Oct 2009

HTCC Executive Committee

Minutes of the meeting

October 24, 2009

 

Attendees : Hima Chandra Bollineni,  Nitya Niranjan, , Gopal Ayengar ,   Amulya Das,  Chandresh Shah, Dev Raj Sharma, , Subbu Kandikattu, Santhosh Nair, , Srinivas Khedam,  Hema Marreddy, Ashish Sharma, Suri Raman(over phone),

 

Excused: Satish Darbha, Sastry Mukkamala   

 

Absent:  Arun Sharma

 

Minutes Recorded and Report prepared by:  Amulya Das

 

Agenda:

1.       Prayer 9 am to 9.05 am

2.       Approval of last meeting minutes: 9.05-9.15 am

3.       President's briefing: 9.15-9.25 am

4.       Sub Committee report: 9.25-10 am

·         Religious Committee: Upcoming events/festivals and plans for organizing them

·         Priest Hiring Committee

·         Treasurer

·         Operation Committee

·         Fund Raising Committee

·         Cultural and Community Committee

·         Website Committee

5.       Other business if any: 10-11.00 am

6.       Meeting Adjourned

Minutes:

1.       Prayer: 9:15 am to 9:20 am.

2.       Last meeting minutes were approved by everyone.

3.       Hima Chandra briefed about last meeting.

4.       Pavithrothsavam Program will be from Nov 6th to 8^th.Srinivas Khedam is taking the lead of this program. He has provided all the details in separate e-mail to all the EC members. There should not be any other major program in those three days.

5.       EC Board members (Nitya, Subu and Hima) had a good meeting with our 3 priests on last Wednesday.

6.        Priest Rammurthy Sharma is no more with Temple. He has accepted all the terms and packages given to him.

7.       Priest Job description need to be placed and they need to follow the procedures.

8.       Diwali and Diwali Mela celebration went very well. In future events we should consider having shuttle between the event place and Temple for devotees.

9.       Religious Committee: Shrinivas has put up the detail program for Pavithrothsavam. Three outside priests, one from St. Luis and other one from Alabama, are coming to perform this program. There will be some local priest who will also assist. He discussed all the details sent out to everybody in separate e-mail. We need to print the poster in Hindi or English. It is in Telugu now.EC will send courtesy invitation to all the local priests to participate and give help as needed. Shrinivas will lead this program along with Hima Chandra.

10.    Chowki  has been  scheduled  in the same time frame of  Pavithrothsavam.We need  to find some other alternative place other than Temple to perform this Chowki.

11.    Priest Hiring Committee: They do not have a good candidate yet so they are still looking for one.

12.    Treasurer: Report will be in first week of each month. Calendar for next year will be co-ordinated by Suri Raman. He needs help and he is going to send a draft to all members for their feedback.

13.    Operation Committee: Everything is going well and there are no major issues.

14.    Fund Raising: Hema Marreddy is doing few fund raising events. She proposed Ganesh Mala for immediate fund raising.

15.    Office Manager Position need to be full time rather than Part time position. We still need few part time office Mgr.This was only discussed. No action was taken.

16.    Web Committee:  We need a new printer as well as a new router for Temple office. Subu is taking care of this. Temple is also getting a new phone system per Suri Raman.

17.     We need to post Donor of each month in our web site.

18.    There is an open slot for a new member in EC .EC has proposed few names. Final decision will be sent out by Hima Chandra.

19.    EC discussed the need of a temporary cook as when needed for various events in Temple.

20.    EC discussed various options to attract more devotees to the Temple.

21.    Meeting was adjourned at 11.15AM.