Minutes of the General Membership Meeting held on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at the home of the Mendizabals in Bloomfield, CT.
In attendance:
Rich Loomis, Val Mendizabal, Linda Morris, Jan Norris, Carol Phelps, Kim Himmelfarb, John Morris, Sandy Jacobus, Amanda Tortora, Joan Topke, Kim Karkut
Our meeting was held at the home of Val and Lorenzo Mendizabal. The first part of the meeting was a presentation by Steve Feldman (veterinarian at Animal General in Avon) and his wife Lilly. They talked about autoimmune diseases that are becoming increasingly common in vizslas. These diseases include Lupus and Myasthenia Gravis. They have adopted one of our rescue dogs, Fala, after many months of her staying at Animal General for diagnosis, treatment, and care of M. G. Some of the articles and web sites they recommended for information are listed below:
http://vizslamyositis.blogspot.com and http://vetneuromuscular.ucsd.edu
President Rich Loomis called the board meeting to order at 9:00 p.m.
Recording Secretary
The minutes from the last general meeting, held at our Specialty in June, were read. Jan Norris made the motion that they be accepted as read; it was seconded by Carol Phelps and passed unanimously.
Treasurer’s Report
Treasurer Val Mendizabal reported that our checking account balance is $14,667.75, the Health Fund account balance is $3,999.56, and the Breed Rescue Fund balance is $4,928.14, for a total of $23,595.45 in our treasury. Val--there was some talk about funds being moved from one account to another--I didn’t get the explanation, but it probably should be included here.
Corresponding Secretary
There was no report.
Committee Reports
- Rescue Report
There are no dogs in rescue at the moment. The big news is that Steve and Lilly Feldman have adopted Fala.
- Conformation
a. Everything in on track. Linda Pruitt has been approved as our Sweeps Judge.
b. Springfield KC Show will take place on November 22. Sweeps judge
c. Carol Phelps reported that she will contact Jill Brennan about getting the VCA approval that is required by the AKC. Our Sweeps judge and judging panel have been approved.
- Hunting Test
- The Hunting Test will take place on October 3rd and 4th. Entries have started coming in slowly; everything else is on track.
- Kim Karkut is in charge of hospitality.
- Field Trial-Joan Heimbach will update Field Trial information next month.
- Merchandise-will be available for order and/or purchase at the Hunting Test.
- Health Committee-no report
- Newsletter
- Information for the next newsletter is being gathered.
- We are still looking for people who might be interested in assisting with the newsletter.
New Business
- Ellie Winslow has volunteered to be our Breeder Referral
Her e-mail address is: ejwinslow@comcast.net
B. A discussion was held to decide how to thank the staff at Animal General for the time they devoted to caring for Fala. Since Animal General has presented CVVC with no bills for medicines, board, or care, it was decided that we present gift certificates to both the veterinarian and his staff. CVVC will have a lunch catered by Panera Bread for the staff, said lunch to cost about $400.00. This money will come from the Rescue Fund. In addition, a gift certificate was presented to Steve Feldman in the amount of $250.00 ($100 from the general treasury as an honorarium for his talk, and $150 from the Rescue Fund to thank him for his donations on behalf of Fala.)
C. The following were voted to become new members of the club:
Chris Cheeseman and Lauren Marano
Corinne Fischer and Michael Gentile
Jared and Sara Feldman
The procedure for new members will be as follows: their names
and their sponsors’ names will be announced at a meeting and
published in the newsletter. They will be voted to become
members at the meeting following the publication.
Our next meeting will be a Board Meeting held at the Wood ‘n’ Tap in Southington, CT, on October 14th.
Kim Karkut made a motion that the meeting be adjourned. Kim Himmelfarb seconded it and the meeting was adjourned at 9:30 PM
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Morris
Recording Secretary
