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North Carolina Cooperative Extension State Advisory Council

January 31 – February 2, 2006

Duplin County Extension Center

Tuesday, January 31st Erskine Bowles Briefing Total Attendance (27)

North Carolina Cooperative Extension State Advisory Council Members in attendance:

Steva Allgood, Ireni Autry, Charles Boyd, Sam Brake, Josh Bridges, Cheryl Brown, Wanda Denning, Sue Glovier, Venson Greene, Perry Graves, Steven Mercer, Jack Parker, Chuck Moseley, Reid Pollard, George Quigley, Noland Ramsey, B.A. Smith, JoAnn Stroud, Shelly Willingham, Dave Woodmansee, Lynn Yokely

NCSU Administration in attendance:

Ed Emory, Joy Staton, Autumn Hoban, Harvey Fouts, Marshall Stewart, Russell King

Strategic Planning Council in attendance:

Larree Cherry

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Briefing began at 2:00 p.m.

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v Opening: Wanda Denning, NC Cooperative Extension State Advisory Council Chair

v Welcome and Introduction of New Members:

Venson Greene

Jack Parker

Steva Allgood

v Introduction to Duplin County Extension Center: Ed Emory, County Extension Director (CED) and Jo Ann Stroud, Member, NC Cooperative Extension State Advisory Council (SAC)

v University of North Carolina President Erskine Bowles Video Presentation: Joy Staton

v Composition of questions and points to get across to University of North Carolina President Erskine Bowles: SAC members

Topics discussed included: Agricultural Education, the role of networking, and the extent to which the Cooperative Extension and the Advisory Leadership System and what we do is known.

SAC Chair, Wanda Denning and SAC members Reid Pollard, Noland Ramsey, and Steve Mercer were chosen to speak/deliver the SAC questions to President Erskine Bowles with the main goal being to give President Bowles the thoughts that SAC would want him to walk away with and remember from his encounter today with Extension.

The two key points were:

1. NCCE, through its faculty, staff and volunteers, touches more lives from pre-birth to late adulthood regardless of race, age and economic background than any other branch of the university. For generations, NCCE has been instrumental in developing leaders of tomorrow. Continue to recognize that NCCE is a vehicle for outreach to agricultural and non-agricultural communities. Utilize this asset and fund accordingly.

2. Recognize that the Advisory Leadership System of NCCE encompasses more than 80,000 advisory leaders and volunteers who are passionate and committed to the mission of NCCE. More than that, with accurate information and guidance, they are committed to the mission of NCSU, NC A&T, and the UNC System. Your predecessor opened the door that allowed our volunteers to be true advocates. We ask that you continue to use this invaluable network at the local, state and national level to help you achieve your vision for the UNC system.

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Meeting Adjourned at 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, January 31st President Erskine Bowles Reception Total Attendance (43)

University of North Carolina President Erskine Bowles

SAC Members in attendance: Steva Allgood, Ireni Autry, Charles Boyd, Sam Brake, Josh Bridges, Cheryl Brown, Wanda Denning, Sue Glovier, Venson Greene, Perry Graves, Steven Mercer, Chuck Moseley, Jack Parker, Reid Pollard, George Quigley, Noland Ramsey, B.A. Smith, Gabriel Soltren, Jo Ann Stroud, Shelly Willingham, Dave Woodmansee, Lynn Yokely

NCSU Administration in attendance:

Chancellor James L. Oblinger, Dean Johnny Wynne, Dean PAMS, Dean VET MED, two NCSU Department Deans, Andy Willis, Jon Ort, Ed Emory, Joy Staton, Autumn Hoban, Harvey Fouts, Marshall Stewart, Russell King, Wayne Batten, Peggie Garner, Wanda Sykes,

A&T University in attendance:

Albert Brown

Shirley McNeill

Strategic Planning Council:

Larree Cherry

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Reception began at 4:25 PM

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v Welcome and Tour of Duplin County Center: Ed Emory, CED, NC Cooperative Extension – Duplin County Center

v Welcome: Wanda Denning, SAC Chair

v Introductions: Jo Ann Stroud, SAC Member

v Brief Overview of County Operations: Ed Emory, CED, NC Cooperative Extension- Duplin Center

v Introduction of Chancellor James L. Oblinger: Wanda Denning, SAC Chair

v Remarks and Introduction of President Bowles: Chancellor James L. Oblinger

v Remarks and Discussions with SAC: President Erskine Bowles

Highlights of Remarks and Discussions with SAC – President Erskine Bowles

Please contact Autumn Hoban at if you would like the transcript sent to you via e-mail.

