Minutes of the Meeting
of the CSPCA Board of Directors
by Teleconference
November 15, 2005

The President Karen Kleinhans was at her home in Pawnee, Illinois and the Secretary Jo Ann Redditt was at her home in Alexandria, Virginia.

Board members in attendance were: Karen Kleinhans, President; Alan Klessig, Vice President; Jo Ann Redditt, Secretary; Marilyn Currey, Treasurer; Eastern Director, Mike Lauer; Central Director, Tim Bergeron; Western Director, Bob Rosenberger; Directors At Large, Gail Garrison, Grace Fritz, Debby Smith, Beverly Wall and Marilyn Vinson. Deb Cooper joined the meeting at 9:20 EST.

Guests present were: Barker Editor, Marge Calltharp; Alice Fix, Centennial CSP Club; Domino Alleman, Houston CSP Club; Marilyn Daly, CSP Club of Long Island; Kathy Kjestsa, Berkshire Spur CSP Club; Deb Taylor, President's Alliance and Jocelyn Barker, Futurity/Maturity Committee.

The meeting was called to order at 9:04 EST by President Karen Kleinhans.
Marilyn Vinson made a motion, seconded by Alan Klessig to approve the minutes of the October meeting. The motion was approved unanimously. Our thanks to Kay Rosenberger for standing in for the absent Jo Ann Redditt at Nationals.

President's Report - None given.

Secretary's Report - None given.

Treasurer's Report - None given.

COMMITTEES
Health Through Education: A motion was made by Marilyn Vinson and seconded by Gail Garrison to support two programs sponsored by Waltham and recommended that the Club do so by Dr. Jeff Vidt: Canine Gene Collection and Canine Cancer Collection. More details will be forthcoming. The Shar-Pei has been identified as one of the five breeds to be studied for its high incidence of mast cell cancers. We support our members' participation in these studies and will make information available as we receive it. Also, AKC/CHF has been notified of our approval of the CHIC program participation and Dr. Vidt has sent them notification of the suggested testing, so you should be able to begin participation as soon as CHIC gets our database set up. The Board voted unanimously in the affirmative.

Barker: Gail Garrison made a motion to confirm Sandy Woodall as Advertising Manager for The Barker; the motion was seconded by Alan Klessig. The Board voted unanimously in the affirmative.

President's Alliance: The Board did not approve additional awards for the affiliated clubs receiving the newsletter and website awards, but will make sure that the Clubs with websites are linked from the CSPCA site.

Futurity/Maturity: Bob Rosenberger made a motion, seconded by Deb Cooper to accept the proposal submitted to the Board by the Futurity/Maturity Committee on November 11, 2005. The Board voted unanimously in the affirmative.
"Judge Selection Criteria for the CSPCA Futurity/Maturity Program: Judge nominations will be solicited only from the participants of the Futurity/Maturity Program during that respective year. Nominated judges must be in good standing with he American Kennel Club (AKC) and be approved by AKC to judge the breed and/or a current member of he CSPCA with at least ten total years standing.
The nominee may not have judged any CSPCA National Specialty event within the past five years. When the period for nominations closes, the nominees receiving he most nominations will be contacted by the Futurity/Maturity Director to determine if they are willing to judge the Futurity/Maturity competition. If two or more nominees have the same number of nominations, preference will be given to judges who are, or have been, breeders of Chinese Shar-Pei. If both judges are 'breeder judges', preference will be given to the individual with longer membership in the CSPCA. If the two or more judges are not 'breeder judges', the preference will be given to the judge who has given the greater number of group placements for Chinese Shar-Pei. Nominated AKC approved judges will be reminded of the honor the members are bestowing in nominating an individual as Futurity/Maturity judge. Nominated CSPCA members, whether AKC approved not, will be reminded that certain animals and individuals with conflicts of interest in exhibiting under the potential judge may not exhibit under that judge should he/she be eventually elected. A ballot of no more than five names will be mailed by first class post to the litter nominators for balloting.
The judge receiving the most votes will be contacted and offered a contract to officiate at the Futurity/Maturity event. Under no circumstances will refunds be paid to Futurity/Maturity nominators who are unable to compete due to conflicts of interest with the officiating judge."

