Meeting Agenda

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Meeting Agenda

• Call to Order (Greg Ibach)
• Roll Call of Member States (Bob Balaam)
• Approval of the September 23, 2007 Meeting
  Minutes (Greg Ibach)
• Report of the Chairman (Greg Ibach)
• Report of the Treasurer (Tommy Irvin/Bob Balaam)
• Report of the Executive Director (Bob Balaam)
• Unfinished Business (Greg Ibach)
• Insurance Claim Ohio / Michigan Hemlock Woolly
  Adelgid - 75,000 (Bob Balaam)
• New Business (Greg Ibach)
• Adjourn (Greg Ibach)

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What is the Interstate Pest Control Compact?

• The legal framework through which member states
  can protect themselves from plant pest
  infestations that occur outside of their state
  yet threaten their agriculture and natural
  resources when unabated in a nearby state.
• How? The IPCC administers a pest control
  insurance fund which applies the insurance
  program principle to help fund pest control
  programs that may not be addressed by the federal
  government.

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How can a state join the IPCC?

• Adopt into law the model enabling legislation of
  the IPCC.
• Make an appropriation to the pest control
  insurance fund.

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Current Non-Member States
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Meeting Agenda

• Call to Order (Greg Ibach)
• Roll Call of Member States (Bob Balaam)
• Approval of the September 23, 2007 Meeting
  Minutes (Greg Ibach)
• Report of the Chairman (Greg Ibach)
• Report of the Treasurer (Tommy Irvin/Bob Balaam)
• Report of the Executive Director (Bob Balaam)
• Unfinished Business (Greg Ibach)
• Insurance Claim Ohio / Michigan Hemlock Woolly
  Adelgid - 75,000 (Bob Balaam)
• New Business (Greg Ibach)
• Adjourn (Greg Ibach)

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Treasurers Report

• Highlights from the first half of Fiscal Year
  2008
• Total assets available at December 31, 2007 were
  1,125,274.96. An increase of 26,724.48 from
  the June 30, 2007, balance of 1,098,550.48.
• No membership dues were received no donations
  were received.
• Income on investments totaled 36,531.10. There
  were no investment fees or expenses. Investment
  income covered all of the administrative and
  operating costs (9,806.62) for the period.
• Funds were invested in Smith Barney securities
  earning varying rates of yield.
• Investment Risk The Smith Barney Financial
  Management Account, in which IPCC funds were
  invested, followed the investment strategy
  approved by the IPCC Executive Committee on
  September 23, 2007. The Smith Barney FMA was
  diversified in the following way as of December
  31, 2007
• No insurance claims were paid during the period.

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Balance Sheet
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Statement of Cash Flows
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Statement of Revenues, Expenditures, Changes in
Fund Balances/Equity
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Operating Budget
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Meeting Agenda

• Call to Order (Greg Ibach)
• Roll Call of Member States (Bob Balaam)
• Approval of the September 23, 2007 Meeting
  Minutes (Greg Ibach)
• Report of the Chairman (Greg Ibach)
• Report of the Treasurer (Tommy Irvin/Bob Balaam)
• Report of the Executive Director (Bob Balaam)
• Unfinished Business (Greg Ibach)
• Insurance Claim Ohio / Michigan Hemlock Woolly
  Adelgid - 75,000 (Bob Balaam)
• New Business (Greg Ibach)
• Adjourn (Greg Ibach)

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Executive Directors Report

• Membership
• Insurance Fund Claim/Project
• IPCC Treasury
• State Enabling Legislation

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Insurance Claim

• Requesting State Ohio
• (supported by Minnesota and Wisconsin)
• Responding State Michigan
• Pest Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)
• In the United States since 1924 believed to be a
  native of Asia
• Host Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
• Purpose Delimiting Survey and Eradication
• Period 1 Year new request to extend with
  existing funding until June 1, 2008
• Amount 75,000 (reduced to 60,000)

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