South Central Regional Schutzhund Club

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2004 SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL MEETING MINUTES

Regional Meeting March 20, 2004

Little Elm Civic Center

Little Elm, Texas

5:45 p.m. Call to order per Regional Director Julia Grayson.

Regional Director welcomes all and thanks SV Judge Herr Siebert Gebhard and interpreter Jorg Sauer

Regional Director gives Judge the floor to speak and interpreter relays responses in English.

Roll Call

Austin Schutzhund Club - Danny Grayson

Bayou City Schutzhund Club - Sandy Shaner

Buena Vista Working Dog Club - Betty Thomas

Central Texas Schutzhund Club - Hilde Taylor

Coastal Bend Schutzhund Club - no representative present

DFW Working Dogs - Louise Jollyman

Greater Dallas Working Dog Club - Maisel Klutts

Greater Houston Schutzhund Club - Dr. Dena McGowan

Greater New Orleans Shutzhund Club - no representative

Lone Star Shutzhund Club - Jessy Gabriel

O.G. North Texas - no representative

Seagoville Working Dog Club - Angel Ayala

South Louisiana Schutzhund Club - no representative

Texas Working Dog Club - Laurie Tollifson

Special Rules of Order:

A. Discussion limited to 3 minutes per delegate

CLUB REPORTS:

Austin SchH Club: Obtained two or three BH’s, one was Sunny with her Rottie and Richard Atkins took 4th place at the North American, Arturo Barajas did good at Nationals in Reno.

Bayou SchH Club: Obtained three(3) Shutzhund I’s, three(3) BH’s and supported helper training program.

Buena Vista: Had two (2) trials with many successes.

Central Texas: Had a Memorial Day weekend trial, trial in New Orleans, held Show/Breed Survey in November and some members put titles on dogs.

DFW Working Dogs: Held an affiliate trial, seminar with Dieter Schmale, David Milmore was USA Judge for their first trial-everyone passed. Had first dog to go all the way to an SchH 3 in six (6) months. Two members received bronze awards.

Greater Dallas: Had Regional Conformation Show and some members got titles.

Greater Houston: Still training.

Lone Star: Had trial in August where Dave Kroyer got 100 pts in tracking off leash with Trixie and second (2nd) place with Dax. Has a few BH’s, AD and Goldie got an SchH 3. Dave Kroyer was on the world team in Italy.

Seagoville: No trial this year but received waiver because Judge decided not to judge.

Texas Working Dogs: Has changed club contact and club members are in different areas.

INTRODUCTION:

Appreciate Judge Gebhard and Jorg Saurer. Jorg interprets for Judge Gebhard. Thanks for invitation, likes Dallas, really organized and hopes tomorrow works out. Very happy to be here and he knows how expensive it is to get a Judge over to the States. Thanks to the tracklayers and trial secretary. Tracking not easy. There were lots of good dogs at tracking, but some big points missed by dogs. Helper try-outs need helpers with experience so he can really see good stuff with dogs. Looking forward to tomorrow. Thanks to Jorg for translation.

Minutes of previous meeting:

Motion #1. Move to waive the reading of the previous minutes.

Dena McGowan Second: Jessy Gabriel

Show of hands vote-unanimous Motion carries

REGIONAL DIRECTOR’S REPORT: Julia Grayson

Thanks. There was a great showing at event today. Cathy Jobe on FCI team, Dave Kroyer on World Team for WDA. At the USA Sieger Show Jennifer Aguilar, Bill Fleisher and Barbara Allen showed. Good year for the region lots of dogs showing. Received contact from the Louisiana area wanting to form a new club. Regional Conformation show held by Texas Working Dog Club and Austin SchH Club had 52 entries. Thanks to online entry and information by Laurie Tollifson.

Website is up and running. Trying to keep active.

ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTOR’S REPORT: Absent.

REGIONAL BREED WARDEN’S REPORT: Absent.

HELPER COMMITTEE REPORT: Randall Hoadley

1. Goals have changed for Randall due to lack of support for program.

a. Need someone to do correct helper work.

b. Need standard.

c. Make helper program correct or let it go.

d. Young helpers need to be at trials.

2. Who is on the committee? Julia named committee members. Danny Grayson, Randall Hoadley, Al McGraw, Rob Dunn and Vickie Bartley

Voting at meetings:

Motion #2: Club contact will be delegate unless notification received by Regional Director or Regional Secretary.

