At Chief Solano KC show
Meeting was called to order at 10.18am by Lisa. A quorum is present, (18 necessary, over 20
present), the club may do business.
Susan Phillips, Donna Shank, Brenda Schuettenberg, Doug Green, Rebecca Green, Mark Reed, Heather Brandon, Lisa Sheeran, Peggy Bennington, Donna Manha, Joe Sullivan, Tony Roberts, Courtney Roberts, Rosemary Robles, Myrna Powell, Jim Williams, Kelley Ruffoni, Cynthia Cool, Vicki Schnurpfeil, Denise Panzich, Ernie Schnurpfeil, Karen Carsner, Steve Baldwin, Debbie Baldwin, and Ron Cool.
Cindy Johnston, Shelley Webb, and Melissa Ribley
Jim moved/Denise 2nd the minutes of the February &
March general meetings be approved with a correction to the numbers of votes
listed in the February minutes being changed to reflect the numbers listed were
nominations not votes. It only takes 1
to nominate a person for a club position.
Approved.
Lisa welcomed everyone & stated her goal of trying to
get more people to volunteer for club activities.
none.
none.
AKC has Okayed the judges we applied for, to do Sweeps at
the Richmond KC show, both days. 8/5/06
Sweeps judge will be – Mrs. Joella Maser, 8/6/06 judge will be – Mrs. Toby
Frisch.
Cynthia has flyers from a couple of businesses that have
Pug stuff available & want our club business for fund raising efforts.
Received a newsletter from the Great Lakes Pug Club if
anyone wants to read it.
$7,263.75 in Checking, $4,618.82 in Karen Heide Reed fund –
total balance = $11,882.57. Balance Sheet, check detail, deposit detail & Expense
Summary are attached to the hard copy of this report (EX#1).
Advertising/PR/Pug
Talk Liaison: (Peggy
Bennington, chair) no report.
Annual
Auction (Specialty): (Peggy
Bennington, chair) Start thinking of things you may want to donate for the
annual auction/raffle. Send them, or at
least a description, to her when you have a donation.
Awards/Membership: (Jim Williams, chair) he was getting the
misspellings corrected on the award plaques.
2006 Membership Books have been mailed, already receiving updates. Plan to continue sending monthly email
updates as changes take place.
Bench
Show Decoration: (Needs a
chair) no report.
B-OB
Match: (Joanne Clark,
chair) date is 6/24 at the Hercules Club House. Match in the morning, Jim Williams will offer handling workshop
after the match.
By Laws
Review: (Helen Danna,
chair) please send a copy of any proposed changes/accepted changes to her
directly. Susan clarified that these
would include the changes already requested by AKC in its letter dated March 28,
2005.
Good
Sportsmanship: (Cynthia Cool,
chair) no report.
Historian: (Donna Manha, chair) no report.
Judges
Education/Breeders Seminar: (Donnelle
Richards, chair) no report.
Legislative
Liaison: (Marie Clifford,
chair) no report.
Litter
Liaison: (Keven Birdwell,
chair) report via email, see attached (EX#2).
She looks forward to future puppy placements & invites those who
have not used her services in the past to please consider doing so this
year. Requesting preferred call times
be put on the website to help prevent meal interruptions, explain show-weekend
delays on call backs, & help eliminate late night calls. Requests that all members who refer people
please ask that party approaches after ring judging so they can have her full
attention.
NCPC
Picnic: (Joanne
Clark/Vicky Schnurpfeil, co-chairs) on track.
Pug Pen
Editors: (Cathy
Loomis/Scott Ewart) last edition looked great!! Cathy feels we should thank Scott for all the good work on his
first issue. Proposed a change in
pricing for prime advertising pages, possible multiple page discounts, price
break for camera ready vs. ‘need set-up help’ ads.
A copy of Pug Pen should
be sent to whoever is handling PDCA Archival duties.
Public
Education: (Susan Phillips –
only through the end of November) We need a person to step in as of December of
this year to cover this position.
Pug
Health: (Denise Panzich,
chair) Denise brought up the new protocols and vaccines available that allow
for a 3-year stretch between boosters.
She has a 28-page report she will share with any club member, if they
will email & ask her for it. She
doesn’t feel it would be cost effective to print & mail due to printing
& postage charges. We need to be
informed & aware of these new guidelines & be willing to monitor our
veterinarians practices when they vaccinate our animals to be sure our wishes
are being followed regarding types of shots given & the timing.
Denise brought up the recall on Diamond and Neutro Brand pet foods because of contamination resulting in deaths, also Royal Canin dog food recall on certain formulas. The following information was taken from The Senior Dog Project webpage regarding the Royal Canin recall (www.srdogs.com/Pages/medicine.info.alerts.html). Recent issues with Greenies were also mentioned.
