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Region 3 News:
This past weekend (October
7-8) the Gulf Shore Region pulled together and put on an amazing show. The
energy level in the show hall was incredible. The finals were shows unto
themselves and our judges outdid themselves in their presentations. We have the
best judges in the GSR and that was evident this weekend!
We had one of the best raffles I have seen in many years and the support was
overwhelming. John Chapman and Chris Willingham did a fantastic job as our
raffle-meisters. We raised almost $2100 as many of our items were hotly
contested. Thanks to everyone who contributed fabulous prizes and a special
thanks to Glenn Boot for the wonderful custom designed cat tree - it rated
three cups for the tickets!
Thanks also to the vendors who came and supported the show. I spoke with Helmi
afterwards and she told me this was the best CFA show she had ever done!
A few special people must be singled out; Sheila Haskins for the many hours she
and her team put into making the fabulous rosettes and decorations, Lynette Clooney
and her team for making sure the judges, clerks, and stewards were well fed,
Donna Hinton for securing the clerks, Cindy Rigoni for doing another wonderful
job as
Master Clerk, Joe Edwards for always being there when show hall problems popped
up and for solving them without being asked, and most of all Vicky Edwards and
the Lone Star Cat Club for coming forward and offering their club as the
sponsor for this show.
And thank you to all the exhibitors and clubs who supported the show with
entries, show supplies, donations, and help in the show hall during the
weekend. Without all of you there would have been no show!
I can add very little to the
report that Peggy just gave other that to say the without Peggy, this show
would not have happened. The enthusiasm
she had for this project from the very beginning was enormous. Thank you and your committees for this
contribution to the Gulf Shore Region. A
preliminary accounting puts the show at over $7,000 to the region. Peggy
and Vicky will announce the actual amount when all the bills are paid and
checks written.
GSR
Director -
GSR
Secretary - Trudie Allen
GSR
Treasurer - Betsy Gaither
GSR
Finance Committee - Chair Betsy Gaither, Bill Coombes, Chris Willingham, Jimmie
Hawley
GSR
Legislative News – Karen Crooke, Lynette Clooney
GSR
Webmaster – George Snell
GSR
Regional Shows Committee -
GSR
Clerking Committee - Marsha Ammons, Chair
GSR
2007 Annual Chair -
GSR
Historical Committee - Betty Haden, Chair
GSR
Pure Breed Rescue - Betty Haden, Chair
GSR Junior Showmanship Committee -
Chair-Cheryl Peck, Grace Guidry, Brenda Moore
If you are interested in any of the above
committees, contact the Chair to see how you can help.
ANNUAL 2007 COMMITTEE CHAIRS
The following have agreed to Chair the
respective committees.
2007
Annual Chair
Entertainment
and Hospitality nights Paul
& Toni Huff
Delegate
Services Marsha
Ammons
Banquet
Decorations Betsy
Gaither, Betty White, Chris Willingham
Publicity Karen
Crooke
Special
Projects Lonnie
& Gloria Hoover
Delegate
Bags Karen
Godwin
Vendors
Once
again, if you want to help, check with the committee chair and volunteer your
services. This is a preliminary list and
will expand as the Annual approaches.
And it will approach much sooner than you think. Clubs, start thinking about what you are
going to donate to the Delegate Bags.
You can contact Karen Godwin for ideas and suggestions of where to look
for “goodies”.
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CFA News:
The 2006 October Board
Meeting
This meeting was held in
One of the jobs at the
October meeting is to ratify the show rule amendments that were passed at the
Annual Meeting in June.
Budget Report: Kathy Calhoun.
Litter and individual
registrations are down 9.1% and 9.7% respectively. This was taken into consideration in the
budget forecast. Financials are tracking
at or over plan budget even though registrations and cattery registrations are down. Overall income is down 6.4%.
Club Applications: Jo Ann Cummings.
New
Club: Cat Fanciers of the Baltics. International Division. –
Accepted
Clubs have been notified
that the Club Activity Reports are due.
Please follow through on this.
Club Analysis Reporting to
identify locations of all clubs and shows has been added to this committee.
Peg Johnson and Jay Lehman
are helping JoAnn with this project.
Research on mapping software to help provide visual reports on CFA club
locations and show locations was approved.
International Report: Darrell Newkirk.
First Asia/Latin America
Awards Show was held in
Central Office: Allene
Tartaglia.
