Minutes of NCPC Board Meeting

Held June 25, 2005

Vallejo, CA

 

Roll Call

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

 

The meeting was called to order at 12:20 pm by the President.

 

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

 

OFFICER REPORTS

 

President:  No report.

 

Vice President:  No report.

 

Past President:  No report.

 

Recording Secretary:  No report.

 

Corresponding Secretary:  Received a thank you card and photo from the Jr. Showmanship entry at the Sun Maid Kennel Club; our club made a contribution to their Jr. Showmanship Fund..  Received ballot from PDCA for officers for next year.  After a discussion of the nominees, the board voted on behalf of NCPC and Cynthia will return the ballot to PDCA in a timely manner.   

 

Treasurer Report:  Susan handed out information on our current insurance coverage for discussion at a future meeting.  She reported that she is still researching using Pay Pal and other credit card payment options for dues/trophy donations, etc.   

 

Susan handed out a balance sheet and spread sheet on 2005 operations and discussed how the budget we develop now will be used for next year’s items and events.  It is important we categorize things correctly now, which will make the budget more useful for future events..  Dicussion on categories and what they should include.  Need to make sure we book income and expense for all items separately and not the net expense.  This was the first review of items by the board; Susan will look into the questions raised and get back to the board via email. 

 

Draft of reimbursement guidelines was presented – discussion on how they will work.  Jim and Susan to fine tune them and report back to the board.

 

Discussion of proceeds from fund raising events – currently it is broken down into two categories:  pug rescue and canine health fund.  It was proposed that we keep the description generic and trust the board to make the proper decisions for disbursing funds.  75% of the net proceeds go to this fund from any rescue fund raiser.  Decided to name it Rescue/Health so as not to limit our ability to distribute the funds.  Motion by Bob and seconded by Lisa that 75% of the net proceeds from rescue/canine health fundraisers will go to the rescue/ health account. The remaining 25% will go to the general fund.  And further, 80% of the funds in the Rescue/Health fund to be distributed to coincide with the current board’s term.  Motion unanimously passed. 

 

COMMITTEE REPORTS

 

Annual Awards:  Regarding the Karen Heide-Reed Prize,  Lisa has the portrait and previously emailed a copy to the board.  Jim explained his vision of how the plaque will look.  Bob suggested he add all plaques now so they will all look the same.  Jim will use a generic font so it will be easy to match in future years.  Lisa is working on the guidelines for current and future recipients

 

BOB Match:  John Morgan has the ribbons for 1-4th place and Jim has ordered rosettes for best in match.  Joanne will email John with the armband numbers she has available.  Joanne will make about 40 “cookie holders” to hand out to every dog entered.  There is a miniature grandfather’s clock in storage that we will use for our Judge’s gift.  The match is an “Indian” theme. 

 

Good Sportsmanship Award:  Flyer is in this issue of Pug Pen.  The cutoff date for nominees has been moved to September 15th.

 

Membership:  We have two new associate members; total is 80 regular, 17 associate, 16 required for a quorum.

 

Picnic:  We will be doing tri-tip and chicken, plus some side dishes for our picnic.  Joanne will check with Donna on what plates, etc. we have in storage.  Need a small amplifier for making announcements.  Jim and Lisa will work on this.  Remind everyone to bring their own shade for their dogs.  We may bring a baby pool for the pugs to cool off.  Joanne will email Wanda (the show chair) to let her know our plans.

 

Public Education:  PDE report was purchased.  Susan will summarize it for publication in the Pug Pen.  The original will be available to club members; details will be provided in the Pug Pen article.

 

Pug Pen:  The second quarter is now complete and will be in the mail shortly.  Next deadline is September 1st.  Continue to send articles/photos to Jim until some issues have been resolved.

 

Pugtacular:  .Dennis and Nancy are working on this.  Scheduled for November 5th.  They have  Santa lined up and face painting for the kids.  Lisa to contact Roxanne for the name of a psychic.  Some discussion on whether or not we want to sell first aid kits.  Clarification that vendors donate 10% of their proceeds to the club for rescue/health. 

 

Specialty:  Going to do a pot luck lunch; cost is $9.00 if you can’t bring food.  Club will buy sodas to provide to participants and will also purchase supplemental food to balance out items brought.  Theme is Fall Fantasy.

 

Ways & Means:  Fashion show:  Cynthia has flyers and asked the board to hand them out around their home town.  Selling tickets now.  As soon as she has received all her outfits, she will email club members for model pugs.  Each dog will model only 1 outfit.  There will be dog walkers available if you don’t want to walk your own dog.  Limit models to NCPC members pugs.  There will also be a silent auction.  She will email club members to request help for various jobs to do as it gets closer to the event.  All members will need to buy tickets.

 

Website:  Pug of the month –ready to go.  Joanne will email the club members with the guidelines and to solicit names.  We will pull 12 names at a time from those submitted.  Whoever is chosen will need to pay in advance.  Names will be pulled at the July 23rd board meeting. 

 

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

 

Hosting the 2008 National – We will need to submit a proposal by September if we are still interested in doing this.  Jim mentioned it would be nice to have the show in the Pleasanton area in conjunction with the Del Valle shows.  We need a chairperson to put this bid together.  Joanne and Susan volunteered to research hotels in the area.  Donna will send out the criteria from the PDCA website. 

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

Next board meeting is July 23rd after the puppy match.  Motion to adjourn by Cynthia and seconded by Lisa.  Meeting adjourned at 2:14 pm.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

Joanne Clark

Recording Secretary