Secretary's Report September - October, 1996

DECEMBER/JANUARY 1997 

The Board voted as follows:

• The Specialty will have one obedience trial, one conformation event, two agility trials, and two herding trials
• At the Specialty, we will run the herding B course on Thursday and  A and B courses on Friday.
• A membership option will be added to membership applications: non-USA resident membership dues will be  $40 for single and $55 for a household.  This will help to cover postage for mailing of Borderlines to foreign countries.
• We will have a judges education video made.

BCSA was approved by the AKC to hold its second sanctioned A/OA Match Friday evening, March 14, 1996.

FEBRUARY 1997 

The AKC confirmed that the breed clubs hold the copyrights to their breed's standard.

Helen  Phillips will be sending out a special mailing by May 1 at the latest. The mailing will include:

1. info on the Annual; application plus sample pages
2. applications for V/VX awards
3. photo contest rules
4. ad rates for specialty catalog (Kelly Lee Hagestrand)
5. roster
6. By-laws
7. specialty information
8. trophy solicitation

Subscription rate for Borderlines (for non-members) will be raised from its current $12.50 per year to $18 per year or $3 per issue. Foreign rates will increase by $5.50.

Janet Larson has agreed to head the lobbying committee for keeping the stud books open.

Helen suggested we place an ad in Front & Finish advertising the BCSA Specialty, BCSA membership, and the BCSA Annual.

News on the National Specialty: 

Dr Robert Tanish has agreed to judge Puppy Sweeps at the Specialty.

Hunter Hampton, one of the owners of BC-L (the Border Collie email list), has agreed to have BC-L sponsor Thursday night hospitality. BCSA will provide the drinks, and the BC-L folks will provide the food.

Kim Augustine will chair the next Specialty.

Janet Lewis will do the closing ceremonies at the Specialty.

Helen H. Hittesdorf wrote to suggest the BCSA allow the breed judge the ability to recognize dogs of outstanding quality that are not awarded either Best of Breed or Best of Opposite Sex. The Board agreed that this would be a good idea.

Sharon Ferguson volunteered to help raise money for the specialty by having matches in her area.

Helen Phillips will try to book the fairgrounds in Denver for the Specialty in (they weren't available for  1998).

It was decided to not hold a Specialty in 1998.

Kim Augustine is checking on handicapped facilities at national.

At Richard?s Whorton?s request, the Purina Farms website has provided a link to our website:
http://www.ralston.com/dogevts.html We are the only ones with a link!

Respectfully submitted,
April Quist, Secretary