Board of Directors Meeting
Thursday, January 20th, 2005, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Moore Hall, Room 364, UW-Madison Campus
Madison, WI
Board members present: Dan Undersander, Tom Boos, Nancy Braker, Gene Roark, Rolf Utegaard
Members joining via conference call: David Hamel, Steve Strachota, Donna Van Buecken, Patrick Goggin
Also present: Kelly Kearns, Amy Staffen, Bill Hoch, Angie Ashley
President, Dan Undersander, called the meeting to order.
I. Introductions
- Bill Hoch, post-grad student, is working on woody ornamental breeding, specifically on a sterile version of Japanese Barberry.
II. Administration
- Minutes of the December board meeting were approved as submitted.
- Treasurer’s report was approved as submitted. Boos will work on 2005 budget. The last
six months of 2005 IPAW will need to pay for an assistant. Ashley will give Boos estimate of hours for assistant.
- IPAW board meetings will be held the second Tuesday of the month from 11:00-1:00 until further notice.
III. Old Business
- Economic Impact Statements – Undersander and Strachota met with ASTA. It was agreed that the list would remain unchanged, but species with economic importance would be stated as such. Intent is to involve the Nurserymen in the process. Strachota will add footnote to justify the numbers. Add “Cost of Control” on natural areas document. Board to get changes to Strachota within next two weeks. Kearns or Braker will get Strachota alternatives for natural areas. Ask science committee specific questions. Ashley will send Strachota a summary of comments then send out statements to board, Kearns, and Staffen, asking for comments again. Braker and Strachota will identify which species need to be listed for natural areas. Braker will pull list together and send to Craig Annen and Chris Reyes, Science Committee co-chairs Possibly pull in Lisa Johnson from UW-Extension to help write it up. Kearns will talk with Greg Long. End product will be put on website with a few links to access them. Science committee could help with cost per acre of control.
- Status of newsletter articles – Dave Beckmann can only help with one or two more newsletters, but will help get a new layout person started. Staffen will ask Susan Slapnick, who currently works with the Campus Natural Areas website, if she would be interested in helping with the IPAW newsletter. Main function will be to format newsletter four times per year. Hamel will ask Beckmann for an estimate of hours. Articles for next newsletter need to be to Beckmann by Monday, February 21st. Mailing second week of March. Newsletter articles:
Staffen – Invasive Species Awareness Month and actions landowners can take
Undersander – Summary of Nancy’s work with IPAW (postponed until next newsletter)
Braker – Summary of Dan’s work with IPAW (postponed until next newsletter)
David Eagan - Black Swallow Wort
Kearns – Regional groups update, if any
Braker – Largest Weed Contest
Kearns – Update on Governor’s Council
Goggins – Northern Invasive Aquatic Conference
Goggins – Clean Boat, Clean Water
Boos – Warm and fuzzy feel good story
Boos and Reinartz – Calendar
Van Buecken – Article on developing relationships with municipalities, ordinances made and changed.
- Science committee mapping project (Boos) – Chris Reyes and Craig Annen are the new co-chairs of the science committee. Committee will be working on developing statewide mapping standards and trying to find ways to coordinate invasive plant mapping and data sharing. Michael Ullrich will submit a proposal to IPAW. He can help with, how to manage data and to what scale and explore all databases.
IV. New Business:
- Education committee and website (Staffen) – Staffen will meet with website committee, Tom Brock and Kelly Kearns to develop material for IPAW website, review website and solicit people to provide content. Ashley to look for resolution in IPAW files about the process for approving website material. Board agreed website committee should be subcommittee of education committee.
- Development of Speaker’s Bureau (Staffen) – Staffen is working with David Bayer on a speaker’s bureau. So far there are 26 speakers. Staffen requested that the board look at the IPAW website and provide comment to her.
- Nominations for new board members (Braker/Undersander) – Braker and Undersander developed a database of roughly 30 potential board members. Undersander and Braker’s terms are expiring. Motion was approved to approve six individuals for election and add two positions to the board. The board accepted the following slate of candidates:
Utegaard and Reinartz – reelection
John Exo, UW-Extension
Amy Staffen, IPAW education committee chair
Tom Hunt, UW-Platteville faculty
Mark Feider, Southeast regional group
Braker and Ashley will work on election ballots. Ballots to be mailed mid-March.
- 2005 IPAW Conference (Kearns) – IPAW may be able to hook in with the WI Wetlands Association Conference to be held late January, early February 2006. Madison is the location and the prices are kept low. Wetland invasives would likely be the focus of possibly the second half of one day and the third day could focus on species other than wetland invasives. Kearns will check to see if they need a formal letter of commitment. Ashley will send a list of IPAW members interested in helping with the conference to Kearns and Staffen.
- 2007 IPAW Conference (Utegaard) –
- October 2007, State Master Gardner Association Conference in Eau Claire. Will be held half day Friday and all day Saturday.
- Nurserymen’s Association
- December 2006, Weed Science Society in Milwaukee. Undersander will talk with Jerry Doll to find out their theme, how long, and where IPAW could fit in.
- Additional matters –
- Possible UW intern for IPAW. Boos will write a job description and send to Stan Dodson at UW-Madison. Intern may have to be supervised by a board member. A notice should be sent to the list serve for a topic and a manager.
The next IPAW board meeting will be Tuesday, March 8th at The Nature Conservancy in Madison from 11:00-1:00.
Meeting adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Minutes prepared by Angie Ashley, IPAW Program Assistant
