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NPGA Board of
Directors Meeting
Boise, Idaho
June 19-20, 2003
Thursday, June 19, 2003
The meeting was called to order at 8:15
AM by President Bill Granger. Present were President Bill
Granger, Vice President Ray Hoyt, Secretary Linda Henwood,
Treasurer Aaron Esterline, Directors Mark Adkins, Debbie Bond,
Wayne Clark, Lynda Gredin, Stacy Hamilton, Sue Kerous, Red
Mertens, Bobbie Montgomery, Susan Seiler, and Carol Shea-Hepner,
and Business Manager Dori Lowell.
Pres. Granger had everyone in attendance
introduce themselves and which region they represented.
Vice President’s Report
Vice President Hoyt reported that he had sent a report with all
Committee Reports to the Board and asked for questions and
comments. All committee reports were received within the time
frame requested except three. President Granger noted that
submission of Committee Reports by the required date is the job
of the Committee Chair and all reports should be received on
time.
Secretary’s Report
The minutes of the January 2003 Board Meeting were accepted.
Treasurer’s Report
Treasurer Esterline advised the projected budget for 2003 is
$26,000 in the hole. He then listed suggested changes the
Eboard has been working on and their recommendations to the
full Board of Directors on implementing those changes, which
include some increases in fees and some reductions in expenses.
President Granger clarified that the $26,000 budget shortfall
was due primarily to previous Memo expenses.
Central Office Report
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Business Manager Lowell elaborated on
issues presented in the previously provided Central Office
Report to the Board January 1 through May 15, 2003.
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Business Manager Lowell had a meeting
with an attorney in Seattle, as requested by the Board, and
passed out a letter from Attorney James H. Jones, Jr.,
regarding NPGA problems and procedures discussed, including
an application process for Judges. It was recommended by the
attorney that we change our procedures and require an
application process.
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Business Manager Lowell realized in
talking to the attorney that she doesn’t have the necessary
information on procedures of various committees, i.e., Judges
Training Committee, etc., to be able to provide all the
information necessary when needed. A Procedures Manual
containing the specifics of each job needs to be created and
kept at the Central Office.
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It was also brought up that the
Business Manager at times needs knowledge of items the Board
has discussed in closed session and needs to be present at
all times during the Board Meetings to properly perform her
duties, that the Business Manager is the stable and constant
position with NPGA and the Board of Directors changes. The
Bylaws provide: “The Business Manager shall not be eligible
for election to the Board of Directors but shall be present
at the Board Meetings as a nonvoting participant.” A section
will be added to the Business Manager Job Description
stating: “Business Manager shall attend all meetings of the
Board unless discussion pertains to Business Manager salary
or other financial business of the office.”
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Discussion of the auctioning of the
National Champion Trophies and the need for a permanent
record of National Champions both in the Central Office and
with the Show Committee. Business Manager Lowell has a
permanent record of National Champions. It was noted by
President Granger that a record of everything ever done by
NPGA needs to be kept at Central Office, i.e., JTC Dress
Code, etc.
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Business Manager Lowell and Show Chair,
Jewel Floch, will work on preparation of a Report of Awards
for National Champions and present it to the Board at the
January 2004 Meeting for approval.
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There was discussion of issues
primarily in California with 4-H rules and fair rules
requiring goats be transferred just to the child’s name
entering the goat. There are breeders who transfer goats to a
child for purposes of showing to meet the fair requirements,
and then the goat needs to be transferred back to the breeder
each time it’s bred so the offspring will be in the name of
the breeder who actually owns the goat. The Board decided to
make no changes in the existing transfer procedure.
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The report was accepted.
Merchandise Report
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Page 3 of the report reflects the
inventory report through approximately the end of May 2003 as
requested by the Board at the January 2003 Meeting.
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Treasurer Esterline advised Jim Huber
tries to keep the inventory current in order to make a
profit. Old inventory is mostly Coloring Books. It was
decided to put on the NGPA Web Site that Coloring Books will
be sent free of charge and that only shipping costs will need
to be paid.
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The report was accepted.
