Borzoi Club of America, Inc. Annual Board Meeting - May 23, 1999 MINUTES
OF LAST MEETING. A motion was
made by Marilyn Polsfus, 2nd by Fred Edlin, MD to approve the minutes as
published. MOTION CARRIED. Recording Secretary - Shen Smith. Minutes from the February meeting were mailed to the membership. All correspondence is current and up to date. Correspondence was reviewed. One TSE application was received for this board meeting for a supported show with the Detroit Kennel Club benched show on April 2, 2000. Breed judge Patti Neale, sweepstakes judge - Amy Sorbie. Trophy chairman to be Shen Smith. A motion was made by Laurie Kasowski, 2nd by Pat Murphy to approve this TSE. MOTION CARRIED. Resignation was received from Region Three governor Rhanda Glenn. A motion was made by Pat Murphy, 2nd by K.C. Artley to appoint Steve Gross (Colorado) to serve out the remainder of the term (12/31/99). MOTION CARRIED. Discussion regarding two sets of charges received. By lottery selection, Fred Edlin, MD, K.C. Artley & Karen Mays were selected to review charge set #1 to determine if jurisdiction should be entertained by the board. Charge set #2 was (also by lottery) selected to determine if jurisdiction should be entertained by the board consisting of Alice Reese, Marilyn Polsfuss & Karen Staudt-Cartabona. Reports are requested for the August board meeting with their committee determinations. 1999 Versitility Hall of Fame Inductee: Dual Ch Rabrega Lady Peach, JC, CD, ASFA FCh, LCM, CGC, owned by Susan Van de Water, MD, breeder Linda Mazor Peach finished her conformation championship – October 23, 1993, Companion Dog title – July 4, 1998, Field Championship 2/13/94, Dual Championship – 9/28/95, LCM – 4/12/98, and Canine Good Citizen 9/17/94. 1st Readings
Members may
direct any correspondence regarding these applicants to the attention of the recording
secretary. Dr. Gregory
Hlatky, 6197 Morrow-Rossburg Rd., Morrow, Ohio 45152 Sponsors – Henri Goldner &
Joel Chaney A motion was
made by K.C. Artley, 2nd by Marilyn Polsfuss to approve the recording
secretary's report. MOTION CARRIED. Treasurer
- Marilyn Polsfuss.
Complete financial report is attached with these minutes. Of special note, the BCOA has applied to and
registered the club name with the Internic for a registered domain name. The website address for the registered name is: http://www.borzoiclubofamerica.com. Discussion regarding also registering the name
borzoiclubofamerica.org with a decision that this might be a wise idea but will discuss
this issue with the membership at the annual membership meeting. A motion was made by Kathleen Kapaun, 2nd
by Fred Edlin, MD to accept the treasurer's report. MOTION
CARRIED. Governor's
Reports. Governor reports were
received and are printed in the Summer/99 Aristocrat.
A motion was made by Pat Murphy, 2nd
by Fred Edlin, MD to approve the governor reports. MOTION
CARRIED. Committee
Reports Reports were
received from the following committees: Futurity
- Barbara O'Neill - The 1999 Futurity
closed 11/24/99 with 34 new bitch nominations and 30 new litter nominations. There has been a total of $2835.00 collected. This is the 10th Annual Futurity and a
special celebration is planned. There are 37
puppies eligible to forward to the 2000 Futurity. The
Futurity Catalog will now be incorporated into the regular show catalog. The 2000 Futurity began 11/25/98 and closed
11/22/99. To date there are 17 new bitch
nominations and 11 litter nominations entered with $281.00 collected. Standardized Trophies - Barbara O'Neill All trophies are up to date, Specialty
Guidelines - Barbara O'Neill. A motion
was made by Fred Edlin, MD, 2nd by Shen Smith to amend the specialty guidelines
to indicate that no BCOA specialty show could be held between May 15 & Sept 15 because
of the heat index in regard to the airlines. MOTION
CARRIED. Health
Committee - Alice Reese.
Health fund treasury balance is currently $2515.27 with expenses for seminar
Vet still coming out of this figure plus a $500.00 honorarium to a research foundation.
The Health Committee wishes to extend deepest sympathy to Vivian Kubiak, Carol
Kubiak-Zamora and family on the loss of Charles Kubiak.
