CACD’s 72nd Annual Meeting

November 14 - 16, 2016

Embassy Suites Hotel/Conference Center – Loveland, CO

"Conservation in Colorado - Navigating Our Future"

Monday, November 14th, 2016

8:00AM – 6:00PM Registration Desk Opens, Poster and Live Auction Item Check-In

9:00AM – 12:00PMCACD/CSCB Joint Board Meeting

12:00PM – 1:00PM CACD/CSCB Joint Luncheon

1:00PM – 4:30PMCACD Board Meeting

1:00PM – 4:30PMCSCB Board Meeting

10:00AM – 9:00PM2016 Sponsor/Exhibitor Set-up

4:45PM – 6:00PMResource Committee Chairman Review Meeting

5:30PM – 7:30PMEmbassy Suites HotelReception/Happy Hour

Tuesday, November 15th, 2016

7:30AM – 9:00AMSponsor/Exhibitor Set-up

8:00AM – 6:00PMRegistration Desk Opens, Poster, Photo, and Live Auction Item Check-in

8:15AM – 8:45AMNewcomer’s Session

8:15AM –8:45AM Facilitator Review Session (if needed)

9:00AM – 11:50AM GENERAL MEMBERSHIP SESSION

Color Guard/Pledge of Allegiance

  • Invocation – Harold Unwin (CSCB President)
  • Welcome – Don McBee, CACD President
  • Keynote – Don Brown, CO Commissioner of Agriculture, with Les Owen,
  • CO DOA’s Conservation Services Division Director

15 Minute Break

  • Lee McDaniel, NACD President
  • Jeff Burwell, NACD Western Issues Specialist
  • Clint Evans, NRCS CO State Conservationist

Tuesday, November 15th, 2016(Cont’d)

12:00PM – 1:45PMLeadership/Networking Luncheon (ticketed event)with Keynote Speaker,

Jeff Wasden, President, Colorado Business Roundtable

2:00PM – 7:00PMCD Employee Association’s Silent Auction Fund Raising Event

3:00PM – 5:00PM CD Employee Training/Programs - CSCB

2:00PM – 5:00PM2016POLICY RESOURCE COMMITTEE HEARINGS

  • District and Association Outlook and Finance
  • Energy
  • Soil and Land
  • Education/Public Outreach (including Small Acreage/Urban Interface Subcommittee)
  • Water Resources

5:30PM – 7:00PM CD Employee’s Association Dinner Meeting (Off Site)

5:30PM – 7:30PM Dinner on Your Own

7:30PM-- 9:00PM Cash Bar Opens – Everyone Welcome!

7:30PM – 8:15PM Entertainment - 25 South Band (Country/Popular Music)

8:15PM – 10:00PM 2016 CACD Live Auction Fund Raising Event

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

8:30AM – 9:30AM GENERAL MEMBERSHIP SESSION

  • Don McBee, CACD President, Morning Welcome/Message
  • Sharon Pattee, CACD’s Executive Director
  • Cindy Lair, Program Manager CSCB 2016 in Review
  • Brett Moore, CACDLobbyist, 2016 Legislative Review

9:35AM – 10:50AM Breakout Session #A– Severance Tax Reductions: Future Effects to District Funding

Breakout Session #B –Tools for Stewardship: Opportunities to Help Create Healthy and Resilient Forestsfor Private Landowners

Breakout Session #C–CO Water Banking, Storage, and ATM’s, and the CWCB Grant Opportunities

10:50AM – 11:00AM Coffee/Tea Break

11:00AM – 12:15PM Breakout Session #D–Conservation Outreach with Changes in Demographic Trends

Breakout Session #E– Regulation 85 Updates: Agriculture’s Part

Breakout Session #F–Colorado's Water: Usage and Oversight for Today and Tomorrow

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 (Cont’d)

12:30PM – 2:30PM CACD 2016 Conservation Awards Banquet Luncheon (ticketed event)

Emcee, Don Hijar, Pawnee Buttes Seed, Inc.

2:00PM – 5:00PM CD Employees AssociationSilent Auction Fund Raiser Closes

3:00PM – 5:00PM Exhibitor Display Tear Down

3:00PM – 5:00PM 2016 CACD GENERAL MEMBERSHIP BUSINESS MEETING

  • 2015 Minutes Reading and Approval
  • CACD Financial Review and 2017 Budget Approval
  • Committee Reports and 2016 Resolution Reading/Voting
  • CACD Bylaws Review
  • Swearing in of New or Re-elected CSCB/CACD Officers for 2017
  • Adjourn

5:00PM – 5:30PM 2016 AM Program Committee Wrap-up Meeting

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

8:30AM -- 10:30AM CACD November 2016 Board of Directors Meeting

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