Webmaster Report
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There have been 14,000 unique visitors
to the web site in the two months since it’s inception. There
have been over 100 orders totaling approximately $3,000.
There have been close to 30 new members joining on line.
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Only three-quarters of the Judges
responded with updates as requested for the web site.
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Discussion of requirement of Webmaster
to supply Board with printed web site pages. The size of the
entire site would be too great so it was decided a copy of
the home page would be sufficient.
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NPGA does not have a current Webmaster
agreement. Job descriptions are to be revised to provide the
job holder to sign that they agree to perform the duties
reflected in the job description and this will suffice as the
agreement between NPGA and the Webmaster.
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The report was accepted.
Memo Report
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Darren Conerly was present. The Board
expressed and conveyed to Darren Conerly that he’s done a
wonderful job as the temporary Memo Editor with very little
to work with.
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Darren Conerly stated that the only
problem he’s had is with actual printing, but that’s been
resolved. There’s been a good response from advertisers. The
front and back covers, inside and out, are set for another
couple issues, There’s been a good response with articles.
Memo is caught up with the backlog of shows and will be more
balanced in the future between shows and other articles and
information.
Closed Session
The Memo report was accepted.
Treasurer Esterline read the list of
suggested fee revisions and other changes effecting the budget.
The following changes were adopted by the Board either by
Motion or vote of hands.
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Require a template provided by the Memo
Editor for the local show secretary/chair to type the show
results. Show results will not be printed in Memo unless sent
in template form.
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NPGA to pay the Memo Editor $25.00 per
event.
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One issue of Memo will be cut in 2003.
It will be the Harvest or Winter issue. There will be a black
and white cover unless the advertising on the cover pays for
a color cover.
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The cost of the remaining 2003 issues
with be kept to $7,500.00 each.
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Raise Doe registration fees by $2.00 to
$6.00, members only, effective October 1, 2003.
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Raise Buck registration fees by $4.00
to $10.00, effective October 1, 2003.
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Raise Wethers $2.00 to $4.00, members
only. Non members $5.00. Effective October 1, 2003.
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Raise transfer fees $1.00 to $4.00,
effective October 1, 2003.
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Raise certificate corrections and
duplicate certificates $1.00 to $3.00 each, effective October
1, 2003.
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Raise Youth membership from $15.00 to
$20.00, effective October 1, 2003.
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Raise Business membership from $25.00
to $35.00, effective October 1, 2003.
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Raise Senior membership from $15.00 to
$25.00, effective October 1, 2003.
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Raise sanction fees on bucks and does
$10.00 per show to $55.00, effective January 1, 2004, for
shows sanctioned in 2004.
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Raise wether ribbons $10.00 per set to
$16.50 per set effective January 1, 2004, for ribbons ordered
in 2004.
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All Merchandise has been raised by
$1.00 per item.
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Decrease stipend by $75.00 to $75.00,
effective January 1, 2004. The Rules and Regulations would
have to be amended to reflect this change.
Motion 2003-04Passed Proposed by:
Esterline/Adkins
Rules and Regulations 4.L.2 be modified
as follows:
Stipend for Directors, JTC, and the
Merchandise Department Head will be handled as follows:
Directors will receive $75 for each Board Meeting; up to 5 JTC
members and the chairperson will receive $75 for the annual JTC
training seminar; and the Merchandise Department Head will
receive $75 for attendance at the annual convention.
Yes: Adkins, Bond, Esterline, Hamilton,
Henwood, Hoyt, Mertens, Montgomery, Seiler. No: Clark, Gredin,
Kerous, Shea-Hepner. Absent: Greenberg, Williams.
Motion 2003-05 Passed Proposed by:
Esterline/Gredin
Rules and Regulations 4.M be modified as
follows:
3. Senior Citizen (65+): Initial dues of
$25.00 and subsequent annual dues of $25.00
4. Youth (18 or younger): Initial dues of $20.00 and subsequent
annual dues of $20.00
10. Business Member: Initial dues of $35.00 and subsequent
annual dues of $35.00
Yes: Adkins, Bond, Clark, Esterline,
Gredin, Hamilton, Henwood, Hoyt, Kerous, Mertens, Montgomery,
Seiler, Shea-Hepner. No: None Absent: Greenberg, Williams.
