BOARD MEETING MINUTES - APRIL 3, 2006

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Members Present: Michelle Olsen • Joyce Norris • Laura Wright • Kelly Hagstrand • Beth Bartholomew • Sally Davis • Denise Teal

Members Absent: Claudia Frank, Wayne Koutsky

Call to Order: 5:31 PM Pacific Time by Michelle Olsen

1. Recording Secretary’s Report: Kelly Hagstrand

1.1. Approval of minutes of last board meeting
Motion to approve minutes made by Beth Bartholomew and seconded by Sally Davis. All approved.

2. Corresponding Secretary’s Report: Laura Wright

2.1. Correspondence Received

  • Letter from AKC stating Rally fee for Specialty is missing
  • Beth received a check from the Purina Parent Club Program

3. Treasurer’s Report: Wayne Koutsky

3.1. Account Balances

Checking: $16,000.40
Savings: $54,616.50
Health: $5,306.77
Rescue $14,422.57
  Total: $90,346.24

3.2. 2005 Actual
Wayne will submit to Borderlines so the membership can see our financial picture.

3.3. Finance Committee Review
Beth has received and will review 990 for year 2005.

4. Interim Business Transacted by US Mail
No mail exchanged in the last month

5. Interim Business Transacted by E-Mail
No e-mail exchanged in the last month

6. Committee Business

6.1. AKC Gazette Columnist: Gerianne Darnell
Gerianne is currently working on the second part of a two-part series about herding with ducks

6.2. BCSA Announce and Suggestion Box: Nancy Little

  • As of March 27, 2006 there are 341 subscribers to BCSA_Announce
  • There have been 3 messages received in the Suggestion Box since January 16, 2006.

6.3. BCSA 2006 National E-Mail Group: Nancy Little
Members have been added as they are submitted.

6.4. BCSA Store Inventory and Orders: Nancie Mages
Message was put on the website looking for a volunteer to coordinate cafepress.com (a free method of selling fundraising logo items). No one has volunteered as yet.

6.5. Borderlines: Lisa Ochoa
The transition to using a professional publisher seems to be going well at this point.

6.6. Color Committee: Sandra Lindenmuth
Motion was made to have the classes divided as follows: Black and Any Other Acceptable Color. Motion made by Joyce Norris, seconded by Sally Davis. All approved. Michelle will notify the AKC of the decision.

6.7. Heath & Rescue Foundation: Dawn Antoniak-Mitchell
Discussion regarding whether or not to confine this to a Health Foundation, removing the Rescue part of it for the time being.

6.8. Judges Education – Carolyn Herbel
The Board reviewed the final PowerPoint Judges Ed presentation. Denise Teal motioned to approve the presentation, Joyce Norris seconded. All approved.

6.9. Membership – Kathy Sours
Motion made by Joyce Norris, seconded by Sally Davis to approve the following membership applications:

  • Barbara Cooper
  • Christina Hutchinson
  • Craig Rogers
  • Donald & Patricia Johnson
  • Elizabeth Scappachio

6.10. Website: Ann Shaw

  • 2007 Specialty Proposed Schedule – set up information and e-mail comment pages
  • Addition pages to the 2006 and 2007 Specialty Central sections added
  • Regular site maintenance and page updates.

7. Old Business

7.1. 2006 National Specialty

  • Chair contracts have been signed and returned
  • Lisa Pruka is making the arrangement to have CERF testing
  • Weave Pole challenge moving to Thursday night, along with at heeling challenge, at the hospitality room.

7.2. 2007 National Specialty
Laura and Sandra submitted a proposed schedule change. The Board posted this on the website to get member feedback and the opinion was to leave the schedule as is. Motion was made by Joyce Norris to keep the current schedule. Denise seconded. All approved.

7.3. Herding Entry Lottery Drawing Issue
Motion was made by Denise Teal, seconded by Laura Wright to do a random draw for the herding entries (like Agility). All approved. Denise to do the write-up.

7.4. Herding Recognition Award

  • Membership will be asked for suggestions via the website on possible names for this award.
  • The award will be for BCSA members only and is retroactive
  • Denise will write up the description

8. Date of Next Board Meeting
Next regular Board Meeting: Monday, May 8, 2006 at 5:30 PM Pacific Time.

Adjournment Motion:
8:00 PM Pacific Time by motion to adjourn by Denise Teal, second Beth Bartholomew

Respectfully submitted by Kelly Hagstrand, Recording Secretary

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