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Roll Call: Michelle Olsen • Lisa Pruka • Sally Davis • Kelly Hagstrand • Denise Teal • Terri Clingerman • Jo Roach
Members Absent: Wayne Koutsky • Claudia Frank
Call to order: 5:04 pm PDT by Michelle Olsen
1. Delegate Business:
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At the September Delegate’s meeting, Claudia did not get re-elected to the HEC due to heavier competition and more campaigning than normal. The HEC positions encompass the venues of herding, lure coursing and earthdog. Claudia will continue to attend the HEC meetings and will run for election again next year. In the meantime, we hope that the committee members will still rely heavily on Claudia for her herding expertise.
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The board discussed several ideas that were brought up the delegate’s meeting: joining NAIA and US Sportsman Alliance (organizations working to preserve dog owner’s rights), asking local government officials to give out event awards and other ways of demonstrating to local officials the importance of dog events in their state, supporting canine war veterans, encouraging affiliated clubs to get involved with local K9 police groups, and donations for the upcoming Humane Fund. The board has requested more information from Claudia about these ideas and will discuss further at a later date.
2. Recording Secretary’s Report: Jo Roach
September 2007 Minutes approved:
Motion: Sally Davis
Second: Kelly Hagstrand
Approve: Unanimous
3. Corresponding Secretary’s Report: Terri Clingerman
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Received a letter saying that if we want to advertise in the AKC/Eukanuba Championship catalog, ads are due by 10/19/07.
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Agility trial #2008507003 is approved (in Dexter, MI 6/28/08).
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Agility trial #2008507005 is approved (in Dexter, MI 6/29/08).
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Emailed Kelly Whiteman, asking if she would update the BC entry on Wikipedia so it includes a link to BCSA's website and updates some minor points on the standard. Kelly replied that she would be glad to do this.
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Received a request to use images on the BCSA website for a personal website. Referred the person to Judy Menown, who contributed the photos from old snapshots and postcards.
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Received a list from the Kentuckiana Tartan Border Collie Club of their current officers/board members.
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Emailed Kristine Weathers to see how many flyers she'll need for the Meet the Breeds event in San Diego.
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Email to Michelle from Renea Windley inquiring why her breeder referral listing hadn’t been posted. Karen Herceg reported she was not getting the emails due to a problem on her end. As a safety measure, Ann Shaw added herself as a cc on the form to make sure no more are missed. The problem has been resolved.
4. Treasurer’s Report: Wayne Koutsky
4.1. General Account Balances
Last month: $ 71,072This month:
Checking balance: $44,722.92
Savings (Money Market) balance: $47,205.72
Health balance: $7,269.33
Rescue balance: $16,320.13
Total: $115,518.104.2. 2007 Specialty Income/Expenses as of 08 October 2007:
Income: This month: $55,109.50 Last month: $9811
Expenses: This month: $15,386.02 Last month: $10,117
Total Flow: $ 39,723.48
5. Interim Business Transacted by E-Mail
5.1. Board Votes
Motion 2007-07 made by Michelle Olsen on 11 September 2007 to vote to choose one member as the recipient of the AKC Good Sportsmanship Award. Linda Koutsky was chosen as the recipient.5.2. New Member Applications
The following new membership applications were approved:
Jana Brady (Elkton, VA)
Sponsor: Karen HercegDonna Brooks Brisbin (Aiken, SC)
Sponsor: Claudia FrankSandy Canary (Hereford, AZ)
Sponsor: Karen MoureauxVanessa Evans (Lexington, NC)
Sponsor: Barbara FitzgeraldCarol Michel (Huntington, IN)
Sponsor: Pat SchultzJulie Oakes (Holly, MI)
Sponsor: Leslie KozlowskiBetty Padgett (Hawley, PA)
Sponsor: Linda BrennanEdward and Marie Wilson (Palm City, FL)
Sponsor: Paige O’DonnellMotion: Denise Teal
Second: Sally Davis
Approve: Unanimous
6. Special Topic: BCSA Vision Statement
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We need to start developing a long-term strategy of where we’d like to see the breed “be” in 10-20 years so that we are actively working on contributing to that vision. Initial ideas from the board included:
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Maintaining our current focus on working dogs, or at least dogs that could work.