Motion 2003-06 Passed Proposed by:
Esterline/Hoyt
Rules for Official Shows A.3 be modified
as follows:
The sanction fee is Fifty-five dollars
($55.00) ea. when the application for sanction is postmarked to
NPGA at least 45 days prior to the show (Forty dollars ($40.00)
ea. 4-H or Restricted). Eighty-five ($85.00) ea. when
postmarked between 22 and 45 days prior to the show (Fifty-five
dollars ($55.00) ea. 4-H or Restricted), and One hundred ten
dollars ($110.00) ea. when postmarked 21 days or less prior to
the show. This fee covers NPGA rosettes for Junior, Senior and
Grand Champions and Reserve Junior, Reserve Senior and Reserve
Grand Champions.
Yes: Adkins, Bond, Clark, Esterline,
Gredin, Hamilton, Henwood, Hoyt, Kerous, Mertens, Seiler. No.
Montgomery, Shea-Hepner. Absent: Greenberg, Williams.
Darren Conerly was formally advised by
President Granger he was selected as Memo Editor.
Affiliated Clubs
The report was accepted.
Breed Standard
Pres. Granger will contact the Chair regarding several pending
issues not addressed in the report .
JTC Chair Kim Yates requested that the
Breed Standard Committee be directed to prepare a more
definitive description of colors and markings to reduce the
grey area judges are being forced to work with. The JTC can
then train judges incorporating that information.
The Board discussed committee chairs
being volunteers and basically in for life tenure. We have no
policy or provision to deal with the situation. Since they are
volunteers, the Board has not pressured them to do what they
are supposed to do.
Receipt of the Breed Standard Report was
acknowledged.
Certification Committee
Chair, Dori Lowell, briefly outlined the progeny procedure to
the Board. The Certification Committee will review the progeny
procedure and make any recommendations that may be required for
updating or clarifying the procedure and present such
recommendations to the Board in January 2004 so the procedure
may be officially adopted by the Board.
The report was accepted.
Judges Training
A rough draft of the revised Showmanship Manual was presented.
JTC put out requests to other people, but did not get
constructive input. The only responses they received were from
people who thought they could do it better themselves.
Chairman Yates advised the Board that he
would like to prepare a showmanship video.
There was discussion of the recommended Judge’s Dress Code. It
was noted that in the June 2002 Board Minutes, “The Board
should hold the JTC chair responsible for making sure that our
judge corps dresses professionally and appropriately.” JTC
procedures need to be written in a manual. Prior to committee
reports being submitted to the Board, they must have the
majority concurrence of the committee after all have been
consulted. Chairman Yates advised that standard procedure in
the past was that the JTC Chair made all decisions. The draft
of the Showmanship Manual is to be given to the entire JTC for
approval and revision and then to the Publications Committee
for review and to be presented to the Board for acceptance in
January with an estimate of the cost of printing it. Darren
Conerly suggests doing the Showmanship Manual on the web site
in PDF form. This will be further discussed at the January
Board Meeting.
National Champion Scoring
Show Rule I. 1,(1) provides “The goat with the most first
places will be the National Champion.” The Board
requested the JTC Chair, Kim Yates, to work with his committee
and make a recommendation to the Board for the January 2004
Board Meeting on National Champion scoring.
Receipt of the JTC Report was
acknowledged.
Nominations
The report included a copy of the nominations sheet being sent
to Memo. Three directors listed on the sheet are electing not
to run for election.
The report was accepted.
Public Relations
The magazine NPGA had an exchange ad agreement with has been
sold. It is unknown the outcome of that exchange ad at this
time.
The report was accepted.
Publication
The Publications Committee has been very active with the Memo
Editor opening, Memo schedule, the Roster and NPGA’s new web
site.
The report was accepted.
Show Committee
The new certificates representing the Bronze, Silver, Gold and
Platinum wether medallions were shown by Vice President Hoyt.
