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February 5, 2012 minutes
February 5th, 2012
North Star Toy Dog Club Meeting
February 5, 2012
Vice President Terri Porthan called the February meeting of the North Star Toy Dog Club to order at 12:20 p.m.
Members present: Beth Gray, Terri Porthan, , Sandy Thibodo-Johnson, Jonathan Mathes, Carol Lauren-Schmitt, Donna Erickson, Karen Lawrence
Secretary’s report: Accepted as written. Motion to accept Terri, Jonathan seconded.
The treasurer’s Report: $3,247.28 in account as of 1-31-2012. We have not yet received the check from Land –o_Lakes as of today’s date. $200.00 deposit from membership dues. $660.52 fro judges expenses, $.30 interest. Motion to accept Jonathan, second Sandy.
Old Business:
Micro chip clinic- $25.00 per chip with a vet that will put it in for us. We need to set the date which is yet to be determined.
Please get your donations for next year’s raffle can be brought to the meetings. Thanks to all that have been donating items for our raffle and we hope to continue to get great items.
REMEMBER: ALL brags must be on AKC registered dogs and AKC dog events. If we want to encourage all of our members to send their brags along with pics (if they would like) to Beth so we can keep this page up dated. The NSTDC reserves the right to publish or NOT publish all brags and or photos submitted for the NSTDC website at the editors discression.
Jonathan discussed account options with TCF. We don’t qualify for a corporate account. We will get credit for the checks that were ordered. We can only do a small business money market account. With this account you cannot go over 6 transactions per month. They do require $1,000 balance for it to remain in the free status. Terri made a motion to accept the terms and conditions to open this check account. All were in agreement. Beth will e-mail spreadsheet to Jonathan with membership. Jonathan also needs a copy of the insurance policy. Beth will get a copy of that from Carol R.
Are there any nominations from the floor for board members? Sandy is nominated for one of the board positions and Karen Lawrence is the other.
New Business: Thank you card from Don for his 99th Birthday. Conversation was had about a birthday party for Don’s 100th birthday.
Paperwork from the Pet Breeders Association. The group looked at the paperwork and decided against promoting this group
Motion to adjourn: Terri, second Sandy.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:04 pm.
The next meeting will be on March 18, 2012 from noon to 2 p.m. at Pet Junction on 694 and Rice Street. Voting in of officer’s at this meeting. It will be a pot luck.
April meeting will be at Pet Junction on April 29, 2012 from 1-3 PM
Respectfully submitted,
Beth Gray, Secretary
January 6, 2012 minutes
January 9th, 2012
North Star Toy Dog Club Meeting
January 6, 2012
President Carol Reinhart called the January meeting of the North Star Toy Dog Club to order at 1:27 p.m.
Members present: Carol Reinhart, Beth Gray, Terri Porthan, Donna Temple-Burgess, Emma Hanson, Sandy Thibodo-Johnson and Barb Blum
Secretary’s report: Accepted as written. Motion to accept Terri, Sandy seconded.
The treasurer’s Report: $3,707.00 in account as of 12-31-2011. Motion to accept Donna, second Terri.
Old Business: Thank you to Jan for working our raffle table-we couldn’t have done it without you!
Microchip clinic- Terri will be getting that information to Carol R.
Our show went very well! We had a good entry-up from last year.
We would like to add Jr. Handling to our show next year-Carol R will look into setting that up. There was a discussion regarding fees for entering into additional classes $5.00 for any regular classes, free with additional entry, and Bred By Exhibitor $20.00. We would like to have more local judges. We will try to work that in. Prizes for next year were discussed-Group placing 1-4, breed and best Jr. Terri made a motion to accept Donna second. What those prizes will be are yet to be decided.
Please get your donations for next year’s raffle can be brought to the meetings. Thanks to all that have been donating items for our raffle and we hope to continue to get great items.
REMEMBER: ALL brags must be on AKC registered dogs and AKC dog events. If we want to encourage all of our members to send their brags along with pics (if they would like) to Beth so we can keep this page up dated. The NSTDC reserves the right to publish or NOT publish all brags and or photos submitted for the NSTDC website at the editors discretion.
New Business: Member participation is needed for show set up/take down.
New officer election is coming. Make sure you have your membership renewal and dues in before January 31, 2012
Motion to adjourn: Emma, second Sandy.
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The meeting was adjourned at 2:30 pm.
The next meeting will be on February 5, 2012 from noon to 2 p.m. at Pet Junction on 694 and Rice Street.
Respectfully submitted,
Beth Gray, Secretary
December 2011 minutes
January 2nd, 2012
North Star Toy Dog Club Meeting
December 18, 2011
Members present: Barb Blum, Carol Reinhart, Beth Gray, Carol Langer, Terri Porthan, Karen Lawrence, Gayle Smith, Sandra Thibodo-Johnson, Jonathan Mathes
Carol R. called meeting to order at 1:20.
Secretary report: Motion to accept as written Terri, Carol Langer
Treasurer’s report: 10-31-11 balance of bank account is $4,643.02. $600 for insurance 278 for website. Bill from Beth. Motion to accept by Carol Langer, Jonathan second.
Old business: Contact number from Terry for microchips will be forth coming. We welcome Gayle Smith as our new member. She has a pug as her loyal companion.
