[ SHOWGSD-L ] June report - AKC Delegates' meeting
- From: "Peggy" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:02:55 -0400
AKC DELEGATE'S MEETING
Qunicy, MA
June 9, 2008
The Forum
(This part is a repeat of March as these are 2 key initiatives)
Prior to the meeting being called to order presentations were made regarding
the new Canine Humane Fund and the Political Action Committee.
Presentations are to be made available and I plan to provide access to those
reports. In review
The AKC Humane Fund is a 501c3 focused on all dogs including grants to
Parent Clubs to support rescue. A person can become a founding member of
the AKC Humane Fund with a 1000.00 donation. A plaque will be placed in
their honor at AKC headquarters.
The PAC is to support federal and state candidates who support our
positions. (A note about the PAC..under the terms of the Federal Election
Committee approval Clubs CANNOT make donations to the PAC. Individual
members of the Clubs can. There are a number of other "rules" regarding
solicitation, etc. and that will be forthcoming.)
The Meeting
The June 2008 AKC Delegate's Meeting was called to order at 10:00AM on June
9, 2008. Following approval of the March, 2008 meeting the new Delegates
were introduced. There are approximately 4900 event giving Clubs who are
either members or licensed by AKC. And over 600 Member Clubs
Chairman's Report
Ron Meneker made his report and a copy has been posted on the elist and will
not be repeated here. His report urged Clubs to consider working together
to present a Responsible Dog Ownership Day in September.
President's Report
Dennis Sprung's presentation focused on alternative registries and how they
are taking critical AKC registries. AKC has identified 29 competing all
breed registries.all are "paper" mills. They make their money at the retail
level providing a deeply discounted litter registrations at the commercial
kennel level.they then provide incentives to the distributors of $2 to $3 to
include their worthless paper with the dogs they are wholesaling....then the
pet stores sell the papers at retail generating additional margin and paying
the registry a percentage. These dogs are lost forever as a percentage of
these dogs are bred and then registered with these registries never
returning to AKC. For example in 2003 there were 172,000 "one time" litters
registered with AKC and in 2007 there were 141,000 of these "one time"
litters registered. One impact: Royalties down 12% in the first 4 months.
This is a serious issue and one that cannot be reduced to "money grubbing"
by AKC.if it were only that simple. Our sport has been subsidized for years
by registrations. All our good works come this and the non-traditional
revenues generate. Our judging operations, kennel inspections, event
management, canine health foundation, etc. depend on a strong registration
base. The year to date both litter and individual registrations are down
over 8%...and acceleration of a downward trend. This is serious and people
owe it to themselves to understand the significance of the decline in
registrations.
Litter registrations were down 6.5% while dogs registered were down 5.2% in
2007 while year to date they are down 8.4% and 8.3% respectively.
Registrations in 1992 were 1.5M and they ended 2007 at 812,000.
Two amendments were voted on..one is to allow a dog not entered in the
proper class to moved to open provided any difference in entry fee has been
paid. This will primarily benefit the BBE entrant who, for some reason,
can't show their dog. This passed.
The second was "housekeeping" and had to do with removing some conflicting
language from the rules. The setting of fees is done by the Board and that
power is bestowed in the bylaws. The rules gave some authority to the
delegate body. The bylaws take precedence over the rules and this would
have
fixed that. It was narrowly defeated. It is really a moot issue since
bylaws govern,
however; some delegates felt a message was necessary and thus voted to
defeat it.
5 proposed changes were read for a vote in September.check the AKC website
or Gazette for the details.
Tom Davies provided an update on the status of the group realignment
committee. While not complete the general look of the alignment will be as
follows:
1) 10 Groups
2) 2 of the new groups will be splitting to very large groups
3) 1 group will be the Nordic breeds
4) There will be a slight shifting inside the remaining groups. Parent
clubs will be involved if their breed is impacted.
)my own comment: just what we need.......10 groups!
Peggy
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