They are now being sent out to the wethers that have earned
them. There was a discussion regarding putting a cap on the
number of wins each wether can have. The Board decided to take
no action. The report was accepted.
Arbitration
Closed Session
Clarification of Dues Policy for
Directors, Judges and Committee Chairs, penalties for being
delinquent. Vice President Hoyt advises that all are now on
notice that if October 1st dues are not paid by the end of that
calendar quarter, i.,e., December 31st, the membership is
automatically terminated. This is not an option. Judge’s
licenses will be revoked and a judge must retest to obtain a
new license. There will be no exceptions. Beginning 2003 this
is final. Memo will publish the notice one more time with a
bold reminder.
The issue of membership dues reminders
was discussed. Business Manager Lowell stated that membership
dues reminders are sent out to all members.
Archivist/Historian
All references to Archivist/Historian are to be deleted.
Director Montgomery talked to the current Archivist and will be
able to retrieve the records in August. There are original
items on NPGA, how NPGA started, information on original
imports, a complete set of MEMO, lots of past Minutes. There
are approximately 26 boxes. Director Montgomery will itemize
all the items and it will be decided at that time what to
retain and forward to the Central Office.
Motion 2003-07 Passed Proposed by:
Hoyt/Hamilton
Rules & Regulations, paragraph 10 I. be
amended to read:
“The current year ballots and two
previous year’s ballots will be stored at the Central Office.
Prior year’s ballots will be destroyed.”
Yes: Adkins, Clark, Esterline, Gredin,
Hamilton, Henwood, Hoyt, Kerous, Mertens, Montgomery, Seiler,
Shea-Hepner Absent: Bond, Greenberg, Williams
Due to the abolition of the position of
Archivist/Historian and the passing of the archiving records to
the Business Manager, new guidelines for those responsibilities
will be added to the Business Manager’s contract. All
references to Archivist/Historian will be changed to “Business
Manager” in the Job Descriptions of the Vice President and
Secretary/ The reference to Archivist/Historian in the
Committee Chairs Job Description shall be changed to “Vice
President.”
Vacancy Replacement Director
Discussion of agenda item regarding Vacancy Replacement
Director Selection. This would require a Bylaws change. The
proposed change is:
Article IV DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
Section 4.2 VACANCY REPLACEMENT DIRECTOR
A vacancy replacement director will be
elected in each region. This director will be inactive unless
it becomes necessary to fill a vacancy on the Board as defined
in Section 4.7 of the Bylaws. If utilized to fill a vacancy,
the vacancy replacement director shall hold office for the
expired term of his/her predecessor. The vacancy replacement
director term will be two years.
This proposed change will be voted on at
the January 2004 Board meeting.
The proposed Rules and Regulations change
regarding Vacancy Replacement Director is tabled to the January
2004 Board Meeting.
Vice President Hoyt explains the reason
for the agenda item requiring Committee Chairs to sign off on
their job descriptions (both the NPGA Committee Chairs job
description and the individual job description for their
respective committee) that they have read, understand and will
comply, is to give NPGA and the Committee Chairs an
understanding and agreement of their job duties and
responsibilities. If the Committee Chair then does not perform
those duties and responsibilities NPGA would have a basis to
remove them and appoint a new committee chair. Any time a job
description is revised the committee chair would sign and date
the revised document.
Motion 2003-08 Passed Proposed by:
Hoyt/Montgomery
Rules and Regulations paragraph 7.C. be
amended as follows:
1. The text of paragraph 7.C. be re-designated 7.C.1.
2. A new paragraph 7.C.2. be added as follows:
“Committee chairs shall sign a statement
at the bottom of both the NPGA Committee Chairs job description
and the particular job description for their respective
committees that they have read, understand and will comply with
their job descriptions.”
Yes: Adkins, Bond, Clark, Esterline,
Gredin, Hamilton, Henwood, Hoyt, Kerous, Mertens, Montgomery,
Seiler, Shea-Hepner. No: None Absent: Greenberg, Williams.
