Minutes of NCPC Board Meeting

Held November 17, 2005

Conference Call

 

Roll Call

Present:  Jim Williams, Donna Manha, Susan Phillips, Joanne Clark, Bob Birdwell, Lisa Sheeran, Cynthia Cool, Steve Baldwin and Heather Brandon.

 

Absent:  None

 

Call to Order:  The meeting was called to order at 7:40 pm by the President.

 

Prior Meeting Minutes:  Motion by Bob and seconded by Heather that the minutes from the last board meeting be approved as written.  Motion passed.

 

OFFICER REPORTS

 

President:  (1)  Susan and Jim will be preparing a proposed budget for 2006.  (2)  Discussion on assigning board members to contact non-show members about attending NCPC events.  (3)  Add a note in the dues notice to ask for member feedback on events and help for future events.  Jim and Susan will work on this before Susan sends out the next dues notice.  (4)  Received notice from Golden Gate Kennel Club wanting to know if we will do a public education table again this year ? Jim will give the information to Susan and she will confirm with them.

 

Vice President:  No Report

 

Past President:  No Report

 

Recording Secretary:  No Report

 

Corresponding Secretary:  (1) Received confirmation for our sweeps judge for Nor-Cal Toy Fanciers show; it is Ron Steen.  (2)  Received letter from Louise thanking us for inviting her to judge our sweeps at our October 2005 Specialty show.  We also have a letter from Donnelle ? Jim will publish them both in Pug Pen.  (3)  She has the application to choose our judges from AKC for our 2006 Specialty in conjunction with the Del Valle shows.  It should go to the next show chair.

 

Treasurer Report:  Discussion on the emailed balance sheet and profit and loss statement.  Bottom line is we have $8,696 in cash (excluding the KHR prize fund).  We are down $540 from last year at this time.  We have donated $6,500 this year for rescue and health fund.  As we are on a cash basis, Susan will send out dues notices in December, but will not deposit the funds until January 2006.

 

COMMITTEE REPORTS

 

Annual Awards:  Awards dinner will be held March 18th at the Wyndham Hotel in Pleasanton.  We will request the Skyline Dog Fanciers to put pugs on late on Sunday.

 

GGKC Bench Show:  Donna had planned on doing a three dimensional pug Buddha.  So as not to offend anyone, she has decided to do something different.  She is also looking for a large Chinese gong to use as a center piece. 

 

Public Education:  Susan will be sending out an email to ask for volunteers to work the table at the Cow Palace show.

 

Pugtacular:  The first available date for the Antioch location is December 9th.  Dennis Lauterbach wants to hold the date while he continues to look for other locations that would allow an earlier event date.  We are trying to space out our events more from the rescue events.  Another possibility is to move Pugtacular to an earlier date in the summer in an air conditioned facility. 

 

Rescue:  NCPC donated $6,500 during the current year to rescue and health.  We have about $800 available to disburse before year-end.  Moved by Susan and seconded by Cynthia that we send $400 to Pros and $400 to Pug Savers.  Unanimously approved.  Susan will send the checks to Cynthia and she will prepare letters to send with the checks. 

 

Specialty Show:  (1)  Still need a show chair for our 2006 Specialty.  (2)  Selecting a Judge:  Recommend we put together a committee on how to select a judge and bring the criteria to the Board for discussion.  Cynthia volunteered to chair the committee.  Jim will bring it up a the next regular meeting and see if any club members are willing to serve on the committee. 

 

Ways and Means:  To help space out events, it was decided to hold the fashion show every other year.  Cynthia would like to do the chili cook-off in February. 

 

Website:  Discussion on whether or not to put micro-chipping dogs on the website as a Public Education item.  Tattooing is another option.  Susan would also like to have some information available at the Public Education table at GGKC. 

 

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

 

Reimbursement Guidelines:  Jim and Susan to finish refining the proposed guidelines and get back to the board.

 

Drinks:  There are quite a few soft drinks left over from Pugtacular that are taking up valuable space in our storage.  Motion by Susan and seconded by Bob that we donate the drinks to a charity of Donna’s choice.  Motion unanimously approved.

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

We need to assemble a committee for nominating club officers for next year.  Susan volunteered to chair the committee and will find two other club members to work with her.

 

Next board meeting is a conference call on January 10th; next general meeting is December 4th  in conjunction with the San Mateo show.  Motion to adjourn by Cynthia and seconded by Bob.  Meeting adjourned at 9:00 pm.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

Joanne Clark

NCPC Recording Secretary