Pug
Rescue Liaison: (Tony Roberts,
chair) feels rescue groups who receive money from the club should be both
fiscally & personally accountable to the membership. He will ask them to step up & help at
future events, to provide the club with an accounting of our donation dollars
& were they are spent. Tony will
come up with a list of requirements the groups need to meet to be able to get
donations from the club.
During this year the goal
of the rescue committee is to responsibly recommend funding to the regional
pug rescues and encourage NCPC
members to participate in fund raising activities (Pugtacular and other events)
and solicit help from members who have not participated previously.
Pugtacular: Jim Williams & Dennis Lauterbach,
co-chair) on track.
Specialty
Show 2006: (Lucia
Simon-Torres) Judges selected were Del Richards for Confirmation & Junior
Handling, and Bob Birdwell for Sweepstakes.
The specialty will offer Rally
for the 1st time this year, OB judge has agreed to cover that
assignment for an additional $25 & we will need to purchase a Rally Kit to
be able to put this on.
Statistician: Top 10 Pugs
(Ernie Schnurpfeil, chair) no report.
Supported
Entries: (Donnelle
Richards, chair) on track.
Sunshine: (Rebecca Green, chair; Doug Green, Peggy
Bennington, & Annette Friskopp) The Board voted that flowers & a card
would be sent in the event of serious illness, accident or death of members;
Cards will be sent in the event of serious illness, accident or death of
members immediate family member or Pug.
Members will be given a free memorial ad page in Pug Pen for their
Pug.
The Board agreed to open the Sunshine Fund with a one-time
donation of $150 from the club treasury, this budget will be added to donations
already received and the new budget line will include this as well as
expenditures already incurred. Future
funding to come from passing-the-hat at General Meetings, a check-box donation
on membership renewal forms, & activities to be decided on in the future.
Ways
& Means: (Cynthia Cool,
chair) Cynthia mentioned she was hoping to get a better response this year on
our fund-raising efforts. She found
last year to be a bit disappointing, in that many members did not see the
importance of our efforts to provide funds into our treasury by their
attendance and help in the different fundraisers the club provided for
them. Although we will not be doing a
fashion show this year, there will be other fund raisers to support that should
offer plenty of diversity to attract our members.
We began the year with our
2nd Chili Cook-off, raising $85 for the club and attended by 20 people....
better than last year's attendance and making more money.
Our next fundraiser will be this
summer. She plans to have another
International Potluck with, instead of a costume contest like we had at our
last one, this time dancing! Steve has
volunteered to be DJ. We will have it
on a Saturday night at the Alamo Women's Center, date to be decided.
She would like to plan a big red
tag/garage sale at one of the flea markets this summer. She will be asking one
of our members to step up and help find the best location and will be asking
for members to donate items to sell. She has heard from other clubs that this
is a very successful way to raise money with minimal effort. We will also need volunteers
to staff our booth during various hours so no one or two people end up doing
all the work.
Several people who came to our potluck and costume party said they would like to do another one. Everyone who has purchased an outfit for their pug to wear wants a place for him or her to wear it. We may try to do something around Halloween, after our Specialty, and tie it in with a lunch/brunch on a Sunday for those who have to work Saturdays.
Website: (Joanne Clark, webmaster) wanted to tell you my plans for the POTM
for the next few months. Because members were late in getting their
information in I decided to move everyone to the 15th of the month, POTM will
run from the 15th of one month through the 15th of the
next month until we draw a new set of names. The last 12 days of the
final month I will give everyone a one-day front page again, and then we can
start back up on the 1st of the month. It seemed like a reasonable
solution to me, plus gives everyone one more day of being on the NCPC front
page, which I hope they will all like. I plan to send out an
email early to give everyone a chance to sign up for the next 12
months. My plan is to include everyone who has not had a chance to
participate first, then if we don't have 12 people, we can choose from members
who have expressed an interest in participating in this new go round.
ELECTION OF NEW MEMBERS
Scott Ewart, unanimously voted in as Regular Member.
Connie Gehring, unanimously voted in as Regular Member.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
None.
NEW BUSINESS
New Standing Rules were adopted:
“When the Club has projects or activities which bring in
money, the responsible chairperson will be in charge of collecting, counting
and delivering the funds to the Club Treasurer in a timely manner appropriate
to the event. The Treasurer will be responsible for providing the chairperson
with a receipt for the funds received, depositing the funds in the bank, and
will then be accountable for the funds.”
“Fee to change from Associate Member to Regular Member during the current year will remain $5 if change is requested within the first 9 months of the club year, full membership price if request is submitted during the last 3 months of the club year. If applicant’s Regular Membership is voted approved, the fees will be applied to the upcoming years dues.”
ADJOURNMENT
Jim Williams moved that the meeting be adjourned/Steve
Baldwin 2nd, meeting was adjourned at 11.45am.
Submitted by
Brenda Schuettenberg
NCPC Recording Secretary
05/02/06