It will play on Windows Media Player.

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Meeting adjourned with a standing ovation for President Bowles at 6:00 pm

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Wednesday, February 1st SAC Meeting Total Attendance (37)

NCSU Administration in attendance: Chancellor James L. Oblinger, Dean Johnny Wynne, Dean PAMS, Dean VET MED, other NCSU Department Deans, Andy Willis, Jon Ort, Ed Emory, Joy Staton, Autumn Hoban, Harvey Fouts, Marshall Stewart, Russell King, Wayne Batten, Peggie Garner, Wanda Sykes

A&T University in attendance: Albert Brown, Shirley McNeill

Wednesday, February 1st SAC Meeting - Business Session Total Attendance (22)

SAC Business Session began at 8:15 am

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v Opening: Wanda Denning,

NC Cooperative Extension State Advisory

Council Chair, Presiding

v Welcome and Introduction of New Members:

Venson Greene ( not present)

Jack Parker

Steva Allgood

v Brief Introduction of Members present: (see attendance list)

v Opening: Wanda Denning,

NC Cooperative Extension State Advisory

Council Chair, Presiding

v Wanda Denning Introduction of meeting hosts- Thank you to the hosts for the SAC Meeting, Ed Emory and Jo Ann Stroud, and thank you for the use of the Duplin County Center.

v Dave Woodmansee: Announced that he had brought forestry product boxes to pass out to those who would like to have them. Mr. Woodmansee stated, “he thought it was important to understand that succession is a natural part of what happens in the forest over time and how harvesting and cutting trees is a part of forestry and a part of forest management.”

v Ed Emory and Jo Ann Stroud – A Brief history of the Duplin County Center and how it came to be was given.

The Duplin County Center is a 14 million dollar project. One million was given by the General Assembly to plan and $346, 000 of that was used to purchase 126 acres of land. Once a plan was in place, the general assembly came through with another $500,000. In 1990, the USDA offered to consolidate money that was left over from hurricane Floyd into one project so they offered Duplin County a long-term, extremely low interest rate loan of 11 million dollars and the county opted to take that. The Duplin County Center has been used for educational training for more than 6,000 people from September 2005 to December 2005.

v Ed Emory – Talked about the exhibits around the center.

1) 4-H After-School Program

Teaches science, technology, nutrition, leadership, public speaking, etc.

2) Peanut Program

In 2002 we had no peanut acreage here in Duplin County, by the end of 2005 we have 2,460 acres of peanuts.

3) Agricultural Tourism Sites

A web-based trail of over 400 agricultural tourism sites that Duplin County works with. This is a program Duplin County piloted and started with the NC Arts Council and Handmade in America.

4) Muscadine Growth Initiative

Muscadine Grapes are an important commodity because of the growth in the wine industry and also because of the health benefits of the muscadine grape.

5) Liquid Animal Waste Management Systems

Duplin county has more than 500 large livestock farms or hog farms. We train and certify over 1,200 people in Animal Waste Management.

6) Waste Management Systems in the Poultry Industry

Duplin County has 330 large poultry operations and the poultry industry is expanding. New and pending regulations in the Poultry Industry are driving the demand for poultry waste management systems.

7) Family and Consumer Science Programs

A variety of educational programs on nutrition, wellness, parenting, and court referred youth and parent interaction.

v Ed Emory- Fielded questions and discussed the Latino population growth in Duplin County.

One challenge that Duplin county faces is that the county has the fastest growing Latino population of any county in the state, with 16-17% documented Latino’s. Some of our schools are 30% to 60% Hispanic. The Latino Population in Duplin County supplies the majority of the employees who work in the poultry industry. They also supply many employees to the food and service industries of Duplin County. Duplin County has a Latino initiative aimed at bringing the community around the needs of the Latino population and Duplin county is in the process of establishing a Latino Service Center. Language barriers and lack of education in the Hispanic community were additional issues discussed.

v Wanda Denning Introduction – Dr. Jon Ort, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Associate Dean &

Director, NC Cooperative Extension

v Dr. Jon Ort - Opened the meeting with a Cooperative Extension Update/DVD presentation.

v Wanda Denning Introduction - Andy Willis, Assistant to the Chancellor for External Affairs,

North Carolina State University

v Andy Willis - Overview of Political Landscape

§ 2005 Legislative Session was the most successful session in 15 years for NCSU obtaining 52-57 million dollars in new funding.