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Keeping members informed about health issues, tests available, common problems, DNA profiling, improving the understanding of heredity as it relates to health issues.
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Influencing breeders to be good stewards of the breed, interacting with breeders that are not BCSA members, facilitate breeder communication, expanding the breeder referral list.
Claudia has asked other breed clubs about how they developed their vision statements.
7. Committee Business/Reports:
7.1. General Committee Productivity Project
Lisa has created a rotating schedule for a “feature article” in Borderlines to highlight committee projects and accomplishments. We hope this will motivate committees to make sure they have something to report when their article is due.7.2. Affiliate Clubs: Emily Fish - No report.
7.3. Agility Trial in Feb: Pennsylvania: Karen Herceg
Application is approved.7.4. Agility Trial in June: Michigan: Denise Teal
Next year’s date: June 28-29, 2008
Everything lined up, facility, judges etc; Wayne forwarded application to AKC.
7.5. AKC Gazette Columnist: Gerianne Darnell
Gerianne just finished an article on Goal Setting and she hopes her next article to be about the new QUAD Ch's in the breed. If she is not able to get the info together for that in time for the next issue (due in December), she will have to come up with another topic!7.6. BCSA Announce & Suggestion Box: Nancy Little
As of October 1st, 2007 there are 356 subscribers to BCSA_Announce. No messages in Suggestion box; deleted 2007_National group.7.7. BCSA Store Inventory & Orders: Nancie Mages - No report.
7.8. BCSA Merchandise Manager for Ivars Account: - No report.
7.9. Border Recorder: Volunteer Needed
7.10. Borderlines: Denise Teal
Open positions: We are actively advertising for an Ad Manager and Proofreader (a new member is interested in the proofreading position).
Ad policy: We are suspending ad restrictions until the end of the year to see if income increases.
Will move most stats to website to save printing costs.
Budget: need to keep evaluating how we’re going to pay for Borderlines or convert it into something cheaper if we can’t pay for it. Budget stats:
2005: $180 ad income, $2250/issue = $12K/year loss
2006: $620 ad income, $3300/issue (average) = $16,466/year loss
2007: $1100 ad income, $4250/issue = $25,500/year loss (projected) **color ads helping
7.11. Breeder Referral: Karen Herceg - No report.
7.12. Finance Committee: Beth Bartholomew - Nothing to report.
7.13. Futurity Committee: Volunteer Needed
7.14. General Education: Donna Mallory
The committee will send another revision of the breeding document in November.7.15. Health: Volunteer Needed (Lisa handing off)
7.15.1. Health survey: Casey has the health survey ready to go for the national specialty. Casey is talking to the affiliate clubs about distributing the survey at their specialties.
7.15.2. AKC/CHF Canine Health Conference: 10/19-21 in St. Louis: Lori Mauger (BCSA member & HEF board member) is attending on our behalf.
7.15.3. Amy Chandler, achandl2@mac.com, U of Tennessee, is looking for a PhD study project, and is considering Exercise Induced Collapse. She will do a preliminary look to see if we have this in our breed. They have some genes narrowed down that they think are responsible.
7.16. Herding: Claudia Frank - No report.
7.17. Historian: Mickey Bruzek - No report.
7.18. Juniors: Mary Beth Overmyer & Linda Follis - No report.
7.19. Judges Education: Linnea Klingel
Revised the letter from the board to judges and sent a copy to Michelle for approval.
Will be meeting with a few mentors at 8pm on Thursday of the specialty in the host hotel lobby. Hope to have more mentors available to help with the JE.
Have 6 judges signed up for JE (not counting any mentors), including Lauren Sommers from Australia.
Linn will be able to give the Westminster seminar, but will need a minimum of 2 dogs with up to 6 preferred. It is held at Madison Square Garden, Sat Feb 9th from 10:30 am until Noon. Judges ALWAYS like to see variety.
