November meeting minutes were approved. 

The following visitors attended the meeting:
Marit Kornovich, Tina Hope, Lorie Podshadley, Marcia & Stacey Linden. Welcome!

Sign in sheet: VERY IMPORTANT
Everyone, please be sure that you always sign in at the meeting. Children are also required to sign in. If you are attending for your child, please make sure to sign in for that child 
(i.e. "parent signing for Jane Doe".) 
Please note when attending a meeting for your child, you can not count your self and your child for that meeting. If you do not sign in, your meeting will not count towards the year end requirement for the awards program. 

A treasures report was given by Jeannine Loccarnini for Denise who is on vacation. 
Savings: $13608.48
Checking: $3798.56

Bills submitted by Libby Reynolds for horse show bills were approved. 


Open Show Program Update: 
The open show committee will resume meetings for 2001 starting next month. Anyone who would like to help is invited. The meetings will be held at Mountain Mike's Pizza just before the regular Paint club meeting starting at 6:30pm. 

The Open show dates have been confirmed for the following: Woodmyst farms in Gilroy is the location for all three shows.

  1) Sunday March 25 with a April 1st rain date
  2) Sunday June 3rd
  3) Sunday September 9th

Open Show Issues- 
Requests have been made for us to have more western walk/jog classes. These classes are very popular and could bring in more people and money. In order to add them and keep the show at a reasonable length, some other classes must be eliminated in order to fit the extra walk/jog classes. The current plan is to eliminate western ridding. The club was against the idea of eliminating any English classes since many of our youth are involved with English and learn from these classes. 

Old Business

Youth club report: 
Charlotte Fenn and Michelle MacDonald gave a youth club report. The youth club meetings are held at Mountain Mike's Pizza in Morgan Hill at 6:15pm right before the regular club meeting every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Officers were appointed at the last meeting and community service projects were discussed. 

So far the youth club has done a Toys for Tot's toy drive in December, a Food donation drive in January and a warm clothing donation in February. 

Way to go kids! 

This is the second youth club established in California. All of the kids have done a great job so far and we are very please to see all the effort they are putting in. Dana Klamecki, our club president, is serving as the Youth Advisor. 

A motion was by Nancy Fenn in the regular 7CPHC meeting to allow the youth meetings to start to count for year end awards only after the youth club becomes sanctioned by the AHPA.This motion was passed. 

Each youth member will still need to be a member of both clubs the youth and the regular club and a member of AHPA, it will be an additional club for them to join. 

Please note: due to the fact the new youth 7CPHC club is not yet sanctioned by the APHA, these meetings will not count towards year end awards until they become sanctioned which is scheduled for the June-August time frame. Because there will not be enough meetings this year to make the 5 meeting requirement, youth are still required to attend the regular meeting to get credit for the meetings for the awards programs. 

The rules (for year end point programs) we currently have do not take into consideration a junior club, so when the club gets sanctioned/formed, if the junior club is going to have their own awards program, they need to amend the rules we currently have to fit their own program. 

The youth club awards presentations and banquet will be combined with the regular club awards banquet. They do not have the funds to do their own awards program. 

7CPHC Club Membership
Membership forms should be turned in as soon as possible. Forms should be sent to Denise Escover. You must attend at least 5 qualified meetings in order to participate in the awards program. Make sure you are signed up as a member and make sure you SIGN IN to every meeting you attend.

Sponsorship forms: VERY IMPORTANT
Sponsorship forms should also be turned in as soon as possible. They must be turned in before the date of your first show to count. 
All sponsorships should be clearly noted which program the sponsorship is for. (i.e. OPEN or CCC). If you are competing in both programs a minimum of a $25 dollar sponsorship is required for each program. Separate checks and forms should be filled out as we are keeping separate bank accounts for the OPEN and CCC programs. 

Letter of Intent forms: 
These forms must be filled out and turned in for each program that you are participating in. If you are doing both, two forms must be signed and sent in. These all need to be in before your first show. When the new youth club becomes sanctioned by the APHA, new letter of intent forms will need to be signed with an addendum to the rules.

CCC Show Update:
The "SHOW OF THE YEAR" is scheduled for April 5, 6, 7, 8 in conjunction with CPHA. Our portion of the show is Thursday 4/5 and Friday 4/6. Your hours will count on any day during the whole show. CPHA really needs our club's help. They have a small membership and are counting on our club to make the show run smoothly. The show starts at 7am Thursday and we will need your help from that time on until the show ends on Sunday. 

Melissa Berschens  408-848-1664
is organizing sign ups for jobs at the show. Please contact her if you would like to help for a particular duty. 
Duties are as follows: 
Gate Crew - Diane Lang 
Ring Crew - need at least 6-8 people for Trail and at least 5 people for cattle and 6-8 people for jumping. So far Kristi Rubcic has volunteered. 
Awards- Jillian Dent is coordinating the awards we need at least 2 people at all times doing awards.  
Back Gate- will be handled by those doing the awards
Ring Steward-: Carole Ray and Sharyn Fincher they may need breaks
 
Contact Dana Klamecki if you would like to see the premium. It is going to be mailed out in the next few days. 

Libby Reynolds mentioned that the mailing should go out first class due to the time constraints with bulk mail. This will cost each club $500. 

Dana Klamecki needs to do a Resolution in order to set up a joint bank account with CPHA for the show. A vote was required for this. A motion to pass this vote was made by Dana and passed unanimously by the club. Dana will get signatures on the account by the necessary club officers. 

What is the Executive Committee?
The Executive Committee includes the current club officers, the past president, CCC Reps and three appointed members by the club president to act on matters regarding the club that need attention out side of regular club business. 
The Executive committee members are: 
Dana Klamecki - President
Jeannine Locorninni - Vice President
Melissa Berschens  & Tina McGurran Secretary
Denise Escover- Treasurer 
Ed Flores - Past President
3 Appointed members - Diane Lang, Jillian Dent and Larry Klamecki.

The California Youth Team memberships are due March 1st. Please have all forms into Diane Lang by then. 

Special thanks to Larry Klamecki who was generous enough to make a pledge for his new real estate business that for every close of escrow that was referred by a club member, a $500 dollar donation would be made to the club. So far this has gained the club $1000 in donations. Thanks to Jillian Dent and Lauretta Johnson who provided sales leads. 

Meeting was adjourned at 8:30pm.