Minutes of Meeting June 13 2009

HTCC Board Meeting Minutes

June 13, 2009

 

Attendees: G. Krishnan, Nitya Niranjan, Sunil Shah, Virinder Duggal, Suri Raman, Dev Manhas, Umesh Amin, Pramod Gupta, Alok Mathur, Subrahmanyam Kandikattu, Hima Bollineni, Hema Marreddy, Vishwa Gaddamanugu(was going to join late), Arun Sharma

Excused Absentees: none

Unexcused Absentees: none

Guest Attendees: Deepak Om

 

Agenda:

Agenda is pretty brief and as follows:

1. Prayer
2. Election Commissioner Report on 2009 Election
3. Election of new Office Bearers
4. Executive Committee Report
5. Planning Committee Report
6. Fund Raising Committee Report
7. Prayer
8. Adjourn

 

Minutes:

1)      Prayers were offered at 9:07 AM. Meeting was called to order at 9:10 AM

2)      Election report was presented by Deepak Om with plenty of questions from Dr. Manhas. They were all addressed. Election results were certified by Deepak Om (Election Commissioner). The concerns raised by Dr. Manhas were satisfactorily answered by Deepak Om.

3)      Motion: Based on the election commissioner's report, we resolve to create an Election Reforms committee. Proposed by Umesh, seconded by Pramod. Motion passed unanimously.

4)      Deepak Om had to leave early.

5)      Office Bearer Appointments.

Position	Name	Proposed/Seconded	Notes
Chairman	G. Krishnan	Raman/Subbu	Krish respectfully declined
Chairman	Sunil Shah	Pramod/Alok	Unanimously approved
Vice Chairman	G. Krishnan	Nitya/Hema	Unanimously approved
Secretary	Virinder Duggal	Sunil/Nitya	Unanimously approved
Joint Secretary	Arun Sharma	Sunil/Virinder	Unanimously approved
Treasurer	Suri Raman	Virinder/Subbu	Unanimously approved
Joint Treasurer	Subrahmanyam (Subbu) Kandikattu	Virinder/Raman	Unanimously approved
President, Executive Committee	Himachandra Bollineni	Arun/Subbu	Unanimously approved
Chair, Election Committee	Deepak Om	Pramod/Subbu	Unanimously approved, pending Deepak's acceptance
Chair, Audit Committee	Pramod Gupta	Alok/Nitya	Unanimously approved
Chair, Ethics Committee	Nitya Niranjan	Virinder/Subbu	Unanimously approved
Chair, Communications & Community Engagement Committee	Umesh Amin	Sunil/Pramod	Unanimously approved
Chair, Youth Committee	Arun Sharma	Nitya/Umesh	Unanimously approved
Chair, Planning Committee	Alok Mathur	Sunil/Subbu	Unanimously approved
Chair, Fund Raising committee	Vijay Vashee	Umesh/Raman	Unanimously approved, pending Vijay's acceptance

 

6)      Sunil had to leave. Virinder took over the Secretary's role.

7)      Executive Committee Report - the temple activities have gone on well with the following

a)      The manager is managing the temple and the transition to the new president should be seamless.

b)      The 4^th priest should arriving Seattle at the end of June or first week of July.

c)       Virinder requested all the board members to return the keys to him as soon as possible. Received key #C2 from Suri Raman. Others who have them will give them to Hima or Krishna, the manager.

8)      Planning Committee Report – Not more than what was done during the last special meeting with Satpathi. The visit by Satpathi was well received by all the board members. The atmosphere was chaotic because the architects were not able to engage in the discussion as much. There should have been two meetings with Satpathi. One with the board and the 2^nd with the architects. Dr. Manhas was requested by the board to provide all the information including all the originals to Alok Mathur, the new chairman of the Planning Committee.

9)      Treasure Report – Treasurer presented his report via the projector. Will send the report to the board members via email. Will be attached to the minutes.

10)   Concert – Vishwa reported that 370 to 400 tickets have been sold. About 250 left. Most of the $30 tickets have been sold and some higher denomination tickets have been converted to $30 tickets.

 

Recorded by

Sunil Shah/Virinder Duggal

Secretary, HTCC Board of Trustees

June 13, 2009