Board of Directors Meetingdate: January 23, 2014

Board of Directors Meetingdate: January 23, 2014

Board of Directors MeetingDate: January 23, 2014

AttendingBoard: Megan Cullen, Eileen Dickey, MarkFugate, Alan Hitt, Mike Kirkwood, Alan Hitt, Dulcie Sinn, and Mike Sell

Others in attendance: Victoria Conner, Sandra Dickerson, Richard Gracyk and Janelle Osbourne

Absent Board Members: Clearwater,and Hunter

Mike Kirkwood opened the meeting at 3:10PM, being held at the Dick DeWeiss Center in Lompoc and welcomed board members and guests.

  • Michael Sell reviewed the treasurer’s report in detail and stated we have a cash position of approximately $15,000 as of January 2014. Report was moved to accept by the board with no discussion and all voting to accept.
  • Review of minutes from November 20, 2013 board meeting, Mark requested correction of his name from Burt to Mark.
  • Moved by Dulcie Sinn and seconded by Megan Cullen followed by a unanimous vote to accept the minutes.
  • The next agenda item was the contract proposal submitted by Victoria Conner of Strategic Vitality LLC as a Scope of Work proposal for three months beginning with January 1, 2014 and ending March 31, 2014. The contract is included as an attachment with these minutes for review.
  • Mike Kirkwood made a motion to accept the contract and seconded by Dulcie. The motion was voted and carried by all to accept.
  • Next item was operations chair report presented by Vicki Conner –Vicki has reviewed and updated the Organization Overview power point and went over each of the roadmap initiatives. Vicki clarified that the board needs to make changes as necessary in the teams and roadmap as needed due to the many changes in individual team meetings. She also stated the County of Santa Barbara just released the County Ag Report, which can be found on the County Ag Commissioner website, and shows significant dollars produced by County farmers, mostly in north Santa Barbara County. Vicki clarified the joint venture we agreed to have with United Way of Santa Maria regarding the August 3 day Educational Initiative from August 4th, 5th, and 6th. The 6th will be reserved for EconAlliance portion and all will be held at the Hotel Corque in Solvang. Funds collected by EconAlliance will be used for the third day only and the net proceeds will be split with United Way of Santa Maria from that day. Mike Kirkwood reminded us all that we as a board previously agreed in concept to co-sponsor the event, but now need a detailed budget for our responsibility.
  • Next item wasan overview of the City of Lompoc Economic Development program including an update regarding on the Broadband expansion. First up and introduced by Dulcie was Janelle Osbourne, the vice-chair of the Lompoc Economic Development Committee. What follows is an overview;

Built on 80 acres, this state-of-the-art facility will serve as the premier training location for Fire, Law Enforcement, EMS, and Environmental Technology. The complex is located on the scenic California Central Coast in beautiful Santa Barbara County in Lompoc. It serves students enrolled in the college's public safety programs and additionally provides specialized and customized training that meets the needs of local, regional, state, national, and international public agencies and private industries.

The complex is also well-equipped to meet the safety training needs associated with the nation's energy supply, including clean and alternative energy and the upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas industry sectors and subsectors. Further, the complex is designed to accommodate training related to homeland security, disaster preparedness, and emergency response.

Certain aspects of the complex are available to private safety contractors, the entertainment industry, advertising and marketing agencies, various clubs, and others by special arrangement.

  • Janelle spoke of many other projects Lompoc is moving toward completion including the introduction of Richard Gracyk, who works for the City of Lompoc and is the Broadband specialist. Richard discussed the expansion attempts the city is involved with and hopes to have a greater presence of broadband to attract major data businesses.
  • Vicki came back after allowing the guests to complete their topics with a discussion of the Ag Forum being tentatively scheduled for May 29th this year and will be a one day conference located in Lompoc at the DeWeiss Center and hope to generate a major sponsorship from RaboBank.
  • Sandra discussed the c(3) organization structure and our need to complete our exemption filing with the IRS and the State of California. Alex Simas does not feel comfortable completing those forms. Sandra wants outside assistance to ensure the forms are completed accurately. Sandra asked for motion to ask Hilda Zacarias to complete the exempton filing.
  • The motion is to pay Hilda Zacarias no more than $1,000 to complete the exemption forms for the IRS and the State of California was passed with unanimous vote.
  • Mike closed the meeting at 5:15pm with the next meeting scheduled for February 20, at the Santa Maria office at 3pm to 5pm
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