Accepted an invitation to the AKC herding institute in Chicago on Sat Feb23. This is an in-depth, 90 minute seminar followed by 1 hour of hands on. The focus of this presentation is to be on breed type and the essence of your breed. Usual attendance is 35-40.
Please remember to forward requests for seminars to Linn so she knows who is doing what. Linn has not received any more information about the Wichita presentation. Also, please let Linn know when you provide ringside or long term mentoring.
Linn is working on getting everything in order for national specialty.
Upcoming presentation requests:
National specialty: Linn will do.
November 2007: Michelle in Seattle
February 2008: Linn at Westminster
February 2008: Linn at the Herding Institute in Chicago
- April 2008: Wichita Cluster?
7.20. Judges Selection Process: Sonja Donaldson Chair
Voting for judges is VERY slow.7.21. Legislative Liaison: Linda Baron - No report.
7.22. Membership: Kathy Sours
October member applications were forwarded to the board for approval.7.23. National Specialty Steering Committee: Megan Harrison & Julie Bosier
Work on this project will begin after the 2007 specialty.7.24. Nominating Committee Procedure: Karen Herceg - No report.
7.25. Recruitment: Volunteer Needed
7.26. ROM: Kim Sykes
ROM/ROMX updates on website. Working on Breeder Recognition program.7.27. Rescue Liaison: Megan Harrison - No report.
7.28. Versatility: Tashia Lund
Certificates for distribution at the specialty were sent to Sally.
The board discussed adding the PAX title to the versatility program and suggested an 8 point value.
7.29. Website: Ann Shaw
Regular site maintenance and page updates.
8. Old Business
8.1. 2007 Specialty: Megan Harrison & Julie Bosier
The board discussed and resolved a vendor issue.
The Sportsmanship award will be presented at the dinner on Saturday night.
Since Michelle is unable to attend the specialty, Lisa will conduct the Annual Meeting.
8.2. 2008 National Specialty: Denise Teal & Linda Koutsky
Members have started submitting photos for the logo photo contest.8.3. 2009 National Specialty
We still need chairs for this event. Lisa has sent out another plea.
Denise is working on a form that will include a list of required events and optional events for those who are interested in bidding to host the specialty at a location other than Purina Farms.
8.4. AKC ILP Issues
Mary Owen - smooth coated tri color/merle “Shadow” - votes supporting purebred status: unanimous.
Heather Vance – smooth coat B/W - votes supporting purebred status: Jo, Sally, Terri, Denise; votes not supporting purebred status: Lisa.
8.5. New Title Reports From AKC
Lisa has contacted Barb and Kim to coordinate Kim submitting Ch reports for Borderlines.8.6. Silver Bay KC – Meet The Breeds booth
Kristine Weathers volunteered to represent the BCSA at this event. Terri has contacted Kristine to find out how many breed information handouts she will need.8.7. Cleveland All-Breed Agility Club Agility Trial Proposal
No BCSA members volunteered to be on the show committee for this trial so we will let the Cleveland Club know that we are unable to participate at this time.8.8. Goals
Two areas of focus we’ve identified for this year:
Herding video for judges education.
Health survey out this year.
9. New Business
9.1. MABCR Grant Request
The MABCR requested funding to offset production and printing costs for one year of their newsletter “HAVE YOU HERD”. Denise motioned to provide them with partial funding of $1800 from the Rescue Fund to help pay for their newsletter. Second: Kelly. In Favor: Unanimous.9.2. Storage & Club Inventory
A suggestion was made to investigate renting a storage shed in the area of Purina Farms, considering the large inventory of stuff we’re collecting. The board discussed the issue and decided it was better to work on not accumulating so much stuff so we can avoid renting a storage shed.9.3. Suggestion Box Submissions/Input from Membership
No submissions.9.4. Date of Next meeting
Monday, 5 November, 5:00 PST9.5. Adjournment
Adjournment motion: 6:47 PM PDT by Denise Teal
Second: Terri Clingerman
In Favor: Unanimous
Page Updated 11.07.2007