Dena McGowan Second: Sandy Shaner

Show of hands vote-unanimous Motion carries

REGIONAL EVENTS:

2005 Regional Championship Site: DFW Working Dog Club, Bayou City SchH Club and Lone Star volunteers.

Discussion: DFW is a young club and is actively looking for sites, tracking available and location would be in southern Dallas area. Site would have easy access to hotels; food and they have a good relationship with the Judge. They are in the preliminary stages of looking for a stadium site. Currently training in Lancaster area. Hoping for help from other clubs if needed.

Bayou City already has two stadiums. Location would by the Cypress area, grass tracking, but also has looked into dirt tracking. The club has also considered two judges to be able to run two flights at a time. Also thinks February would be a good time.

Lone Star interested in hosting event and has option of field or High School.

More Discussion: Laurie Tollifson had question about eliminating SchH I and SchH 2’s and should preference be given to SchH 3’s outside region first? Should entries close two weeks prior? Regional decision? Involve all clubs maybe one for t-shirts, one for food etc. Dena McGowan suggested our region should have first go at entries before other regions. Laurie Tollifson stated needs to be discussed because this could be a problem. Julia stated this might be better served during new business.

Vote on 2005 Regional Championship Site: secret ballot. There were four votes for Lone Star, three for DFW and three for Bayou City. Hosting club will be Lone Star.

2005 Regional Conformation Show: Texas Working Dog Club would like to host event. Has extensive experience and lots of assistance. Would like to get back to 100 entries. Have tools and equipped to do it and wants to make it an event. Also happy to accept affiliate club that needs help. No other clubs volunteered. By default 2005 Conformation show will be held by Texas Working Dog Club. All unanimous.

Regional Directors Fund Report: Over the last 20 years received $100 from each club, which was divided between RD and hosting club with new USA rule received only 50.00 from each club this year. Due to change this year Greater Dallas did not get money this year.

Julia spent $1600.00 out of own pocket and this is not including calls, cell phone and only adding one-way ticket.

Half of the money went initially to the Regional Director and half of the money went to USA. Now the $150 will be sent to USA and then $50 only will be distributed back to the Regional throughout the year. Discussion.

ELECTRONIC VOTING:

Motion #3:

Hilde second.

Resend motion by Laurie Tollifson. New Motion allows e-mail voting system (same as USA Executive Board). Unanimous. Motion carries.

Regional Achievement Award: Club with the most achievements. Skip due to Vickie not being present. Will be resolved through south central list.

Nominations:

1. TREASURER:

Nominations from the floor.

Motion #4: Dena nominates Marylee Grasso. Louise seconds.

Marylee spoke about set up of $175.00. Need Tax ID.

Julia read regional treasury duties.

Marylee Grasso accepts. No others nominated. Unanimous.

2. REGIONAL TRAINING DIRECTOR:

Julia read duties.

Nominations from the floor.

Louise nominates Randall Hoadley. Dena seconds.

Hilde nominates Robb Dunn. Laurie seconds.

Dena closes nominations. Sandy seconds.

Randall gives his qualifications as obtained thirty-one titles, trained in other countries.

Robb gives his qualifications as professional trainer, has been on World Team 3 times.

Based on votes-Robb Dunn is Regional Training Director.

New Business:

1. Flyer etiquette:

Formal clarification of information. Where meeting for tracking and the time, who is the judge, entry form and twenty-one days have flyer out before trial.

Courtesy information would be things like hotel, etc.

2. Regional Director’s Fund Expense/ways to fund or support:

Discussion

Motion #5: Laurie states remaining funds to go to the Regional Director. Jessy seconds. Unanimous. Motion carries.

3. Regional Rules Committee:

Volunteers for committee were Dena McGowan, Charles McCurley, Laurie Tollifson, Louise Jollyman and Chris Webber.

4. Electronic Voting:

Yes.

5. Charles Ideas:

Differentiate guidelines and rules. Julia states can’t impose things on clubs in good standing. Can’t supercede USA bylaws.

Discussion.

7:45 p.m. Motion #6: Move to adjourn meeting by Dena McGowan and Maisel Klutts seconds. Show of hands-unanimous. Motion carries.

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