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Our club's business is conducted almost completely
by volunteers. This is your club. The club leadership aspires to
drive the club according to the wishes of the majority. But, we need to hear
from you to know what your wishes are. And, we need your help. BCSA is
always short on volunteer labor and we can use help in almost all aspects of
running the club. If you have a special talent, a bit of time to spare, or a
special interest, contact the board and offer your services! If you have a
suggestion for change, the best way to ensure it gets implemented is to
volunteer to chair the effort yourself!
The BCSA Board has organized a number of committees (below) to help carry out the important work of our club. Listed below for your information are the majority of those committees and a brief description of their duties. If you have concerns or would like to contribute to the work of a particular committee please contact the committee chair.
Committees shown with a
 need
volunteers (either chair or committee members). Volunteers should contact
Lisa Pruka.
AKC Gazette Columnist: Gerianne Darnell (IA) TBA,
Board Liaison
AKC
Press/Media Contact:
Kelly Hagstrand (NY) Board Liaison
BCSA
Affiliate Clubs):
Emily Fish (WA), Chair
Michelle Olsen, Board
Liaison
Lynn Higgins
Committee Member
Committee
charter: to develop ways of recruiting
new members and new regional affiliate clubs to generate club growth over the
next decade. For individual members, seek out ways to build membership in
areas where BCSA has few or no members. For affiliate clubs, publish
educational material on how to get a club started, provide support for newly
establishing clubs. Approximate time commitment: 2 hours per month.
BCSA Announce: Nancy Little (MN), ModeratorKelly Lee Hagstrand, Board Liaison
BCSA Suggestion Box: Nancy Little (MN), ModeratorKelly Lee Hagstrand, Board Liaison
Border Recorder:
Carol Clark (MO), ChairKelly
Lee Hagstrand, Board Liaison
Additional committee members needed.
To volunteer contact
Lisa Pruka.
Committee Charter: To develop the next “Border
Recorder” or an annual-style book containing photos and background of
significant contributors to the breed’s gene pool, paid advertisements for
dogs, articles about breed history, health, genetics, etc.
The committee had done some research on
different media alternatives-- printing on demand” versus creating an
electronic CD-ROM or DVD version (or both). The challenge is not expending a
large amount of money to have the work produced, and then not sell enough to
cover costs. So, this problem needs to be addressed. Once a medium is chosen,
then it will be time to generate articles, solicit ads, and compile the
content. After the book is finished, it will need to be marketed and orders
processed.
Estimated volunteer time required: 2-4 hours
per month.
Borderlines
Advertising Manager:
Job
Description: Solicit and coordinate outside advertisers for Borderlines.
Borderlines Advertising Manager that is paid at 20% commission for outside
sales (sales to non-BCSA members).
If you are interested in
either of the above positions or contributing to the Borderlines Team,
please contact
Lisa Pruka.
Breeder Referral Committee:
Karen
(Yobbagy) Herceg (WV), ChairJo Roach, Board Liaison
Sandra Shults, Committee Member
To put together, with the cooperation of the Border Collie fancy, a list of reputable, ethical breeders that will then be posted on the web site and published in Borderlines for the use of breeders and the general public. The BCSA will screen these breeders to the best of their ability through breeder submission of the required form, AND subsequent feedback from breeders and buyers alike.
The BCSA
accepts no responsibility, other than reviewing complaints, from the use of
this list. This list will be updated in a timely manner.
Breeding Excellence Recognition Committee (formerly ROM Committee):
Kim Sykes
(OK), ChairLisa Pruka, Board Liaison
Lisa Pruka, Committee Member
Finance Committee:
Beth Bartholomew (CO), ChairWayne
Koutsky, Board Liaison
Wayne Koutsky, Committee Member
The Finance Committee reviews the budget and year-end financial statements from the Treasurer to verify compliancy with club policies.
Futurity Committee:
April
Bruce (UT), ChairMichelle Olsen, Board Liaison
Additional committee members needed.
To volunteer contact
Lisa Pruka.
Goal: Develop a proposal for a BCSA Futurity competitions, for Board approval and launch in 2006-2007 time frame.
Background: Futurity Stakes are popular competitions across many livestock exhibition venues, they allow breeders to "gamble" on the future potential of animals they produce. Many dog clubs also host Futurity competitions for field and/or show. Typically entry nomination fees are paid before a litter reaches a certain age or before the litter is even born. Later, these young dogs compete in a special competition at the National. Futurity competition winners earn a monetary purse as well as the prestigious honor of being named best out of all the litters produced in that Futurity year.
Futurity programs are a great way for clubs to put focus on breeding excellency; and they encourage club membership since they are usually a "members only" benefit.
Job Requirements: Familiarity with either Herding or Conformation competitions (or both), in order to work together on the committee to create a consistent format and process for each competition. -
Willingness to develop a proposal of how the competition would operate (rules, entry forms and fees, judge selection, organization & administration, etc). Since many other clubs have well-developed Futurity programs, there is no need to re-invent the wheel, but rather to draw from these resources to create a BCSA-specific program. -
Time commitment is not large, est. 2-4 hours a month to work as a team to create the proposal. We would, however, like volunteers to commit to the project long enough to see it successfully established, so this will be a 3-5 year initial project. -
E-mail accessibility is a must to communicate with other committee members and the Board. -
Basic computer skills required to generate proposal documents and forms.
