Membership
(Send e-mail to the committee: escop-budleg@lists.msstate.edu.)

Member	Assignment	Representing
Richard Jones (FL)	Chair (03)	~
Darrell Nelson (NE)	Chair-Designate (03)	~
Daryl Lund (NC Region)	Executive Vice-Chair	Executive Directors
Steve Pueppke (IL)	Delegate	SAES North Central Region
Kevin Kephart (SD)	Delegate	SAES North Central Region
Robin Morgan (DE)	Delegate	SAES Northeastern Region
Bruce Wiersma (ME)	Delegate	SAES Northeastern Region
Bill Brown (LA)	Delegate	SAES Southern Region
Tom Klindt (TN)	Delegate	SAES Southern Region
Henry Vaux (CA)	Delegate	SAES Western Region
Jim Jacobs (WY)	Delegate	SAES Western Region
Alfred Parks (TX)	Delegate	ARD
Willie Rawls (LA)	Delegate	ARD
Phil Schwab	Representative	CSREES
Edward Wilson	Representative	CSREES
Joe Wysocki	Representative	CSREES
Caird Rexroad (MD)	Representative	ARS
Eldon Ortman (IN)	Representative	CROPS 99
Elton Aberle (WI)	Representative	FAIR 2002
Penny Ralston	Representative	NASULGC Board on Human Science
Al Woolf (IL)	Representative	NASULGC Board on Natural Resources
Oscar Fletcher	Representative	NASULGC Board on Veterinary Medicine
Perry Brown (MT)	Representative	NAPFSC
Kristin Perry (MO)	Representative	CARET
(TBA)	Representative	ACOP
Jon Ort (NC)	Representative	ECOP
Terry Tucker (NY)	Representative	ICOP
Eddie Gouge	Representative	NASULGC
Terry Nipp	Representative	AESOP

Existing or Proposed Sub-Committees
(To be developed)

Proposed Assignment of Target Areas from Strategic Plan

Strategic Target 1. Place greater emphasis on identifying and serving the needs of stakeholders and clientele.

• Action Item: Expand consultation, participatory planning, and stakeholder involvement in program implementation.
• Action Item: Emphasize the development of science-based information, technologies, and knowledge through a diverse portfolio of priority research activities.
• Action Item: Provide knowledge and services equitably for all citizens, including the historically underserved and small-scale farming enterprises, for a broad base of service and appreciation.

Strategic Target 3. Expand the research capability of the SAESs to respond to stakeholder needs.

• Action Item: Involve faculty and colleagues from nontraditional disciplines in the conduct of SAES research.
• Action Item: Maintain and expand a diversified portfolio of funding sources for research, including the development of nontraditional sources of funding.

Strategic Target 6. Be more accountable to stakeholders.

• Action Item: Improve the effectiveness of our communications with stakeholders, including legislators and the public.
• Action Item: Directly contribute to the reporting requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA).
• Action Item: Support the SAES System's growing commitments to image enhancement, jointly with the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (ECOP).

Strategic Target 7. Couple the processes of national strategic planning with federal budget development and advocacy.

• Action Item: Work with CSREES in the "outyears" to identify joint budget priorities.
• Action Item: Identify areas of emphasis to be targeted with additional formula appropriations from Congress.
• Action Item: Work with other federal agencies in support of their budget requests, when those requests are congruent with the priorities of the SAES System.

• BAA Budget/Advocacy Committee Minutes, July 19-20, 2003
• BAA Budget/Advocacy Committee Minutes, June 3-4, 2003 and CARET Budget 2004
• ESCOP Priorities FY 04/05
• History of the Indirect Cost Rate Cap on USDA Competitive Grants (May 22, 2003)

• Minutes:
  8-19-02
  7-30-02
  5-29-02
  5-23-02 (Executive Committee)
  2-07-02
  12-13-01, B/L Calendar, BAA Meeting Dates