12:48:40 From Meuth, Mary P : Hi folks. We'll get started shortly. . . . 12:49:02 From Betsy : Hi Everyone 12:50:57 From barbara : Barbara Peet 12:51:04 From Betsy : Betsy Palkowsky - Gideon Lincecum Chapter 12:51:25 From Bibi Dalrymple : Bibi Dalrymple - South Texas Chapter 12:51:25 From Betsy : I can take notes 12:51:35 From Martha Cray : Martha Cray--Alamo Area 12:51:50 From Randy Beehn : Randy Beehn- Sabine Neches Chapter 12:51:52 From barbara : Barbara Peet--Rio Grande Valley Chapter 12:52:47 From Meuth, Mary P : Thanks Betsy! 12:53:42 From Elsa’s iPad : Elsa Roberts, Hill Country Chapter, Hi everybody. 12:54:50 From Susette Mahaffey : Hello, everyone. I am Susette Mahaffey from Galveston Bay Area Chapter. 12:55:49 From williamcollins : Bill Collins Cross Timbers Chapter 12:56:26 From Tom Shackelford : Tom Shackelford / Blackland Prairie Chapter 12:56:49 From beadenvy : Hi, Mary Pearl 12:57:03 From beadenvy : Carolyn Langlinais/Heartwood 12:57:49 From Rich Nielson : Rich Nielson / Lindheimer 12:57:51 From Donna Otto : Donna Otto, South Texas Border Chapter 12:58:00 From Brenda Wellenreiter : Brenda Wellenreiter Elm Fork Chapter 12:58:19 From nancy : Nancy Phillips Good Water 12:58:29 From Sue Ann Kendall : Sue Ann Kendall, El Camino Real 12:58:48 From Susan Neill : Susan Neill, Hays County 12:59:06 From psilva : Paul Silva South Texas Chapter Advisor 12:59:28 From Michelle : Hi Everyone! Thanks for joining us today. could you each drop a note here to let us know your name and which chapter you are representing 12:59:55 From dfrank : Donell Frank Brazos Valley Chapter 13:00:06 From Emily Hansen : Emily Hansen from Capital Area Chapter 13:00:48 From maryjanebrown : Mary Jane Brown from Llano Estacado Chapter 13:01:11 From Sue Ann Kendall : Oh no. I am working, and only have reserved an hour. I'll try to move my 2 pm 13:02:08 From Julie Massey : Julie Massey - Galveston Bay Area Chapter 13:03:17 From Scott Hudson : Good afternoon all - Scott Hudson, North Texas Chapter - Dallas. 13:03:26 From Bill A : Bill Ahlstrom President Cradle of Texas Chapter Brazoria County 13:04:59 From Nelda : Nelda Tuthill Piney Wood Lakes Chapter 13:08:00 From nancy : will you still take written what nature means? 13:08:51 From Michelle : Hi Nancy! YES! we will take What Nature Means to me submissions through the end of the month! We want to encourage everyone to submit! 13:10:22 From Emily Hansen : Can Capital Area nab 6/28-7/4? 13:12:18 From Meuth, Mary P : Yes Emily! Email Addison and she'll schedule you for that week. 13:13:45 From beadenvy : Send link for dates still open, please 13:14:41 From Michelle Hagerty : 7/12 thru 7/18 is still open as is the remainder of July and August not listed. 13:16:59 From Sue Ann Kendall : We went ahead and bought our own. 13:17:05 From beadenvy : Our TPWD advisor provides our WebEx access 13:17:12 From maryjanebrown : We have been using the free version of WebEx for training. 13:17:24 From Susette Mahaffey : No, we have purchased Zoom to cover the meeting of the chapter. 13:17:25 From Martha Cray : AAMN purchased our own account 13:17:29 From Scott Hudson : North Tx purchased Zoom acct 13:17:29 From williamcollins : Cross timbers working with agri-life 13:17:31 From John Atkins CTMN : Using WebEx. 13:17:36 From Brenda Wellenreiter : Elm Fork has purchased a Zoom account 13:17:39 From Betsy : our advisor at Agrilife Center schedules and manages Microsoft Teams meeting for us 13:17:42 From Susan Neill : Hays County purchased a Zoom account 13:17:43 From Paul Wick/ Christ Church Tyler : WE have bought our own zoom account 13:17:47 From Bibi Dalrymple : We purchased a zoom account 13:17:48 From nancy : we have a zoom account that we are using 13:17:49 From Nelda : Piney Wood Lakes has been using he Microsoft Teams of the County Agent. 