June 2026 General Meeting

General Meeting

June 17, 2026

Attendance: Lorene Jones, Tammy Pengelly, Debbie Berry, Rachel Read, Christa Thompson, Jeanie Schuldt, Bridgett & Jim Highley, Alice Brown.

Call to Order: 7:01 PM

Introductions
- N/A
President’s Report
- N/A
Vice-President’s Report (Membership)
- N/A
- Debbie provided paper copies of the 2026 Members list.
Secretary’s Report
- Rachel read the General minutes from the May meeting, there was one correction. Minutes accepted as amended. Lorene made the motion, Debbie seconded.
- Rachel updated the club officers with AKC.
Treasurer’s Report
- Jeanie does not want to deal with online payments after the PayPal debacle, and therefore will be stepping down as Treasurer next year.
- General: $12,034.40
  - Expenses: $20 to the Oregon DOJ to keep our Tax Exempt status.
  - Income: misc interest.
- Specialty: $8,663.37
  - Expenses: $75 for the Steward, $483.51 for the judges’ hotel, $1,531.59 for Trophies.
- PayPal is holding $4,016.19 until August 29th.
- Jeanie suggested that the club determine a minimum dollar amount that should always be in the savings account, and then perhaps think about fun things we can do as a club.
- The annual audit should be done soon. A budget can be discussed then.
- Rachel motioned to accept the Treasurer’s Report, Bridgett seconded.
Old Business
- CCA (Rachel)
  - The date of the CCA is November 28th, 2026 beginning at 8:00 AM.
  - Evaluators are Denise Reel, Debbie Berry, Donna Ernst.
  - Entries will be opened to 24 dogs. Entry Fee is $95.
  - Karen Burgess has a set of AKC approved wickets we can borrow.
  - We need 8 volunteers at minimum.
  - It was decided that we would only provide CCA Title rosettes (no “qualifying score flats”).
  - Club member’s entries will be given priority, other entries will be chosen via lottery.
  - Club members will be allowed up to two entries at first, and after a certain point if there are still entries to fill, club members will be allowed up to two more entries (for a total of four).
- Breeder Education (Christa/Rachel)
  - Christa asked members to suggest topics they would like to learn more about. Maternal Hydrops was brought up as well as liver shunts.
- Puppy Referral (Rachel)
  - No contacts
- Member/Public Education
  - Rachel brought up a tutorial on how to use the new K9-Data as well as the OFA and AKC websites as the next member education piece, and offered to present it.
  - We need to confirm if Dawn wants to continue chairing the Member/Public Education committee, and perhaps see if Robin would want to take over or co-chair the committee.
- Website (Rachel)
  - Discussed latest site metrics.
  - It was suggested to start rotating the list of breeders, because it seems that certain breeders are getting more hits than others.
- Facebook Group (Christa/Kelli)
  - No updates
- Facebook Page (Lorene/Rachel)
  - We had 663 new views, 1 new follower.
- Hospitality (Tammy/Jeanie)
  - No updates
- Fun Committee (Jeanie/Bridgett)
  - Jeanie and Bridgett are resurrecting the Fun Committee, would like to come up with fun things to do as a club.
  - Awards (for the Banquet)
    - Tammy will co-chair this committee with Christa
New Business
- 2027 Specialty
  - Theme: Fool’s Gold
  - We need to designate show, obedience, sweeps, and hospitality chairs.
  - Decorations: Rachel
  - Raffle: Alice & Bridgett
  - Trophies & Ribbons: Christa
  - Judges: Debbie
    - Discussed Marissa Clark, Sioux Forsight-Green, Mary Murphy-East, George Marquise, and Julie Greendale-Pavieza.
- 2027 Eye and Heart Clinics (Christa)
  - No major updates, still trying to find a cardiologist for Chintimini. Christa is going to contact OSU about hiring one of theirs.
  - We still want to have a second clinic for both eyes and cardiac. Clackamas Kennel Club is planning on going back to the McMinnville fairgrounds next year, so we may have a spot with them again.
  - Discussion was had about perhaps having the clinic at the Linn County show, but that still leaves the issue of making sure we have a cardiologist.
  - Alice offered the possibility of us sponsoring a clinic at her house.
  - Christa will have more answers by the August meeting.
- Electronic Payments
  - Rachel researched Stripe (which is SignUp Genius’ integrated payment service) as well as Venmo for taking online payments.
    - Stripe: Is directly connected to signup genius so no extra steps for customers. Payments are deposited directly into our account. There are no issues with prepaying for services. Customers do not need to have a Stripe account to pay, and we can opt to have the customer pay processing fees, which is 5% + $0.50 transaction fee.
    - Venmo: has to be attached to someone’s personal venmo account, the seller pays service fees. Service fees are 2.9% + $0.09 for tap to pay, 1.9% + $0.10 for direct pay or QR codes. The latter option also requires customers to have a venmo account.
    - Chase Payment processing was brought up, Jeanie will do more research on it.

Meeting Adjourned at 8:36 PM

Rachel motioned, Lorene seconded.

Meeting Minutes PDF