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General Description:

The purpose of the teams will be to discuss current issues within their team, write and recommend new policies related to their teams’ issues, offer suggestions or clarifications in the implementation of existing policies, and recommend any programming or activities needed related to their team.

Team members will also have a responsibility at the county level to report the team’s activities to the local Farm Bureau Public Policy team and possibly to the Board.

Specific Duties:

• Attend Special Issues Conference as a pre-cursor to Advisory Team meeting

• Participate in conference call to set up agenda for Advisory Team meeting

• Recommend topics and speakers for meeting relevant to team issues

• Attend and participate in Advisory Team meeting

• Provide input on issues which come before the team

• Develop and recommend to the Ohio Farm Bureau Policy Development Committee policies related to their Advisory Team

• Recommend programming or activities relating to their team to the OFBF Board

• Suggest ways to involve OFBF members in the implementation of policies adopted by the delegates at the OFBF Annual Meeting

• Foster routine communication with county policy development chair and committee

• Meet with the county Farm Bureau board of directors to provide an update of the discussion following the Advisory Team meeting

• Serve the OFBF member and provide the voice of the member to the OFBF policy process. Seek out important issues relating to your team and bring them to the attention of the team chairperson.