13:17:54 From Emily Hansen : Capital Area has been using personal Zoom accounts, but we are looking into buying one for the chapter 13:18:01 From Rich Nielson : Lindheimer purchased Zoom, but will drop if you can provide since we don't have dues 13:18:17 From Elsa’s iPad : Hill country might. 13:18:29 From barbara : We have not purchased our own and are needing access. RGVCTMN 13:18:43 From Betsy : GLC could use one instead of relying on our advisor 13:19:17 From Randy Beehn : Sabine Neches could us an account. 13:19:28 From williamcollins : Cross Timbers - Just beginning scheduling fall training - may need our own or another account 13:19:30 From dfrank : We have cancelled our fall training and are going to try and do a spring training instead. 13:19:35 From beadenvy : WE are tackling this tonight at the board meeting. Leaning toward postponing till 2021 13:19:41 From Susette Mahaffey : GBAC has our needs covered. 13:19:49 From Betsy : who is speaking? 13:19:59 From Emily Hansen : We are making plans for a “regular” training class beginning in November, but if needed, we will go virtual. We finished out the 2020 class virtually, and it worked as well as could be expected. 13:20:08 From Rich Nielson : Lindheimer, yes. We are considering moving our start to January 2021 instead of November. 13:20:11 From Donna Otto : training classes scheduled for spring 13:20:13 From Paul Wick/ Christ Church Tyler : East Texas will delay til February. 13:20:17 From Scott Hudson : We don’t have a fall class this year (spring just finished). Chapter meetings are online through summer. 13:20:18 From maryjanebrown : Llano Estacado is about 75% though our training classes. We have had great response with our web based training 13:20:26 From Nelda : Piney Wood Lakes will be having training in the fall, We will need some access for virtual classes. 13:21:08 From Bibi Dalrymple : If we can’t have regular training this fall, we will probably postpone until spring or next fall. So far still planning in case we can have regular training. 13:21:17 From Brenda Wellenreiter : Elm Fork Chapter is planning to have class as normal. it will probably be smaller 13:21:19 From nancy : good water, fall training will be continuation of spring class will be a combination of zoom and in person. Starting in august may need webex 13:22:02 From Randy Beehn : Sabine Neches has not committed to go forward yet 13:22:02 From Donna Otto : Fall meetings depending on pandemic. Currently meeting space is not available. Will make decisions based on availability of space and members interest in virtual meetings. (So TX Border Chapter). 13:22:28 From Tom Shackelford : Blackland prairie will finish spring training (8wks remain) with a combination of open air classroom and online training starting September 9 13:23:24 From barbara : Rio Grande Valley Chapter is in the same boat as ST Border Chapter as we do not have access to meeting space. 13:23:29 From Bill A : Cradle of Texas Chapter - We will have a fall class using virtual and face-to-face traing 13:26:53 From Michelle Hagerty : By June 10th we will have a decision of what our TMN Annual Meeting will be and look like for October-- in person, or virtual, etc. 13:32:27 From Michelle Hagerty : https://txmn.tamu.edu/welcome/covid-19-response/ 13:37:25 From Michelle Hagerty : feel free to text chat your questions here too and we will get them answered via all channels we have after researching 13:37:52 From Susette Mahaffey : We have denied hours that did not meet with the guidelines. 13:38:28 From John Atkins CTMN : Concur 13:39:19 From Donna Otto : No change for us, however, a lot fewer volunteer hours, most thru Citizen Science projects done on an individual basis: eBird, iNaturalist, CoCoRaHS. 13:40:56 From Elsa’s iPad : All our outdoor projects have resumed with social distancing. Hill Country Chapter area is largely rural and except for Boerne we are generally about 50% open according to local restrictions. 