The agenda item regarding exempting the
Arbitration Committee Chair from reporting committee members
and their rotation schedules is to change 7. A. of the Rules
and Regulations and Paragraph 8. of the Committee Chairs Job
Description to be consistent with the Arbitration Job
Description where the exemption already appears.
Motion 2003-09 Passed Proposed by:
Hoyt/Hepner
Rules and Regulations paragraph 7.A be
amended as follows:
“All chairpersons, with the exception of
the Arbitration Committee Chair, will provide names of all
committee members . . .”
Yes: Adkins, Bond, Clark, Esterline,
Gredin, Hamilton, Henwood, Hoyt, Kerous, Mertens, Montgomery,
Seiler, Shea-Hepner. No: None Absent: Greenberg, Williams.
Vice President Hoyt presented and read a
draft of an Application for Judges. The attorney, James H.
Jones, Jr., advised that this was needed so we can have a way
to deal with circumstances such as were presented at the last
Board Meeting. The application would include the vital
statistics of the applicant, i.e., name, address, etc., NPGA
Member #, Herd Name(s); question as whether ever convicted of a
felony and the disposition of that conviction and a
certification that the information given is true and correct,
that untrue or incomplete information may be grounds for denial
of the application. The application would further contain an
understanding and acceptance of the testing requirements as
taken from the NPGA Rules and Regulations, and again a
signature of the applicant and a witness.
NPGA needs to consider who to give
licenses to and list those felonies that would preclude an
applicant from becoming a judge. Business Manager Lowell has
other applications from other organizations and will work with
Vice President Hoyt on a workable and legal application to
present to the Board for consideration at the January 2004
Meeting.
The meeting was adjourned for the day at
6:05 PM.
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Friday, June 20, 2003
The meeting was called to order at 8:00
AM by President Bill Granger. All directors were present except
Susan Greenberg and Barbara Williams. Also present was Business
Manager Dori Lowell.
It was requested at the January 2003
Board Meeting that a records and files inventory be submitted
by every chair. Vice President Hoyt got response from almost
all chairs. Most had manageable amounts of stuff. Most advised
they had not received any materials from their predecessor and
had started pretty much from zero. President Granger expressed
that the concern is that if something were to happen to a chair
of a committee that might result in the loss of vital
information that is available no where else in NPGA. The
committee chairs were provided with a questionnaire on one
piece of paper with questions such as was the information
confidential, is it used in performance of your job duties.
Vice President Hoyt will make a master compilation of this
information for presentation to the Board at the January 2004
Board meeting.
Under new business Director Gredin gave
an explanation of the idea of Judges picking JTC members and
read various correspondence she had received on the subject.
There appeared to be concern that one member on JTC could stop
one candidate from ever passing JTC. JTC Chair Kim Yates
answered no, that was not possible with the method of scoring
and proceeded to explain to the Board the method of scoring JTC
candidates. A concern of the Board was that the judges picking
JTC chair and members would become a popularity contest among
the judges and it was mentioned that judges fight among
themselves and resent JTC. It was felt that the JTC Chair was
the most difficult job NPGA has as the Chair must exert
authority. If the authority is reasonable and not adhered to,
then it should be brought to the Board by the JTC Chair and the
Board will deal with it. It was pointed out that JTC has been
in turmoil for some time prior to the current JTC Chair and Kim
Yates advised that it is a work in progress and it is
improving. President Granger stated that he took the judge’s
test last year and that the current committee was thorough,
professional and helped a great deal.
By a show of hands the directors
expressed no desire to change the current method of appointment
of the JTC Chair by the Board of Directors.
President Granger did ask the JTC Chair,
Kim Yates, not to implement the updated dress code immediately
and run it back through the committee and present it to the
Board at the January 2004 Meeting.
NPGA pays for 5 JTC committee members
closest to convention. Chairman Yates is looking to add new
people to his committee.
Herdnames and Tattoo Prefix
There was discussion regarding which herdname and tattoo prefix
would be on kids born from a bred doe sold before kidding,
seller or buyer. Business Manager Lowell advised that the
herdname must be that of the seller of the bred doe but the
tattoo can be either the buyer’s tattoo prefix or the seller’s
tattoo prefix. She can trace any animal back from its tattoo.
