Minutes

Invasive Plants Association of Wisconsin

Board of Directors Meeting

Tuesday, September 14^th 2004, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

The Nature Conservancy

Madison, WI

Board members present: Tom Boos, Gene Roark, David Hamel

Members joining via conference call: Dan Undersander, Steve Strachota, Donna Van Buecken, Patrick Goggin

Also present: Susan Lehnhardt, Angie Ashley

President, Dan Undersander, called the meeting to order.

I.    Introductions

• None

II.   Administration

• Minutes of the July board meeting were approved as submitted.
• Treasurer’s report was approved as submitted.
• Approval of posting the annual meeting minutes to the IPAW website was postponed until the next meeting

III.   Old Business

• Meeting with WI corn and soybean companies – Strachota reported on the meeting with the WI Seed Producers.
• Report on recent conferences where IPAW was represented (Utegaard, Boos) –   
• Wild Ones – Boos attended.  Most attendees were already IPAW members
• National Prairie Conference – Boos attended.  Many interested people in IPAW
• Citizen’s Monitoring Conference – Utegaard attended.
• Director’s and Officer’s Insurance (Roark, Utegaard) – Discussion postponed until next meeting.

IV. New Business: 

• Nursery industry’s input on economic impact statements - Lehnhardt prepared a summary of the meeting highlights and sent it to IPAW board members.  Boos will send Lehnhardt six copies of the working list.  Strachota sent Mike Yanni (?) economic impact statements.  He will also send them to Lehnhardt.  Lehnhardt will meet with Mike Yanni to get feedback from him.
• Science committee chair recruitment – Craig Annen is a potential chairperson.  Fall field day – Lehnhardt will talk with Reinartz to set up the field day for the Nurserymen’s Association and the Seed Producers at the field station early in October on a Tuesday or Wednesday in the late morning.
• Additional matters from members –
•  Marsha Vomastic has done lots of updates to the website.  She’s working on making the working list a workable document so that it anyone can manipulate it to their needs.
• A couple of changes to the annual meeting minutes were made and accepted.  Ashley will send an email to board members to ask for any other necessary changes.
• There was a science committee meeting regarding mapping in February 2004 with 60-70 attendees.  The science committee is setting up a follow-up meeting in mid-October to discuss the mapping effort.  A has offered to help with the mapping project.  Boos will talk with him and ask him to submit a proposal that will include his qualifications, background, a timeframe and expense.  Boos will present his proposal to the board.
• The seed producers and nurserymen asked to put an economic value on what they sell.  Any dollar value that the science committee could come up with would be helpful.  The Society for Restoration Ecology may have some info on dollar value.
• Government relations committee report (Roark) – On August 12^th, the DNR held a hearing on the rules for spending aquatic invasive species control grants.  Roark attended as an IPAW representative and supported the procedure they have for administering the grant.  He testified on behalf of IPAW that it would be helpful if grants could be given to non-profits in addition to municipalities and lake districts.  He requested that the 50-50 match become a 75-25 match, being 75% would be provided from the state and 25% provided by the organization which applied for the grant.
• Roark attended the Nurserymen Association’s Field Day in Menominee Falls on behalf of IPAW.
• Roark will attend the meeting of the Governor’s Council on Forestry September 16^th so that the view of woodland landowners is represented.  Fred Clark of Clark Forestry in Baraboo is a member of the Gov. Council on Forestry and chair of their Invasive Species Task Force.  He will be there to give a report on the task force.
• The Governor’s Council on Invasive Species will meet on September 29^th. 
• There will be a Governor’s Conference on Forestry November 9^th and 10^th at Monona Terrace. Fred Clark and John Exo, UW-Ext. Sauk County, are on the planning team for the Invasives session, which is one of seven sessions at the conference. 
• October 1^st and 2^nd there will be a Light on the Land Logging Conference at Blackhawk Ridge near Sauk City in Dane County.  There are 750-1000 attendees expected.  Kearns will have her display set up and IPAW should have a display specifically on IPAW and brochures available.  Dan Bohlin is the contact.
• Roark will write two short letters to the Secretary of the DNR and DATCAP regarding their budgets.  He will have Undersander before he sends them.

Next IPAW board meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 12th from 11:00-1:00.  Location to be determined.

Meeting adjourned at 12:00 p.m.

Minutes prepared by Angie Ashley, IPAW Program Assistant