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Minutes of April 30th-May 1st, 2009 CKC Board Meeting - Annual General Meeting Minutes

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 Synopsis of  CKC Meeting March 16 and 17 

• A donation to the CKC library from the Estate of D. Valerie Reid was made. The book a limited edition, titled “Chronicles of the Lakeland Terrier from Lakeland Crag to Crufts” by Frank Jones was published by the Lakeland Terrier Society of Great Britain. Thanks to Sandra Anderson for passing this book along.

• The Board received a letter from Rianne Kaptijin of the Netherlands who is conducting a survey on the inheritance factors of hair in the Chine Crested. The letter was forwarded to the Chinese Crested Club of Canada. Any members in this zone who would like to participate can do so at http://teaspoon.student.utwente.nl/rianne/english/chinese crested_intro.php

• The board received an interesting letter from the Chihuahua Club of Canada        requesting a ban from registration of all Merle Chihuahuas . The club has not been satisfied with the kennel clubs response to its request and has involved the Department of Agriculture. The issue has been referred to numerous committees for study and response.

• The Board made the final appointments to several of the standing committees that were deferred from the last meeting.

• Breed standards committee      Dann Wilson

                                                                 Deborah Graffman

                                                                 Francois Bernier

• Breeder Relations Committee:

                                                                 Marnie Layng 

                                                                 Cathy Prothro

                                                                 Patricia Taylor

                                                                 Dr. Simon Verge CMV 

     *     Event Officiating Committee   Skip Stanbridge     conformation

                                                                 Kim LeBlanc           conformation

                                                                 Mike Lanctot           field

                                                                 Lynn Leach              performance

                                                                 Marion Postgate       obedience 

    *     Genetics and Medical Committee    Serge Bilodeau

                                                                        Dr. Simon Verge CMV

                                                                        Dr. Debra Boyd 

      *    Agility:    A total of 48 new rules and amendments were submitted by the Agility Council and subsequently passed by the board. These become effective January 1^st, 2010. 

• Adding a breed to the Miscellaneous List has been simplified. Members will be able to make applications to have a miscellaneous breed added at any time of the year rather than the current December meeting. This provides flexibility to members with miscellaneous breeds.

• A suggestion from James Campbell,  Zone 12 Director, that all club treasurers and all event and show secretaries be bonded was referred to various committees for further discussion. Mr. Campbell suggested this would prevent clubs from losing proceeds from their various events.

• There was a great deal of discussion regarding the possibility of the American Kennel Club going to ten groups  and the impact it might have on Canadian shows. Since the American Kennel Club has yet to deal with this issue …no action was taken.

• The Board passed a motion to donate half the proceeds from the Purina National to the Dog Legislation Council of Canada. More on this in the editorial portion of this website.

• The FCI issue involving Canadian judges was also discussed. Chairman Dwain McLean and CEO Joe Mauro have been in negotiations with Miguel Martinez and a tentative agreement will be presented to the FCI board toward the end of March. Again, more on this in the editorial portion.

• Dogs in Canada  is also changing its policy with regard to breed heading photographs in the Dogs Annual. Effective with the 2010 editions, the purchase of breed heading photographs will be offered on a first come first served basis, to the top five winners in each category in Field, Conformation and Obedience. In this way, they will be ensuring that breeders of champion dogs are being offered the first right of refusal to purchase their breed’s photograph while increasing the pool of breeders to whom the listings are first offered.

           This opens the breed headline up to performance, field as well as conformation dogs.

CKC Board Meeting - Jan. 10th & 11th, 2009:

     Saturday was spent in a head office information session and tour of the offices with an overview of how the CKC functions.  The new board members were explained the role and relationships with the various independent and standing committees.

     We were given an overview of both the Apex publishing and CKC Foundation functions.

     On Sunday elections and committee appointments were made.  Mr. Dwain McLean was re-elected Board Chair.  I was elected to two standing committees: the Club Relations Committee and the Apex Publishing Board.  I was also elected to the Conformation Council as well as to the committee responsible for planning the 2010 Purina National.

     Although not a full working board meeting, discussions were held on the FCI issue, the 2009 budget, and the Charity Event.  These items were dealt with by the previous board and this was an opportunity to bring the new board up to speed.

     I'll comment more on these issues in the Editorial portion of this website.