They also wish to thank them for their generous gesture of asking that in
lieu of flowers that donations be made to the BCOA Health Fund. They also wish to thank the following persons for
their generous donations of his memory: Fred
Edlin, MD, Tom & Laurie Kasowski, Angela San Paolo & family, Kathy Kapp, Paul
& Sandra Cambreleng, Alice & Dick Reese, Ron Williams, BCDV, Karen Elaine Fenchel,
Bernadine Molatzka and BCGNY. Also a thank
you to Tom & Laurie Kasowski for a generous donation in the memory of Ch Sky Run
Hemlock Hollow Rerrun "Yankee". Thank you to the following persons for their
donations of $50.00 or more and these have received the Rosseau print: Joanne Browning, Lydia Pruett, Susan
Caulkins, Bonnie Dalzell, Robyn Davidson, Fred Edlin, MD, BCDV, BCGNY, Angela San Paolo,
Greg Gomori, Lori Gross, Patricia Beaty, Molly Webster, Betty Evans, Ron Williams, Karen
Fenchel, Paul & Sandy Cambreleng, and Tom & Laurie Kasowski. The Health Committee can't thank everyone enough,
who donated to the fund either by personal donation or by paying to attend the seminar. It is ONLY through your donations that we are able
to have world-renowned speakers at our nationals and to be able to give to research
projects that will benefit the health and longevity of our wonderful breed. Again…THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Discussion regarding additional donations to
Canine Heart research. Alice indicated
that her committee will match any individual members donations to Canine Heart Research
from the Health Fund. A motion was made
by Alice Reese, 2nd by Laurie Kasowski, to donate an additional $500.00 to
Canine Heart Research. MOTION CARRIED. Medals
& Inventory - Gwen Post.
Two displays have been sent for the National.
Championship medals need to be reordered.
A motion was made by Laurie Kasowski, 2nd by K.C. Artley to
authorize Gwen to reorder the medals. MOTION
CARRIED. Keeping In Touch - Edna Ogata. Cards and letters have been sent out. Total expenses this quarter were $6.27. Archives & Sales - Barbara Yoon. A sales report was received with a request for
more BCOA blue books. A motion was made by
K.C. Artley, 2nd by Pat Murphy to release 20 more blue books for sale. MOTION CARRIED.
Pamphlets - Kathleen Kapaun. Obedience
& Agility. The chairman expressed
thanks to the wonderful committee members who spent a great deal of time condensing a
volume of information down to pamphlet size. Without
the help of Chris Danker and Debra Sharp, collaborating on the obedience portion, and
Suzanne Degi, the agility, this pamphlet
would not have become a reality. A motion was
made by Pat Murphy, 2nd by Alice Reese to review the costs of combining all of
the BCOA pamphlets into a book. MOTION
CARRIED. K.C. Artley & Patricia Murphy
will serve on the review committee. Futurity Event - Kathleen Kapaun. This year is the 10th anniversary of
the BCOA Futurity. The Futurity committee
would like to thank all the breeders who have supported this event with their litter
nominations. Our entries have grown steadily
since the first futurity. It is rewarding to
see the pride breeders are taking in planning the future of our breed. Historian - Laurie Kasowski. The Historian photo albums will be on display in
Denver. Laurie would like to take this
opportunity to thank and publicly
acknowledge her husband Tom for all of his help with putting together and shipping the
Historian albums. Laurie is continuing to
collect BCOA columns from the AKC Gazette. If
any members wuld be willing to copy these columns and send them to her, they will be
reimbursed for their copy expenses. BCOA
Publicity - Kalen Dumke. Kalen will be
contacting Sighthound Review, to see if they will again be sending a representative to
take photos of the specialty event and a write up will be submitted to Dogs in Review. Club Education - Jennifer Beach-Buda. Seminar for the 1999 nations will be put on by
Helen Lee James, Patti Neale & Nadine Johnson. BCOA
Web Site - Jennifer Beach-Buda. The website
continues to receive 1,000+ hits per month. Web materials for the extensive sub-site on the
1999 national were provided by Paul & Carol Enz.
