Breed Council Meeting
Saturday June 30, 2007 1PM Room 401 Hilton Austin, TX
Members in attendance
Jill Archibald
Karen Bishop
Constance Carroll
Laurie Coughlan
Doris Horak
Michael Michaels
Vicki Michaels
Melanie Morgan
Old Business
 | Status Imports
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Items for discussion:
| Import policy adjustments
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| Summary Breed Council Secretary meeting with the Board
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§ Forwarded to BCS earlier this year for review and approval. Some breeds have found errors and we are in the process of cleaning up the definitions with C.O. Egyptian Mau is fine
 | Registration statistics |
§ All breeds forwarded to BCS – and all breeds urges to encourage improving on the percentage of registration
§ Maus are very low- suspect that this reflects on number of people who are not CFA active
§ Action Item - request for number of individual breeders made by Constance Carroll -
| Attracting new breeders |
§ Starts and ends with “Be Nice”
§ Long discussion about whether having new breeders start with premiership is restrictive or not
§ Long discussion about restrictions in themselves – through pedigrees, attitude etc – pros and cons
§ Ideas about how to find new people
§ Utilize existing resources – pamphlets, access to potential markets through 4-H, AKC
§ Explored initiating activities for new exhibitors at the annual
§ Discussed instituting a novice category
§ Summary of discussion items will be forwarded from Peg Johnson
| Breed Council renewals/deadlines |
§ 8/1 deadline for submitting resolutions/ballot items – details for procedure on website
§ Year runs Jan-Dec, but latest to be active for the year is August 1
§ Not BCS responsibility to submit/write the proposals
§ Is BCS responsibility to edit, evaluate and submit if determined appropriate
§ Standards are standards and there is no need to change on a constant basis – use when deemed necessary, but okay to leave alone as well
| Reiterate procedures for communicating concerns regarding standard/breed related issues to judges |
§ Concerns should be forwarded to BCS who forwards to B&S
§ B&S forwards to judging list
§ Responses, if any, are forwarded back to BCS who forwards to BC members
| Discussion about revising current process of Breed workshops to include one main breed and several others with just one issue updates given in 15 minute “snippets”. B&S will be submitting this suggestion to the Judging program committee members |
| Discussion about reinstituting a standard period of time between litters |
§ Several instances where litters have been registered to same female 4 months apart in multiple succession
§ Scientific advisory committee chaired by new Board member, Roger Brown will be revived and tasked with investigating this issue
| Color Description project still underway |
§ Goal to standardize as many colors as possible for all breeds
§ Julie Keyer point person, Cheryl Coleman, Melanie Morgan other contacts
| Regional Rescue update
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§ 11 year old silver relocated from NJ to FL in April
| Update eye color issue
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| Congratulations to all 2006/2007 winners | ||||||
| Meeting adjourned |
Next meeting: Louisville 2007