Allene Tartaglia has assumed the position of Central Office
Director
Out of Region Shows
Tonkinese
Breed Association (3) – August 15-16, 2009 in Region 4 -
National
Birman Fanciers (1) approved for show in
The
Enchanted Cat Fanciers (Region 8) requested to add 2 out of region co-sponsors
(
Fax Declarations:
Three Breed Council
Secretary Declarations were received via fax on August 1 deadline. The CFA Constitution requires a written
declaration signed by the candidate but does not prohibit other media to
transfer that signature. Motion to accept electronic signature or fax with
signature for all declarations was passed.
Breed Council
Membership
A TICA Breed Committee Chair
has applied for
A UFO judge has applied for
Certified Pedigree Fees for Cats born prior to 1980.
CO Request that the fee be
expanded to cats born prior to 1980 in their pedigree at CO discretion. 1980 is
the year when 100% of new registrations where computerized. A cat born in 1985 could require Central
Office staff to research 60 or more cats from card files. About 15,000 cats are still on card
files. There was discussion on getting
file records transferred to computer and ideas for getting volunteer help to do
this.
Allene will document number
of requests that involve these pre 1980 cats.
No action at this time.
Club Resignations
Gilt Edge Burmese Cat
Fanciers. Motion to accept club’s
resignation – Passed
Superstition
Cat Fanciers. The Regional Director does not support this resignation.
Motion
to reinstate club - Passed
Breeder Bucks
We did a follow up to
clarify decisions made at the June Board Meeting to stop issuing Breeder Bucks
December 31, 2006 and extended the ability to redeem Breeder Bucks until April
30, 2007.
Persian Show Standard – Colors that were dropped accidentally will be
added back. - Passed
Club Name Changes
Hong
Kong Millennium Cat Club to
CFA-IAMS CAT
CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW: Pam Huggins.
(Report by Pam DelaBar)
The Madison Square Garden
Marquis will have a 15 second video clip of CFA breeds and logos running consistently
in a 15 minute loop through October 16. The New York Times will have multiple
large ads this week.
CFA was present at the
Ringing of Bell at NYSE last week.
Appearances on several TV Shows have been lined up for the week after
the show. New for this year are the
Trained Cats that will be at the show.
The show budget is being closely managed to reduce expenses from
previous shows. Financials will be
presented to Board as soon as possible after show. CFA has not committed to the show for 2008
until full show financials can be reviewed.
CFA INTERNATIONAL CAT SHOW: Debbie Kusy
The Game Show Network will
be filming parts of the show this year.
Some changes will be made to the judging and presentation rings to
accommodate them. However the scoring
will not change.
Dee Dee Cantley will be
giving brief presentations throughout the show on CFA history. On display will be the Special silk Chinese
scroll presented to CFA for our 100th Anniversary.
The International Show will
be held in
Judging Program: Rachel Anger.
The following Judges were
advanced:
Makoto Murofushi – Trainee
LH
Vicki Abelson – AP-SH,
APP-AB
Carolyn Lyons – AP-LH,
APP-AB
Carla Bizzell – AP-AB
Richard Hoskinson – AP-AB
Resignations
Susan Johnson resigned as SH
Judge
Protest committee: George Eigenhauser.
Suspension Guideline Update:
Motion was made that if a cattery is suspended because it does not
fulfill cattery inspection on time to impose the following late fee before
suspended services can be re-instated:
After deadline $100, after 61 days it goes to $200, and after 4 months
it goes to the Board for review – Passed.
Legislative: Joan Miller.
Legislative Committee has
successfully stalled or defeated most legislative issues. This action gives us
time to make stronger preparations to defeat legislative actions.
PAWS
Getting Santorum and Durbin
out of office will help keep PAWS out of the legislature.
HSUS budget is now $150M
with about $90M for legislative with 10M constituents.
CFA has played a major role
in opposition to PAWS.
Local Level legislation is
hitting us hard with mandatory spay – neuter programs and mandatory microchip
programs.
Motion that CFA supports
non-surgical sterilization – Passed
Pet Night on Capital Hill
Many legislators were rushed
due to night vote. However the follow up meeting the next day was very
productive and the CFA toys were major hit.
Business Development: Kitty Angell.
