Operating Committee To Decide On Checkoff Programs

Another checkoff fiscal year is just around the bend, so we’ve got a lot of work to get done here in the next couple of weeks, particularly those producers who serve on the Beef Promotion Operating Committee or the CBB Executive Committee. On Sept. 15-16, the Operating Committee will meet in Denver to review and approve Authorization Requests (ARs) to fund program activities with national checkoff dollars in Fiscal Year 2010, which begins Oct. 1, 2009. Members of the Executive Committee will observe this meeting and then follow immediately with an Executive Committee meeting on the afternoon of Sept. 16.

We will have some good news and some bad news to discuss at the Operating Committee meeting. The good news is that actual revenues for the current year should come in a bit higher than our revised projections, and revenues for the coming year are still expected to be on target. The bad news is that our CBB budget for 2010 is nearly 22 percent below our budget of Fiscal Year 2007. The Operating Committee will have its work cut out for it to ensure we maintain a strong, diversified program of promotion, research and information.

This year, we will receive presentations from contractors of 37 ARs with requested CBB funding of more than $40.3 million, which is $1.4 million more than the available budget at this time. We will have some additional funds available as a result of surplus revenues for 2009 and unspent administration expenses, but we’ll still have a lot of tough decisions to make. 

Links to the agendas for the Operating and Executive committee meetings are below, and please come back to this site during and after the meetings, as we’ll be posting reports from the meetings right here.

Tom Jones
CBB Secretary/Treasurer
Pottsville, AR

• Sept. 15-16 Beef Promotion Operating Committee MEETING AGENDA
• Sept. 16 CBB Executive Committee MEETING AGENDA