April 2025 Board Meeting
The 4/8/2025 SDTTA Board Meeting started promptly at 7:06 PM.
Attendees (present)
1. B. Kazemi
2. P. Martinez
3. K. G. Pisa
4. R. Guilloty
Attendees (Present by Phone)
5. S. Bulla
6. A. Ghazi
Attendees – (not present)
J. Khazaeli
Others; James Kahn (joined a little later )
Behnam initiated the meeting by going over the final proposed Agenda sent by Javid on April 8 @ 12.18 PM .
First we discussed the financials and all the financials match against all income and charges. However, Ruben reported that we had received 3 incorrect charges ($14.95 X 3 = $44.85) to our Chase card. Ruben reported this to Chase and they opened an investigation. In the meantime the charges will be reverted. This is not a significant amount of money, but we are taking it very seriously and working with Chase to investigate and clarify.
Agenda Items:
1. Digital Clock – A digital clock was purchased and provided to BPAC management for installation. We purchased the same model that Badminton purchased for their side of the building. Awaiting installation by the City.
2. Posting of the Agenda prior to the meeting
In order to post Agenda’s prior to the meeting, the secretary (Javid) needs to initiate the Agenda items from the Board members one week prior the meeting and consolidate them and provide to Behnam for posting – Responsibility; Javid Khazaeli / Behnam Kazemi
3. Proposal of a second (another) San Diego Open – The board discussed that we do not have an additional weekend available for this and would require for Badminton not use the building during that weekend. In addition, we only have one weekend authorized in the year per our City contract, therefore it would require a rental of the full BPAC facility. The decision of the board was not to adopt this measure by a vote of one (1) in favor and six (6) against.
4. Shoko Kather is interested in using 10 tables on August 19. After careful evaluation, the decision of the Board (6 in favor and one absent) is that we cannot do this because we are booked and cannot offer 50% of the tables for this event. Maybe they can approach ASLT or other venues for this event. – Javid to communicate to let them know.
5. Team Tournament Proposal – It was deemed that this lacks details. Javid would need to present a written detailed plan to justify the use of a weekend for this. Weekend “open play” is mostly for members that work during the week and only come on weekends.
The plan should include a self funding financial analysis with estimated quantity of teams, revenue per team, participants per team, cost of total prizes per category and an overall analysis of all other costs and potential break even revenue. This assumes using only the Table Tennis side of the building. Once the plan is submitted, the Board will review it and take it to a vote.
6. Weekend Clinic Sessions. The board decided (6 in favor/1 in favor) that more information is needed to make a determination, as these Clinics will affect the “open play” in the weekend and we need to understand how plausible it is for people to pay a $200 fee per player for these clinics. We would also like to know what will be the content and extent of these clinics.
7. MAT – Member Appreciation Tournament– These tournaments were initiated because we were holding multiple “Mini Olympics” which were openly attended by outside players, and non-members were getting most of the prizes. Because of that, we developed these MAT tournaments for our paying members of the club in appreciation for their continued membership “Free of Charge”. That is the current name of the tournament, but should the Board come up for a better name, we would consider it, but the scope is intended to be the same. For SDTTA Members only.
8. Big Dolly options – we could not vote on the dolly options because we have not seen or tested any options. First, we need to make sure that the options offered are in fact better than what we have and that it is cost effective. That is still not clear. – Behnam/Javid
Kind Regards, Ruben