FEBRUARY CFA BOARD MEETING NOTES FROM NAR REGIONAL DIRECTOR
These are my personal notes from the February CFA board
meeting. They are by no means official –
the official minutes will be distributed by the CFA Secretary.
New club applications
1) Grand
Canyon Cat Club, Phoenix, AZ,
(Region 5) – several points of concern were raised
regarding this club. Two of the local
clubs objected to its acceptance, as there were already three clubs in the Phoenix
area. Letters of support were received
from other clubs, and it had the approval of the regional director, George Eigenhauser – passed with 7 “no” votes.
2) Las
Flores Cat Club, Las Flores, CA – (Region 5) – some discussion regarding the
membership crossover, club had RD’s approval – passed with 3 “no’s” and 1
abstention.
3) Prestige
Siberian Alliance – this would be a
second Siberian breed club, one already is in existence. Club application failed unanimously.
International Division (Stan Barnaby)
The International Qualifier drew a great entry of 321, with
exhibitors in attendance from 12 countries.
Two clerking schools were held in December, one in Germany
and one in Holland, as the need was
recognized to have more certified clerks in the Intl. Division.
Judging Program committee report
The resignation of Miriam Faulkner was accepted with great
regret. Margot Mellies was granted a
medical leave of absence.
In the future, the judges would be required to pass the
judge’s test with a score of 85% or better.
If they failed on the first test, they would be re-sent that test and
not told which answers were incorrect on the first test. The following judges were approved/advanced:
Paula Boroff – approved Allbreed
Wakako Nagayama – Approval Pending Allbreed
Jan Stevens – Approval Pending LH
Susan Johnson – Apprentice SH
Minoru Maeda – Apprentice LH
JoAnn Miksa – Apprentice SH
The next are all 2nd specialty-
Holly Ayers – Accepted as SH trainee
Ellyn Honey – Accepted as LH trainee
Kazuko Kurokawa – Accepted as SH Trainee
Ray Pinder – Accepted as LH Trainee
Jan Rogers – Accepted as SH Trainee
Ayumi Ueda – Accepted as SH Trainee
John Webster – Accepted as LH Trainee
All current judges were re-licensed.
Central Office Operations
Out of region show requests – National Siamese Cat Club
(Region 1 club) requested permission to hold their show on Oct 18-19-, 2003 in
Region 4 – granted
United Silver Fanciers (Region 4 club) requested permission
to hold their show on July 24-25, 2004
in Region 6 – permission granted.
Crab and Mallet (region 7 club) was granted permission to
conduct a “Veterans ring in conjunction with their show on March 8-9, 2003.
Permission granted. Tom Dent had
drawn up guidelines for this type of ring.
Show rules Chairperson Gary Veach, at the
board’s request, drew up a plan to change the appropriate show rules to allow
Veterans rings to be held by clubs without special board permission. The following is an outline of the
requirements:
1) must
be held at a 1-day 4 ring show or any 2 day show. (In other words, they may not be held at a
one-day, six ring show)
2) agreement
of the judges must be obtained in advance
3) Awards
are limited to Best through 10th best Cat, and anything in between
4) There
will be no scoring of any type – this must be stated on the show flyer
5) Cats
must be seven years and older
Kitten registration/scoring
“Same day service” is now offered for kitten
registrations. Here is how this will
work – if you take an unregistered kitten or kittens to a show and they make
finals AND you would like to see your points in the Almanac, you can overnight
the registrations to CO on Monday. They
must be received by 5PM on Tuesday
and MUST be accompanied by a $50.00 same-day service fee.
Ancestry Recording Service
Formerly refereed to as “Tom’s Registry” this will allow CFA
to track pedigrees of previously unrecorded cats.
1) this
is to record ancestry only, does not provide a pedigree as such
2) Litter
recording rules – 1) both parents must
be recorded 2) Matings between any recorded cats are
permitted
3) No
wild cat outcrosses are permitted
More to come on this
service later.
International Show (Debbie Kusy)
The gate for this year’s show was the best ever – over
10,000 spectators attended the show.
However, the show still realized a financial loss of approx. $14K. The International Committee held a meeting on
Friday to discuss ways to improve that next year and is confident that the show
will be back in the black.
The board approved the hiring of the same PR firm for
2003. They also approved renting the
smaller hall for 2003 and limiting the entry to 1000 cats.
The committee also requested a donation to the Winn
Foundation, as had been done in previous years.
Although the show did not make money this year, there is a total balance
in the show account of approx. $133,000.
The board voted to donate $5000 to the Winn Foundation from that
fund.
