Meeting of Council

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

OUR CATS
The Vice Chairman advised delegates that there would be three presentations and explained how the meeting would be conducted. He said that questions from delegates had come into the Office for inclusion and the Office had prepared a list of questions which would be put to the candidates. He also stated that should time permit questions would also be taken from the floor, but restricted to one question per delegate to enable as many as possible to have some input) He advised that the meeting was being recorded and therefore, anyone wishing to speak would have to use the microphones.

Volunteers from the floor were requested to scrutinise the vote.

The title of GCCF Official Journal was awarded to Our Cats on a majority vote; 81 votes in favour of Our Cats, 42 votes went to Park View and 9 votes to Seaview. Mr Mays thanked the delegates and said it was their journal and they would take the GCCF forward.

MINUTES OF MEETINGS
Executive and Disciplinary Committees

Compared with 2006, income was up by 2.5% and expenditure was up by 1.6%. The deficit on normal activity was £11.9K, an improvement on £2.7K on 2006. The income for the Supreme Show was down by £35.5K compared with 2006 while expenditure had increased by 2.4% which was less than inflation. The deficit for the show was £58,730 including the recharge of Office expenses. He advised delegates that the Auditors had given the GCCF a clean bill of health.

A delegate asked for clarification of losses on the Supreme Show. The Treasurer advised delegates that some years ago the Supreme Show had started to make a profit and because any profit was taxable, it was agreed with the Inland Revenue that a reasonable charge could be made to the Show for Office services. This charge eliminated the profit at the time and for the sake of continuity and uniformity of treatment, it has continued. In 2007 the deficit would have been £31,500 without the charge of £27,230 for Office Services

The Vice Chairman told delegates that unfortunately 2006 Supreme Show had been a very difficult show which was to do with problems encountered with the NEC and this had caused a knock on effect with advertising, stalls, etc., for the 2007 show which all pushed up that deficit. The Supreme Committee were looking at various ways to reduce the cost of the Supreme Show. One of the ways to save money had been to change the date of the Show.

A delegate suggested a way to save money could be changing location and the Vice Chairman said that if anybody could find a suitable location then by all means advise the Office and it would be looked into. Another delegate said that if the Supreme Show was not viable then there should not be a Supreme Show.

b) Medals
This item will be further discussed at a future meeting.

The delegates felt that an Email should be sent to the clubs who had not sent in their Club Returns. This would be dependent on clubs supplying an Email address.

b) The Vice Chairman who was presenting the proposal from the Black & White Cat Club.

"Delegates standing for Election to the Executive Committee should provide a 50 word statement of their policy regarding the future of the Governing Council, and with respect to the position their aims and ambitions.

A paper ballot was taken and the proposal was passed 66 in favour 61 against abstentions 7 the proposal was carried.

c) Mrs Hague on behalf of the Black & White Cat Club put forward the proposal that;

"All future Council and Executive meetings shall be fully recorded and kept for a minimum of one year and be made available, if required, in matters of dispute."

There was a counter proposal from Mr Scruton that a decision is deferred to the June meeting to see if the office can work with it. The delegates discussed the merits of deferring the proposal for various reasons one being if the equipment was not good enough and we did need time to evaluate the effectiveness. A delegate said we do not live in an ideal world the recording may not be perfect but it would help to clarify the minutes taken.

The Vice Chairman called for a vote on the counter proposal. This was carried by a majority. Mr Scruton asked that the item be on the June Agenda.

d) Proposed Alternatives to the "No Recognised Breed" Registrations
The Executive asked Mrs Peace to prepare a document and bring it back to Executive for discussion and then it should be brought to Council in June.