The description of the P and P is on line and and may be read and/or printed from the web site version. It now is a tome of 184 pages and growing. It has nothing to do with the BOG, never has, and I can't do anything until I receive the approved minutes. To clarify, we have a meeting, minutes are taken, sent to the Board for us to read and edit if needed and then at the next Board meeting we approve them. Then I can add to the P & P. I will be happy to send my report of the major changes done over the last 2 years if anyone wants it. I will be doing a year end report for the National meeting in October and included are all Board mandated changes, committee job descriptions, a new Board Members Orientation Guide, and I went back through 6 years of minutes to try and be sure all was included. Every page was retyped and double checked for errors and I and my new Ass. Chair Michel Ebertin and I are still finding and redoing verbiage and typing errors and adjusting it to be more user friendly. All the contracts were updated and redone and LaMar Fredericks and Bill Pfeiffer were advisors and of great help. Bill got the present version up on line and Michel is working hard to get the PDF version and another huge revision will be available shortly. We even have a real index for the first time ever! This has all resulted in a significant savings to the club as the costs of mailing and printing every 4 months was substantial. I printed over 12,000 pages in my kitchen. Now the document is free to any member that wishes to have it. Another example of inclusion not exclusion. I was very pleased to receive a letter from Ted Beckhardt this winter praising my efforts to bring the P&P not only up to date but to make it a better and more useable tool for the members, committee chairs and the Board. I was amazed to find that at one time a committee was appointed to try and do this job and they could not get it together. If I had known that I might not have tackled this job! Actually, I am very proud of the job I have done for the club. Joan Fox Policy and Procedures Chairman ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - URL temporarily deleted due to AOL issues ============================================================================