• March 15-16, 2006 – TBD
• June 7-8, 2006 – Amarillo, TX
• July 10, 2006 – Reno, Nevada (Summer Meeting)
• September 13-14, 2006 – Denver, Colorado
• December – TBD
14. Executive Session
15. Adjourn
The Executive Committee and CBB Administration Subcommittee have met and we have an update posted on the Executive Committee page. You can always find that using the homepage sidebar links. Here’s a beginning excerpt from that update and a link to that page for you:
Feb. 1, 2006 – The Beef Board Administration Subcommittee wants all cattle producers – and any other interested parties – to know that they are welcome to attend any and all checkoff committee or Board meetings. The invitation is meant to apply not only to the meetings under way as part of the 2006 Cattle Industry Annual Convention in Denver this week, but to all meetings of checkoff committees throughout this and all years.
Members of the Administration Subcommittee, which makes recommendations regarding administrative issues of the checkoff to the CBB Executive Committee – met here at 7:30 this morning and quickly reported their resulting recommendations to the Executive Committee at that group’s 9 a.m meeting.
(Full Update – Executive Committee Page)
