{"id":77,"date":"2009-07-05T18:34:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T00:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2024-08-21T21:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T02:08:49","slug":"abmc-policies-and-procedures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/about-abmc\/abmc-policies-and-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"ABMC Policies and Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Info below for<br \/>Event Applications | &nbsp;Reimbursement | National Specialty | Regional Speciality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" id=\"event-applications\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/about-abmc\/abmc-forms\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/about-abmc\/abmc-forms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Event Application<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Approval Procedures for American Belgian Malinois Club<strong><br \/><\/strong>All events that are held through or for the American Belgian Malinois Club must have board approval. This includes but is not restricted to: supported entries, regional specialties, obedience trials, agility trials, herding trials, rally trials, tracking trials, seminars, training matches, and any other event that uses the ABMC name. To obtain board approval for any event a completed &#8220;Application for ABMC Club Event&#8221; must be completed and \u00a0submitted to the board at least twenty-six (26) weeks prior to the\u00a0application deadline.<br \/><br \/><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/about-abmc\/abmc-forms\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/about-abmc\/abmc-forms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reimbursement Procedures<\/a> <\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong>To request reimbursement for an approved expenditure complete and submit the \u201cCheck Request Form\u201d with receipts to the club treasurer. Completed forms can be emailed to:<br \/>Suzanne Belger\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:desertmtnmalinois@gmail.com\">desertmtnmalinois@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" id=\"national-specialty\"><strong>National Specialty<\/strong><br \/>See p. 2 of the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ABMC-Nat-Spec-Proc-Man-031219-final-1-revMVMschedule-revWorkingSweeps.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ABMC&#8217;S National Specialty Procedure Manual<\/a><\/strong> for information as to how to submit a proposal to host a National Specialty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" id=\"regional-specialties\"><strong>Regional Specialties<br \/><\/strong>The current ABMC Regional Specialty Policy is:<br \/><em>\u201cRegional Specialties will be limited to two specialties a year per region and will not be held within 3 months of the ABMC National Specialty.&nbsp; There will be no regional specialties within the calendar year (Jan. 1 to Dec. 31) in the region which will host the ABMC National Specialty and any supported entries in that region will not be held within 6 months of the ABMC National Specialty. Exceptions to this policy may be granted by the Board on a case by case basis.\u201d<br \/><\/em>This policy was voted on by the membership in 2008 and can only be changed by a vote of the membership.&nbsp; The current ABMC Board of Directors encourages Regional Specialties and invites the membership to request approval of Regional Specialties.&nbsp; In recent months, however, we have received requests for emergency approval of Regional Specialties as they are nearing or past the deadline for submission to AKC.&nbsp; This BOD will be meeting monthly on the second Thursday and will consider all requests for regional specialties at those meetings only.&nbsp; We request that your application for Regional Specialties be submitted in a manner to allow time to be considered at the meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Info below forEvent Applications | &nbsp;Reimbursement | National Specialty | Regional Speciality Event ApplicationApproval Procedures for American Belgian Malinois ClubAll events that are held through or for the American Belgian Malinois Club must have board approval. This includes but is not restricted to: supported entries, regional specialties, obedience trials, agility trials, herding trials, rally trials, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8309,"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/8309"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malinoisclub.com\/abmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}