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SCJA Summer News
Letter
Attached is our summer newsletter. A lot of you were concerned
that the SCJA was not invited to the July 25th, 2010 meeting
in Houston between the other two judges groups and the AKC Judges
Department to discuss the annual judges fee. Your Board was
of the opinion that little would be gained if the proposed meeting
was limited to one subject, i.e. the annual judges fee. The
newsletter primarily discusses the SCJA’s alternative course
of action - - our proposal to AKC’s Chairman, Board and President.
As you read the details of our comments and proposals,
bear in mind we are happy to report that AKC Chairman Menaker
took positive action after receiving SCJA’s letter discussed
in the newsletter and placed the SCJA letter on the agenda for
discussion at AKC’s August Board meeting. Rest assured,
Chairman Menaker’s positive action concerning our letter clearly
indicates he is open for all suggestions that might affect savings
in any area where our judges are involved. We will keep our
members informed. Once again, a thank you to AKC Chairman Menaker
for his timely action.
After reviewing the minutes from the meeting in Houston last
month, and talking to some of the individuals involved, the
general consensus was that the meeting was not quite as productive
as hoped for. We believe the SCJA’s course of action was appropriate
and so far effective. We were bombarded with complaints, emails
and telephone calls when AKC’s proposal for an annual judges
fee first came out. No one was for a fee of any sort. We did
not query our membership since we couldn’t imagine any of our
members thinking it was a good idea. Recall our very strong
mid-May letter opposing the proposed annual judges fee to all
judges, Delegates and others within the sport which included
our success in not having the judges annual fee implemented
back in 2005 when the subject first came up.
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Dear Members:
The attached SCJA newsletter is rather lengthy and is being sent to all
of you who agreed to receive it via email. It goes without saying that
it is a lot more economical; however, since our fiscal year is up and
it’s time for annual dues, we have sent an abridged version via regular
mail which will contain the dues notice form and self-addressed return
envelope. It also has a very important questionnaire (on back of dues
notice). It should take you about 2 – 3 minutes to answer the questions.
We want to come up with some statistics to report. Your individual responses
are, of course, confidential and will only be used to compile total percentages.
There is a lot of news about the latest happenings concerning recent policies
affecting our judges. The work of your Board and the SCJA will be evident
by the details enclosed.
We are going into our 24th year, and our dues have remained the same.
Remember, the SCJA has no expense for office space, storage space or utilities
(except phone). They are all donated.
We hope we can count on your continued support. Please feel free to add
any comments to the questionnaire or at any time via email. If for any
reason you do not receive a mailed version within the next 10 days, be
sure to let us know.
The News Letter has ALL IMPORTANT INFORMATION WHICH NEEDS TO BE PRINTED
OUT WILL BE IN A PDF FILE. You can obtain COMPLETE information in a pdf
(portable document format) file. All you need is the Adobe Acrobat reader
(which is FREE) to download and print the file. Please be sure you have
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Wallace
H. Pedé
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