DRAFT MOTIONS
NORTHEAST DAIRY
COMPACT COMMISSION
CENTENNIAL INN,
CONCORD, NH
Moved to accept the minutes of the April 5, 2000 meeting as presented.
Motion 5/3-2 by Bobby Starr on behalf of the Committee on Regulations and Rulemaking
Moved to decline to include written comment received April 26, 2000 from Dennis Ward after the close of the comment period of April 19, 2000
Motion 5/3-3 by Bobby Starr on behalf of the Committee on Regulations and Rulemaking
Moved
to adopt amendments to the over-order price regulation to create a milk supply
management plan through an assessment and refund program that will withhold 7.5
cents per hundredweight from the producer price in months with a Compact pool
and to issue refunds, in two parts, to producers whose milk production
increased at a rate of 1% or less, compared to the prior year’s production,
with one-half of the assessed funds refunded to eligible producers on an equal
flat rate basis and one-half refunded on a per hundredweight basis of total
production, as described in the pre-discussion draft with a minimum program
year of six months.
MOTION
PASSED 6 TO 0
Motion 5/3-4 by Bobby Starr on behalf of the Committee on Regulations and Rulemaking
Moved:
(1) That the public interest continues to be served by establishment of minimum milk prices to dairy farmers under Article IV, as amended;
(2) That the previously established level price of $16.94 (Class I, Suffolk County, Massachusetts) to dairy farmers under Article IV will continue to assure that producers supplying the New England market receive a price sufficient to cover their costs of production and will elicit an adequate supply of milk for the inhabitants of the regulated area and for manufacturing purposes and will meet the objectives of section 9(f) of the Compact;
(3) That the major provisions of the order, other than those fixing minimum milk prices, are and continue to be, in the public interest and are reasonably designed to achieve the purposes of the order;
(4) That the terms of the proposed amendments will be approved by producers pursuant to a producer referendum required by Article V, Section 13.
MOTION
PASSED 6 TO 0
Motion 5/3-5 by Bobby Starr on behalf of the Committee on Regulations and Rulemaking
Moved
that:
1)
December 1999 be the
designated representative period for determining eligible producers;
2)
Ballots will be mailed
to eligible producers and qualified cooperatives by May 12, 2000;
3)
Qualified cooperatives
must mail notice of block votes to members by May 16, 2000;
4)
All ballots must be
received in the Commission office by 5:00 p.m. on May 22, 2000; and
5)
Bobby Starr shall serve
as referendum agent.
Moved to approve the Federal Milk Market Administrator’s Invoice – February 2000 pool, audits completed during March, referendum costs and programming modifications.
Moved that the following standing committees be appointed for the year 2000 (list attached).
Moved that in the interim between now and any review of the bylaws that we intepret our bylaws to mean that any interim member or designee, including a designee of an officer, who goes to a committee meeting that they will be there with the full authority of the member to participate in the discussion and will have full equal voting rights as full members of the committee.
DISCUSSION FOLLOWED
Moved the previous Question
MOTION PASSED 5 TO 1 (RHODE ISLAND DISSENTING)
Moved to pay Attorney Rich Cassidy for the work in negotiating a severance package (for Kenneth Becker).
MOTION WITHDRAWN
Moved to accept Kenneth Becker’s resignation in the statement, manner and good will in which it is given.
Moved to go into executive session to discuss a legal matter.
Moved to pay Attorney Rich Cassidy for the work in negotiating a severance package (for Kenneth Becker).
MOTION PASSED 6 TO 0
Moved, according to the discussion here today, to empower the Committee on Administration to proceed with negotiations on the severance package.
Moved to take no action on the (ad hoc personnel) committee report heard here today.
Moved to adjourn