Approved Minutes of Board Meeting on Mar 29, 2009

Approved

HTCC Special Board Meeting Minutes

March 29, 2009

 

Attendees: Nitya Niranjan, Sunil Shah, Virinder Duggal, Suri Raman, Dev Manhas, Vishwa Gaddamanugu, Umesh Amin, Pramod Gupta, Bhargavi Kumar, Subrahmanyam Kandikattu, Hima Bollineni,

Excused Absentees: G. Krishnan, Hema Marreddy

Unexcused Absentees: Sunil Ummat, Lakshmi Shankar, Arun Sharma,

Guest Attendees: Deepak Om, Jagdish Madhav

 

Agenda:

1.       Prayer

2.       Call the meeting to order

3.       Discussion on Planning Committee’s phase 2 related issue

4.       Election Reform presentation by Raman

5.       Resolution of Petition

6.       Prayer

7.       Adjourn

 

Minutes:

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

2)      Planning committee presented the issues with funding and the estimated cost of the current design. Further discussion is postponed till next meeting.

3)      Motion: HTCC will host a web-page (guidelines to be provided on the web) provided by any member of HTCC who wants to stand for an upcoming election to the board of trustees as long as the web page was provided from 4 weeks before the election to 1 week before the election. The official nominations for election will still be on the floor of the GBM per the constitution. Virinder proposed the motion, Umesh seconded it. Motion was approved unanimously.

4)      Motion: For 2009 GBM, we will have nominations in the GBM followed by extended voting till 4pm. Sunil Shah proposed the motion, Pramod seconded it. Motion was approved unanimously.

5)      Motion: Form a constitution committee to propose constitutional amendments for 2009, this committee to be headed by Dr. Manhas. Motion was proposed by Umesh, seconded by Bhargavi. Motion was approved unanimously.

6)      Motion: Election process reforms committee needs a budget of $10K to modernize membership verification process. Raman proposed it, Pramod seconded it. Motion was approved unanimously.

7)      Resolution of petition item was moved to next board meeting.

8)      Closing Prayer.

9)      Meeting was adjourned at 11:40 AM.

 

Recorded by

Sunil Shah

Secretary, HTCC Board of Trustees

Mar 29, 2009

 

FW: Approved Minutes of meeting held on Mar 14, 2009

Approved

HTCC Board Meeting Minutes

March 14, 2009

 

Attendees: G. Krishnan, Sunil Shah, Subrahmanyam Kandikattu, Virinder Duggal, Suri Raman, Dev Manhas, Vishwa Gaddamanugu, Umesh Amin, Pramod Gupta, Bhargavi Kumar, Hema Marreddy, Arun Sharma, Hima Bollineni, Nitya Niranjan

Excused Absentees:

Unexcused Absentees: Sunil Ummat, Lakshmi Shankar

Guest Attendees: Vijay Vashee, Deepak Om

 

Agenda:

1.       Prayer

2.       Call the meeting to order

3.       Report from Election Process Evaluation sub-committee. Strictly speaking, Raman thinks that the board hasn’t appointed an Election Process Evaluation sub-committee, so this is the report from Raman who was charged with coming up with proposals.

4.       Approve Minutes of the February Board Meeting

5.       Approve Minutes of the Special Board Meeting on Deity Placements

6.       EC committee Report

7.       Planning committee report – Discuss Petition that the board received last meeting

8.       Treasurer's Report

9.       Fund Raising Committee Report

10.   Discuss Priest Compensation Plan

11.   Report from Sub Committee Report for death/birth policies

12.   New business

13.   Prayer

14.   Meeting Adjourned

 

Minutes:

1.       Prayers were offered at 9:05 AM. Meeting was called to order at 9:07 AM

2.       Raman presented the report from the Election Process Evaluation sub-committee.

3.       Motion: “Election Process Sub-committee should recommend a process to create a fair and representative body by Mar 27, 2009, these recommendations will be reviewed by the board in a special meeting on Mar 29, 2009”. Motion was proposed by Raman and seconded by Nitya. Motion passed unanimously.

4.       Motion: “Election Process Sub-committee will consist of Suri Raman, Deepak Om, Dev Manhas”. Motion was proposed by Raman, seconded by Vishwa. Motion passed unanimously.

5.       Motion to approve minutes of the February 14^th, 2009 meeting was proposed by Raman, seconded by Pramod. Motion was approved unanimously.

6.       Motion to approve minutes of the February 1, 2009 meeting was proposed by Raman, seconded by Pramod. Motion was approved unanimously.

7.       Virinder presented the EC Report. He will be emailing the report.

8.       Petition filed by Jagdish Madhav and supported by more than 5% of the membership was discussed in the meeting. In light of time, further discussion was deferred till the next meeting.

9.       Motion: Any guests desiring to attend a board meeting must notify the secretary and the chairman of the board one day prior to the meeting. Motion was proposed by Raman and seconded by Bhargavi. Motion was approved unanimously.

10.   Due to time limitation, items 8 through 12 on the agenda were not discussed.

11.   Closing Prayer.

12.   Meeting was adjourned at 11:37 AM.

 

Recorded by

Sunil Shah

Secretary, HTCC Board of Trustees

Feb 14, 2009