“Enhancing Life through Science Using Plants”

MEMBERSHIP LIST

PURPOSE SUMMARY
To provide a working forum for Ohio’s Plant Agriculture Industry to enhance life through Science

COMPLETE PURPOSE STATEMENT ( June 6, 2000)
“The Plant Science Advisory Council is an advisory body for the plant science programs in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University. Members of the Council, representing Ohio’s commodity and other organizations associated with plant industries and interests, support the College’s plant science programs in teaching, research and extension located in academic units. The Council’s efforts include recommending new directions and opportunities. Council meetings provide members with a forum for bilateral communications with plant science faculty and administrators. Issues of material interest to council member constituents, are introduced, advanced and discussed. Two regular meetings are held per year and other meetings are scheduled as needed.”

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

NAME: The name of the organization shall be The Ohio Plant Science Advisory Council. Everywhere the name appears, the following mission line will be printed underneath: Enhancing Life through Science Using plants. The purpose of the Council is to provide a working forum for Ohio’s Plant Agriculture Industry to enhance life through science.

OFFICERS: The elected officers of the organization shall be President, President-Elect, Vice-President. An appointed Secretary/Treasurer will be made from the personnel of the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science. The officers will be elected by the general membership. The officers’ length of term shall be two years.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES: A Executive Committee, comprised of ten members including the elected officers, plus the department chair and 2 faculty members. Elected officers should represent the broad spectrum of plant interests of the membership of either the horticulture or the agronomic crop industry.
The Chair of the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science will act as the Educational Advisor to the Executive Committee and the organization as a whole but shall have no voting privileges. Additionally, two faculty member of an academic unit working in the plant sciences will be nominated to the Executive Committee but shall have no voting privileges.
Additional members of the Executive Committee shall be nominated by the Nominating Committee and voted upon by the general membership.

COMMITTEES: A Nominating Committee which shall nominate a slate of officers every two years.
Sub-Committees will be appointed as needed and necessary by the Executive Committee.

MEMBERSHIP: Membership shall consist of the Chairs or their designated representatives from all academic units working in the plant sciences of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences as nonvoting members; and two representatives from each commodity group, organization, association, having a relationship with the Department of H&CS or academic programs working in the plant sciences or organized entity. One representative will be designated the Primary member and will be the chief paid member of a commodity group, organization or association while the other representative will be designated the Secondary Member and may be elected officer of said commodity group, organization or association. (Each Organization member will be entitled to ONE vote and may be cast by either the Primary or Secondary Member.)

MEETINGS: A minimum of two meetings per year will be held with other meetings scheduled as an as-needed basis.

DUES: Dues shall be $50 per year for each member . Additional funds may be raised as needed.

STRATEGIC PLAN:

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