Introductory Remarks

This is the appendix to the TICA Annual Board Meeting Minutes. Most of the items contained in the appendix were also contained in the agenda. Some of the items which were added to the appendix were reformatted in order to give the look of the appendix more consistency.

Appendix Item A 1

Report on New Leases & Purchases

Security Report:

All Valley Key & Lock will be adding deadbolts to all of our hallway doors (6) and re-keying the doorknobs to be the same.

Cost: $320.60

Superior Alarms will be installing a security system including a keypad, 5 panic buttons, 8 motion detectors, and 8 door contacts.

Cost: $1,600.00 purchase price, and 15monthly monitoring fee.

Equipment Report:

Don Brown will be delivering a new fax machine that includes electronic receiving. Our incoming faxes will be sent straight to email. It has a friendly user interface and 16MB of flash memory. Currently we spend 12 hours a month on sorting faxes. We estimate to cut this time down to 3 hours and eliminate the fax fee.

Current: $125.00 month

Cost: $175.00 month

Pitney Bowes will be delivering a new mail machine which includes WOW (weigh on the way). WOW allows all mail to be run without having to sort by weight. We are required to upgrade our mail machine due to USPS implementation of a new digital postage system. Currently we spend over 20 hours a month on mail. With the new machine we estimate to cut this time in half.

Current: $455.00 month

Cost: $675.00 month.

D-Tel will be installing a new phone system that includes 11 phone line capacity, 10 new phones, and 25 station capacity. We will be purchasing this system and ending our lease contract with Gsolutionz.

Current: 47.67 monthly lease, and $115.00 monthly maintenance fee.

Cost: $4,448.00 purchase price and $50.00 month starting the 13^th month for maintenance.

Appendix Item A 2

New Phone System Proposal

Differences between Gsolutionz & D’Tel’s Quotes on purchasing an Avaya system

• D-Tel is USD 878.81 less than Gsolutionz on the purchase price

• D-Tel is USD 66.60 higher than Gsolutionz per year on maintenance

• D-Tel is USD 612.41 less than Gsolutionz over 5 years

• Gsolutionz offers a remote access card

• D-Tel is local, offering quicker response time and larger availability

• Either purchasing quote will save us over USD 7,000.00 over 5 years

What’s the equipment involved?

• New Partner ACS Phone System

• 11 Phones line capacity

• 25 Phone stations capacity

• 10 new phones (currently we own 8 and the rest are leased)

• Maintenance for 5 years

Appendix Item A 3

New Folding Machine Evaluation and Proposal

Currently: The current folding machine offers a Z fold. The machine is capable of other types of folds; however changing the fold type requires readjustment which is time consuming and un-precise. There is an average downtime of a month when the machine needs repair. TICA does own the machine; however maintenance agreements are not available. Mis-feeds often occur, which cause damage to work and requires disassembly then reassembly of the machine.

Proposal: The DI600 by Pitney Bowes uses Next Generation Pac Pilot User Interface which consists of onscreen job-specific icons, pictures, and instructions which describe each job and precisely how to load and run them. Up to 20 jobs can be pre-programmed.

The DI600 can sense when thick paper is coming through or when more than one sheet is fed through at a time by flashing a light onto each sheet.

TICA will be able to produce advanced jobs internally rather than sending them to a third source which will save time/money.

Includes (as pictured on right):

• 4 Sheet feeders: (325 sheet capacity and speed of 4000 sheets per hour) Located on the left. The continuous feed option allows pages from the other sheet feeders to continue feed without interruption, or you can accumulate multiple pages together before folding.

• Manual Feeder: Located at the top, this feeder can handle special sets up to 5 pages, stapled or non-stapled.

• 2 Insert Feeders: (300 sheet capacity) Located on the right to add additional inserts to the envelope; pre-folded or cut forms.

• Drop/Power Stacker: (150 mail piece capacity) Located at the exit of the machine to collect the finished mail pieces.

• Sealer Bottle: Sealing solution for envelopes fed through; lasts for 3000 envelopes.

• Measuring Scale: Located on the left side to measure materials and envelopes.

• Envelope Feeder: (300 envelope capacity) Located on the left, feeds the envelopes into the inserting area where they are filled with the material requested from the other feeders.

• Swift Start: Although programming is required to run each job, Swift Start allows you to load material into the feeder and run a simple job with minimal setup information.

• OMR (Optical Mark Recognition): Ability to mark and interpret specific processing instructions for each mail piece.