Membership: Grace Fritz made a motion, seconded by Bob Rosenberger, to approve the new members as printed in the My/June 2005 and the July/August 2005 Barkers. The Board voted unanimously in the affirmative.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Awards Committee: After a lengthy discussion of the Awards Committee's recommendation to change part of the method of selecting a recipient for the Morison Award, Alan Klessig called for the question seconded by Deb Cooper, that being (Option One) a panel consisting of three (3) members of the Board and three
(3) past recipients of the award to vote on the nominations with the Awards Chairman breaking a tie vote. Board members and past recipients will rotate each year and will repeat only when all others have served. The Board of Directors will select their representatives and the previous Morison recipients will select their representatives and both shall notify the Awards Committee Chairman with names and contact information at a time set by that Chairman, but no less than three (3) months preceding the National Specialty. These
representatives are not members of the awards committee. Voting in favor of the
Option One motion were Alan Klessig, Gail Garrison and Marilyn Vinson; opposed were Jo Ann Redditt, Marilyn Currey, Bob Rosenberger, Mike Lauer, Tim Bergeron, Beverly Wall, Debby Smith, Grace Fritz and Deb Cooper. Deb Cooper made a motion to approve Option Two of the Committee recommendation, that being the same as Option One except that there will be no tie-breaking vote by the Committee Chairman. There must be a majority vote of the panel participating or there will be no recipient for a Morison Award for that particular year. The motion was seconded by Alan Klessig. Voting in favor of the motion for Option Two were: Alan Klessig, Marilyn Currey, Debby Smith, Gail Garrison, Marilyn Vinson and Deb Cooper. Opposed were Jo Ann Redditt, Bob Rosenberger, Mike Lauer, Tim Bergeron, Beverly Wall, and Grace Fritz.
President Karen Kleinhans cast an affirmative vote thus breaking the tie.

Deb Cooper made a motion, seconded by Alan Klessig, to accept the recommended changes of the Awards Chairman description understanding that there may be further changes of the description of the language regarding the Morison Award:
"Awards Chairman
CSPCA Awards committee to be chaired by a CSPCA member appointed by the Board. This committee is separate from the 'Awards coordinator,' who provides the actual awards. The chairman of the Awards Committee will be provided with a list of committees that give awards and the names of the current chairmen of those committees. The Awards committee chairman will be responsible for receiving the nominations for all awards and list of awards to be presented from each committee chairman and coordinating them with the CSPCA awards coordinator. Individual committee chairman will set dates for their awards closing but will send to awards chairman no later than two (2) months preceding Nationals. The chairman will also send a record of all awards presented each year to the historian and to the Editor of The Barker for publication in the Nationals issue. Morison award nominations must be received by the Awards Chairman three (3) months before Nationals. The Awards chairman will mail the Morison nominations to the participating panel, receive and tally their vote, and arrange for a plaque(s) if needed. A copy of the winning nomination(s) will be provided to the Club President to be read during presentation and to the Editor of The Barker for publication in the Nationals issue. 'Publicity' for the awards programs is the responsibility of the awards chairman and the individual committee chairmen. Notices or reminders should be sent out one (1) month prior to the awards closing date by the Awards chairman and all committee chairmen.
At the Awards chairman's discretion, all Chairmen of committees that present awards will serve as non voting members of the awards committee. The Chairman may request an assistant for this committee if needed. The assistant would not vote on the Morison award, be privy to the nominations or tally thevote."
The Board voted unanimously in the affirmative.

Marilyn Vinson made a motion, seconded by Debby Smith to correct the membership record to reflect Kim Goza's joining the Club date as June 1984. The Board voted unanimously in the affirmative.

For the Board, Karen thanked Beverly Wall for her service on the Board and welcomed Alice Fix who will join the Board in January.

Beverly Wall made a motion to adjourned, seconded by Alan Klessig. The meeting was adjourned at 10:10 EST.

Submitted by
Jo Ann Redditt, Secretary