Host County Responsibilities for Small Acreage Workshops…
- Select date and confirm with Small Acreage Issue Team Leader.
- Find local facilities with capacity to hold the general sessions (100 people) and 2 to 3 concurrent breakout sessions.
- Work with Small Acreage Issue Team Leader to help facilitate workshop agenda and local speakers. Team Leader will help arrange for needed specialists from USU.
- Advertise Small Acreage Workshop…look at alternative locations and people for advertising to a new and different clientele.
- Mailing of brochures with advanced registration information form
- Posters in public locations frequented by different types of small acreage owners.
- Arrange local Newspaper, Radio, Television promotion.
- Arrange for local vendors booths at workshop location…items available and useful to small acreage owners.
- Accept and count pre-registration information and numbers…submit numbers of pre-registered attendees to Team Leader one week prior to workshop.
- Arrange for lunch and breaks on sight.
- Collect (for use of presenters) as many screens, projectors and laptops as necessary (some specialist can bring some of the equipment if requested)
- Provide registration help the morning of the workshop to facilitate collection of fees, handing out packets, and last minute walk on registrations, etc.
- Provide the opening session “This is the State of Small Acreage in ________county” (local issues and surrounding information relating to the local needs and resources for small acreage owners).