• Four Different Folds: C (C Fold),Z (Z Fold),S (Single Fold),D (Double Fold) Switching between folds is less time-consuming and more precise.

• OptiFlow Work Table: ergonomically designed and adjustable to match each user’s height requirements.

Software and 100% worry free Maintenance Plan are included. The Lease is $656.00 for a term of 69 months.

Appendix Item A 4

Current Membership Count Report (June 2005)

Appendix Item A 5

Domestic x Domestic Litters

Appendix Item A 6

TICA Registrations by Breed for Year 2005

(26 July 2005)

Appendix Item A 7

5 Years Membership Special Report

Appendix Item A 8

TICA Yearbook Report

July 27, 2005

TICA Annual Yearbook Report

Dear Mrs. DeVilbiss, Mr. Barnes, and Regional Directors:

I am very happy to report the Yearbook is coming together very nicely. I wish to thank all the Regional Directors for their continued support. Without their encouragement, the number of advertisements would not be as great as they are, and their efforts in getting the regional winners notified have simplified our jobs. We can never have enough advertisements in the Yearbook, and we will continue to have an early-bird advertisement sale next April and May to encourage exhibitors to place an ad.

As I reported in February in Harlingen, we made a profit on the 2004 25th Anniversary Yearbook. Indeed, we continue to sell them, as well as the Yearbooks from past years. Our efforts to minimize the large number of “leftover” yearbooks can be facilitated if the Regional Directors will continue to remind exhibitors of their existence and availability from the Executive Office. The Yearbook Staff has received many, many compliments on the Anniversary Yearbook.

Finally, through the efforts of Leslie Bowers and Larry Hart, the new format for regional and international standings will allow us to complete the Yearbook without the months of retyping each region and the international breed and color section of the Yearbook. Many thanks go out to Leslie and Larry, as well as to the entire staff at the Executive Office. Their hard work is certainly appreciated by the Yearbook Staff.

The Assistant Yearbook Editor will be at the 2005 Annual, and I encourage each of you to take a minute and introduce yourselves. Amy Liebold is a very dedicated and hard-working person, and I owe her great gratitude. I shall remain at my station, putting together the 2005 Yearbook, but will be with you in spirit.

Sincerely,

John Harrison

TICA Yearbook Editor

Appendix Item A 9

TICA Trend Report

THE TICA TREND

For Fabulous Felines, Fun, & Friendships!

Cathy Welch, Editor

723 E Buzianis Way, Tooele UT 84074-2411 USA

435-843-5220, fax 775-361-7141

ticatrend@trilobyte.net or ticatrend@mac.com

TICA Trend Financial Report, January-June 2005

Volume 26, Numbers 1-3

Production Cost: $30,591.79

Total Income: $2,900.25

Total Cost: $27,691.54

Comparison of Volume 24, Numbers 1-3 with Volume 25, Numbers 1-3

Volume 25 Volume 26

*includes 8 pages of Board minutes published on cheaper paper

As you can see from the above comparison, advertising income has finally begun to increase again after a three year decline. Our economy has been improving but I believe the main reasons have been from 1) the switch to glossy paper, 2) the discounts given for show advertising and 3) the support from our Board of Directors encouraging the membership to advertise in the TICA Trend. Many thanks to everyone who has helped!

I was asked to report at the 2005 Annual on the actual costs involved in publishing on glossy paper. As I’ve said many times, no Trend is exactly alike: even when two Trends have the same number of pages, we don’t print the same number of copies. However, by calculating a per copy cost for each item, we can then multiply the per copy cost of the cheap paper by the same number printed for the otherwise equal glossy paper Trend to find the price increase for glossy paper. However, please note:

Printing: The more copies we print, the greater the price breaks. However, I do not know where the price breaks occur nor how much they are so I cannot account for them in this report.

Domestic Mail: We currently do not receive a breakdown between bulk mail postage and first class postage (I have asked for this to change). Because of this, I cannot know where our prices have increased, if at all, so I am not reporting on this cost. The “average” per piece price seems to have remained stable but that may be due to the nature of bulk mail (the more pieces we mail, the lower the rate we pay.)

International Mail: We pay a weight-based flat rate per piece. We had a rate increase beginning with the use of glossy paper, which I will cover at the end of this report.

The cost of printing with glossy paper is staying close to the original estimate of a $6,000.00 per year increase. The remainder of the cost increase of printing on glossy paper comes from the unanticipated increase in the weight of glossy paper affecting International postal rates, plus an International rate increase occurring just when we switched to glossy paper.

