Wheat State Working Dogs

On 8/27/2025, the Superior Court of Arizona Maricopa County ruled that the Executive Board must hold the general board meeting that was requested via petition signed by the majority of AWMA clubs submitted on 3/8/2025. Only full member clubs in good standing that were eligible to vote as of 4/7/2025 will be able to do so per the ruling of the court.

Court order - https://tinyurl.com/2s46nbja
Petition - https://tinyurl.com/258znz9f

What this means —> if you are a delegate or alternate for your club, please show up. This is your chance at truly deciding how to move forward and the organization needs your input.

Meeting Purpose:
- Allows the GENERAL board to vote for removal of the EB. No one individual or small group gets to choose.
- Allows the GENERAL board to appoint a crew of interim volunteers until a new EB can be properly chosen.
- The interim volunteers would then ask the GENERAL board for input and then elect the replacement EB using the process currently defined in the bylaws.

The General Board meeting is: THIS SUNDAY - 9/14/2025 @ 11am EST
A zoom link will be sent out via email by the AWMA Secretary prior to the meeting. Please reach out if you are a club delegate and do not receive contact - [email protected]

- Brittany Wild, AWMA Social Media Committee, 2024 AWMA IGP National Champion

Congratulations to all the competitors! It’s been fun watching this regional grow massively each year. The first year, DFW had 10 entries. When we hosted with DFW last year there were 19, and this year, they had 33! Thank you for continuing to host such a great event. I can’t wait to see what next year brings.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the competitors who participated in the 2025 AWMA Southern Regional Championship hosted by DFW Working Dogs.

1st Place: Autumn Frizzell and Legion von de Sleghtebruute, the 2025 AWMA Southern Regional Champions with 273 points

2nd place: Peter Atkinson and Disco vom Stromhaus with 264 points

3rd place: Brad Willming and Tarnoki-Felvigyazo Unicum "Uni" with 263 points

High in Trial, High Tracking (95), High Protection (98), High HOT, and High IGP1: Adriana Sanguily and Geralt vom Austin Jellyroll with 278 points

High Obedience (92) & High Auslander: Virginia Hunter with Guapo von Sprekkenberg

High IGP2: Dana Aspinall and Everburning Flame Anthony Soprano "Tony" with 277 points

Regional IFH Champion: Maureen McGuire Noe and Florida Scout von Telos "Dani" with 96 points

High IFH1: Les Flores with Dusty "Marquez" with 93 points

We also want to congratulate multiple competitors who achieved their first titles at each level.

BHs:
Jordan Garza & Cosmina
Jordan Garza & U'Noble du Poilu
Randi Hardin & Brave and Faithful K9 Iskvlly "Skvlly"
Brooke Leonard & Monarchy's Veritas Aequitas "Truth"
Cesar Vanegas Mazriego & Aletheia von Monarchy K9 "Theia"
Francesca Thompson & Monarchy's Kenza of Paws & Jaws

IGP1s:
Adriana Sanguily & Geralt vom Austin Jellyroll
Brad Carlile & Kelso van Meerhout

IGP2:
Dana Aspinall & Tony

IGP3s:
Joseph Stewart & Hurry iz Gratsiano "Mamba"
Rebecca Wadsworth & Irene iz Gratsiano "Mara"

Special thanks to the Judges (Arnold Kivago, FCI-Hungary & Dave Kroyer, AWMA), the Helpers (Attila Takacs & Josh Frizzell), and the volunteers for field help who made this whole event possible.

Wheat State Working Dogs would like to congratulate 2 of its members who competed at the 2025 AWMA Southern Regional Championship.
Randi Hardin and Brave & Faithful K9 Iskvlly (Skvlly) achieved their BH (Randi’s first!).
Rebecca Wadsworth and Irene iz Gratsiano (Mara) achieved their first IGP3 (both Becca and Mara) with a score of 263 (88/91/84) placing 4th out of the IGP3s.
Congratulations!

A little Simpsons reference to get through the day.

The reason behind our correspondence is simple. We want to inform each individual member of the current ongoings with some of the AWMA Executive Board. We as members need to push back and demand financial transparency from the Executive Board members and hold them accountable for directly violating the organization’s bylaws. If you wish to speak up, the Executive Board members may be contacted via email (all Board Member’s emails are on the AWMA website).
• The Executive Board Consists of:
o Andy Deitz, President
o Erick Aguirre, Vice President
o Jessica Johnson, Secretary
o Beth Golder, Treasurer
o Shannon Faltak, Membership Chair
o Jill Viggiani & Susan Kelly, Directors at Large
o Brigitte Deitz, Katie Smart, & Rachele Lema, Regional Directors

As members of the auditing committee, we are reaching out to membership due to concerns about the lack of transparency on the current Executive Board.
• On January 28th, 2025 we (the auditing committee) reached out for read only access to the bank and QuickBooks. As per our role in the bylaws, the auditing committee “shall audit the financial accounts of AWMA”, and “shall have the power to summon the Treasurer to answer any questions.”
• After multiple attempts, we provided the Treasurer step-by-step instructions as to how to get access set up in Bank of America for individuals acting as accountants and still do not have access.
• The 2023 audit has also still not been completed due to the auditing committee not being provided access to fulfill their roles.
o Screenshots and .pdfs of QuickBooks reports will not suffice as we need to be able to dig into individual transactions to determine their validity.
o That additional cost of 5 licenses to QuickBooks in lieu of our current single license is $100 per month versus the $35ish we are currently spending.
• We later found out that there is only one person in the organization who has access to both the banks and books.
o It is a violation of multiple accounting regulations for only one person to have access to any of these items, and is a major control violation.
o Nonprofits MUST be ensured transparency, accountability, proper oversight of the organization’s finances.
o A secondary also provides a backup in the situation that the person who has access is incapacitated to ensure the organization can still gain access to their funds, and prevents fraud and misrepresentations of the financial statements.
• As of Tuesday, February 12th, 2025, we have requested access to the financials from the entire Executive Board and have been met with silence.
o At that time, we also requested the Treasurer to grant the President of AWMA full access to both the bank and QuickBooks as the President is the acting legal representative of the organization. Link for context.
o The acting members of the auditing committee should also always have read only access to all of these items as part of our role to the organization to act as internal auditors.
• The IRS treats nonprofit violations has their highest priority due to the nature of the business, so reports are taken very seriously and handled swiftly.
We are all volunteers who should be working to protect the best interests of the AWMA and its membership.
We implore you to see reason and provide us with the access required to fulfill our role to the membership without having to resort to measures outside of the organization.

Respectfully,

Rebecca Wadsworth, Christina Hansel, and Tyler Peabody
The AWMA Auditing Committee

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