Sep 2009

HTCC Executive Committee

Minutes of the meeting

September 26 2009

 

Attendees : Hima Chandra Bollineni,  Nitya Niranjan, Suri Raman , Gopal Ayengar ,   Amulya Das,  Chandresh Shah, Dev Raj Sharma, Ashish Sharma, Subbu Kandikattu Santhosh Nair, Satish Darbha, Srinivas Khedam,   Arun Sharma

 

Excused:     Sastry Mukkamala,   Hema Marreddy

 

Absent:      

 

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: 9.25-9.45 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: 9.45-10.00 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.       We are celebrating Navarathri 2009 and everything is going well .Temple needs more help from every member and volunteer. EC and Board will recognize and appreciate all volunteers on this occasion.

5.       Religious Sub Committee: Mr. Srinivas discussed about 3 day event for cleansing rituals in November. We need to hire outside priest to do this job. We might need 2-3 extra priests. Members gave their opinion on finding local priest. We do not need to report to Board regarding this. Mr.Srinivas will work on details and communicate accordingly with event name as soon as possible.  Religious Committee needs to make program fixed for each day so that priest follow the same schedule. We should not encourage any change on that day without permission of the Lead. Lead should decide everyday rituals and everybody should follow that. Diwali is a upcoming event and we need help from volunteers. Arun Sharma is lead for Diwali. We need more lead. Nitya and Hema Marredy are willing to help in Diwali.

6.       Priest hiring Committee: We had one successful interview.   EC decided to have the priest work in temple temporarily for two weeks so that we can all see his capability and personality. Based on this it will be easier to hire right candidate for the temple.

7.       Treasurer Report: It will be sent in first week of October.

8.       Operation committee report: Nitya briefed on this. Khrisnajee is not here for another month in the office. We need help on Vijaya Dashami. Property condition needs some attention. Cleaning need to be done. Fall is here and we need some reorganization.

9.       Bonus for priest was raised by Subbu. EC discussed about this and one month salary as bonus was approved for specific priests based on their performance.

10.    Job description for priest needs to be rewritten. Rituals need to be followed properly. We need Priest to take some responsibility of cooking Prasad.

11.    Cultural Committee: Satish briefed on cultural activity and he has contacted few dance schools for performances in temple.

12.    Planning Committee: Suri Raman showed us some drawings and layout of phase II. He will send the layout drawing to all EC members for feedback.

13.    EC discussed about having a kid's play area in temple premises.

14.    EC meeting was adjourned at 11.22AM