With this total for five out of the six yearly Trends, we can estimate that the total annual increase will be approximately $12,500.00-$13,000.00 per year between the change to glossy paper and the International postal rate increase. (The range comes because a Regional Awards Trend has not yet been included in the above numbers. Since it is the second largest Trend of the year, I can only estimate that it will cost somewhat less than our largest Trend of the year, the October/November ‘04 Trend.)

With advertising increasing, I recommend we continue printing the Trend on glossy paper. It is much more professional looking, in line with the quality of production for most international cat association publications and the increased advertising strongly indicates the membership approves.

Yours,

Cathy Welch, Trend Editor

Appendix Item A 10

Junior Achiever Committee Report

The program has come a long ways since its introduction as the TIFS JA's at the Semi-Annual meeting in Harlingen. The written program is ready except for a few projects at the end of the 6 level program. We want to include several projects that can be done at any time during the program that would have a direct relationship to requirements that would be needed to go into the judging program. I look for that part to be completed before the Annual and be ready to present in full to the BOD.

The project is being tested as it is being developed. Denver High on Cats had a JA ring earlier this year. SC's first JA show was a success at the Orange Blossom Cat Show in June. We had 6 Juniors that competed and it was so exciting to see the project be put to action. Fate Mays judged the ring and did a great job. The rest of the SC shows this year have not only agreed to have a Junior Achiever ring, but have extended a discount entry to the Junior Achievers. Out next JA ring will be at the Arlington SC Regional in July. Harley will be judging the ring. The JA's will also have a scoring seminar and etiquette clinic at the Regional.

The program is comprehensive and not just about showing. I think of it as a Scouting type program for kids in the cat fancy. They will have requirements and earn "badges" as they go through the 6 Levels of Achievement. Each level has many requirements that the JA will complete. Our SC JA's are already working on their first level and will soon be going to the next level.

Our goal is to educate our JA's and give them encouragement and confidence that will benefit them the rest of their lives. We are not trying to fill the hall with unruly kids, but encourage kids and families to enjoy the TICA experience. It is like the saying in movie Field of Dreams, "If you build it, they will come." We are working to build the program. Once the program is ready, it could provide TICA with a great tool to introduce the cat fancy to new people. The 4H and Scouting groups are not just made up of kids. They are wonderful organizations that include kids, families and leaders. If you have a program for kids, the parents will be there to watch and participate, too. We would encourage the BOD to set up another committee to find ways to work with each county extension agent to introduce all communities about the opportunities for JA's in TICA. My thoughts are that their first task is to figure out what TICA needs to present to get the extension agents' attention and then find individuals in each state that could coordinate the introduction of the program to each county. Susan Williams has worked with this in Steamboat and Denver and may be a good choice for committee chair.

The JA program will be available online. This will give everyone access and make it a standard program for everyone. All the forms and information they will need will be available online. http://www.justcats.org/TICAJA/TICAJuniorAchievers.html

All RD's in the US have been contacted and asked to select a Regional JA Liaison. This person has been invited to the committee and TIFS JA list to become more acquainted with the project. They will have the necessary tools to introduce TICA JA's into their area when they are ready to start adding JA Rings.

Cassie Hale will be at the Annual and will be prepared to report to the BOD on the JA's. We will have the complete written program including introduction, organization, and the paperwork that each JA will need to work through the program. We will give each RD two copies. The RD can take one copy to their JA Liaison. We also hope to have a short PowerPoint presentation and give an overview of this exciting program.

Shirley Little

Appendix Item A 11

Marketing Committee Report

Dear TICA Board of Directors,

The Marketing Committee is a new group comprised of James Reardon, Harley DeVilbiss, Barri Giardelli, Sandy Adler, Nick Spencer, Kurt Williams and myself, Cheryl Hogan as chairperson.

In June, we set up our online list and began getting to know each other and also each other’s strengths and specialties as marketing and TICA go. We are seeking to find opportunities to put TICA’s name in front of as many people as we can both here in the USA and internationally as well. We are looking for ways to bring extra income to TICA. In general, we are seeking ways to help TICA grow and to become a stronger presence in the cat fancy as a whole.

I wish there were more to report, but as mentioned before we are a new group and have just begun to get the ball rolling. C urrently we have a few ideas that we are doing some research on, but have not implemented anything just yet. We are honored and excited to be chosen to serve TICA in this capacity and look forward to great things to come.