Areas encompassed in the funding included:

Ø Enrollment

Ø Salary Equity

Ø Continuous funding for bio-manufacturing training center

Ø Faculty Salary

Ø 9 million dollars in planning funds for new 100 million dollar Engineering building to be built at NCSU Centennial Campus.

§ Early in the 2005 Legislature there were talks of cutting university funding by 5 to 6 %.

Ø One approach we took to counter was a “Call to Action.”

This approach included: partnering set-up between NCSU and A&T State University, a broad-based solicitation of phone calls and e-mails from people in all districts of North Carolina to their respective members of the legislature, as well as an individual based effort to contact legislative members opposing the universities funding requests.

Ø Another approach we are currently working on is to link the State Advisory Council to NCSU’s web site. A re-design effort has begun for the NCSU home page and web site to deal strictly with “Advocacy” and update information on “Advocacy” weekly through the NCSU web site. NCSU has been “horrible” at marketing how much we do for the community and for years we have tried to educate the legislature about what Extension. The legislature now knows the value we deliver, but we need to expand our focus on the broad based and individual marketing of that value.

Ø Extension is introducing President Bowles to Extension and it’s valuable programs. President Bowles did not know that Ag Extension encompasses more than Agriculture. He admitted he did not know a lot about what we do until hearing about it and seeing it today. He said, “We are not using these people, and we need to”.

§ Andy Willis commented that Bowles outlined one of his priorities was the retention in our Science and Technology Areas of the University System. He quoted statistics that indicated in the US only 200,000 degrees were given in the field of Engineering last year compared to 630,000 degrees in the field of Engineering given in the Pacific Rim.

Ø The following statistics for the graduation rates of Chemistry teachers last year at NCSU and A&T State University were given: 3 Chemistry teachers from NCSU and 2 Chemistry teachers from A&T State.

Ø President Bowles now knows that our 4-H Program has people already in place teaching Science & Technology in after-school programs across the state. We will need to push for more funding to expand our efforts towards this common goal.

§ Andy Willis commented that President Bowles has laid out a different approach to budgeting than was used in the past.

Ø President Bowles has requested the top six priorities be described in a 7 to 8 page document from each of the 16 campuses and suggests that the Chancellors fight out the the top priorities for the entire University System.

Ø President Bowles has set-up like a political office in that he is setting up a platform, with 5 years to get it done. He’s going to give it to the Universities, and then he’s going to sort it out.

Ø President Bowles top two priorities are:

#1 To get enrollment funding for the 16 University campuses into Budget Continuation Status. Currently much energy and time is spent yearly to obtain this funding. Budget Continuation would guarantee funding for enrollment each year. The prediction is that he has the political clout to get this done.

#2 To increase University Faculty, Staff, and Field Faculty salaries 5 to 6 % this year.

v Panel of County Managers -

Ø Fred Eldridge – Duplin County Manager

Background: Industrial Manufacturing, Production, Personnel,

Quality, Communications, and Healthcare.

Primary areas where the Cooperative Extension has succeeded in Duplin County were in the growth of Agriculture and Agra-business. “Ed Emory of the Duplin County Extension Center works extremely well with the County.”

Ø Howard Blizzard – Craven County Manager

Background: Political Science Degree with concentration in

State and local government, and Assistant County Manager in

Johnston County and Wilson County, County Manager in

Granville County.

Primary areas where the Cooperative Extension has succeeded in Craven County were excellent communications and relationships. “Craven County treats Cooperative Extension the same as any other department within the county. The activity reports created are forwarded on to the county commissioners.”

Ø Larry Meadows – Jones County Manager

Background: Business Administration Degree and 32 years of

service to Jones County.

Primary area where the Cooperative Extension has succeeded in Jones County was communications. “ Communication is the key. Specific areas where Cooperative Extension has been a success are Senior Services, the Trent River Project, and attracting good people for the Advisory Councils.”

SAC Question: Where can the Cooperative Extension improve?

Responses: 1) “No complaints, we don’t worry unless we hear of a problem.”

2) “Managers look for feedback from the community and it has been good.”