Agenda November 6, 2002

Date: January 7, 2008
Location: Sawmill Saloon, Seeley

Present: Waldo Asp, Fred Blake, Chuck Block, Jim Brakken, Earl Cook, Roger Dreher, Jan Eck, Lisa Gabriel, Mary Jo Gingras, Ted Griggs, John Haack (Note taker), Tim Kane, Mike Klink, Paul Schwister, Sheri Snowbank (Note taker), Lorna Wilson

Speaker Recruitment
For the next meeting all speaker recruiters NEED to bring:
1. the title of the presentation
2. a short description of the presentation, i.e. topics that will be covered.

Lakes Fish and Wildlife (moderator John)

Topic - Speaker	Contact Volunteer	Agreed	Notes
For the birds – Laura Erickson	Lorna	Yes	Needs mileage
Fish stocking – Scott Toshner WDNR.GLIFWC, and WI aquaculture reps will be invited to add information if needed. Will not be a panel discussion.	Roger D.	Yes	No mileage or rm for Scott
VHS and AIS – Ron Johnson UWEXT aquaculture specialist. Bill Swenson is not available for AIS will try Julia Solomon.	Tim	Yes for Ron	Ron, no mileage. Need to contact Julia Solomon.

Lake Science (moderator Mary Jo)

Topic - Speaker	Contact Volunteer	Agreed	Notes
Wetlands – Erin O’Brien Also a gifted entertainer and would like to sing at the event. Will see if she could entertain at the barbeque	Ted	Yes	Needs mileage and rm See if she will sing at BBQ and need to find out travel plans. AM or PM presentation
Limo 101 Basic – Tim Asplund and Pamela	Pamela	Yes - Both	No mileage or rm for either
Lake in the Landscape (advanced limno) – John Magnuson	Pamela	Yes	Needs honorarium, mileage and room. Need to set honorarium, John H. advised Pamela to keep honorarium $200 or below.

Legal and Government (moderator Earl)

Topic - Speaker	Contact Volunteer	Agreed	Notes
Legislative Update– Peter ( NR115 was taken off. It will not be done by the conference. )	Susan T.	Working	Earl reported, Peter is no longer at WAL. Tami Jackson with WAL (lead legal representative) is 1st choice. If not Mary Ellen Vollbrecht is a possibility.
Recreational Use Ordinances – Dave Zebro, Bob Korth, Rick Stadelman -Town person	Fred & Waldo	Working
Taxes and tax breaks - To cover how is a property assessed and the tax benefits of a conservation easement.– Doug Kurtweil	Jim	Yes	Mileage???

Lake and Shoreline Health (moderator Ted)

Topic - Speaker	Contact Volunteer	Agreed	Notes
CHANGE - Shoreline tips - Lynn Markham, Amy Kelsey or other will now be Aquatic Plant Management Plans Overview with Cheryl Clemens	Lorna w/ MaryJo to follow up	Yes	Mileage??, Cheryl is planning on being a vendor
Shoreline Restoration How To – Sarah Boles	Lorna	Yes	From Cable area
Communicating Enivronmentally – Dorothy Lagaroos	Jim	Yes	Free registration no mileage needed

Keynote

Topic - Speaker	Contact Volunteer	Agreed	Notes
Youth speaker from Burnett county Lucas Diamond did a presentation on VHS (5 minutes) – awarded 3rd at state.	Roger N.	Yes	in the past pay for their and parents registration and mileage
John Magnuson	Pamela	Yes	see earlier notes about honorarium/mileage etc

Youth Stream (Jan, Jim, John)
Youth Stream (Jan, Jim, John)
Originally had Limno 101 and Pontoon Classroom
A lot of discussion about recruitment, planning, volunteers, and liabilities. Decided it is a worthwhile effort and maybe the NWLC day would not be the best day for a pontoon classroom. Decided to offer a student reduction of $20.00 and inquire with WAL about their scholarship program.

Thursday Sessions

Topic - Speaker	Contact Volunteer	Agreed	Notes
Grant Case Studies Workshop	Pamela, Carol Labreck, and Sandy Anderson	Yes	It will happen, but specific case studies still up in the air.
AIS / Clean Boats - Laura Herman and Erin H.	Lisa and Stefania S.	Yes	Lisa will asked about mileage, shouldn’t be any.
Region wide collaboration (14 counties)	Waldo & Jim	Yes	Need meeting agenda& details.
Glacial Lakes Partnership (the partnership will help pick up their room and food costs)	Pamela	Working	still up in the air.

Big Top performance update
After a lot of negotiating the Park Service will fund ½ of the cost. ($3250.00). Both shows must be open to the public. When they register conference goers will get a ticket to the performance that is good for either the afternoon or evening performance. For the performance alone it will be $15.00 at the door. Even without the fund raising aspect Bayfield County Lakes is still willing to host, but more people may be needed. Big Top will help with promotion for a fee and can do online registration for the shows. Online registration will be $18.00. (A fee is added per head to cover the costs for online registration) Big Top suggested having tickets available in Hayward, Telemark, etc as well. We will still need to work hard on promotion to make this work.

Budget
Roger handed out three budgets, break even, optimistic and pessimistic. Discussed raising the conference price to $45 to ensure keeping in the red. Some feelings that may influence attendance numbers. Roger will recalculate the budget and bring an updated version next meeting with the $40.00 registration remaining. Click here to see the latest Break Even budget.

Jim spoke with the Muskie Fest people and they are willing to include information in their promotions. They are already done with their county brochure, but we are listing.

Business sponsors for the Big Top Show and barbeque was asked about. $500 would cover the barbeque and $3250 is needed for the Big Top outright. In the past Roger has gotten multiple sponsors (able to donate a different levels) in return for names in packet info and introduction PowerPoint. Jan was going to look into a potential larger sponsor.

Draft Schedule
Roger drafted a schedule of the day. Click here to see it. It was noted that evaluations will need to be turned in before the performance.

Next Meeting
February 4th at the Dinner Bell in Trego 10-12pm.
Next meeting we will finalize the agenda, speak about food selection, Conference promotion tasks, Speaker Letters and Subcommittee assignments. Roger will review fund raising.