ACDCA, Inc. 2004 California National Specialty Annual Meeting
Sunday, September 15th
Del Mar, California Officers & Directors present:
Sara Jo Gahm, President Deb Casey, Outgoing South Central Director
Ingrid Rosenquist, Vice President Amy Berry, Southeast Director
Lu Castro, Treasurer Alison Deilke, Northwest Regional Director
Marilyn Painter, Secretary Rebecca Elder, Incoming elected Northeast Director
Kathryn Hamilton, AKC Delegate Chris Ann Moore, Incoming elected South Central Director
Presence of a quorum is verified.
Meeting commencing at 7:53 o’clock p.m., PST, September 15th, 2004 at the Morgan Run Golf & Resort, Del Mar, California.
Kathryn Hamilton entertained a motion to approve last years minutes.
Kathy Erickson seconded.
Motion carries.
REPORTS
a) President:
1. Summary of the decisions that went into changes in the Quarterly.
2. Rules require that at the Specialty there is an audit done by an audit committee. John Connolly and Deb Casey did the audit on Monday night, 9/13/04. Books are in good order.
b) Secretary:
No new report to discuss.
c) Treasurer:
Account is reconciled. We’ll discuss the budget later this evening.
d) Vice-President:
Some areas of discussion needed are how we determine awards and recognize dogs in our breed.
e) None of the regional directors wanted to add comments.
Board Of Directors leaving: Sharon Landis – replaced by Rebecca Elder. Michelle Collette being replaced by Mary Weiland. Deb Casey will step down as of this meeting, replaced by Chris Ann Moore. Southwest Director Amy Berry is leaving and being replaced by Joyce Rowland. John Kurpas’ term ends as immediate past president.
Selection of annual meeting for next year.: Oct 12th, 2005, James Ward Center, Lebanon, TN
Election of new members:
No nominations from the floor.
Unfinished Business:
1. Motion by: Deb Casey - Move that the ACDCA articles of incorporation be amended to change the club from a public benefit to a mutual benefit corporation. Pam Pruett seconded.
No discussion.
Unanimous vote - Motion carries.
2. Motion by Bruce Demers. Seconded by Joe Williams.
Amend the current standing rules on the judges selection ballot to require two nominations instead of six, retroactive to this past year.
Friendly amendment by Ellen Schwab: Amend the motion so that we change the current requirement to two nominations for this current slate but then revert back to six nominations in the year 2008.
Discussion.
Pam Gipson Beaty moves to call the question. Susie Ironmonger seconds.
Motion to call the question carries.
Motion carries.
3. Bruce DeMers makes a motion that we amend the standing rules to cancel our current advertising obligations with Dog Fancy. Kathryn Hamilton seconded.
Discussion.
Motion carries.
4. Bruce Demers makes a motion that for the National Specialty, puppy sweepstakes be changed from 6 – 18 months TO 6 – 19 months. Pam Pruett seconds.
Discussion.
Friendly amendment by Kathy Hamilton - Amendment to add a class for 18 to 21 months rather than change the age range.
Discussion.
Motion carries.
5. Pam Gipson Beaty gave a presentation on the Tennessee Specialty.
New Business
Board members gave a presentation of the Quarterly options and reasons behind the addition of a subscription fee. There has been various printers used for the “Quarterly.” Diana Lemons requests that both Deb and Denise are thanked for their hard work in the past 2 years as the editors of the “Quarterly.” The improvements to the “Quarterly” are due more to them than to the printers.
1. Ingrid Rosenquist makes a motion that we do away with the subscription fee for “Quarterly” for the upcoming year and we raise the membership fee $30.00 to cover the cost of the “Quarterly.” Susie Ironmonger seconds.
Discussion.
Friendly amendment – Alison Deilke – With this change, club business goes back into the “Quarterly” and not be individually mailed out.
Discussion.
Amendment – Bruce DeMers suggests to direct the editor to advise and increase the fee by at least 15% advertisement at her discretion.
