Utah Cooperative Association Board of Directors memoranda, October 31, 1974;

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PROPOSAL:     For Consideration\of UCA'
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ECT:  Invit^ ^fwelv^ Local^Leaders to Attend Each UCA
SUBJECT:     Invit#/^welv? Local^Leade
7m / ^J       UCA management will propose  to the  Board of Directors on
/ Friday,   November 8,   1974,   that  the general  format of UCA's  four
J   1975 meetings of the  Board be modified.     Fourteen cooperatives
/   own UCA,   together with about  four thousand  individuals served
I    by dealer-agents and represented by two directors on UCA's Board.
We are  proposing that  four cooperatives each be asked to send
three  local leaders to one quarterly Board meeting  in 1975.     For
example,  Grouse Creek Co-op,  Trenton  Feed Co-op,   Bear River Valley
Co-op,   and Davis  Farm Co-op could each be asked to select  three or
four people  from their areas  to attend the regular UCA quarterly
Board meeting  in January 1975.     Four other Co-ops would participate
at the April meeting,  etc.
Actually,   this  is a modified approach to the  traditional Co-op
tour idea,   "See  What You Own".     But this goes beyond the  usual Co-op
tour where members  inspect  inventories and facilities.     Mi want to
involve  local  leaders  in a rich contact with UCA's  Board meetings
and to  involve  them directly with UCA employees on the job.     We
want  these  leaders  to see "What They Own,   Who Operates   It and How
Policies Are Developed".
If the recommendation is adopted by the Board, we will ask
each of four UCA Board members to bring the visitors to the UCA
office on the day of Board meeting at 10:30 a.m.  sharp.
After a forty minute orientation session in the Board room,
these people would be given an opportunity to ask questions, then
the group would be taken on a forty-five minute tour of the office,
the warehouse, the PAX plant, and the new perlite plant.
The group would then reconvene in the Board room for further