13:42:22 From beadenvy : Is it time to require fewer volunteer hours to meet certification levels? 13:43:06 From Emily Hansen : That’s the other question I have for chapters: Are your members expressing concern about not being able to meet the 40 hour requirement? I’ve had several members (and board members) express this. 13:43:40 From dfrank : Brazos Valley Chapter in College Station members are asking the same question. 13:43:43 From nancy : Ive had many questions about the 40 hours also 13:46:21 From maryjanebrown : On the subject of face masks, we tell members to wear them if they feel comfortable doing so. We do not required them. 13:46:41 From John Atkins CTMN : We continued to work where we could when we could based on local restrictions. 13:47:30 From Scott Hudson : We 13:48:18 From Scott Hudson : We’ve continued working within guidelines. 13:50:58 From dfrank : We are working within the guidelines as well. We don't have a problem with too many members showing up to volunteer. 13:51:11 From John Atkins CTMN : We require people to contact POC to reserve a position on the work crew 13:51:35 From Tom Shackelford : We are using signup genius to establish limits. works well 13:52:02 From Martha Cray : There is a section about going to parks to volunteer that seems to discourage this but we're wondering if that applies to local parks. 13:53:41 From John Atkins CTMN : Having more then 10 volunteers at a time has never really been an issue in this chapter :) 13:55:40 From Emily Hansen : Donna, Capital Area is experiencing the same difficulty. Although we are encouraging members to do what they can (including virtual work), we are down 1600 hours from this same time period last year! 13:58:14 From Mickey : Lower Trinity Basin is still doing only remote meetings and training. Any volunteer activities are being done by individuals in pre-approved and open facilities and through individual, pre-approved citizen science projects. 13:59:42 From dfrank : I think that would be a good idea. 13:59:46 From nancy : That might be helpful 14:00:07 From Susette Mahaffey : I think that would be helpful for all the chapters. 14:00:20 From beadenvy : google drive 14:01:15 From nancy : I’m sure as I read them again there will be more questions come up 14:01:26 From maryjanebrown : I have 14:01:28 From Scott Hudson : We’ve worked on draft guidelines - would love to share 14:01:30 From Sue Ann Kendall : I have 14:01:31 From nancy : I have and need to read them again 14:01:31 From Betsy : most of it 14:01:33 From dfrank : I have 14:01:34 From Tom Shackelford : yes 14:01:34 From Susette Mahaffey : I have read through the document. 14:01:35 From Brenda Wellenreiter : I have 14:01:41 From Susan Neill : Yes 14:01:41 From williamcollins : We appreciate the guidelines - they have been very helpful. 14:01:44 From Rich Nielson : I have 14:01:50 From maryjanebrown : Not that I have seen so far. 14:01:59 From Mickey : Not completely. 14:02:22 From Rich Nielson : Waiting on written guidance from local AgriLife 14:02:27 From Susette Mahaffey : These are much clearer than what we have been trying to understand and follow. 14:06:20 From nancy : What was said about changing the 40 hours? 14:06:25 From Sue Ann Kendall : It's hard to tell what applies to us and what is more about y'all's offices. 14:07:23 From Betsy : thank you 14:07:24 From Michelle Haggerty : We don't anticipate changing the 40 hours of service at this time right now. 14:07:31 From dfrank : Thanks Mary Pearl and Michelle! 14:07:36 From Bibi Dalrymple : thank you 14:07:37 From Tom Shackelford : thank you 14:07:38 From Brenda Wellenreiter : thank you 14:07:38 From maryjanebrown : Thanks for meeting with all of us!!!!! 14:07:42 From Michelle Haggerty : Thank you everyone! Have a great week! 14:07:45 From Scott Hudson : Thanks All! 14:07:57 From barbara : Thanks to you both! This was very helpful! 14:08:13 From Mickey : please include Emily's email address. Thank you.