4-Kids
has been renamed 4-Sight
CFA Products will be launched in Petco, PetSmart, Wal-Mart, K-Mart,
Kroger, Zellers, Plan-O-Gram, Cherrybrook & Northpoint Trading Company,
Central Garden & Pet, Concord Pet, and
Bio-Arts Research will no
longer be the lab for CFA CatBank.
New Lab is DNA Veterinarian
Diagnostic Lab (
Now allows registration of
kittens in the trial plan without requiring an individual registration number.
Elsey’s will be supporting
CFA with distribution of products and coupons at selected shows. They will be using the CFA logo on packaging
for their new litter campaign.
Pet Oxygen Mask
Distribution to Fire Departments
across the
CFA has purchased 300
Surgivet’s Animal Oxygen Masks (valued at $50 per kit) which was funded by the
Disaster Relief Fund and we are in the process of distribution to Fire
Departments.
Board members will be working to setup PR opportunities with their local
fire departments by donating masks.
Breed checks are available
on our website. You can use stock cats
or you can put your own cat on checks.
Commemorative CFA 100
Year Centennial Show Shelters
Sturdi
will have Special commemorative CFA SturdiBag shelter and carriers available
with a special gold 100 Year logo embroidered on each with only 100 of each
made. You can see these and other
special items under CFA Special Opportunities on the CFA Website.
Windsor Vineyard – You can get your own label on a case, or a mixed
case, of wine for $99.
New Development Committee
member – Bob Johnston
He
will be the contact for your club to request corporate sponsorship.
Show Rules: Loretta
Baugh
All
but one of the proposed show rules failed at the Annual Meeting. This was show rule 10.05d regarding master
clerk fees. Ratified by the board.
There
were a couple of items proposed by the Show Rule Committee of the “House
Keeping” nature and were passed by the board.
There were a couple of lengthy proposals for the International Division
that passed regarding the Novice Class and Winners Ribbons. Please let me know if you want the details
about these.
Other
changes that were passed by the board at the recommendation of the show rules
committee:
1.18.c
Housekeeping. Had the wrong show rule
listed. The
AOV (Any Other Variety) CLASS … For a list of those breeds which have AOV
classes, see 32.01
11.08.d
Now allows for notification of the CO and the exhibitor that they are returned
to “in good standing” via phone, fax, e-mail or regular mail. Removed the requirement of “certified, return
receipt mail”.
12.07.c
Change to “Best
of the Best ring may be added to any format show described above. Participation
in the Best of the Best competition shall not be considered a violation of the
provisions in Paragraphs 12.05, 12.07a, 12.07b.”
Removed the reference to Specialty rings only.
13.05.d
House keeping. Remove the words “4 ring”.
15.01.1
Regarding addendums. “A fee of $50 per
addendum will be charged to the club/entry clerk/show service and must be
submitted with the show packet.”
Addendums have gotten out of hand.
17.04.d
Insert new paragraph. Current (d) becomes (e) An
entry clerk may not refuse an entry without just cause. If an entry is improperly refused a protest
may be filed against the entry clerk, the club, and any show official involved
in the refusal. In a protest for failure
or refusal to accept an entry received on time (before closing date and before
the show fills) the burden of proof shall be on the accused to show that the
refusal is justified.
19.01 Housekeeping change. Separates out a second section as
19.02 and renumbers.
Animal Welfare: Linda Berg (report by Kay Janosik)
Summer months have been
quiet except for a few breeder surrenders.
Joan Miller recommended a
change in focus of this committee to include a more proactive approach
including breeder education and less breeder surrender
Purebred Rescue: Linda Berg
(report by Kay Janosik)
New
Director is Linda Mercer and Leslie Falteisek was appointed as new treasurer.
Purebred Rescue has been very busy this summary and is currently has very
limited funds. Veterinarian, boarding, licensing, care, supplies, and
transportation have consumed the majority of their funds.
Breeder Assistance Program: Linda Berg (report by Kay Janosik)
Breeder
Assistance Program guidelines are now published on the CFA website. This is
purely a CFA program whose purpose is to intervene prior to a situation
becoming an animal welfare situation.
Cats are to be left with owner if at all possible. Regions were asked to provide volunteers and
have provided contact points. Betty
Haden is currently the contact for the Gulf Shore Region but needs help as she
is over loaded and needs to step down.
If you can help, please contact her for more information about the
program.
The
Winn
Foundation: George Eigenhauser.
