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2018 CFA ANNUAL MEETING Friday, June 29, 2018 (37) CALL MEETING TO ORDER. ..................................................................................... 175 (38) REGION 7 WELCOME. ................................................................................................ 176 (39) PRESIDENT’S WELCOME AND MESSAGE. ............................................................ 178 (40) DECLARE THE DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM (ROLL CALL IF DESIRED). ..................................................................................................................... 181 (41) CORRECTION AND APPROVAL OF 2017 MINUTES. ............................................ 190 (42) APPOINT PARLIAMENTARIAN FOR THE 2018 ANNUAL MEETING. ................ 191 (43) SPECIAL RULES OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE. ....................................... 192 (44) 2019 ANNUAL MEETING UPDATE. .......................................................................... 193 (45) 2023 ANNUAL MEETING SITE SELECTION. .......................................................... 194 (46) CFA AMBASSADOR PROGRAM. .............................................................................. 195 (47) MARKETING................................................................................................................. 199 (48) IT REPORT. ................................................................................................................... 203 (49) WINN FELINE FOUNDATION. ................................................................................... 204 (50) LEGISLATION. ............................................................................................................. 212 (51) CFA BREEDER ASSISTANCE AND BREED RESCUE PROGRAM. ...................... 217 (52) AMBASSADOR CAT COMMITTEE. .......................................................................... 219 (53) CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE AND ELECTION RESULTS. ................................... 221 (54) TREASURER’S REPORT: ............................................................................................ 234 (55) JUDGING PROGRAM. ................................................................................................. 240 (56) YOUTH FELINE EDUCATION PROGRAM. .............................................................. 249 (57) ROYAL CANIN: ............................................................................................................ 256 (58) YEARBOOK. ................................................................................................................. 258 (59) NEWBEE REPORT........................................................................................................ 260 (60) 2018 AMENDMENTS AND RESOLUTIONS. ............................................................ 262 (61) RESOLUTIONS FROM THE FLOOR. ......................................................................... 285 174 (37) CALL MEETING TO ORDER. President Mark Hannon called the meeting to order at 9:04 a.m. Hannon: I’m calling the meeting to order. Will everybody please sit down. Please have a seat. We’re ready to start. I need some quiet in here so you can hear everybody. We’re going to start off with a prayer from Jo Ann Miksa-Blackwell. Miksa-Blackwell: This moment of prayer was started by George Summerville, as he would run up the aisle right now saying, “Come, come, we must pray before we begin!” This prayer is in his honor. Before George passed the came to me and he said, “Please make sure that this continues to happen,” and so I stand before you not just on that request, although that was the reason it began, but because in these halls with us today are all the people that came before us for the past 100 years, and they made CFA what it is today. We are here because of their dedication to their breeding programs and their dedication to CFA. We are here today making a future for CFA. One day, we will sit in those halls with the others and hopefully what we will form here today provides for a future that is on the map and is prospering. So, let’s just right now take a moment and pause. For the people we’ve lost this year, let’s just silently remember them. Thank you. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11. I pray dear God that in this day, this hour, that everything that happens today will go forward into our future. I pray for mighty blessings upon CFA, I pray that you would guide us step by step in the right direction. I give honor and thanks and glory unto you. In Jesus’ name I pray. Hannon: Thank you Jo Ann. 175 (38) REGION 7 WELCOME. Hannon: Next we have the Southern Regional Director, Jean Dugger. Dugger: Hello everyone, and thank you for coming from all around the world. It is my privilege and honor as Southern Regional Director to welcome all of you to my birthplace, Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you for coming. I don’t have much, but I want to acknowledge a couple things. There are so many people that helped and did everything to make this thing come together. First, I have to tell you about some of the things in your bag, in case any of you don’t know exactly what it is. These are binoculars. I know you all know that part, but I know we’ve all been at a cat show where we can’t tell what our number is way the heck on the other side of the show hall, so Charlene Monroe said, “you know, a long time ago we had these little binoculars and we kept them in our show bag and that was a perfect way to look at the rings.” We thought it was such a cool idea we said yeah, we’ve got to do that. We’ll get them into the bag. So, that’s what those are for. I know our young cat fanciers may not need them but I do. The other thing I want to tell you about is, this little fan that’s in here, it says it’s for Eve Russell’s fans. I know and many of you know that she’s not doing well at all. The National Alliance of Burmese Breeders, which mainly has to do with Connie Wardlaw and Priscilla, I think it was their idea, but they wanted to get a little remembrance to put in your bags to remember that Eve Russell is here with us now and she will always be with us. [applause] Anyway, I know everybody thinks that putting on an annual is really hard, and I thought that was the last thing I had to do and it’s going to be really hard and I’m worried about it, but it really wasn’t and the reason was the first thing that I did was, Allene asked me, “who do you want to be your annual chairperson?” and the first person I thought of was Jo Ann Miksa-Blackwell because there is no better organizer. There’s all this stuff that’s been put together and all these people. Basically Jo Ann is in the background herding us all on in. You know what herding cats is like. Well, she did pretty good. So, Jo Ann was our chair and she has been responsible overall for so much of this. Then I must acknowledge our Vendor Coordinator, but she’s so much more than that. She organized the Peach Suite. Her mother Sandy did all the cooking. Lisa Highlan is our rock star in the Cotton States club and also here. I hope you have had a chance to go over there and see all the stuff in there last night. Go thank Lisa and her mom. They are awesome. And then, I know you guys know Teresa’s been regional secretary for a while and she was mine for the last four years. Teresa honestly kept up with everything. If we said, “what did we talk about three weeks ago?” Teresa would say wait a minute, and she would go and dig and she would come up and tell us. Teresa does so much more than that. She’s such an asset to CFA, but she certainly is for the Southern Region. So, thank you Teresa for everything. I know Charlene Monroe, like I said, and Elaine Frye, they basically coordinated the delegate bags, along with Trish who went around and beat everybody’s head and said, “please put something in the delegate bags.” We were worried. You know how people are at cat shows at the last minute? Well, the delegate bags were at the last minute. We got it done and it’s so amazing how cat people can do stuff when they come together. So, let me just acknowledge just a few other people real quick. We have Pat Lichtenberg who is here helping set up, Ann Strople, Mary Myers and Tim Wilson. Those decorations that you all are going to see tonight and if you saw the Peach Suite, thank Connie Wardlaw. Connie Wardlaw has coordinated decorations. Connie is amazing, so please if you have a chance and see her in the hall, thank her and Priscilla for their hard work in pulling this together. We had fundraising. Karen Boyce, our treasurer, did a phenomenal job with fundraising. So many of you bought those peach pins. Thank you on behalf of the Southern Region. That’s what made a whole lot of this possible. Jo Ann sold pins. Kenny Currle went out and commandeered money and did all kinds of great fundraising for us in 176 the background to make all this happen. Of course, Lisa Highlan, Jennifer Herr, Sarah Seiffert, Dave and Shirley Peet. They have been raffling – dragging it around for a couple months and thank heavens they did that. I don’t know if I missed anybody. If I missed anybody, I apologize. In this book, please thank every one of these people because they did such an awesome job. So, if you all have any questions about Atlanta or anything, I can help you. I’m here. I’ve got on peach like I was supposed to, and thank you Rachel for wearing our color. Anyway, thank you all very much for being here and I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed