Santa Clara County 4-H Club Council
2007-09-11
7:21 PM
Call to order,
Flag Salute/4-H Pledge
All Stars

CLUB ROSTER ROLL CALL
*     Adams
*     Calaveras Hills
*     Coyote Crest
*     El Sereno
     Hilltop
*     Homesteaders
     Los Gatos
     Oakwood
     Pacheco Pass
*     Pleasant Acres
     Rolling Hills
*     San Martin
     Westwind
*     Deborah Lang, UCCE 4-H YDP Program Rep

Minutes
Posted

Installation of New Club Council Officers
Sarah Pence - VP
Jenel Vincze - cooresponding secretary

SLC Attendees Report
Open to 4-H members going into 9th grade or older.

Jennifer Coe, 2007-2008 State Ambassador (one of 11)
Talked about the Ambassador's efforts during the upcoming year.

Deborah Lang, Program Rep
Oakwood Club visitation
Kids of the club wanted it to continue, adults were ready to fold the club.
No parental support. Another visit is planned on 6:30 pm 24 September. Want to have a Project Tour at their next meeting October 15th.

President’s Report
Handouts were sent around: state newsletter; National Conference; Comp Corps; State Field Day at UC Davis; Shooting sports certification for Archery instruction.

4-H brand network: lots of good colatteral for the program.

Treasurer’s Report
Year-end report.

VP report:
Coyote Crest provided

7:30 PM
Other Reports
All Stars
Welcome our 2007-2008 team
Chrissy Switzer and Rachel Coe
Mission Statement -
Year long plan -

Advisors
Vaughn Rodriguez and
Lora Carey

Large Animal:
Three people have agreed to share leadership of the County Goat
Committee; they are:
Mallory Curtis
Rhonda Kost
Sarah Pence

The large animal Goat Committee has oversight of all Dairy and Meat Goat Projects in the County. The committee is also responsible for running the Fair shows for those two species.

Note that Pygmy Goats are actually small animals and have a separate committee.

The Fair Awards Committee has published the list of all Fair Awards in the September Timely Topics.

There is also an article in Timely Topics on the winners of the Cattlewomen's Association Carcass Contest winners. There were 7 steers that met the quality and market criteria; 6 of them, including the first three places, were 4-H'ers.

HANS Toensfeldt

Small Animal:
It appears that we will be having a Fair next summer.

Engineering Science

Family Science
Acheivement Night Oct 27 @ 7 PM at Town Hall at the Fair Grounds
State Fashion Revue:
County Fashion Revue: 3rd weekend of May

Public Relations
Loraine Johnson
SJ Giants 4-H night:
Mega Field Day: articles have been submitted to various media.

Social Science


Plant Science
Lora Carey
Horiculture field day at state field day
National contest

3 Financial Aide requests from prior to Camp:
MSC to approve the support that these requests addressed.


Program Rep
Deborah Lang
dalang@ucdavis.edu
Most of the UCDavis.edu email addresses are down this week. Some kind of issue with their servers.

Program and Project development planning requirement. Dean Memorial Fund application is very similar to this planning form.

September 29th 10am to 3pm - Leader training at Berger drive auditorium.

Feb 23, 2008 is Record Book Training at UC Davis. 10 spots per county.

Fe Moncloa is involved in research project to show how young people are successful at going out into the community and how to facilitate change with respect to a target effort of their choosing. a weekend training at Walden West will be given to

Vicky:
Chocolate contributions to the County basket to the SLF silent auction are needed. Vicky provided the basket and the bottle of Cooper-Garod Wine.
Policy committee: new 4-H Safety handbook: look at:
http://www.ca4h.org/projresource/curriculum/
and
http://safty.ucanr.org/4h/clover_safe_notes.htm
for the new primary member safety


Ongoing Business
clean up of Steve the storage container September 22, 9 am


Mega Field Day
John submitted a request to Prucsh Park to have a Clover Foundation to have a table there at the Harvest Festival
If we rent tables from Prusch Park, it could cost about $400.

MSC to spend up to $600 for renting tables and chairs fro Prusch Park
next meeting 3PM september 22
Clubs need to get ready to participate in the event.

SMARGE Animal Field Day
Nothing new yet

State Leaders Forum 2007
Basket and wine we have, now we need CHOCOLATE to fill it.

8:30 PM
New Business
listserv for people not in 4-H: how to start it up.
counnty-wide Goat project: for people who are interested in Goats, but don't have a goat.
September 19th, at Sarah Pence's house. First meeting.

County-wide projects: getting information out to the county via the scc4h.org website, contact Gary Lang to get that set up.

NC Sectional Meeting here in Berger Dr. auditorium. 8:30 am for youth council meeting, 9:30 am for full council meeting.

We need to get complete roster of reps to NC Sectional meetings.

Thank you note from Bob Towle: Volunteer of Excellence award.

invitation to the Coyote Grange: a speaker from Pacific Legal Foundation, Property rights, etc.

Joey Gadd was asking about the Welcome signage: Can 4-H get their part of any existing signs welcoming people to the various jurisdictions in the county?

Fair book needs to be done November 31, which Hans is working on now.
Stills needs to get straightened out as it exists in the book.

9:35 PM Adjourn meeting

Respectfully submitted,
Gary Lang
Secretary, Santa Clara 4-H Club Council