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Board Meeting Minutes

The Board of Directors meets on a periodic basis to review ongoing issues in the sport, hold disciplinary hearings and review the general business of NAFA.

2013
  • May 24th, 2013 - The agenda for the June 1st Board of Directors meeting is posted.
2012
  • August 3, 2012 - The updated agenda (with rules recommendations) for the upcoming August 11th board meeting has been posted.
  • March 12, 2012 - The minutes for the February 27th NAFA BOD teleconference have been posted.

  • February 13th, 2012 - The highlights from the January board meeting have been published.
  • January 12, 2012 - The agenda with rules committee recommendations for the January 20th NAFA BOD meeting has been posted. The board meeting is to be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel Raleigh - Crabtree, 4700 Creedmoor Road, Raleigh, NC 27612. The meeting will begin at 8 AM in the Renaissance A Ballroom.

2011

  • October 20, 2011 - The minutes from the NAFA BOD meeting held October 6, 2011 have been posted.

  • October 6th, 2011 - Multibreed point proposal for a binding delegate vote
      Introduction: In an effort to revitalize the multibreed class, the board is presenting a proposal for consideration by the delegates that would increase the NAFA title points earned in the multibreed class. If adopted, the following change would become effective October 1, 2012.

      Question for delegate vote: Should NAFA amend the point-count rules for the multibreed class so that each dog on a team that runs with a recorded time less than 24 seconds earns 30 points; from 24 to 27.999 seconds earns 7 points; and from 28 to 31.999 seconds earns 2 points?

      Pros: This increase is designed to recognize and reward the comparative difficulty of assembling a multibreed team where every dog running is of a different breed, counting a mix as a single breed. Of all the classes, multibreed perhaps does the most to stimulate interest in flyball because people who have dogs at home can identify with the variety of breeds running and visualize doing so with their own dog.

      Cons: This proposal cheapens the points earned by dogs who run with clubs not able to field multibreed teams and makes titles too easy to get. There should be one point system for all.

  • September 26, 2011 - The highlights from the August NAFA BOD meeting are posted.

  • September 13, 2011 - The meeting highlights from the August BOD meeting have been published.
  • August 25, 2011 - The minutes for the July 12th teleconference has been published.

  • July 14, 2011 - The minutes from the April 22nd BOD teleconference have been published.

  • May 23, 2011 - Dale Smith resigned from the Election Committee.
  • April 22, 2011 - The Board has received the written resignation from Greg Stopay. We thank Greg for his years of service on the Board and hard work- he devoted hundreds of hours to NAFA.

    The Board has appointed Sam Ford to fill out the remainder of Greg Stopay's term. We are very fortunate that we can call on Sam Ford. He is already involved in the CanAm as well as other NAFA projects and is able to devote the time needed to fill out Greg's term.

  • April 16, 2011 - The Board heard Disciplinary Action DC #2011-1 at a hearing 4/16/11 and made the following findings:

    “We find that the disciplinary charge was not sustained, but that the accused administered an inappropriate correction in the ring and that correction was administered to another team’s dog. This action merited a reprimand, but did not merit disciplinary action.”

  • March 25, 2011 - A working agenda for the April 16-17, 2011 NAFA BOD meeting has been posted. The board meeting will be held at Marriott Detroit Metro Airport, 30559 Flynn Road, Romulus, Michigan 48174. The meeting is scheduled to start at 10 a.m.

    Please note that the first item on the agenda is a disciplinary hearing which is closed to the public pursuant to Section 5.4. The meeting will be open to the public at the conclusion of that agenda item. The meeting is currently scheduled to be held over two days and is expected to conclude early Sunday afternoon.

  • February 23th, 2011 - Minutes from the Feb. 8th teleconference.
  • January 12, 2011 - NAFA Board of Directors will be holding a board meeting January 28th - Read the working agenda (includes Rules Committee report).

2010

  • November 4, 2010 - Minutes from the Sept. 28th BOD teleconference
  • August 20, 2010 - NAFA Board of Directors will be holding a teleconference Aug. 24th. Read the agenda.
  • August 12, 2010 - Highlights from the Aug. 7th BOD meeting have been posted!
  • July 29, 2010 - Revised Agenda with Rules Committee recommendations for the August 7th board meeting. NAFA welcomes comments and suggestions from NAFA community. Please send any comments directly to the Rules committee.
  • July 19, 2010 - Proposed changes to the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws
    • NAFA is a nonprofit Michigan directorship entity. As its corporate documents hadn’t been reviewed for many years, we hired Jane Forbes, who is with Michigan law firm of Dykema and serves as co-chair of the State Bar of Michigan Nonprofit Corporations Committee, to review NAFA’s articles of incorporation and bylaws to make sure they comply with the most current Michigan statutes and to bring them into the 21st century, legally and practically. The attached proposed revisions to the articles of incorporation and bylaws are the product of that work.
      We’ve put up both redline and clean copies, so you can track the proposed revisions easily. Some involve moving language that doesn’t belong in bylaws to the corporate policies or rules; an example is the reference to dog CRN’s in Article III, which will be moved to Chapter 3 of the Rules of Racing since we’re advised this shouldn’t be in the bylaws. Others are more technical, such as the revision to the “deemed consent” provision for board approvals of administrative matters, or are designed to match the bylaws to actual practice, such as the composition and names of the various board committees. Still others are designed to state things more clearly than they are now. Finally, some are intended to modernize our documents so we can use outside services, like internet voting services, that weren’t even thought of when the original documents were created.
      Amendments take a two-thirds vote of the Board of Directors. The Board plans to consider these at its August 7 meeting. These are a work in progress and NAFA welcomes comments and suggestions from NAFA community. Please send them directly to the Board members, whose contact information is listed on this site, or directly to the Rules committee.
    • Articles of Incorporation
    • Revised Draft of Bylaws
    • Comparison
  • July 8, 2010 - The August 7th board meeting will be held at 300 South Fourth St, Suite 900 Las Vegas, NV 89101. Anyone wishing to attend in person should contact Leerie Jenkins before August 7th (or call 336.420.9706 on August 7th) for weekend access to the office building.
  • March 10, 2010 - Minutes from the board teleconference meeting
  • January 15, 2010 - Minutes from the board meeting
  • January 16, 2010 - Minutes from the AGM
  • February 5, 2010 - October 1, 2008
    • correction
  • January 15 & 16, 2010 - Highlights from the board meeting and AGM

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