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Volume 2 Issue 3
September 2000
Published QUARTERLY by
SOUTHWEST TEXAS ANIMAL
CARE &
CONTROL ASSOCIATION
Inside This Issue
What's Happening?
The Votes Are In and Tallied
Contest!
Presidential Ponderings
Region 8 Continuing Education Opportunities
Continuing Education Opportunities Outside Region 8
Board Notes
Your Town
Model Shelters
Coming Soon?
Wish I Had Said That...
Membership Renewals
Certification Renewals
May We Help?
We Have Said It Before
Check Up From The Neck Up
What's Happening?
Planning for the STACCA conference is underway. The dates are April 27 & 28, 2001. It will be held at the Live Oak Civic Center. Watch the newsletter for more information. We will get this info out to you as soon as it becomes available! We are going to have the registration form sent to each of you as soon as possible. Conference participants should be able to begin pre-registration by January, 2001. Watch YOUR fourth quarter newsletter for registration forms.
We are still working on the web page. There are some technical difficulties, but please be patient with us.
Our last STACCA Board Meeting was September 19, 2000. The one in July was canceled. You are welcome to attend any STACCA board meeting.
The next scheduled board meeting is October 5, 2000 in Universal City.
TheVotes Are In and Tallied
You elected to change our membership dues to include NACA membership. Beginning with our new membership year (January 2001), we will offer STACCA membership, and STACCA membership to include NACA (your choice).
Contest!!!!!!
The prize will be a SURPRISE. We would LOVE to have 100% participation. You guys are so creative, we know you will find this an interesting one.
We would like to name our 2001 Conference, so that we can have a theme for the workshops, etc. It will be FUN to see what you all come up with. The winner will be announced in the December newsletter, so put those thinking caps on!!! You may email the information to me at jomessick@earthlink.net, snail mail to STACCA, Attn: Cheryl Krueger, P. O. Box 310231, New Braunfels, TX 78131-0231, or email to the STACCA mailbox at swtacca@yahoo.com. We can't WAIT to hear from all of you! Deadline for entry is October 18, 2000.
Presidential Ponderings
Last month I scheduled an overnight trip out of town to attend a committee meeting. I called ahead to book a hotel room, but upon arrival at the hotel, I was informed that the form I had been using to claim exemption from Texas Hotel Occupancy Tax (form 01-339) was no longer valid. The hotel clerk stated that the State made THEM pay the tax if they accepted the old form. I asked the clerk if they had
a copy of the new form and he did not have one. Once I returned, I discussed this with my boss, and we began to research it. We DID find the correct form. The correct form number is 12-302 and is available off the Internet at the following web address:
http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/taxforms/12-302.pdf
I thought I would put this in the newsletter to let you all know, since a lot of us probably use this form when traveling.
TDH, Region 8 Continuing Education and Training Opportunities
October 19**, CE Meeting. Victoria ** Please Note: This meeting date has been changed from October 12.
November 9, CE Meeting. Leon Valley
December 14, CE Meeting. Live Oak
Continuing Education and Training Outside Region 8
Region 1 - Lubbock
November 14-15, Basic ACO Training
Contact: Karen @ 806/767-0427
Region 3 - Arlington
September 26-27, Basic ACO Training
October 25-26, Advanced Training
November 15-16, Basic ACO Training
December 6-7, Administrative Training
Contact: Jay Sabatucci @ 817/264-4920
Region 4 & 5N - Tyler
October 24-26, Basic ACO Training
Contact: Alice Davis @ 903/533-5212.
Region 6 & 5S - Houston
September 26-27, Basic ACO Training
October 24-25, Advanced Training
December 5-6, Basic ACO Training
Contact: Gary or Celia @ 713/767-3300
Region 11 - Harlingen
November 16-17, Basic ACO Training
Contact: Greg Pye @ 956/444-3276
Board Notes...
There were several things discussed at our last STACCA board meeting.
1. The Conference date for the 2001 has been set for April ,2001. Planning for the 2001 conference was discussed.
2. The board participated in a Conference debriefing. All those evaluation forms you all filled out at the 2000 conference were invaluable "tools" for your board to make the 2001 conference EVEN better. We heard you!
3. A CE committee was appointed to review CE applications that are out of the ordinary. On that committee are Leslie Kocurek and Triple Kocurek.
4. The board has agreed to keep a generous supply of patches on hand. We have a few patch orders to fill from the conference, and we haven't forgotten you!
5. NACA membership was approved as a result of the ballots that were mailed.
6. Future conference locations for the next five years were discussed.
7. A model shelter committee was appointed, consisting of Dr. Tull, Cheryl Krueger, Richard Gould, Steve McKin, and Chris Mingo.
Your Town ?
If you think your town would be interested in hosting upcoming conferences, PLEASE let us know. Your board is in the process of researching towns for upcoming conferences for the next FIVE years. Please email us at swtacca@yahoo.com , or contact the STACCA office if you have an interest in hosting a conference!
Model Shelters
Richard Gould, Chris Mingo, Steve McKin, Dr. Tull, and Cheryl Krueger are on the committee to develop an application for model shelters. The plan is to develop the application and also incorporate different model shelter levels. The meetings are open to membership. For information on meeting times, please contact Cheryl Krueger at (830) 629-5287.
Coming Soon?
There is a possibility that a CET training class will be coming soon. Watch for information from TDH for details. Every effort is being made to make this happen!
Wish I Had Said That...
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?
~ Satchel Paige~
There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything, and that is by making the other person want to do it.
~Dale Carnegie ~
All dreams spin out from the same web.
~ Native American Proverb ~
Focus on remedies, not faults.
~Jack Nicklaus ~ Professional golfer
Membership Renewals
Don't forget that your membership renewals are due by December 31, 2000. We have enclosed membership renewals forms with this mailing and a mini version is in the newsletter.
Certification Renewals
Certifications expire on December 31 of each year. Please make sure your certification is current. We have MANY opportunities for Continuing Education! Also, if you or someone you know is interesting in certification through STACCA, please contact the STACCA office and a certification form will be sent immediately.
May We Help?
Is there something you would like to see STACCA do for you as a member? We are ALWAYS open to suggestions as to how to improve YOUR organization. Please contact ANY board member if you have suggestions or comments.
We Have Said it Before...
And we will say it again. This is YOUR newsletter. If you have articles, job opportunities, stories about what is happening in your agency, or anything you feel would be of interest or benefit to the membership, PLEASE don't be shy!!! Let your editor know. Since the newsletter is published quarterly, we don't always have room in each issue for these things, but often we do. We will make EVERY effort to publish YOUR submissions! Your editor looks forward to hearing from you!
Check Up From the Neck Up
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is
more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is - we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change the past.... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the
inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude....I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it."
~Charles Swindoll~
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