• Minutes of the December 4th meeting were accepted as posted to the website. Minutes were taken by Vicki Lewis during the new officer transition period.
• JCEP report given by Nancy Kadwill who attended the meeting in Orlando, FL. Karen was set to attend as well but could not due to last minute illness. Nancy stated that the JCEP meeting was well done and featured several professional improvement sessions that delegates from all the associations attended together. The two major topics included "Reaching All generations in Your Extension Efforts" and "Emerging Technology and Its Use in Reaching Extension's Diverse Generational Audiences." An all-association dinner featured a talk on the upcoming Galaxy meeting and an overview of the e-Extension program as it related to the equine offerings. The event rounded out with association meetings. A more detailed report will be in the next newsletter as will our chapter/state report. We are encouraged to attend the Galaxy meeting and there will be a hotel slated for ESP (although it is not mandatory to be at that hotel). Nancy will send her expenses to Tom who will submit to the national office for our chapter reimbursement of $300. This will help towards conference expenses and the chapter will help pay the rest.
• Spring newsletter- articles were due to Nancy by February 11th. She has not received many and will try to contact committee chairs for their reports (she did get the report from Marilyn Corbin regarding membership). Karen will again post minutes to the website.

Treasurer's Report

• Tom walker was welcomed as the new treasurer to replace Rick Stup who has taken another position outside of PA extension. Tom stated our beginning balance as of 1/28/08 was $4,972.54. Deposits on 2/15/08 included $322 for "Extension Extended" and $2,030 for memberships. Expenses for national dues totaled $2,860 leaving a balance of $4,342.54 in the checking account as of 2/19/08.
• Tom to contact Dan Nestlerode regarding updates on the investment and 2007 accounts.
• Karen is to research banking system to go with in the future. She will also work with Tom to double check about fall workshop- did they bill us for a room charge? Karen will check with Amy for an itemized summary of our expenses from short course office. There were still some questions about the $200 promised from Daney's office for workshop needs (did all of this go to table rentals or other things)?
• Karen gave the membership report stating there were 63 members and about 42 life members. Fred Davis felt there were more life members (maybe closer to 90) so Karen will check into this for the group. We are pleased to welcome Lee Miller as a new life member.
• Tom will also check on whether or not we received the money from the other associations for the JCEP Forgivable Loan. Each of the four major associations gives $100 towards that loan.

• Vicki will assign a committee to those members who are not currently on a specific committee. She will also find out the deadline for sending the committee chairs names to national office and making sure each of our chapter committees has designated their current chair and co-chair.
• PILD- Vicki will represent us at the upcoming PILD conference April 27-May 1st. Discussion was held on increasing expenses above the $500 in the budget to help cover her expenses. Vicki did apply for a scholarship but did not receive it. Since expenses are higher than the $500 we have budgeted, it was suggested that this year we might be able to offer some of the dollars not used by Karen in attending the JCEP regional meeting. Karen will look into this.
  President's Report
• Our chapter awards for 2008 are being reviewed and tweaked as needed to make sure they are all in order. They are due to national by March 1st and Karen will send them in. Discussion was held regarding recognition for state level Ruby award winners. At this time it will stay as is and that is that there is no special award but the honor of having your application go on to national for judging.
• 2011 National meeting; New York will take the lead on this but they want the hosting to be a regional effort. A committee is looking into sites and at this time they are considering either Saratoga Springs or Syracuse, NY.
• This is a PA JCEP meeting on March 5th in State College area with Daney Jackson. Karen and Vicki will represent ESP.
• Reception at the Penn Stater during Spring In-service; Karen and Vicki will be there and we will go ahead with it; will try to use as a promotional and recruiting effort.

• Fred was pleased the awards were being reviewed before going on to national so that all components of the various awards would be together. He felt most of the other issues were already covered in earlier discussions.
• At the Galaxy this fall there is a life member track and people were encouraged to submit proposals for doing presentations. We believe this is unique to ESP.
  Other Business: Nancy is working with the 2008 National Galaxy Special Events Committee and asked what would be important to have at the First Timers Reception since it will probably be a large crowd (maybe up to 400 people). It was felt that representatives from each association should be there to help answer questions; could also cover attire for various events; and restate what and where for major conference events.

Next Meeting- The next board meeting will be held on April 7th; 3:00 PM at Karen Vines' home. She will send us directions.

Respectfully submitted

Nancy M. Kadwill
Secretary