Lu Castro seconds.
Discussion.
Chris Ann Moore called the question on Bruce's amendment. Susie Ironmonger seconded.
Bruces’ amendment fails.
Jo Williams calls the question on Ingrid's motion, as amended by Alison. Ellen Schwab seconds.
Motion fails.
2. Robert Danelen makes a motion to vary the cost of the advertising in the Quarterly so that the fee covers the projected cost.
No second.
3. Pam Gipson made a motion to raise the ad rate to 50.00 per one page ad. Cynthia Weaver seconds.
Bruce DeMers offers an amendment that the cost of the advertising cover the cost of the Quarterly. No second on amendment.
Kathryn calls the question. Ingrid seconds.
Motion fails.
4. Susie Ironmonger moves that we raise the price of all ads to cover the cost + 10% at the discretion of the board. Alice Kapelos seconded.
Friendly amendment - Joyce Rowland moves that we change the motion to read that we allow the board to adjust ad rates as necessary.
Discussion.
Deb Casey makes an amendment to the previous motion to require the board to consult the advertising editor and the Quarterly editor prior to raising rates. Second—name unknown.
Discussion.
Amendment fails.
Chris Ann Moore calls the question. Robert Danelen seconds.
Motion carries.
Susie Ironmonger makes a motion to accept the budget on page three of the handout.
Rebecca Elder seconds.
Discussion.
Motion carries.
5. Performance Awards
a) Diana Lemons moves to add the following awards guidelines. High Point Agility; Sire, Dam and Breeder of most Agility Title Holders; Breeder of National Specialty Agility High in Trial.
Ellen Schwab seconds.
Discussion.
Motion carries.
b) Diana Lemons moves to that all references in the standing rules and awards rules to the AKC Awards publication as being the only acceptable source of verification for data be modified to include other data directly obtained from AKC, especially electronic data. So the wording might become “results printed in the AKC Awards or available electronically from the AKC”or “data available from the AKC shall be the sole verification, either electronic data or data from the Awards publication.”
Lynn Tatro seconds.
Discussion.
Motion carries.
c) Diana Lemons moves that the term “herding titled” be defined as HS or above for the purposes of the “of most” awards (breeder of most, sire of most, dam of most.)
Alison Deilke seconds.
Friendly amendment from Joyce Rowland-- starting Jan 1st of 2005.
Discussion.
Motion carries.
d) Diana Lemons moves that the ACDCA buy data sets from AKC (at 90.00 per) once each year for the performance venues of herding, obedience, agility for the purposes of calculating the year-end awards for the National Specialty Awards Banquet.
Bruce DeMers seconds.
Discussion.
Motion carries.
e) Diana Lemons moves that the requirement be eliminated from the standing rules and awards for the rankings to be published in each issue of the Newsletter/Quarterly
Ingrid seconds.
Discussion.
Motion carries.
f) Diana Lemons moves that if obedience and agility rankings are to be continued to be calculated NOT BY the Awards committee, (specifically, by the Performance Committee), then revise the standing rules and/or awards rules to make it officially be the duty of the Performance Committee to tabulate the Obedience High Point and Rankings and the Agility High Point and Rankings, with the requirement that these rankings be provided to the Awards Committee 3 months prior to the National Specialty.
Alison Deilke seconds.
Discussion.
Motion failed.
g) Diana Lemons moves to add an award to the “of most” program, for each performance venue, to recognize the owners who are actually out there doing the titles for which breeders, sires, and dams are currently getting recognized. There would be an owner of most new agility title holders, and owner of most new herding title holders.
Ingrid seconds.
Discussion.
Motion tabled until someone provides a complete plan for an awards program for owners.
Ingrid makes a motion to adjourn at 11:15.
Susie Ironmonger seconds.
Motion carries. Meeting adjourned at 11:15 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Marilyn Painter,
ACDCA Secretary
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