Betsy Gaither joined the
Winn board as Treasurer at the June meeting, and she has been working
diligently to establish new procedures for handling Winn's business. She has
completed a review of Winn's accounting procedures and our investments, and has
made the changes necessary to serve as Winn's Treasurer. Betsy has purchased
new accounting software for Winn that is being evaluated on a trial basis.
The Winn exhibit will be
present at both the CFA-Iams Cat Championship show in October (with Betty
White) and the CFA International Cat Show in November (with Betsy Gaither).
Both Betsy and Betty are generously paying their own expenses to attend on
Winn's behalf.
Winn board members have
various projects and goals they continue to work on, such as developing
guidelines for breed related projects (Hilary Helmrich), writing articles and
newsletters (Betty White), estate planning (George Eigenhauser), and Winn's
legal issues (Fred Jacobberger).
Finally, we are hard at work
at developing a new website for the fall. The Veterinary Information Network
generously donated server space and tech support. A totally new look is being
designed, and Winn will have its own e-commerce capabilities for the first
time. A press release will be issued once the new site is ready to go live.
IT / WEB Committee: Dick Kallmeyer.
Web hits are up 28% over last year and our Web redesign is currently on
hold. Problems interfacing the On Line
Registration into our database has caused yet another delay in this
program. They are working on it and hope
the problems will be resolved soon. Keep
your fingers crossed.
Please
check out the FANCE-E-MEWS
and FOR KIDS…ABOUT CATS pages on our
website.
Clerking Program:
New Japanese liaison –
Yoshiki Moriya
11 Clerking Schools held May
– August 2006
This year was the year for the biennial clerking
test. We had 309 clerks of various
levels returning their tests, 23 Master Clerk Instructors (MCI), 107 Master
Clerks (MC), 153 Certified Ring Clerks (RC), and 26 working towards their
license. Of the tests received and
scored, 49 individuals (15.9%) scored 100% on the test!! Our 100% folks include 7 MCI, 19 MC, 19 RC,
and 4 working on their licenses. 74% of
all clerks tested scored 95% and above; an additional 20% scored between
90-94%; only 3% of those tested scored between 85-89%. The minimum passing score for RC is 85% and
for MC & MCI is 90%. Of those
returning their tests, only 1MC and 3 RC did not pass the test at their
required level. Based on these facts, we
can consider this another successful testing year!
The current number of licensed clerks decreased by 59
clerks (17% reduction). Part of this
reduction is due to: (1) Clerks choosing
to not renew their license, (2) Clerks returning their tests late. While the overall effect is less clerks, we
have added newly licensed clerks as well.
We had an actual increase of 18 clerks (8 in the ID) and an actual
decrease of 66 clerks (10 of which are in the Judging Program). During a testing/licensing year, it is common
for the number of clerks to decrease dramatically as new licenses are
renewed. As folks begin to realize that
they haven’t submitted their test or paid their dues, they will be added back
into the Clerking Program. Our current
clerking status is 290 clerks at various levels (23 MCI, 108 MC, and 159 RC).
Junior Showmanship: Kitty Angell
The program has enough funds to
continue for about 1 year. No new sponsors have been
located but we are continuing to hope new sponsors will take this on.
Awards and Honors: Rachel Anger
There will be a new vendor for the Breed Awards. The National Awards will be the same.
Feline Agility: Kay Janosik
Carol Osborne is chair for
CFA Feline Agility Competition. Wayne
Mull is chair for CFA Agility Course Design.
21 Shows scheduled so far
this season with 29 CRMs (Certified Ringmasters).
Expense to the clubs have
been a problem so the committee has designed a PR package that clubs can use to
help promote gate using feline agility as draw.
They are looking into a
Junior Handler competition, which Kitty suggested would also be a candidate for
other CFA youth programs. National scoring and guidelines have been established
but are not 100% rolled out at this time. Clubs and regional directors are
requested to promote agility. New course
recommendations include multiple levels of competition, new obstacles, and new
standards recommendations.
Motion to affirm the
progress, direction, and importance of the program to CFA. Passed.
Ethics: Peg Johnson
Add affirmation to Board
Code of Ethics upon seating of Board after each annual meeting.
Judges will affirm their
adherence to Judges Code of Ethics by payment of judging fees and re-licensing
per new judges rules. Next steps include
working on employee and exhibitor code of ethics.