Sincerely,

Cheryl Hogan

TICA Marketing Comm., Chair

Appendix Item A 12

TICA Rescue Committee Report

As of July 7, 2005

The TICA Rescue Committee was established by the TICA BOD in February 2005. Initially, Christie Montgomery was appointed Chair. The end of March 2005, Christie moved to Animal Welfare and DeLynne Satimore was appointed Chair.

The Committee is composed of the following:

DeLynne Satimore, Chair

Tracey McCullough, Liaison with the TICA BOD

Kristine Alessio

Mary Arnold

Hazel Brandenberg

Tanya Carey

Diana Engelbart

Caroline Fralia

Susan Hagrelius

Linda Mercer

Carla Repetto

Bobbie Tullo

Sal Vitales

Marilyn Wagner

Nancy Welch

DeLynne Satimore is also the TICA Liaison to Purebred Cat Breed Rescue (PCBR)/CFA Purebred Rescue and is officially a member of PCBR BOD.

Two subcommittees were established - Rescue and Education. However, people on the subcommittees can cross over to the other when working on various projects.

The Committee has set up a list on Yahoo Groups to facilitate discussion and projects. Kay DeVilbiss (TICA President), Tracey McCullough (Liaison with the TICA BOD), and Vicki Jo Harrison (Chair of Animal Welfare), also belong. Additionally, others have been invited to join to facilitate cross-registry working relationships.

Thus far, the Committee has accomplished a great deal. Our first tasking was to establish our Mission, which is as follows:

The Mission of the TICA Rescue Committee is:

* To support, facilitate, and help to provide purebred cat breed rescue.

* To help all cats by continuing the cat fancy's long-standing tradition of support for and encouragement of responsible rescue efforts.

* To provide education regarding responsible cat ownership and responsible breeding.

I would like to digress for a moment and provide the BOD with some of the key points leading up to the above Mission Statement:

• Looking at the big picture, we are doomed to have minimal impact if we try to save all cats that come to us. There is no way even hugely funded groups with large numbers of trained people can impact the estimated 3.5-4 million cats who enter shelters every year.

• There are not enough rescuers with expertise in breed issues and care to provide a safety net for all purebreds.  It will be possible in the long haul to essentially do that if we pool our resources, plus we can help many domestics along the way.  If the fanciers with expertise in dealing with a breed will not get involved in helping purebred cats, who will?

• The animal rights (AR) people repeatedly point out (and exaggerate) the number of purebreds in shelters. Expert fanciers who walk the shelters to identify purebreds needing rescue can re-educate the shelter in recognizing purebreds. By rescuing, we can make a significant impact on the AR arguments that purebred cats displace domestics in shelters who are then euthanized. Fanciers have been demonized and, without seeing us as human beings, shelter staffs start to see us that way - as demons. Just giving them a human face and a sign that we care helps demolish that perception.

• There is no doubt that shelters euthanize domestic cats more frequently than potentially adoptable purebreds in the same situation. As a result, more domestic cats die. Every purebred we remove from a shelter prolongs the life expectancy of the domestics coming into that shelter and gives them an increased chance of being adopted or rescued. Even “if” we were (and a lot of times we are not, despite our focus on “purebred” rescue) just limiting our efforts to purebreds, rescuing purebreds does increase the chances for all the other cats.

• As well as providing a safety net for those purebred cats in shelters, we work with animal control (AC) to take purebred cats about to be seized into rescue from hoarders and breeder busts (and we arrange for rescue of the domestics that may be in either situation). This undercuts the AR stance that breeding purebred cats is endangering the lives of domestics and causing a problem and puts us on higher moral ground. If we do this right, very few of the purebred cats in those situations will wind up in a shelter because we will have relationships with AC and get there first.  TICA, CFA and ACFA are first and foremost registries - registries that rely heavily on the registration of pedigreed cats.  Should the ARs succeed, purebreds will face extinction - there will be no registries.  If we establish ourselves as a reputable, caring, volunteer group that effectively helps the problems by relieving shelters of excess animals and we keep the number of purebreds entering shelters down, the ARs have less ammunition. We will be in a better position to challenge their activities and views.

