THE INTERNATIONAL CAT ASSOCIATION, INC. 2012 Winter Board Meeting January 27-29, 2012 Harlingen, Texas Open Session - 8:15AM-Noon January 27, 2012, Friday, 8:15AM ACTION TIME PAGE Welcome and Call to Order Fisher Verbal 8:15-8:30AM 1. Roll Call Fisher Verbal - 2. Welcome Board Fisher Verbal - Consent Agenda 8:30-8:40AM 1. Future Annuals, Semi-Annuals EO Accept .................... 4 2. Minutes, Corrections/Additions EO Approve - Governance 8:40-11AM 1. President’s Report Fisher Inform .......................- 2. Follow Up Report All Discuss ..................... 5 3. Eligibility to vote for breed committees Fisher Discuss - 4. Report of Re-alignment Committee Wood Approve .................... 6 Break - 10-10:15AM Fiduciary 11- 011:30AM 1. FY2011 Audit Report EO Accept .................... 11 2. Budget Report First Six Months EO to be furnished ................. 3. Set Winter Meeting Reimbursements BOD Approve - Administrative 11:30-Noon 1. IWRW on Certificates Basquine Discuss - 2. Adding Judges Information to TREND Fisher Discuss - Lunch: NOON - 1:30PM Administrative (continued) 1:30-2:30PM 3. Report on Voting Lesley Hart Discuss - 4. Status of Online Projects Larry Hart Discuss - 5. Report of Ad Hoc Committee-Clubs Susan ............................... 27 Executive Session 2:30-5:30PM 2012 Winter Meeting Executive Agenda, Page 1 January 28, 2012, Friday, 8:15AM ACTION TIME PAGE Executive Session 8:30AM-NOON Executive Session continues Lunch: NOON - 1:30PM Executive Session - Business Planning concludes Break - 1:30-3:15PM Open Session: 3:15-5:30PM PROPOSALS Standing Rules 3:15-4PM 1. 105.4.3 Breed Committee Parkinson Approve ...................... 28 2. 209.1.1.4 Marked Catalogs Farley Approve ...................... 29 3 303.6 & 303.7 Showing of PNB/ANB Parkinson Approve ...................... 30 4. 2015.2 Presented Only cats Parkinson Approve ...................... 31 Registration Rules 1. Amber colors Parkinson Approve ...................... 32 UCD 1. 74.2.2 Golden Tabbies Parkinson Approve ...................... 33 2. Black tabbies and black tabby points Parkinson Approve ...................... 34 Breed Advancement 4-5:30PM 1. Kurilian Bobtail Madison Approve a. Letter..................................................................... 35 b. Letter of Exception........................................................... 36 c. Judges .................................................................... 39 d. Shows .................................................................... 40 2. Savannah Streit Approve a. Savannah Report ............................................................ 62 b. Individually Registered Savannahs .............................................. 64 c. Judges who have judge the breed .............................................. 225 d. Savannah Standard (changes marked in red) ..................................... 230 e. Savannah Standard (changes included) ......................................... 234 f. Savannah Reports B ......................................................... 239 g. Savannah Reports C ........................................................ 425 2012 Winter Meeting Executive Agenda, Page 2 CONSENT AGENDA 1. 2011-2012 Show Season Weekend List ............................................... 430 2. Current Show Balance Report ....................................................... 433 3. PNB/ANB Breed List .............................................................. 434 4. Detail of PNB/ANB Shown Counts ................................................... 435 5. 2011 Registrations ................................................................ 454 6. Active Regional Clubs ............................................................. 455 2012 Winter Meeting Executive Agenda, Page 3 5/10/11 Future Meetings Year Meeting Club/EO City/State Date of Meeting 2011 Spring Electronic Meeting 05/20-22/11 2011 Annual MA Philadelphia, PA 09/01-02/11 2012 Winter Harlingen, TX 01/27-29/12 2012 Spring Electronic Meeting 05/18-20/12 2012 Annual GL Columbus, OH 08/29-31/12 2013 Annual NW Bellevue, WA 09/01-02/13 109.1 Annual Convention. 109.1.1 Annual Convention. Labor Day weekend each year is reserved for the Annual Convention. No other shows may be held the weekend of the Annual Convention with the following exception. A club may receive permission to hold a show on the Annual weekend upon application to the Board. Application must state specific reasons for the request for exemption and why such a show would have no impact on the Annual. 109.1.1.1 The rotation for the Annual Conventions shall be: Mid Atlantic - 2011, Great Lakes - 2012, Northwest -2013, Northeast - 2014, International - 2015, Southwest - 2016, South Central - 2017, Southeast - 2018, Mid Pacific - 2019. 