Executive Meeting Sunday 13th March.

At the Committee meeting on Sunday it was controversially decided to hold the May Day trails at Kirkstone, I say controversially because it had been common knowledge that the HTA was looking for another venue and the Chairman had made it clear that KIrkstone wouldn’t be used.

Having been persuaded to put KIrkstone forward it was then put to the Committee a choice between Kirkstone and Lazonby.

Kirkstone being the choice – since that meeting there has been a certain amount of disagreement about the procedure and that the Chair should have stayed with his original decision re Kirkstone and the trails should have  been awarded to Lazonby.

The decision isn’t  ‘set in concrete’ and the people who matter – that’s you the members – have a chance to voice their opinion.

You have a week !

Also : It was decided to increase the insurance premium for each trail by 50 pence making it £5 50 per trail.

The rule regarding the penalty for running your hound when not qualified will remain unaltered.

The Dog Produce will probably be at Bridekirk  and the International Committee is looking for venues for Saturday the  25th June..

A licence to hold a joint association trail meeting at Oulton on Sunday May 8th was granted.

It was proposed that we do away with 7-10 in major trails. this was defeated.

All hound owners note – THAT ALL HOUNDS MUST BE MICRO CHIPPED from April 6th 2016.

It was also brought to the Chairs attention that the Houndtrailing association web site should contain a message saying that this is not the official HTA website.

The official website is www.houndtrailing.org.uk