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Ohio Aquaculture Association |
June 2001 |
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Ohio Aquaculture Association |
June 2001 |
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2001 OAA Board of Directors |
Hello,
Did everyone get the pamphlet for the July Workshop? If not, please find a copy of it in this newsletter. Next, please fill out the registration form and mail it with your check to Laura! This two-day event will cost the OAA around $10,000.00 to produce. Your Board of Director’s goal is to make a good profit to help strengthen the OAA treasury. So, as you can see, for this to be a success, the membership is going to have to exhibit unprecedented support. Please register early so we can order the correct amount of supplies. As you look over the fee schedule you will see that early registion saves considerable money. Registration is on a first come, first serve basis and may have to be limited. The value of the two-days of workshops, the fish fry, the trade show, the tour of Domer’s and all that great networking with those other producers, is worth far more than the $90.00 fee for an OAA Member to register in advance. Well, as you may have seen, I am just a little obsessed with the July Workshop, but I do need to go on and try to update you on a few things that I mentioned in the last newsletter. The Ohio Aquaculture Task Force Summary is finished but not in print yet. My Co-Chair, Deputy Director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Jim Buchy is working on a letter from Governor Taft and a letter from the Director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture to be included in it. Working with limited time and resources we were not very effective at obtaining finical support from the Ohio Legislature. In all fairness, this was the worst year in resent history to attempt to obtain new funding for anything, with the school fund issue taking up so much of the State’s resources. I do hope we are better prepared in two years when we get to try again. The OAA did make a few good friends that wanted to help us, and in time they will. We did receive a $5,000.00 grant from the Ohio Rural Rehabilitation Advisory Board. These funds will be used for membership development related activities. Your Board has made application for a $2,500.00 grant to help defer some of the cost of the July Workshop. We will hear if it will be funded after the first of July. November nine and ten will be the dates for our Annual Meeting. This will be Friday and Saturday, not Saturday and Sunday as I stated in the last newsletter. At this meeting we will elect the officers to lead the OAA for the next two years. Please plan to attend and vote for the good of the association. If I can be of any assistance, please contact me any time. My contact information is on the front page of this newsletter and I encourage you to use it! Respectfully, George Hood |
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