Jerry Hobson Private
David Hallinan Bannock County
Rob Olson Bannock County
Jim Hull Franklin County
Mike Duncan Wasatch-Cache NF
Jim Wise USFS Montpelier
Gary Kidd BLM-SLFO
Morgan Mendenhall FFSL
Joel Merritt Cache County
Nate Belliston Cache County
Bill Gilson Box Elder County
January minutes were read, Bill Gilson made motion to accept with Joel Merritt 2nd the motion, minutes were then accepted as read.
Cami gave a financial report and stated that we still had $767.13 in our account. This money will be used to make an educational video and needs to be spent as soon as possible. Nate gave the U&I a bid for $1800.00 to produce a six to ten minute video that will be used for educational purposes. The money will come from the five zones plus the $767.13 left in our account this year. Through the coming year we will review the video to see how it has benefited the U&I, and if it has fulfilled the educational and promotional needs we are looking for. The video can also be used as a promotional tool for us, showing what we are all about, where we have been and where we are headed, and also added as a link to our web site. David will also help Nate with the video
David is still filling out papers for his Fish and Wildlife grant for 2006. David also reported on Idaho weed meeting held in Boise. He stated that the forest service money is down and B.L.M. is at zero dollars for this year. There should be between three to four hundred thousand possible. Idaho’s Governor Otter has said there may be six million from the State of Idaho for noxious weed control. This would be helpful to everyone involved if this is possible. David also reported that we had the highest in-kind cost share in the state at $900,000.00. We felt that our grant proposal this year had better documentation and was filled out better than in the past.
All records receipts and documentation for the year 2006 has to be turned in to Bear River RC&D.
Andy said he would get his mapping turned into Nate as soon as possible. We need this information in order to update our web site.
The information to update our AOP was turned into Nate, and he will take care of transferring the new information to our web site.
We discussed having a Dyer’s Woad Bio-Control meeting in March. We will try and schedule this meeting in Ogden Utah around the 8th of March. We would like to have Steve Burningham from the Utah Dept. of Ag. attend this meeting so the meeting date will depend upon his availability. One of the purposes for this meeting is to try and get more funding from Utah for the Dyer’s Woad Bio-Control Project.
The next U&I meeting will be held April 18th, at the Bear River RC&D office.
Jerry Hobson
Chairman
Jerry Hobson
Jim Hull
Rick Kent
David Hallinan
Aaron Hull
Joel Merritt
Minutes were read, Jim Hull made the motion they be accepted as read with David Hallinan. 2 nd the motion. Minutes were accepted.
Work days were discussed.
Bannock County had $37628.64 of in kind cost share for Spotted Knapweed
Franklin County- towards end of September treating Musk Thistle rosettes.
Box Elder County- no
Oneida- maybe in fall
Cache-may retreat area treated in spring
Dyer's Woad report: Idaho Grant $43,000, Wyoming $18,000, other $10,000, going to short $8000.00 to $10,000.00
We felt that we needed the Idaho Dept. of Ag. Speak with Utah Dept. of Ag. to explain how important it is to help fund the Dyer's Woad bio-control project. Rick will check with Utah to see if there is any money available. We felt that Utah State University needed to be involved in the project.
Next meeting was set for September 19, 2007
Meeting Adjourned
Jerry Hobson
Chairman U&ICWMA
Jerry Hobson
David Hallinan
Jim Hull
Rick Kent
Stephen Burningham
Melisa Wardle
Cami King
Joel Merritt
August 15 minutes were read and reviewed. Jim Hull made a motion the minutes be accepted with Rick Kent 2 nd the motion. Minutes were accepted as read.
Cost share guide lines were passed out and reviewed, and all grant proposals for equipment or contract work over $5000.00 must have three bids to be sent in with grant proposal and be approved by Idaho Dept. of Ag. If more information is needed we can go to the Idaho State Dept of Ag. Web site and download the hand book. Jerry recommended that all steering committee members should do this and have the hand book on hand.
Cache County had a cost share money surplus of $14,515.32, so it was decided to split it equally four ways. Bannock, Box Elder, Franklin and Oneida each received $3628.83.
We have $700.00 credit at the printing office and $677.75 carry over from our educational fund so it was decided to have Joel have Donna Vaughan's weed book printed and use up all the available funds that has been set aside for this purpose.