109.1.1.2 Proposals to host the Annual Convention in the designated region must be received for the Annual Meeting 3 years prior to the proposed convention. 109.1.1.3 In the event no club submits an acceptable proposal, any club in any region may submit a proposal to host the Annual Convention by the agenda deadline for the Semi-Annual Meeting 2½ years prior to the convention and a notice soliciting such proposals shall be published in the TICA TREND. 109.1.1.4 The subsequent designated order of rotation will remain the same. 109.2 Meetings of the Board. 109.2.1 All Board Meetings shall be scheduled for a minimum of 2 days. 109.2.1.1 Meetings of the Board shall be the fourth full weekend in January (Winter Meeting, the third full weekend in May (Spring Meeting) and the week immediately preceding Labor Day weekend (TICA Annual). 109.2.1.2 The Winter Meeting shall be held in Harlingen TX without a show OR at a location outside the United States in conjunction with a show, approved by the Board. 109.2.1.3 The Spring Meeting shall be held in the United States, rotating from Central to West to East, with or without a show. The meeting venue must be at or near a major international airport at a hotel with adequate meeting space, full restaurant service and airport shuttle. 109.2.1.4 The Winter and Spring meeting locations shall be selected by the Board without consideration of accompanying show. 109.2.1.5 Minutes of all meetings of the Board of Directors shall be completed within 10 working days following the meeting. 4 9/23/11 FOLLOW-UP REPORT NO. ITEM RESPONSIBILITY STATUS 1 Report from the Realignment Committee. Wood W12 Agenda 2 Revisit the Outstanding Catteries report at the Spring Meeting in 2012. Fisher S12 Agenda 3 Blueslips on line. EO-Report S12 Agenda 4 Program prefixes and genetics into registration program. EO-Report W12 Agenda 5 Make the registration certificate a full page. EO W12 Agenda 6 How many registrations are received in the EO where the pedigrees are only signed by the breeder. EO W12 Agenda 7 Revise By-Laws 15.5 to allow people in other associations to run for breed committee. Provide two choices : one that Rules W12 Agenda allows people to serve and one that does not. 8 The Business Manager was instructed to speak to David Thomas concerning the Show Schedule on the website. EO W12 Agenda 9 Pedigrees being issued by clubs outside of North America (we already have a procedure in place for NA clubs). Work Rules W12 Agenda with the EO on establishing a procedure to allow registries to become "accepted" registries to the EO, e.g. using criteria like licensing judges and producing shows, if they can establish with you that they have the qualification to run a registry (e.g. letting you know how many years they have been registering cats and how many cats are in their database). Part of the application process should also be a "translation" of their color names / codes to TICA colors and a contact person in case there are questions regarding a pedigree from their registry submitted to you. 10 Steven Savant was appointed to chair the TICA Committee on Mentoring Clubs with Francine Hicks, Susan Adler, Ralph Savant W12 Agenda Stadter, Elaine Weitz, Jaime Christian and Jackie Rose appointed to the Committee and with a report furnished at the 2012 Winter Meeting. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 5 Information and Recommendations from Re-alignment Committee The Board gave direction that the committee focus on the American regions as Europe is still settling down after the last re-alignment. However, the Committee has the following specific recommendations for areas outside the U.S. 1. Spanish-speaking countries (e.g. Mexico, Costa Rica) should be moved to South America region and that the region be renamed "Latin America." 2. Those parts of Russia east of 110 east longitude be moved to Asia Region. As for the American regions, there are 4 options suggested by the Committee. All 4 of these scenarios have pros and cons - these will be debated by the Board (taking into account any member feedback) but the final decision will the one which, in the Board's opinion, is in the best interests of TICA. Option 0: do nothing more Option 1: As per Ralph's spreadsheet, but new region called (provisionally) "Central Region" Option 2: ditto Option 3: new "Central Region" would be comprised of Nebraska, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico and perhaps Oklahoma 6 Supplemental Information Board Regional Alignment Policy Guidelines (Semi-Annual 2004) There was consensus that the regions should be somewhat equal in their representation of the TICA membership. It is through regions and their RDs that TICA chooses to be governed. The Board then discussed how to define "somewhat equal". While the Board felt that a number of factors