Table 4:
Recommended groups for future Community Advisory Board (CAB) inclusion and representative quotations from interviews with “We’re On This Road Together” CAB members, 2020
| Recommendations for future CAB membership from current CAB members | Representative Quotation |
|---|---|
| Diversity in ages of CAB members | “The only thing I think that maybe in terms of the diversity of perspective that might be better, they could probably add into would maybe be a little bit broader age range. I think maybe I was the youngest on the board and I’m 34. I can’t speak to how old the oldest member was, but they weren’t a senior citizen by any means” (CAB member 3) |
| Farmers | “I guess one of my big, it’s not a regret, I guess one of my wishes were, say if we would have had one or two actual operators who run a family farm to be on there, just from the standpoint to at least give them a little behind the scenes awareness of what we were doing.” (CAB member 1) |
| Youth & students | “Even your local 4-H and maybe you want to get the younger crowd involved. There might be a high school senior that could benefit from… That’s in 4-H, that could benefit from being on an Advisory Board like this. These kids, I mean, they always needs some direction, but yet at the same time, they’ve got things to offer.” (CAB member 2) |
| Driver’s education programs | “And I think, another thing, a change that could be made that might be a good addition if you’re trying to find ways to implement something like this would be something like getting involved in that particular community’s driver’s ed program.” (CAB member 1) |
| Farm Bureau & other agricultural-support businesses | “Maybe you might even get some extra ideas from people like Farm Bureau, some of the ag support businesses” (CAB member 5) |
Source: Authors’ analysis of study data.