CFA EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING FEBRUARY 7/8, 1998 Index to Minutes Secretary’s note: This index is provided only as a courtesy to the readers and is not an official part of the CFA minutes. The numbers shown for each item in the index are keyed to similar numbers shown in the body of the minutes. (1) MINUTES OF PRIOR MEETING. ......................................................................................................... 2 (2) BREEDS & STANDARDS. ...................................................................................................................... 2 (3) JUDGING PROGRAM REPORTS: .................................................................................................... 107 (4) ADVANCEMENTS, APPLICANTS AND TRAINEES: ................................................................ 115 (5) TREASURER’S REPORT: .................................................................................................................. 117 (6) CLUB MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS (DOMESTIC): ............................................................. 126 (7) INTERNATIONAL DIVISION REPORT. ....................................................................................... 129 (8) WINN FOUNDATION REPORT. ..................................................................................................... 131 (9) HEALTH COMMITTEE REPORT. .................................................................................................. 131 (10) PUBLIC RELATIONS REPORT........................................................................................................ 133 (11) CFA INTERNATIONAL SHOW REPORT. .................................................................................... 138 (12) CLERKING PROGRAM....................................................................................................................... 144 (13) ANIMAL WELFARE COMMITTEE REPORT. ............................................................................. 145 (14) CFA LOGO. ............................................................................................................................................. 147 (15) CFA LEGISLATIVE REPORT. .......................................................................................................... 147 (16) CFA PLANNING COMMITTEE. ....................................................................................................... 148 (17) CENTRAL OFFICE OPERATIONS REPORT................................................................................ 150 (18) YEARBOOK REPORT. ........................................................................................................................ 153 (19) JUDGING PROGRAM PROPOSAL. ................................................................................................. 154 (20) REGIONAL BOUNDARIES COMMITTEE. ................................................................................... 160 (21) MISCELLANEOUS. .............................................................................................................................. 160 (22) DISCIPLINARY HEARINGS & PROTESTS. ................................................................................. 171 CFA Board and Staff Present February 7-8, 1998 Mrs. Laina Aitken, NAR Director Mr. Stan Barnaby, Director-at-Large Mrs. Linda Berg, MWR Director Ms. Pam DelaBar, Director-at-Large Mrs. Diana Doernberg, Director-at-Large Mrs. Kim Everett, Vice President Mrs. Donna Fuller, Treasurer Mrs. Jody Garrison, GSR Director Mrs. Willa Hawke, Secretary Mrs. Becky Jones, GLR Director Mr. Phil Lindsley, SWR Director Ms. Joan Miller, Director-at-Large Mr. Craig Rothermel, President Mrs. Yaeko Takano, Japan Regional Director Ms. Donna J. Thompson, Director-at-Large Mr. Wayne Trevathan, SOR Director Mrs. Betty White, Director-at-Large Mr. Donald J. Williams, Director-at-Large Also present were Mr. Tom Dent, CFA Executive Director; Mr. Fred Jacobberger, CFA Legal Counsel; Ms. Allene Tartaglia, Director of Special Projects, Mr. Michael Brim, Public Relations Director. Absent was Mr. Dick Kallmeyer, NWR Director. The Board of Directors of the Cat Fanciers’ Association met at the Marriott Airport Hotel, Houston, Texas, on February 7-8, 1998. President Craig Rothermel called the meeting to order on February 7, 1998 at 8:00 a.m. and welcomed the Board members, the CFA staff, and the many guests to the meeting. (1) MINUTES OF PRIOR MEETING. President Rothermel then invited the Board’s attention to consideration of the Minutes of the October 1997 Board meeting and asked for any corrections, deletions, or additions. Willa Hawke, CFA Secretary, noted none had been received. There being no other comment on the Minutes, DelaBar Moved to accept the minutes. Motion Carried. (2) BREEDS & STANDARDS. a. Breed Definition Report – Doernberg Moved to consider the Breed Definition Report before addressing the breeds up for consideration at this meeting. Discussion: Doernberg commented that “Fred Jacobberger felt that because the ballots to be considered today obviously were voted on before this issue comes up that it could not be used to act upon those ballots. There was a question on whether we should be voting on it prior to acting on those ballots. Fred would decide whether there was an issue that pertained to this and so advise us that we don’t have to take this as a rule at this meeting because it was not in place. However, if we do decide to take action on it or consider it at this time, I don’t see that 2 there is a conflict.” Jacobberger said that if he understood, he agreed, however, his issue was one of fundamental fairness where people had taken some actions based on the rules that they currently followed. If we can weigh that problem issue by issue, we can go ahead and take a vote. Lindsley – Just as a matter of procedure, when I got my packet it appeared to be informational and I had not considered it to be an action item. Hawke – If we vote to adopt this report when will it go into effect? Would it be May 1, or would it be today? Doernberg – It would go into effect at the end of this meeting. Lindsley – I have told any constituent of mine, that asked about the process of WIAB, that at least my understanding was that at this meeting we would be receiving the poll results not that this would become an action item. I told anybody that asked that I did not envision it being an action item until June. I don’t think people understand that it is to become an action item at this meeting. Doernberg – A comment to Phil’s comment. We consider all our ballot items for all the rest of our ballot questions at this meeting. This is our traditional meeting for consideration of Breeds and Standards matters and this has been an ongoing process. I think if people got a ballot, they got the proposal. This is not the first time that this has come before them and I don’t know why anyone would think that it was to be forever ongoing. It was noted in the last minutes that the committee had met; they had made this final determination. What was left for them? Aitken disagreed with Phil and stated that the people had received this with their BC ballots and they felt that this would be the defining point roundup of WIAB at this board meeting. Thompson – This is as much of an action item as the rest of the BC questions. It was distributed to the BC members and was acted upon as well as the BC questions. Everett – How close the vote was should be taken into consideration. If it was not close enough the matter should go back to the BC secretaries for conference, perhaps at the annual meeting. Lindsley – It may be that many people who got this with their BC ballots thought that we would be acting on it at this meeting but, as board members, when we receive our BC packet we know that we will be acting on that in February at this meeting. I still don’t feel that it was clear to the board that we would be voting on this at this meeting. Hawke (reading from the minutes of the October meeting, found on page 76 of Dec 1997 Almanac) – “Moved to send the report to each BC member for input and then bring it back to the board for further discussion in February. Motion Carried.” Motion to Consider Carried. Lindsley and Everett voting No. Doernberg gave the following for the benefit of those newer board members not completely familiar with what had happened with this issue; i.e., to lend a little continuity as to how this came about, where we have been, and why we are at this point. “In February of 1996, the board once again came face to face with the largest problem CFA faces in the Breeds & Standards area: The conflict between parent breeds and their related hybrid breeds. At that time we had a lengthy discussion about the Persian Exotics and Tom Dent and myself, were asked to head up a committee to develop the criteria to define a breed in CFA. The discussion took up about two-and-a-half pages where the board discussed how many times we had been put in this position and how that particular issue came to be so critical and now we were at a cross roads and what we were going to do about it. That is why the committee was formed. Subsequent to that meeting, a committee comprised of Wayne Harding, Michael Petersen, Anna Sadler, with Tom Dent and myself, put together a substantial amount of information concerning this subject along with Leslie Lyons of the National Cancer Institute. We met in the Central Office. Out of that meeting came “A report which attempted to define the basis for our need for a breed definition