General Education Committee:
Catherine
Swain (CA), ChairSally
Davis, Board Liaison
Kathryne Williford, Committee
Member
Committee charter:
to create, review and maintain all general educational material that BCSA
provides to the public. This includes, but is not limited to, the pamphlet
that is included in new BC registrations from AKC, BCSA website content, BC
info pamphlets that are distributed to people doing educational booths, etc.
Currently the website educational material
needs to be reviewed and expanded. We need to flesh-out material on genetic
disease and breeding, how to find a good breeder, what to do in cases of
problem breeders, rescue, activities to do with BC's, herding education (how
to get started, etc), education for breeders, etc.
Approximate time commitment: 2 hours per month.
Health Committee:
Cecelia Lamb (GA)Lisa
Pruka, Board Liaison
Yvonne Anderson, Casey Carney, Lisa Pruka and Angela Roach, Committee Members
The Health Committee serves as a focal point for, and provides leadership in, formulating and evaluating BCSA policies and programs concerning health issues in the Border Collie, in keeping with current scientific data and medical knowledge. It is also a resource for the Board of Directors, Editor and columnists of “Borderlines,” and Committee Chairs for information/advice on specific health related issues. Functions include, but are not limited to: -
Advise the BCSA Board on health related issues and scientific advances including how these could impact breeding, advertising and other such policies. -
Advise the Advertising Committee of "Borderlines" and any other advertising committees) in matters related to health issues in dog or litter advertisement. -
Provide timely and relevant articles on health related issues for publication in "Borderlines." Review health articles submitted to "Borderlines" for appropriateness and scientific validity prior to publication. -
Provide guidance and critique of health related materials developed by the General Education or other BCSA Committees/working groups, to insure scientific accuracy to the degree possible. -
Assist BCSA Rescue leadership in developing guidelines for the assessment of significant health related problems in rescued Border Collies. -
Keep membership advised of scientific advances in health related issues by obtaining appropriate material for publication in Borderlines. Provide brief health alerts for posting on the Internet should critical health related issues/warnings arise. -
Assist the Chairperson of the National Specialty with planning, recruiting health care personnel, and running health related seminars and clinics at the National Specialty. -
Provide input into the establishment of a Health and Rescue Foundation by BCSA. Be a primary liaison from BCSA to this Foundation once established. -
Liaison with other groups such as the AKC Health Foundation, Morris Animal Foundation, individual researchers and other Border Collie Clubs that have health related proposals of interest to our breed. Facilitate review of any health related proposals by appropriate experts and summarize and report on their findings to the BCSA Board to enable Board members to make educational/enlightened decisions on matters and policies pertaining to health issues. -
Provide guidance on subject matter, design, implementation and analysis for surveys thought important and timely by the Board (no more frequently than once every five years).
Herding Committee: Claudia Frank
(OH), Chair Terri
Clingerman, Board
Liaison
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Foster and promote AKC and
ISDS style herding activities
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Administer the BCSA herding
instinct certification (HIC) program
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Issue official HIC
certificates and maintain a list of dogs that have been issued herding
instinct certification (results from HIC tests submitted to the committee)
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Approve and maintain a list
of current BCSA approved herding instinct evaluators
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Provide input and guidance
for all BCSA sponsored herding activities.
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2003 Herding Statistics
Historian:
Mickey Bruzek, ChairSally
Davis, Board Liaison
Karen
(Yobbagy)
Herceg and Kim Toohill, Committee Members
Job Description: Focus on recording history related
to both the breed as a whole, as well as our club’s involvement in that
history. It’s important to capture what’s going on now (specialty winners,
prominent dogs in the gene pool, key players on the scene, key developments in
research and health, etc) as well as what’s gone on up until now, so that this
information isn’t forever lost.
The AKC Archives department has a newly hired professional
archivist staff. They are working on creating an inventory for each breed of
what is stored in the archives, for future reference and study/research. They
have a lot of information pertaining to the Border Collie in AKC from the eras
between the 1950’s to the 1990’s. But, sadly, once BCSA became parent club and
AKC simultaneously laid off their archive staff, information retention was not
kept up for our breed. So, we need to try to resurrect information from that
era, as well as anything else of import from the past and current goings-on.
Things that the Archives staff would like to receive:
• Previous copies of Borderlines (we’re going to start sending them current
copies going forward, but need to retrieve all back issues if someone has
saved them)
• Club and board meeting minutes, correspondence
• Information on ROM dogs etc.
• Historical artwork of the breed
• Marked catalogs from past national and regional specialties
• News items and other public information/events of note pertaining to the
Border Collie
• Anything and everything else that someone from the future might want to know
about the history of our breed
Karen (Yobbagy) Herceg was the chair of this committee, but
the board has asked her to focus her energies on some other important tasks we
need done, so she’d like to just help out someone else who has the time to
spearhead this effort.
Please contact
Lisa Pruka.
if you are willing to take on this position.