Animal Welfare committee (Linda Berg)
Linda Berg reported that she has sent out 36 letters to
catteries that had registered 75 or more kittens – only 5 did not respond. Those five had their files flagged to halt
their CFA services. Subsequent letters
were sent to those five and two complied with the mandatory cattery
inspection. The other three are still
suspended.
Several people had been advertising on their personal
websites that they were catteries of excellence, though they had not complied
with those rules. Linda contacted them –
all requested the appropriate forms.
Winn Foundation (George Eigenhauser)
The Winn Foundation met on Friday and numerous grants were
approved. This was not a written report,
as the time was too short, but further info will be in the official minutes.
Breeds and Standards (Peg Johnson)
Originally three new breeds applied for Miscellaneous status
with CFA – the Peterbald, the Owyhee Bob and the Ragamuffin. The first two withdrew their applications
prior to the Board meeting. The
Ragamuffins had a display of cats on hand for the board to see.
After a question and answer period with a representative of
the Ragamuffins, they were accepted by the board, with 5 negative votes. The breed representative was asked to
withdraw the pointed cats, she complied,
They can be registered, but as AOV’s.
I do not have my individual notes from the breed ballots,
they are at work. Most of those items
that passed the breed councils by a margin of 60% were approved by the
board. Notable among those were the
pointed and white Orientals and the 8-generation pedigree for the Persian. The 8-generation pedigree had been requested
by a margin of 80% of the voting breed council.
Initially the board approved the registration change, then
Rachel Anger came back and asked that the vote be reconsidered. Eventually, after a long discussion, the
8-generation pedigree requirement for Persians was approved with a start date
of 2/5/04, which is the day
after the next February board meeting.
CFA at the Garden show (Gary Veach, liaison)
Show will be held on October 11-12, 2003.
Format is 4 AB, 2 SP, with three judges doing Best of the Best. Allbreed judges are
Harding, Adkison, Williams and Angell,
Specialty judges are Trevathan and Doernberg. BOB judges
are Mare, Veach and Hutzler.
Entry is limited to 325 cats, No HHPs. 185 entry slots will be held open
representing 5 entries for the 37 breeds.
Spots will be held until August 18, at which time any remaining spots
can be filled with any breed entry. This
is NOT an invitation only show. Early bird entry fee of $30.00 for the first, $25.00 for the second
and all others. This will be
limited to 2 per breed per exhibitor.
Any of the 185 slots not filled by the August deadline will be opened up
for all breeds after 8/18/03, the entry fee at that time will be $40 for the
first, $30 for the second and all others.
Closing date is 9/29/03. For Sale
kittens are limited to exhibitors who have an entry, entered, present and
showing. Kitten passes are $25.00 each,
limit 3 per day. Kittens must be 4
months old and have a CFA blue slip and shot records. Joan O’Hara is in charge of ribbon and ring
sponsorship (hint, hint).
Publications committee report (Carol Krzanowski)
The Yearbook production is behind schedule and at this time
it is impossible to project a target date for completion. Staffing problems in CO, as well as the
decision to accept submissions long after the published deadline have put
things behind. In addition, the Yearbook
Editor is on maternity leave, further complicating matters.
CFA Centennial Committee (Rachel Anger/Jean Grimm)
2006 is CFA’s centennial anniversary. The committee is planning Almanac articles on
the history and development of CFA, interviews with CFA veterans. They are encouraging shows to feature an
anniversary theme and want to design and implement a special 100-year logo for
ring signs, rosettes, catalog covers, regional/national award trophies, CFA merchandise etc., all for use in the 2005-2006
season. Jean announced the formation of
a CFA Centennial “Club”, membership in which is limited to any and everyone
wishing to participate. Requirement for
membership is a one-time $100 membership fee.
The “club” will raise funds for a blowout celebration at the Northwest Region
annual in 2006. Donations are gratefully
accepted.
CD and video report (JoAnn
Cummings)
Jo Ann continues to work hard on the breed video and was
asked to develop a grooming video as well.
Web Site Committee (Darryl Newkirk, Liaison for Karen Lawrence)
Online catalog sales for 2002 were $96,345.
Mentor
Committee (Pat Jaccoberger, Chair)
The committee thanks those that volunteered to be
mentors. An initial 10-person pairing
will begin shortly, pairing mentors with newbies. The committee wants this process to begin
slowly, so they can carefully track its process.
Legislative committee report – (Joan Miller)
Joan’s is a rather extensive report, I will scan it and it
will be a separate item.
Again, these notes are from my personal observations and are
by no means official
Any questions, feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Debbie Kusy
Regional Director