(current and prior board meeting minutes are available for download below)

NASOP Board Meeting Minutes, 11-19-09

Host: Washington State

Approved 12/17/09 - MM

Present: Doug Crabtree, Meg Moynihan, Brenda Book, Laura Paine, Michelle Lucero, James Sutton, Stacy Palmer, Catherine Cash, Mitchell Yergert

Absent: Bryan Buchwald, Sarah Johnston, Maury Wills

I.                   October Minutes:  There were not enough board members to approve the minutes. These will need to be reviewed again next meeting.

II.                NOSB- Update from Joe Smillie

Joe Smillie gave the board an update on how the recent NOSB meeting went. Joe stated that the meeting went really well and that there seems to be a new sense of cooperation and that the NOP are willing to take the NOSB recommendations into account. 

Inerts issue was brought up. Joe suggested that we invite the materials chair, Dan Giacomini to come to our meeting and discuss these issues.

Joe requested that the board members review recommendations on 100% Organic labeling and comment on it. NOSB will be recommending that the 100% Organic is removed from the standard.

How should the NASOP comment and contribute to the NOSB? Joe suggests that you take the following actions:

·         Take your comments directly to the committee chair

·         Once recommendations are being made, respond through regulations.gov

·         Send testimony to be read during the meeting 

III.       Website Update

Laura has posted the board members, minutes and bylaws to the website. Meg will send Laura a new version of the logo. Laura is requesting reminders to remove old items and new items to post. Brenda will send out the information on registering for the annual meeting. Meg will send out an announcement to members reminding them to check the website for registration information.

Laura will contact Amy Mann with NASDA to see about having a link to our new website instead of hosting the old site there. We need further discussion on how to indicate which states are members versus the state contact listing.

IV.        Annual meeting

a.       We discussed the idea of recognizing past committee members for their efforts on NASOP. It thought that Vernon and Miles will be attending; however, it is unsure if Leslie will be there. Contact Doug if interested in helping out with the recognition.

b.      Doug gave an update on the annual meeting. We reviewed the schedule. Doug encourages everyone to plan to attend the meeting and that the registration information will be distributed. Lindsay will be back for the December meeting.

V.           Other NASOP Business

·         Brenda will be working with Doug this month to come up with a slate of potential new members.

·         Doug would like to see a committee of sorts for commenting and working with the NOSB. Brenda brought up the dilemma that not everyone in NASOP is part of a group such as ACA, OMRI or OTA; all three of these groups put out comprehensive summaries of what occurred at the NOSB meeting. Brenda will contact Pat Kane with ACA and see if we can get permission to share information from them with the NASOP listserve.  Anyone interested in being part of the NOSB workgroup should contact Doug.

Next meeting

Thursday, December 17, 2009, 9 AM PDT

Agenda Topics:

Membership Committee

See attachments below for prior board meeting minutes.