Judge's
Education Committee: Linn Klingel (MN) Jo Roach, Board
Liaison
Norman Herbel, Cathy Lester, Robin Penland and Richard Whorton, Committee Members -
Conduct breed judge education seminars. -
Develop educational materials that illustrate correct evaluation of BC conformation (video, photo, booklets, etc). -
Organize a national education network of people who are approved to present seminars.
Members of the Judges Education Committee or people previously approved by Judges Education Committee Chair are the only people authorized by the BCSA to present an official BCSA description of the Border Collie Standard.
See info on the 2006 National Specialty Study Group (NSSG).
Judge's Selection Procedure Committee:
Sonja Donaldson (CA), ChairMichelle Olsen, Board Liaison
Robin Penland, Committee Member
Suggested Judges List
Junior's Program:
Linda Follis (MO), Co-Chair
- Chair needed. To volunteer contact
Lisa Pruka.Terri
Clingerman, Board Liaison
This committee will work on a BCSA Juniors program and is seeking suggestions for things our Club can do to support and encourage Junior BC members.
Legislative
Liaison:
Linda Baron (LA)Claudia Frank,
Board Liaison
Who are Legislative Liaisons? Dog club members who follow legislative issues
and provide an important communications link between their clubs and the AKC
Canine Legislation department.
Does BCSA need a Legislative Liaison?
YES! Every AKC club benefits from having a legislative contact. Legislative
Liaisons help the AKC, dog clubs and individual purebred fanciers work
together efficiently and effectively to address legislative issues.
What do Legislative Liaison's Do? Legislative
Liaisons help their clubs influence local, state and federal legislative
issues affecting purebred dogs and their owners. Their responsibilities
include:
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Monitoring their local news and staying
aware of issues which may impact our sport.
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Alerting the AKC to pending legislative
issues in their communities or states.
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Presenting views and interests of the
purebred dog fancy to lawmakers, other citizens and the news media.
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Receiving materials, updates and advice from
the AKC Canine Legislation department and distributing information to fellow
club members.
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Organizing and motivating club members to
become active in the legislative process, and encouraging other interested
fanciers to help advance legislation that will benefit purebred dog owners
and breeders.
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Sharing their clubs' experiences and
expertise with government officials, members of the community and other
interested fanciers.
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Preparing their clubs for action should a
legislative initiative arise that requires input from purebred dog owners
and breeders.
How does the AKC Canine Legislative department
help?
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Free information packets, position
statements, sample legislation, and brochures created and distributed by the
department help keep Legislative Liaisons informed.
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Taking Command monthly e-newsletter keeps
Legislative Liaisons up-to-date on canine legislative issues occurring
around the country.
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Legislative Alerts, brochures and other
vital information are posted on AKC's website (www.akc.org)
regularly. Legislative Liaisons can even subscribe to our Alerts e-mail
service, which notifies subscribers when new items are posted.
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he department will put you in contact with
other Liaisons and federations of dog clubs who will share their experiences
in different areas of canine legislation. AKC Canine Legislation
Department - doglaw@akc.org
Membership Committee:
Kathy Sours (IL), ChairWayne
Koutsky, Board Liaison -
Send application packets to people requesting them and handle all inquires about BCSA membership. -
Keep the official membership roster listing those members who are currently paid and in good standing. -
Collect completed membership applications along with fees and present candidates to the Board for vote. After the Board vote, the membership chair will send the new member's fees to the treasurer, add the names to the database, notify new members (send membership information) and send a list to the editor of Borderlines so that their names can be published in Borderlines. -
Act as the official contact for all changes in address. -
Print address labels as required, from the most current membership list for special mailings (club votes, etc). -
Work with other committees and members of the Board to produce special lists of current members and their activities as required (AKC requirements, etc). -
Send out renewal notices and notify members who's membership lapse.
National
Specialty - 2008:
Laura
Tomaszewski Michelle Olsen,
Board Liaison
To volunteer, contact Linda Koutsky.
National
Specialty - 2009: Lisa Pruka
&
Paige O'DonnellMichelle Olsen,
Board Liaison
To volunteer, contact Lisa Pruka
Rescue:
Carol Wesenberg (WI), ChairMichelle Olsen, Board Liaison
To volunteer, contact Carol Wesenberg.
Committee charter: develop rescue educational material for BCSA website (some content already exists, but needs to be periodically reviewed). Coordinate between BCSA-affiliated rescue groups and individuals. Advertise BCSA rescue grant program to generate interest and use. Work with Webmaster to post "Featured Rescue" descriptions; work with rescue groups to submit dogs for this feature. Coordinate rescue activities at national specialty, including but not limited to the "rescue banquet" and auction. Expand and define BCSA's role in supporting BC rescue and preventative measures to avoid more dogs in rescue long-term.
Approximate time commitment: 2-4 hours per month.
Versatility/Awards:
Tashia Lund (ND), Chair Jo
Roach,
Board Liaison
Tashia Lund, PO Box 153, Gilby, ND 58235-0153
Kim Sykes, Committee Member
Web Site: Ann Shaw (GA)Kelly Lee Hagstrand, Board Liaison
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