Marketing Statistics: Peg Johnson
They are still working on
Club Analysis Reporting to identify locations of all clubs and shows. Peg Johnson and Jay Lehman are helping with
this project. Research on mapping software
to help provide visual reports on CFA club locations and show locations was
approved. The next projects include mapping club and show locations, building a
club member data base, and analyze show information to better understand CFA’s
footprint and constituencies. All databases are for internal use of the CFA Board
only and will not be sold.
Publications: Donna
Brawner. (Report by Kitty Angell)
Kelly Jones has been added
to the publications staff.
Regarding the 2007 Yearbook
for show season ending in 2006, the plan is to deliver it a lot earlier next
year.
They are reviewing new
options for the yearbook for the show season ending 2008. This will be a book
with more public appeal and published in same year of the show season
covered. It will include articles of
interest to both cat fanciers and the public.
Almanac Discussion
They are looking into
additional publication options.
Recommendation: Sending emails when new online Almanac available. We will review the financials for potential
publication options at next board meeting.
No change in almanac
publications at this time.
CFA Foundation: Stan Barnaby
The committee was
reorganized at the 2006 Annual in
Hilary Helmrich and Karen
Lawrence visited Central Office in August and have nearly completed a physical
inventory of the remaining items contained therein.
A scroll was donated to CFA
in honor of its 100-year history, which was presented to Darrell Newkirk and
David Mare by the Hong Kong Cat Lovers’ Society at their recent show in
Management Committee;
The Executive Director job
description was turned over to Personnel Committee but was not acted upon now
by the Personnel Committee. Allene has
assumed the position of Director.
The Board will be working with Allene to identify any additional
training she or others at the Central Office might need. The Management
Committee is continuing to work on additional committee job descriptions.
Move to updated Board
Guidebook to reflect $30 per day expense for meals with exception of Annual
Banquet – Passed
Mentor Program: Mary
Sietsema
“At the
CFA 2006 Annual Pat Jacobberger stepped down as the Chair of the CFA Mentor
Program and I was appointed the new Chair at the Sunday, June 18, 2006 Board
Meeting. On August 13th, 2006
Mandi Wooldridge resigned from her position as Mentor/Protégé Coordinator from
the CFA Mentor Program. I am handling
the position until the Mentor Core Committee finds a suitable replacement. The
CFA Mentor Core Committee will have their annual Planning Retreat in Ontario,
CA on September 29th – October 1st. 2006.”
We will be
addressing the report and request to the Hartz Mountain Corporation for funding
from June 2007-June 2010. Pat Jacobberger
has agreed to present the Mentor Program funding request to Hartz Mountain
Corporation and a full report will be given to Roeann Fulkerson.
Ambassador Program: Willa Hawke
(report given by Liz Watson)
New Team Leader – Jodell
Raymond
There has been much interest
into expanding this program into the International Division.
“Ambassadors are the face of
CFA and the embodiment of all that is good and noble of our great fancy. Ambassadors are the role models whose
actions, attitudes, and kindness’ are to be emulated and praised. Whether in the show hall, at a disaster site,
in nursing homes, before legislative forums, or in our schools, the impressions
left by Ambassadors are pivotal images that assist people in deciding whether
the cat fancy is something that they, too, would enjoy and support”. Willa Hawke.
CFA Outreach and
Education: Joan Miller
The goal is to reach out and
involve a greater public audience so that they will look to CFA as their
primary information resource on cats. We
are looking for committee members experienced in adult education.
We will establish a trained
committee who can speak to both general public and more specific audiences.
Centennial Committee: Liz Watson.
The Centennial Celebration
was very successful but it needed to pay for it’s self. An entry fee was recommended but
investigation by the committee revealed that people were unwilling to pay even
a modest sum. Thus the Challenge was
scrapped.
Sturdi Products will be
offering specially designed Commemorative CFA 100 Year Centennial Show Shelters
and Sturdi Bag Carriers. Look for them
soon through CFA and Sturdi Products.
CLUB ACTIVITY REPORTS
Clubs need to get in their
Activity Reports. Please do this, as it
is very important to several committees.
The information is used to provide information to various organizations
and committees. You can do this on line
at http://www.cfa.org/exhibitors/club-activity-report.html.
Thank you for taking the time to read all of this and I hope that if you have
questions or comments that you will not hesitate to ask me.
Thank you for your
support.
Respectfully submitted,
CFA Management Team, Chair