PERFORMANCE COMMITTEE Minutes
February 2, 2012

Call to Order & Introductions

The meeting was called to order at 7:35 P.M. EST.

In attendance was:

Karen Baum, Erin Fruits, Tom Rothering, Tara McCrone, and David Armer

We lost David Armer on the call shortly after the Chair was elected.

1.      Election of Chair

Erin Fruits was nominated for the Chair's position.

Tom Rothering made the motion, Dave Armer seconded the motion and all were in favor of the motion. 

Erin Fruits was elected Chair.

2.      Election of Secretary

Tara McCrone nominated for Secretary's position.

Erin made the motion, Tom seconded the motion and all were in favor of the motion.

Tara McCrone was elected Secretary.

3.      Kay Berg resigned as of 2-2-12. The committee needed to add this additional topic to our conference call to find a fifth member. 

Several names were discussed and Karen will make contact to find a fifth committee member.

Old Business

1.   Have a reverse score in performance classes starting at 0 instead of 100, with the lowest score being the best score.

The committee decided implementing this method of scoring would be confusing with dual sanctioned shows.

Tara will send an e-mail to the member that initially approached her and let them know what the committee decided.

All were in favor.

2.   To have a standardized point system so that your points received are based on your score and no longer just on the number of entries in the class.   

All the committee members were in agreement that this was a good idea.

We felt we needed a broad range of scores for a fair point chart.

We might want to consider both the score and the number of entries when we discuss this more.

Karen is going to check with ILR office to see if the range of scores, in each category of performance classes, is available.

Tara McCrone will draft a letter for our chairman, Erin Fruits, to take to the Governing Board's meeting to request that show superintendents provide us with a list of total adult scores and total youth scores.  This is totally anonymous.  There will be participants' names given.  This will only be used as a learning device, to set up a fair chart.  This will only be needed if this information is not already available to us.

All committee members will receive a copy of the draft and will have time to reply to it before the Governing Board's meeting.

3.   "Is there anything in Guidelines (I didn't see it) that says you can't zero out a task if the task is completed? In other words, we start out with 10 points on a task and the handler / animal fully enters and completes the task but with 14 fault points. Because the task was completed, we need to give at least 1 point. Please discuss this with the committee. This was the way I was taught - perhaps not correct."

Erin is going to research how the guidelines read now.  If it clearly states that the judge must give at least one point, unless it is a total refusal, we will leave it as it is. 

The committee agreed that at least one point should be given, unless it is a total refusal.  If  it does not clearly state this, Erin will draft a proposal to be taken to the Governing Board.

All committee members will receive a copy of the draft, and have time to reply to it before the Governing Board's meeting.

When this has been established, Tara will send an e-mail to the member that initially approached her and let them know what the committee decided.

The Committee agreed that our next meeting will be on April 2^nd 2012 at 8:00 P.M. EST.

Erin Fruits motioned to adjourn the meeting. Tom Rothering seconded the motion. All were in favor and the meeting ended at 8:35 P.M. EST.

New Business

None

Respectfully submitted,

Tara McCrone

Performance Committee Secretary