Business Manager Lowell at this time has the information on a
piece of paper for registering an animal in the herdname of the
seller and the tattoo prefix can be from either the buyer or
seller but requests that it be made official in the Rules and
Regulations. Director Montgomery stated it should be added to
Rules and Regulations 4. Central Office.
Motion 2003-10 Passed Proposed by:
Hoyt/Seiler
Rules and Regulations paragraph 4. F. be
amended as follows:
1. The text of paragraph 4.F. be
redesignated 4.F.(1).
2. A new paragraph 4.F.(2) be added as follows:
“Kids born from a bred doe which is sold shall be registered
with the herdname of the breeder at the time of conception. The
assigned tattoo prefix may be either the breeder or owner at
birth.”
Yes: Adkins, Bond, Clark, Esterline,
Gredin, Hamilton, Henwood, Hoyt, Kerous, Mertens, Montgomery,
Seiler, Shea-Hepner. No: None Absent: Greenberg, Williams.
Certificate of Productivity
Director Adkins brought up that some breeders didn’t feel the +
behind a productive doe would mean as much to them as a
Certificate of Productivity. Business Manager Lowell said a
Certificate of Productivity could be produced at a cost of
$3.00. The certificate will be different than the original
Certificate of Registration and will be available by September
1st, 2003.
Motion 2003-11 Passed Proposed by:
Adkins/Clark
We amend Rules and Regulations 4. E. to
remove “upon request from its owner”. A new sentence added at
the end of paragraph: “A Certificate of Productivity can be
obtained for a doe that has produced 10 registered kids for a
fee of Three Dollars ($3.00).”
Yes: Adkins, Bond, Clark, Esterline,
Gredin, Hamilton, Henwood, Hoyt, Kerous, Mertens, Montgomery,
Seiler, Shea-Hepner. No: None Absent: Greenberg, Williams.
Amend Merchandise Department Head Job
Description
Vice President Hoyt cited language that would clarify the
language in the Merchandise Department Head Job Description.
Paragraph 14 will be amended to read as follows:
“14. Submits a written Department report to the Vice President
one month prior to each Board Meeting; the January report will
include a financial statement for the previous year and
forecast for the upcoming year.” The Board agreed to this
amendment
There was a discussion of coloring or
painting animals for show. It was noted that possibly this is
also a problem in selling an animal, which is basically covered
in the Code of Ethics. JTC Chair, Kim Yates, noted that when a
judge sees paint, etc., the judge should just consider it as a
mismark. Chairperson Yates feels it is not a common occurrence,
but will run it past his committee and put in his report to the
Board in January.
Chain of Command/Organization Chart
The Organization Chart was reviewed. The assumption is that the
committee chairs are supervised/managed by the Vice President.
The Vice President Job Description says “Acts as liaison
between all committee chairs, task force heads and the Board.”
That is not the same as providing close supervision of
committee chairs. The question is, for whom do they work? We
have an organizational chart that shows all committee chairs
link to the Vice President but the job description doesn’t say
that. Should we put in writing who chairs are answerable to?
Currently it’s not specific what we do. Do task force heads and
committee chairs report to someone? And if that someone exerts
force over them do they have the power to make them perform.
Director Montgomery pointed out that the President’s Job
Description provides: “Reaffirms or appoints committee chairs
based on the Vice-President’s recommendations – to be approved
by the full Board. Gives reasons for appointment with request
for approval”.
Treasurer Esterline advised that he talks
to the Merchandise Head weekly. That it’s not clear who each
department reports to, and it’s unclear enough that that work
needs to be done on how it all fits together in the
organizational chart.
