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1997 WEED SCIENCE WORKGROUP REPORT

University of California, Davis
November 12-13, 1997

Appendix E
Weed Workgroup Business

Proposed Changes in Program Committe to Weed Work Group

Minutes of Weed Workgroup Progam Committee Executive Meeting, 11/11/97



Proposed Changes in Program Committee to Weed Work Group

The Weed Work Group will play a key role in the success of the Weed Research and Information Center (WeedRIC). To insure that this group is well represented on the WeedRIC Executive Committee, it is important to develop a more formal Weed Work Group Program Committee, with the chair (two-year term) as an official member of the WeedRIC Executive Committee. Thus, we propose the following changes to the existing structure.

  1. An election will be held every other year to select three new members to the Weed Work Group Program Committee. One individual from each of the three UC groups (Cooperative Extension Weed Specialists and Statewide IPM Advisors, UC Academic Senate Faculty and USDA Scientists, and UC Farm Advisors) will be selected at each election.

  2. Selected committee members will serve a 4-year term.

  3. The committee will select the chair of the committee. The chair will serve in the final two years of his or her term.

  4. In addition to assisting in coordinating and moderating the annual Weed Work Group Program, the chair will also serve on the WeedRIC Executive Committee for the same two-year period.

Our current process is to elect two new members to the Weed Work Group Program Committee each year. To transition to the new format, we propose to elect three new members this year (total of 7 committee members in 1998), with no election next year (committee with 5 members in 1999). Three new committee members will again be elected at the 1999 meeting (total of 6 committee members in 2000 and thereafter).

Current committee members and final year of service:

Milt McGiffen - 1997
Steve Orloff - 1997
Joe DiTomaso - 1998
Dave Bayer - 1998
Kurt Hembree - 1999
Cheryl Wilens - 1999


1998-2000 committee:

1998 1999 2000
Joe DiTomaso Kurt Hembree 3 members elected in 1997
Dave Bayer Cheryl Wilens 3 newly elected members
Kurt Hembree 3 members elected in 1997
Cheryl Wilens
3 newly elected members


UC Academic Senate
Faculty and USDA Scientists		 UC Specialists and Statewide
IPM Advisors
Anderson Lanini
Spencer Elmore
Bayer DiTomaso
Fischer Cudney
Norris McGiffen
Holt Fennimore
Dean Prather
Wilens
Hill

Weed Workgroup Program Committee
Executive Meeting
November 11 1997
Minutes

Attending:
Kurt Hembree, Chair Lars Anderson
Joe DiTomaso Cheryl Wilen
David Cudney Kitty Schlosser
David Visher


Next intramural (workgroup) meeting will be held on November 11 - 12, 1998 at the Kearny Ag Center.

Proposed Chairs for each commodity group session:

  1. Agronomic - Ron Vargas

  2. Turf and Vine - Clyde Elmore

  3. Vegetable - Carl Bell, Steve Fenimore, Milt McGiffen

  4. Non-crop - Joe DiTomaso

  5. Aquatic - Lars Anderson

  6. Turf / Ornamentals - Cheryl Wilen

Since most of these commodity group sessions comprise several different individual commodities, the chair may decide to appoint individuals to report on specific items. For instance, Ron Vargas who is Chair of Agronomic may invite Albert Fischer to report on Rice.

Possible topics for general session talks:

  • PM 10 issue

  • Update of WeedRIC

  • Fred Hrusa to talk about photo distribution map of A &B weeds

  • Accessing weed information on the internet

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