Alii, Greetings, Hafa Adai, Talofa, Mogethin, Kaselehlie, Ran annim, Lenwo, Iakwe, Aloha!
Times: Tuesday afternoon, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (Pacific); 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. (Mountain), 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. (Alaska), noon – 2:00 p.m. (Honolulu), 11:00 -1:00 p.m. (Pago Pago) Wednesday morning, 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. (Guam & Saipan) and 9:00 -11:00 a.m. (Pohnpei).
3:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions – Jacob DeDecker
3:05 p.m. Roll Call/Sound Check – Doreen Hauser-Lindstrom
3:10 p.m. WEDA Committee 2025 Plans of Work and 2024 Accomplishments (WELD, WRAM, WREN)
3:10 p.m. WREN Committee – Najat Elgeberi and Alda Norris
3:25 p.m. WRAM Committee – Darrin Parmenter and James Pritchett
Excuse WREN and WPOLC Members.
3:40 p.m. WPOLC Awards Committee Representative – Present slate of award winners
WEDA Business Meeting
3:40 p.m. Approve January WEDA Meeting Minutes – Jeremy Elliott-Engel
Old Business:
3:45 p.m. Update EXCITE Western Regional Proposals
3:50 p.m. Update Extension in the West Leadership Conference – Jake DeDecker
New Business:
3:55 p.m. Updates ECOP Committee
– Executive Committee – Barbara Petty
– Programs – Brent Hales
– Professional Development – Jon Boren
– 4-H Leadership – Cody Stone
4:20 p.m. WSARE Update – Jake DeDecker
4:25 p.m. Discuss recent impacts to your institution as a result of federal actions.
EACH WEDA Institution provide a brief “situation report,” targeted to two to three minutes. These would include what you have learned in the past three weeks, the questions that you have struggled with and/or answered, and what is currently working and broken.
WEDA Diversity Award for 2025.
Things to think about
· ACTION: We need to determine what short- and medium-term actions that we need to take.
· LANGUAGE: If we need to revise any language, we should do so thoughtfully.
· MESSAGING: Finally, when we get through the actions and the potential language change, what messaging WEDA is going to send to the system, intentionally or unintentionally, by all three (action, language, and messaging)?
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
UPDATES from EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR –
– The next meeting is the Western Region Spring Meeting, which will be held in Reno, NV, from Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, at 8:00 a.m. to Friday, April 4th, at noon.
– Joint Summer Meeting Update, Laramie, WY, beginning with a social Monday evening, June 23, 2025 and concluding with WEDA Business meeting, Thursday, June 26th, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Mandy and Doreen will share additional information through e-mail.
– Aufai’s co-worker shared that he may be out of the office for another 6 months due to health issues and treatments. You can send flowers or cards to:
Aufa’i Apulu Ropeti Areta
427 Liholiho Street
Wailuku, HI 96793