We need to be thinking about our grant proposal for 2008 and get all information for the 2007 year end report together.
Box Elder County may have a work day in the near future but Franklin , Oneida will not. Cache County had a work day last spring and will not have another and Bannock County has completed their's.
We will have another essay contest this year. The theme for this year will be “NOXIOUS WEEDS AND THEIR EFFECT ON RANGE LAND RESTORATION.” Jerry will e-mail the essay information to all counties participating. Prizes will be 1 st $125.00, 2 nd $75.00, 3 rd $50.00 and the grand prize $300.00. All counties will be in charge of paying prize money to the winners from their county and the grand prize will come from the five zones. The ending date will be November 14, 2007 and the grand prize will be judged November 21 st .
The Dyer's Woad Task force was discussed. Rick has talked to several key people about the Utah Dyer's Woad Task Force and will keep us updated on any progress made. Steve Burniingham was under the impression that at this time the state had no money to give to the task force. We feel that at this time we need to have someone from Utah State University on board to work with the University of Idaho . Joel will contact the university and bring back a name if they are interested.
Joel is going to write a grant for $4000.00 from Utah Weed Superintendents for Dyer's Woad research. As soon as he gets the justification the money will come in.
We will need to have all the numbers for our quarterly report as soon as possible.
Next meeting will be October 17, 2007 10:00 AM at the Bear River RC&D.
Meeting Adjourned
Jerry Hobson
Chairman U&ICWMA
Jerry Hobson
David Hallinan
Jim Hull
Aaron Hull
Rick Kent
Ryan Kosotic
Morgan Mendenhall
Cami king
September 19minutes were read and reviewed. Rick Kent made a motion that minutes be accepted and Jim Hull second the motion. Minutes were accepted as read.
Cami gave the financial report stating at this time cache County was the only county spending all their money. Bannock had $27,963.13, Oneida $35,795.96, Box Elder $17,902.78, Franklin $22,805.44, Forest Service $5.44. This money needs to be spent and accounted for by our next meeting.
Joel Merritt reported that Donna's Book was being printed and should be ready soon.
Essays will need to be picked up and brought to the November 20 meeting to be judged for the grand prize winner.
A Dyer's Woad grant for $4000 has arrived. It will come in quarterly reports from forest service. We are still looking for names from Utah to help on the Dyer's Woad Bio-Control Project. Rick and Joel will continue the search.
A new weed called BRASSICA ELONGATA has been spotted along the Cache County and Franklin County line by Jim Hull, Franklin County Weed Supervisor. This weed looks like it may be a serious problem, and may fall into our EDRR category.
Our next meeting will be November 20 at Bear River RC&D.
Meeting adjourned
Jerry Hobson
David Hallinan
Rob Olson
Aaron Hull
Rick Kent
Jim Wise
Gary Kidd
Heidi Heyrend
Joel Merritt
Cami King
Mike Duncan
Read and reviewed October 17, 2007 minutes. Rick Kent made motion that minutes be accepted. Heidi Heyrend 2 nd the motion and minutes were accepted as read.
Cami King give the financial report stating that all cost share money with the exception of $153 that will be used on the essay contest has been spent.
Everyone's in kind has been turned in.
Joel has a $10,000 for a Utah contract probably Box Elder
Box Elder has grant money for a White Top Project
Quarterly Reports exhibits 14 and 15 are done.
Dave will write the year end report and 2008 grant proposals are due by or before next meeting in December. Some questions for the 2008 AOP are #1 storage facilities, #2 Reseeding, we need enough acres to cover what we said we would do. Box Elder has the acres covered and will send paperwork to Dave. All reseeding was done privately. There was some concern from Joel Merritt that grant are causing to much administrative work and is taking away from on the ground work. The discussion was tabled until our December meeting. We need to look for reseeding acres as we are always in need of acres.
We still need write ups on work days or special project within your zone
We are still looking for a Utah name to work on the Dyer's Woad Bio-Control with the university of Idaho . Rick & Joel will continue to work on it and hope to have it in place by end of year.
Our AOP needs to be updated as we have had some changes over the past year.
Essays were judged for the grand prize of $300.00 with Taryn Traughber of Highland High School (Bannock Co.) the winner. All essays were very educational and we believe the essay program will prove to be a good educational tool in the future.
Next meeting will be December 18, 10:00 AM
Jerry Hobson
Chairman