AKCA Minutes
of July 12, 2002
Officers Present: Directors Present: Guests:
Chair:Larry Leverett Burt Ballou (OCZNA+ 6 clubs) Carl Caddies
Vice Chair: Doug Dahl Kelly Houston (Inland) Tom Graham
Secretary: Carole Elliott Bob Finnegan 6 clubs)
CFO: Lisa Barnett Judy Caddies (Nishiki+) Joan Finnegan(So Cal+)
Joyce Glenn
(Ikiru Hoseki)
Harlan Glenn (San Diego)
(Please note that clubs that AKCA Board members represent
will NOT be listed individually except in the case of their primary club)
New Club to AKCA –
WELCOME!
Rep: Deb Gunderson….308 Blue View Dr., Mount Horeb, WI 53572…(608) 664-8871
e-mail: debrahgunderson@teldta.com Fax: (608) 664-8880
Alt. Rep: Bob Rieser….598 Linden St., Verona, WI 53593….(608) 845-5144
e-mail: bob@thefrogbog.com
Board Highlights:
v AKCA board will be meeting at a new location next month.
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Larry Leverett. There are 104 member clubs.
¨ MINUTES:
Motion: To approve the Minutes of June 14,
2002. Motion by Joan, 2nd
by Harlan. Approved
¨ JUNE FINANCIAL STATEMENT:
Carl handed out the year end financial statement. The 2002 Seminar report (to July 8th) shows a net income of $33,295.93; some bills still outstanding. There was a question about bank charges; this is due to the Visa charge.
Larry presented Carl with a special pin in recognition of the 10 years he has put in as CFO……He has
done an outstanding job as CFO and will be missed.
¨ KOI USA: Joyce reported that Koi USA board met at 529 Blueridge on Tuesday, July 9th. The
September/October issue will be down to 132 pages—winter mode for advertising. It will also be about
a week late because the Seminar committee was somewhat delinquent in getting their final articles to
them. They are reviewing the notes for the Atlanta Club and will notify them of any changes they make
to better explain what they need to do for Koi USA for next year’s Seminar. Tom Shepard is no longer
taking pictures of koi; he has filled in his pond and will be moving to a smaller house. He has been very
generous with all those wonderful shots and donated four large boxes of koi photos to Koi USA. Doug
has received 2 e-mails stating that they were impressed with the photos that Joel Burkhardt provided.
Discussion of where to place the AKCA
¨ SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Burt received an e-mail from Spike (he’s in Europe). Burt sent out
invitations to clubs for participating in the KHA program. They may allow some additional people to
go to the wet labs that are out of their areas. Doug stated that 5 more clubs need to be added as they
recently joined AKCA. Burt stated that he is still working on getting insurance coverage; no quotes as
yet from 3 prospective carriers.
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¨ MEMBERSHIP: Doug reported that a new club, with 49 family members, has applied to become
an AKCA member club. They are from Wisconsin. Motion: To accept Madison Area Pond
Society as an AKCA member club. Motion by Burt, 2nd by Harlan. Approved Burt stated that
we will get an additional premium charge from our insurance company because we have more
clubs than we were being charged for. Discussion followed about how many club members
subscribe to Koi USA.
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JUDGING: Bob
stated that he is proud of his group at the Seminar. They have a lot going on.
Their
cocktail party was good; the dinner was great. Bob extended thanks to Larry Gill, Gary Chin, Ken
Gray, Jim Phillips, and all who helped make their judging program at the Seminar a success.---
they were all outstanding.
¨ SPEAKERS GRANT : Larry stated that the letters to the winning clubs have been sent out
¨ GUIDES: No report.
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Finance Committee: Lisa stated that they will try to meet in
three weeks.
SEMINAR REPORTS: