Minutes of Meeting - Sep 12, 2009

HTCC Board Meeting Minutes

Sep. 12, 2009

 

Agenda:

 

1.     Prayer

2.     Chairman's remarks

3.     EC Committee Report

4.     Treasurer's Report

5.     Planning Committee Report by Alok

6.     Membership Proposal by Raman

7.     Our guests – Raja Sivagaminathan and possibly Bhargavi Kumar, Lavanya Reddy, Ganesh Prakash,  and Shanmugam Maruthai

8.     Other Business which could be a response to the petition

9.     Closing Prayer

 

Attendance:

	Name	Attendance		Name	Attendance
1	Sunil Shah	Y	8	Nitya Niranjan	Y
2	Alok Mathur	Y	9	Pramod Gupta	Y
3	Arun Sharma	Y	10	Subrahmanyam Kandikattu	Y (Phone)
4	Dev Manhas	Y	11	Suri Raman	Y
5	G. Krishnan	Y	12	Umesh Amin	Y
6	Hema Mareddy	Y	13	Virinder Duggal	Y
7	Himachandra Bollineni	Y	14	Vishwa Gaddamanugu	E

Y – Yes Present                 N – Not present                               E – Excused Absence

 

Minutes:

 

1.     Prayer:

2.     Chairman's remarks: HTCC to be the cultural and religious hub of the community.

3.     EC Committee Report: Will send the report via email.

4.     Approval of last month's meeting minutes: Nitya proposed to approve, Hima seconded - Approved unanimous.

5.     Approval of Special Board Meeting on Sep 9/5/09: Umesh proposed to approve, Pramod seconded. Approved unanimous. Dr, Manhas still raised concern on the word "conflict of interest" in Chairman's address.

6.     Treasurer's Report: Sent via email.

7.     Membership Proposal by Raman: Raman presented. There were much discussion. Everyone is supposed to send their comments to Raman and can send the comments to the rest of the board. Raman to review and respond or else.

8.     Planning Committee Report by Alok: Raman presented the temple plans.

Motion: Approve the conceptual design presented to the board by the planning committee with two prayer halls and a central cultural hall.

Approval: Proposed by Alok, Arun seconded it. Passed with majority.

Motion: Budget of $5000 for the planning committee.

Approval: Proposed by Alok, Arun seconded it. Passed unanimous.

9.     Our guests – Invited - Raja Sivagaminathan and possibly Bhargavi Kumar, Lavanya Reddy, Ganesh Prakash, and Shanmugam Maruthai

Attended: Raja Sivagaminathan, Ganesh Prakash and Bhargavi Kumar. Ajit Singh.

1.     The guests were informed of the decision of the board taken during the special Board meeting that the petition was invalid because the board cannot do what the petition asks the board to do.

2.     Election committee for future election reform – From Board Nitya and Raman. From visiting group – Shirish Kumar, others to be named later. Outside – Deepak Om

3.     Areas of concern – Priest management, Quality of Operations, Future election process improvements taking into the lessons learnt from past elections.

10.  Arun to send proposal and budget via email. Arun sent the proposal and was passed by majority vote. It was stated by some board members that a more accurate cost estimate should be presented to the board for future proposals.

11.  Other Business which could be a response to the petition

1.     HTCC to send a letter rejecting the petition.

 

12.  Board meeting ended with only 4 members of the board present.

13.  Closing Prayer