• If we broaden our scope to include all cats, to do it right, many of our foster homes will be tied up for long periods trying to socialize ferals. We will also need a significant number of foster homes who are willing to take FIV+ and FeLV+ cats and who can do so while protecting their own cats. These are few and hard to find. The proportion of such cats in the purebred population is very, very low - not so the general cat population. While it would be nice to help every cat, there has to be a limit.  Reality dictates difficult choices.  We can do a program with a limited scope (purebreds) well, but once we try to be everything to every cat, we will not do much well and will be just one of many vying for the same resources and funds.  However, the fact remains, if we become well established and successful, nothing in the mission statement precludes our trying to do it all, if we have the resources to do so. Additionally, at times, Purebred Cat Breed Rescue has had those resources and/or an exhibitor’s domestic cats are involved, they do provide rescue for domestics, while sharing this mission statement.

• Financially, the vast bulk of our funding comes from fanciers, cat lovers, and rescuers who care deeply about their own specific breeds. While there is money out there to support domestic cat rescue, the competition for that money is fierce. We would be competing with the very organizations we work hard to support and encourage if we do general cat rescue.

• There's another aspect to caring for cats that is not really rescue, but too often winds up to be rescue: many of the cats we are seeing are from retired breeders and exhibitors and cat lovers who have limited alternatives to plan for their cats in the case of their demise and who die without plans for their animals or with plans that are no longer viable.  Rescues have been contacted repeatedly by fanciers wanting to put a provision in their wills to turn their purebred and domestic cats over to us to assure they will be well cared for in homes and not wind up in shelters or euthanized while they still can appreciate life.  An effort to provide a safety net for these cats will take quite a bit of planning, as well as legal input, money, and resources. Planning for those cats that have lost their owners to death is a feasible direction to go at this time, hand in hand with purebred rescue and helping those domestics we can whenever it is possible. Life makes for hard choices, so we will look at helping these friends, mentors, exhibitors, any one who has registered their cats with any registry first; i.e., our very own, the fanciers, before we look to rescue all the cats of the world. Life has a tendency to throw curve balls. None of us is truly safe from them. Let us build a safety net for our cats in such circumstances and offer another option for backup if our families and friends cannot provide for them...life may throw them some curve balls, too.

• We can and do help rescue domestic cats as much as we can, which is why it states, "encourage efforts aimed at providing for the welfare of all cats". This leaves that door wide open. The Mission Statement still gives us the option to rescue domestics, as well as to pay pull fees for domestic cat rescues, and provide vetting and boarding fees for domestics at vets (which we do in many situations), but does not mandate (make it our mission) that any domestic cat coming to us by whatever venue at any time must be our primary focus. There are lots and lots of domestic cat rescues out there that we work with and help support; there are too few purebred rescues and breed rescues with rescuers who are expert in dealing with the particular breeds.
  
  (Furthermore, you should see the look on their faces or hear or read the words of shelter workers, animal control officers, and the like when "purebred rescue" is able to pull a few of the most needy domestics along with purebreds from a shelter or takes a load of domestics from a hoarder and then arranges for vetting and then transport to reputable general rescues. We impact perceptions much more by coming in as "purebred rescue" and showing that we care about them all, than we would coming in otherwise as "Cat Rescue" where we are just one more "rescue group".)

• It is important, in working in an alliance with other registries, that we all share the same goals and not be at loggerheads. This Mission Statement is one we can all agree upon and avoids potential conflict, while allowing room for interpretation and expansion of our efforts. An alliance with other registries is imperative if we are to be maximally successful in rescuing the cats we all love.

We then turned out focus to crucial issues facing rescue.

One is particular is the critical shortage of fosters. It is fully understood and appreciated that breeders, as a rule, do not have the room or the ability to foster rescues. Therefore, we need to recruit fosters, screen and train them, etc.

Foster Recruitment

Bobbie Tullo has done a wonderful job setting up a mechanism and guidelines for clubs to sign up potential fosters. It entails setting up a booth, with information and educational materials, to recruit fosters from the spectator population at shows.

Mary Arnold has written a cover letter to go with the foster recruitment package.

Marilyn Wagner has put in place a Yahoo Group called Friends of Cats, which is for club representatives who are willing to help spread the word about Purebred Rescue and sign up fosters, answer questions, and learn more about assisting in rescue efforts. She is also the moderator.

Foster Screening

Again, Bobbie Tullo stepped up to the plate and has made progress. To date, she made contact with 30 people. 13 have responded and she began the screening process.

Home Visits

Dovetailing with foster recruitment is soliciting assistance from clubs to help do home visits and monitor foster homes in their areas.

Bobbie Tullo made contact with Charlotte Hoar regarding working with clubs in Southern CA. Additionally, she asked Rochelle Puczkowskyj if she would co-ordinate AZ clubs.  Ro