Kona Coffee Farmers Association Board of Directors Meeting
MONDAY, October 17,2016 CTAHR Conference Room, Kainaliu
CALL TO ORDER—
Bruce Corker, president
Colehour Bondera X, Chris Coleman X, Bruce Corker, X, Kay Dixon X, Sandra Scarr via phone, Judy Schuman ,Suzanne Shriner, X, Tari Sparks X
Karen Zulkowski X
GENERAL
Consent Agenda
Approval of Minutes of September 19 meeting
Approval of Membership Applications
Acceptance of Committee Reports
Motion Karen and Tari- Vote passed
Treasurer’s Report—Kurt sent the report Motion Colehour and Terri- Vote passed
NEW BUSINESS
Membership Committee Chair—Bruce
Appointment of new chair. Announcement was in newsletter Two people interested. Chet has extensive experience and the time and so Bruce appointed Chet with approval of executive committee
Meeting with Virginia Tech Researchers--Bruce
Contact from Professor Joe Eiffert Will be here next week looking at the impact of climate change on coffee production in Hawaii county
Meeting with him Oct 24 at Bruce’s farm.
Treasurer Position--All
Bruce suggests a paid book keeper and he approached
Jeannine Boido (KCFA member). She charges by the hour and fees to farm bureau are about $250/month and she feels we would be less.
Karen: We authorize up to $250/month for book keeping expenses and Bruce and Sandra will meet with her about the position - Second. Tari Motion passed Suzanne made a motion that bookkeeper will report to executive board until treasurer appointed. Tari second Motion passed
Storage Unit--All
Randy Phillips wants merchandise moved from his garage. Currently inventory in different spots. Chris suggests the storage location in Kealakekua.
Motion from Kay for 5X15 storage shed. Suzanne will work on getting it. Keys will be held by the president and one board member as determined by the president
Second Tari - Motion carries
Slow Food Nations--Colehour
Colehour makes general recommendation that we participate in Slow food coffee nation in July in Denver. $795 is table cost for event with about 10,000 in attendance. Sales can be made at the booth
Kay makes motion that we acquire the booth now at 795 and the detail to be decided later. Chris and Colehour follow up as subcommittee to work on specifics. Second Tari. Motion carries
OLD BUSINESS
Resort Links to Website—Karen
Defer further work until after Nov
Coffee & Art Stroll—Anita/Karen
Volunteers set and t-shirts ordered. See report below
HDOA Grant--Colehour
Submitted final report documents. HDOA committee agreed on final documents. We will be spending the $6400 on related CBB information.
Suzanne thanks Colehour for all his work. Decision to wait on closing of grant.
Coffee Grade Standards—Bruce
In legislative committee report. We support need to extend current standards for 3 years. HDOA will consider changes.
Adjourned 4:40 pm
Thank you for Bruce for the coffee and Kay next month
COMMITTEE REPORTS
Branding Committee—Cea/Bruce
Coffee& Art Stroll--Anita
We are moving along with all the plans. The Chefs are lines up for the Chefs Choice Award. We have over thirty farmers and The Kona Historical Society is having a booth for the first time. there are new food vendors and all the regulars. Today was the first day that the message went out asking farmers if they would like to join and I have two new farms signed up already. I expect there will be more. I have a couple of places I can put some more booths. I am going to send info to Sherry Bracken this week and for “About Town”. I hope to have the map finished by the end of next week and will be emailing all the farmers with Parking instructions and last minute instructions. Karen Zulkowski seems to be handling the KCFA booth. I sent her volunteers that had emailed me.
Aloha to All, Anita
Education Committee—Colehour
Estate Committee—Christine
EXPO—Karen
Finance Committee—
HDOA Grant Committee—Colehour
Kamehameha Schools Liaison Committee—Suzanne/Christine
Legislative Committee—Bruce
1--The Legislative Committee has submitted testimony to the Board of Agriculture in support of the HDOA's request to amend HAR 4-143 to extend for another 3 years (to July 1, 2020) the the 20% defect rate for the "Prime" grade and the 1/10 of a defect count for pinholes. These temporary changes to the coffee grade standards were put in place for a 3 year period in 2014 to provide economic assistance to farmers as we developed and implemented measures to mitigate the effects of CBB. If the HDOA's proposed 3-year extension is granted, it will provide continued economic benefits to coffee farmers as we continue to address CBB infestation.
2--In response to the Hawaii Coffee Association's call for making "needed changes" to the current green coffee grade standards, the KCFA has submitted a proposal to the HDOA for simplifying the Hawaii standards in ways which will benefit farmers, consumers and processors. The HDOA has indicated an interest--during the requested 3 year extension--in working with coffee organizations to develop broad set of reforms to the current green coffee grade standards.
Membership Committee—Donna
260 Active Voting members; 20 Supporting Business members and 34 Associate members.
New Members are:
10/6/16 Active Voting Member-Una Greenaway-Kona Old Style-Kuaiwi Farm-POB 999-Captain Cook
http://www.kuaiwifarm [email protected]
Had a delightful time looking at their website. Impressive!
They have links to old Star Advisor Articles of coffee competition results and the result write-ups for the farms was so much fun to read!
I’m guess you all on the Board know Una Greenaway…She reported to me that she was original and that she had let her membership lapse.
10/13/16 Associate Member
Sharonrose Windish- 78-7007 Mana Opelu Lane- Holualoa, Hi 96725
[email protected] No company name; no website
New Members- Ad Hoc Committee
Newsletter--Clare
Published October Newsletter
Origin Protection Committee—Colehour
PR/Marketing—Kay/Anita
Pest & Disease— Bob Smith
Social/Fund Raising—Tari
Website—Cea/Karen
Posted 1) CTAHR’s Apiary Program, 2) October 2016-The Independent Voice, 3) CTAHR’s monthly newsletter and 4) KCFA Free PR Offer, as well as 2 sets of Board Minutes. Assisted new Member on where to buy pound Coffee bags and several username/password reminders. Classifieds up to date. Posted on FaceBook: 1) Apiary Workshop, 2) Happy Coffee Day, 3) CTAHR Job Search for Ag Researcher, 4) October 2016 –The Independent Voice, and 5) made poster: SUPPORT FAMILY FARMS
Aloha,
Cea
