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A brief selection from Council yesterday.

The one thing that will affect everyone was that fees for registration and transfer will be raised from 1st Jan, by £1 for each category. They are increased periodically any way to keep pace with inflation and rising cost, but the financial picture generally was gloomy, with the recession bringing a downturn in registrations. I expect we'll be hearing much more of this. We're probably entering the tunnel at present, too soon for any light at the end, let's just hope it doesn't become the proverbial downward spiral to a black hole.

Only one part of the NCC proposals was taken, and that was the paper vote on whether there should be a Supreme next year. It was decided that there should by quite a wide margin, 81- 53. However, the Supreme is on course for a substantial loss again this year, £44K was the projected amount. It was estimated that GCCF is subsidising each and every exhibit to the tune of £35. Clearly that can't go on. We were told the NEC hasn't been booked for next year and that the Supreme Committee plans to break even in 2009. I did ask for some info on this 'cunning plan', but had no direct answer, so will have to wait for more to be revealed in February. 

The Chairman postponed the other NCC proposals for the next meeting, as there was no particular urgency, to move forward to deal with the HPs which was dealt with very rapidly at the end of the meeting and approved. I was disappointed there wasn't more time for discussion and heard one or two grumbles about this, but they had been on the table for some time.

The proposals from the Lincs CC and Notts & Derby CC were not successful. If carried these would have replaced the Open Class with a pre-champion one that excluded titled cats. The  suggestion for a business plan from EC each year that Council would have to approve if amendments were made was felt to be unworkable in the manner proposed, but EC was going to look at it to find a viable way of producing an annual financial plan. The proposal of using veterinary students in their final year, and additionally veterinary triage nurses, met approval in principle, but needed rewording to make it applicable only to those who had or would have qualifications that enabled them to practice in UK.

All breed promotions, judges, SOP and registration policy changes were approved.

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