SWWDGA Meeting Minutes...

Dec 6, 2009

Submitted by the 2010 Secretary, Jessica Howard

MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE:
Mike Korhonen, Pat Hendrickson, Jessica Howard, Mary Chilton, Ann Moelhman, Dawn Lantz, and Justin & Caprice Kramer

Financial report submitted by Pat Hendrickson, Treasurer:
There was $237.20 that she didn’t know was in the club’s PayPal account, so we only lost $38.35 on this year’s show instead of the $275.55 that was reported at our November meeting!

2010 Show:
Chehalis Fair Grounds is reserved for the July 3-4, 2010 show.
Adding Sunday will only cost us $125 extra. Fairground costs this year was $960.
There is a possible addition in cost to bedding removal with adding the extra day, but Pat Hendrickson didn’t think it would be too much.
It was also noted that there would be fireworks at the Fairgrounds on Sunday night after dark, but it shouldn’t be a problem for anyone showing unless they stay overnight on Sunday, as we should be done showing long before they start.
It was put up to a vote, after making sure we had enough help lined up, as to wether to have a Saturday/Sunday show or just keep it a Saturday show. There were 7 votes for yes and one abstaining vote. So we are officially putting on a TWO day show during the 4th of July weekend in 2010.
We will be doing Youth Showmanship, 2 rings of Sr Does, 2 rings of Jr Does and 3 rings of Bucks on Saturday. Sunday we will do 2 rings of Sr Does & 2 rings of Jr does.
Possible buck sanctions would be: Nubian, Nigerian Dwarf, Toggenburg, AOP & possibly LaMancha.
Saturday Judges are Thomas Considine & Chuck Pedersen. Karen Senn will be doing one of the Saturday buck rings and a Sr/Jr doe ring on Sunday. We still need a judge for the second Sr/Jr doe ring on Sunday.
We decided to have Pat Hendrickson contact Chris Strickland, Cathy Pindell & Mark Baden (in that order) for the 4th judging position.

Show Awards:
Pat Hendrickson said she’d had 3 offers from members to do show awards for 2010.
Sonia Thyssen - lead ropes
Stangelands - something with embroidery
Mark Baden - a best in show award (IF we do one this year.)

Calendars:
Jessica Howard announced that the calendars would be cheaper this year since our show is now in July she could take off one of the months and reduce the club’s cost of the calendars by $1! The calendars would run from July - June, instead of June - June, as in the previous 5 years we have been doing our fundraiser calendar.
Jessica Howard also needed a confirmation of the cost we were going to offer Kiperts Korner Feed & Wiggins, if they wanted to market our fundraiser calendars.
It was discussed and decided that we would do an introductory price of $6 per calendar (they would need to pay upfront) the first year. This price would also cover the shipping costs to them. We would then negotiate a price for following year(s), if they were interested in continuing to carry them.
The business would also get a free card space listing on the calendar.
There was a motion by Mary Chilton and a second by Dawn Lantz to make the calendar price $7 and keep it at that price for following years, but that motion was voted down.

Website:
Jessica Howard announced that the club’s new website was up and running!
http://SWWDGA.org
Memberships and Calendar spaces can be purchased online. When the show info is finalized you will be able to get Show info there, too, and even do online paid entries.
It was discussed that we should add the Meeting Minutes & Show Financial Reports to the website, and was approved by vote.

Other Business:
It was brought up that the Club used to have a brochure that could be handed out to interested parties and Mike Korhonen said he would contact the person who did it before to see if she still had the info, so that we could get one put together again.
It was also brought up by Caprice Kramer, that she would like to see more Education/Goat Care topics brought up at the meetings, or gatherings for the public to expose people to basic goat care.
Mike Korhonen offered to do a Fecal testing class at some point at one of the future meetings.

Elections:
President: Mike Korhonen (same as 2009)
Vice President: Lisa Beaver (same as 2009)
Treasurer: Pat Hendrickson (same as 2009)
Secretary: Jessica Howard (new appointment)
We had one outgoing Director (Freda Curelas) this year, Ann Moelhman was elected to fill that 3yr slot.