2020 NDAREC Annual Meeting DRAFT Agenda
Monday, Jan. 20
9 a.m.
Resolutions Committee – Governor’s Room
Tracy Boe, chairman
9 a.m.
NDAREC board meeting — Heart Room
9 a.m.
N.D. Managers Association meeting — Cannonball Room
12 p.m.
NDAREC colleague appreciation luncheon — Courtyard
2:30 p.m.
NDAREC Building Project Update – Heart and Sheyenne Rooms
2 to 5 p.m.
Registration — Courtyard
5:30 p.m.
NDAREC Welcome Reception — Courtyard
Sponsored by CoBank
Tuesday, January 21
General Session — Lamborn Room
7:30 a.m.
Registration — Courtyard
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Gold Member Showcase — Courtyard
9 a.m.
Call to Order — Lamborn Room
Bob Grant, president and presiding officer
Presentation and Posting of the American and North Dakota Flags
VFW Honor Guard
National Anthem
Mary Stumpf, NDAREC rural development assistant, and Clarice Kesler, NDAREC communications manager
Youth Leadership Council Report
Karly Just, Dakota Valley Electric Cooperative
9:30 a.m.
THE POWER OF US: Cooperative. Community. Connection — Report on 2019 NDAREC work plan achievements
Bob Grant, NDAREC president, and Josh Kramer, NDAREC executive vice president and general manager
9:50 a.m.
Remarks from Lt. Governor Brent Sanford
10:15 a.m.
Refreshment break
Sponsored by Rural Electric Supply Cooperative
10:15 a.m.
Credentials Committee meeting — Room 1258
10:45 a.m.
Carbon Capture, Storage and New Technologies in a Carbon Constrained World
Sen. Byron Dorgan, senior fellow and director of the Energy Project at the
Bipartisan Policy Center
12 p.m.
NDAREC Awards Luncheon — Patterson Room
Josh Kramer, master of ceremonies
1:30 p.m.
The Power of Possibilities
Vern Dosch, president and chief executive officer (retired), National Information Solutions Cooperative
2:30 p.m.
NDAREC Business Session — Lamborn Room
Credential Committee Report
Financial/audit report — Brenna Ohman, NDAREC finance director
NRECA report—Lynn Jacobson, NRECA director
Minutes of previous meeting — Connie Bitz, secretary
REPAC annual report — Zac Smith, NDAREC communications and government
relations director
Election of officers
-President
-Secretary
3 p.m.
Census 2020: Be Legendary, Be Counted
Kevin Iverson, census office manager, N.D. Census Office - N.D. Department of Commerce
3:15 p.m.
Refreshment break
Sponsored by The Okonite Company (invited)
3:45 p.m.
NDAREC Business Session reconvenes — Lamborn Room
Resolutions — Tracy Boe, chairman
Old Business
New Business
Adjournment of NDAREC Business Session
4:30 p.m.
Greetings from Congressional delegation
5 to 7 p.m.
Member Reception — Patterson and Grand Pacific Rooms
Sponsored by Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange
Wednesday, January 22
7 a.m.
PAC 2020 Kickoff Breakfast — Patterson Room
Invocation
Presentation from Louis Finkel, senior vice president of government relations, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
8:15 a.m.
Greetings from USDA – Rural Development — Lamborn Room
Clare Carlson, state director, USDA – Rural Development, North Dakota
8:30 a.m.
Farm Stress: Rippling through Rural America
Becky Kopp-Dunham, licensed independent clinical social worker and farmer
Moderator: Josh Kramer
9:30 a.m.
Refreshment break
Sponsored by Eide Bailly, LLP
10 a.m.
Rural America is the Next Place to Pioneer: Economic Development through Creative Placemaking
Zachary Mannheimer, principal community planner, McClure Engineering
Sponsored by the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation
Zachary offers an optimistic and practical approach to revitalizing rural communities through the creation of cultural and entrepreneurial amenities, housing and high-speed internet. Learn how you can boost your communities' population and economic development, rebuild blighted properties and find the financial resources to do it.
11:30 a.m.
Adjournment
Immediately following adjournment
Rural Development Finance Corporation annual meeting – Heart Room