AKC Gazette Borzoi Breed Column - Jennifer Beach-Buda. The February, 1999 column was titled "Moving
With Power and Grace", the May 1999
column is titled "Pre-breeding Health Screenings", and August column is titled
"Borzoi Coat Care". Archives -
Barbara Yoon. No change since last report
in February. Archive items are being given to
BCOA in Denver from several members. Any
donation from the members & board members would be greatly appreciated. Year Books/Year Plates - Barbara Yoon. Cookbooks are sold out. 1983 yearplates are sold out. There are only 16 1995 yearbooks still available. Ther are 27 1990 yearbooks, 20 of which were
shipped to Denver. There are nine boxes of
1985 yearbooks still available for sale. On
the east coast the Visualizations are still selling.
The "Growing Borzoi" mugs have arrived and are now for sale. The total sales since 1/1/99 thru 5/20/99 is
$715.00. BCOA
Constitution & By-Laws - Marilyn Polsfuss & Shen Smith. Review of the final copy resulted in a motion by
Alice Reese, 2nd by Marilyn Polsfuss to prepare a ballot for membership vote.
MOTION CARRIED. BCOA
Judges Education - Patti Neale.
Report was received regarding the approx costs to convert the slide
presentation into video form for purchase by the membership. Breakdown - slides $1.00 each currently have 300
slides but will need approx. 100 more slides, $75.00 per hour for lab editing to convert
to VCR (about $500.00+), Cover w/insert will need to be created for the video, 100 tapes
at approx. 3.00 ea., approx. one year for completion, with a suggested final purchase
price of $29.95. A motion was made by Laurie
Kasowski, 2nd by Karen Staudt-Cartabona to authorize a budget of $2500.00 for
the project. MOTION CARRIED. A request for permission to use photos from the
BCOA Visualization of the Standard was received from The Borzoi Club of England. Board indicated that this would be coordinated
through the JEC with 2 copies of the finished product sent to the JEC. Statistics -
Obedience - Edna Ogata, Jr (report received)., Handling
- Barbara Lord. Those juniors earing more
than 50 points in one year, were mailed medallions. Medallions
were mailed out in the month of May. As
chairman for Juniors, Barbara will see that there are one or two interview with BCOA
juniors include this year in the Borzoi Connection, Lure Coursing - K.C. Artley. The Lure Coursing chairman has sent a letter to
AKC requesting that the AKC Awards resume listing the number of dogs who competed in each
lure coursing stake be published, by breed and by stake, in the AKC Awards. BCOA has a top ten system based on the number of
dogs defeated by getting a placement in the stake. BCOA
would like to continue to give awards to members whose dogs defeated the most Borzoi in
lure coursing and to do this we need complete lure coursing trial results. Agility - Gale Snoddy (report received). A motion was made by Kathleen Kapaun, 2nd
by K.C. Artley to approve the committee reports. MOTION
CARRIED. Unfinished
Business National
Specialty Show Committee - tabled. New
Business Official BCOA Tabulator - A motion was made by Patrica
Murphy, 2nd by K.C. Artley that BCOA continue using the law firm of Samuel
Ewing, III for all BCOA tabulations except the futurity judge selection. MOTION CARRIED. Aristocrat
- Memorial Page. Discussion regarding free member memorial ads in
the Aristocrat indicated that board members feel the memorial page in the BCOA national
specialty catalog should be suitable for memorials. There are no free ads in the
Aristocrat. ROM
Program (Registry of Merit).
Several members submitted proposals for board review regarding the creation
of a ROM program for BCOA. A motion was made
by Kathleen Kapaun, 2nd by Shen Smith, to appoint: K.C. Artley, Ariel Duncan, Alice Reese &
Marilyn Polsfuss to review the proposals, discuss the pros/cons of a ROM program, and make
a recommendation to the board at the next board meeting.
MOTION CARRIED. August
Board Meeting (telephone conference) will be held on August 25, 1999. Fall
Board Meeting - December 4, 1999 in Las Vegas. Discussion regarding locations with easy access
from all parts of the country indicated that Las Vegas has air/room packages with
discounted prices. As there was
no further business at this time, a motion was made by Alice Reese, 2nd by
Laurie Kasowski to adjourn. MOTION CARRIED. Meeting was
adjourned at 5:15 PM. Respectfully
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