President Granger pointed out all this
brings us to the need of hiring an Executive Director to run
NPGA. All committee chairs could report to this person who
would work for the Board. There was discussion with Business
Manager Lowell whether taking on this position would take much
time away from the Registry if she were our
choice. She is willing to take on this position in addition to
Business Manager and stated if necessary could hire limited
part time help to do office work, but doesn’t feel at this time
she would need any. The title for the position might be
Executive Director or some other appropriate title. The Board
feels all NPGA materials should be stored at the Central
Office, including judges’ tests, contracts for convention,
committee reports, agreements, applications, etc. At some point
this is going to require a storage unit for Central Office.
Having all NPGA materials at Central Office and with an
Executive Director would bring continuity to NPGA. The Board
would say to Dori Lowell, “these are the goals you lay out for
the chairs, track them and report to the Board. Directors
Montgomery, Hoyt and Esterline will work with the Business
Manager and prepare proposed language for amending the Bylaws,
Rules and Regulations and Job Descriptions for the Board to
consider.
NPGA Convention 2004 Bid
Red Mertens and Stacy Hamilton, representing Region 7,
presented a bid for the 2004 NPGA Convention on behalf of Kids
at Heart Pygmy Goat Club, Little Rascals Pygmy Goat Club, Te
Cabri Pygmy Goat Club, Tejas Goat Club, United Pygmy Goat Club
and Unique Petites Pygmy Goat Club, representing the States of
Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi , with membership
reaching beyond Region 7 into the States of Oklahoma and
Florida. The Board unanimously voted to hold the 2004 NPGA
Convention June 9-15, 2004 in Shreveport, Louisiana. The host
locations will be the State Fairgrounds show arena and the
Holiday Inn – Financial Plaza. The theme of the convention will
be “Bringing us Together in 2004”, with the theme colors being
red, white and blue.
NPGA will be responsible for the
following expenses:
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Labels will be supplied by the Central
Office for the entire NPGA membership for a mailing provided
by the Shreveport-Bossiers Visitors Bureau.
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Sanction fees for the shows.
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NPGA National Champion Trophies
Committee Member Terms
Vice President Hoyt had requested that all Committee Chairs
report on the year their committee members’ terms expire,
rather than month and year. All Committee Chairs have agreed to
report their rotation schedules by year only; no rule changes
are needed
Wins at Restricted Shows
Linda Carpenter, who was sitting in on the Board meeting,
pointed out that animals that get restricted wins do not count
as full wins and can continue to show until they get two full
wins under one judge. Jewel Floch, Show Chair, is to work up
some clarifying language regarding restricted wins for the Show
Rules, send it through her committee, and present it to the
Board at the January 2004 Board Meeting for clarification. This
would also apply to a doe with a 1/3 win as a junior being
shown again as a junior.
The Board directed the JTC Chair to
instruct the judges who award restricted wins to so indicate on
the back of the registration papers. Also instruct them to
indicate if a win is as a Senior, Junior or Reserve Senior (by
default).
A win by a Best Wether at a Restricted
Show counts as a full win.
It was felt there was no action necessary
on Agenda items VII I.5. and VII J., K. and L. under New
Business.
Closed Session
January 2004 Board Meeting Site
The cities discussed were Atlanta, Orlando, Dallas, Phoenix,
and Nashville. In an informal poll Orlando, Florida, was
selected as the site for the January 2004 Board Meeting. Lane
Kress would be asked to set up the Orlando meeting.
There was further discussion of what to
do if we have problems with committee chairs not doing their
jobs. It is the right thing to do to change committee chairs
that don’t perform. We’re going to track committee chair
performance and replace if necessary.
Director Mertens presented an issue
brought to his attention by a woman from Arkansas who has AGS
registered animals only. AGS recognizes NPGA registered animals
to show in AGS shows. She would like NPGA to recognize AGS
registered animals in NPGA shows. Animals must be registered
NPGA to show in open NPGA shows. Director Mertens was advised
to tell her she would need to register her animals with NPGA,
perhaps through progeny.
The subject of using the pygmy goat as a
service animal was brought up. There was no further discussion.
Animal Planet has a program called Pet
Star. They are looking for pygmies who do special tricks. They
fly the goat and owner to Hollywood if chosen. The animal may
win up to $25,000.00.
Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Henwood
Secretary
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