New Business: $75.00 quarterly hosting fee for the website Jan-Mar 2012. Terri made motion, Jonathan seconded. Beth presented receipts for payment regarding ink, envelopes and paper, postage.
Nominating committee need to be put together. One board member and two non board member need to be on the committee. Sandi and Gayle are the nominating committee. Terri will be the board member on this committee.
January show: Entries close for our show in January close on the 21. Onofrio sends out extra to Carol R. she distributed among the members.
Ring stewards: Sandy will be inside and Joan (one of Terri’s friends from Bismarck will be outside) we need to visit the idea of Jr. showmanship at this show. We should also address the need for the bred by class.
Our start time is 8 a.m. Ring stewards should be there by 7 a.m. Check to make sure we have the right amount of ribbons.
Judges will walk over to the show site.
Next meeting will be ½ hour after close of our show on January 6, 2012 right outside the show ring.
February 2012 meeting will be on February 5, 2012 noon to 2:00 Terri will do a seminar on inside ring stewardin
March 2012 meeting will be March 18, 2012 noon to 2:00. This is an election of officers meeting. It will be potluck. Bring your dogs if you would like.
Motion to adjourn: Carol L. made motion Barb B. seconded.
November 27, 2011 Minutes
November 27th, 2011
North Star Toy Dog Club Meeting
November 27, 2011
Members present: Barb Blum, Carol Reinhart, Beth Gray, Carol Langer, Terri Porthan, Jonathan Mathes
Carol R. called meeting to order At 12:10.
Secretary report: Carol Langer and Johathan Mathes were the only members present. Carol R. was called and most of the meeting was over the telephone regarding the new bank account.
The account was opened and the bank said we did not have the proper documentation and the bank closed the account and sent the monies back to Jonathan. Jonathan will continue to look into this. As of this date the monies have not been transferred from one account to the new account. We have a person to take care of the raffle. Thank you Terri Porthan. We need to make arrangements for two tables ($10.00 each through LOLKC)
Treasurer’s report: 10-31-11 balance of bank account is $4,642.55. Only activity on this account was $.51 interest.
Old business: website bills in the amount of $278.80. $75.00 was a hosting bill from September, the remainder was the cost to transfer from hostmonster.com to godaddy.com. Godaddy.com is more efficient and less expensive. The bill also covered the cost of 4 domain names for 4 years. Terri made motion, Barb Blum seconded.
Discussion regarding brags. Please make sure when you send Beth a brag you have the text written as you would like it to read as she will be copy pasting what you have sent her. She is not responsible for the editing
New Business: Insurance sent notice of non-renewal. Carol R. received another letter from Equisure regarding our non-renewal of notice telling us that they have broke off from the other insurance carrier and we will be able to renew.
Carol has not gotten any notice or bill for our insurance as of this date. Motion for Carol R. to go ahead and resolve this insurance issue and pay it-Carol Langer, seconded by Terri.
Gayle Smith submitted a new member application. (first reading) Gayle would like to do our raffle for the January show. Welcome Gayle.
When Carol R. was judging at the 4h dog show she came across a booth that does microchip (home again) Julie Woodman offered to do a clinic. Discussion ensued and it was decided to get someone to do a microchip clinic. Terri P. will talk to Pat Cunningham to get an AKC microchip clinic. March or April would be a good time to have this. We will be getting a flyer together for the January show to advertise this. We will have this open to other clubs.
Discussion was held regarding pushing forward with adding an AKC obedience show. Perhaps offering a prize to an existing show.
January show: raffle, reviewed with Gayle how we do our raffle
Items we need to make sure we have, hand sanitizers, paper towels, candy, judges gifts. Most of this we have stored at Carol R. home. Terri will pick up candy and judges gifts.
Post on the website the need for ring stewards.
Christmas Party: print flyers and mail out. This will be done asap. Everyone is welcome
1:12 motion to adjourn was made by Terri P. Barb second
Next meeting December 18, 2011 from 1-3 at pet junction. This is our Christmas party. Please bring raffle items and a volunteer spirit as we need ring stewards
August 9, 2011 minutes
August 28th, 2011
North Star Toy Dog Club Meeting
August 9, 2011
President Carol Reinhart called the August meeting of the North Star Toy Dog Club to order at 6:37 p.m.
Members present: Carol Reinhart, Beth Gray, Carol Lauren-Schmidt, Carol Langer, and Barb Blum
Secretary’s report: AKC has approved the show in January. Need volunteers for the raffle at such shows.
The treasurer’s Report: $4,641.02 in account, we received $.51 interest. Motion to approve-Barb Blum
Old Business: Volunteers for stewarding both inside and out of our upcoming January show Barb Blum and Beth Gray volunteered now we just need back ups; volunteers to work raffle table. Contract for judges brought to meeting by Carol Langer. Our judges will be Roger Hartinger and James Reynolds. We need to acquire our own ring clean up items as the ring clean up provided wasn’t able to get there quickly.
We need information for the history of the club page and we need to reinstate the brags page. Brags page wasn’t on the site because Beth was not receiving AKC brags. We want to encourage all of our members to send their brags along with pics (if they would like) to Beth so we can keep this page up dated.
Our newsletter needs to be forthcoming. We are working on that.
New Business:
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The meeting was adjourned at 7 p.m.
The next meeting will be on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. at Perkins on hwy 55 and 494
Respectfully submitted,
Beth Gray, Secretary
