1-Financial Reports Statement Financials Summary as of May 5, 2022 for the San Diego Table Tennis Association completed and reported by Ruben. 2-Member master list-FY22 3-Purchasing New Barriers ,Score Boards, Nets Behnam and Ruben going to order those items after the final inventory by board Yes-4 No-0 4-Javid proposed we need the some of those Barriers with Noticeable colors to divide between practicing court and access road on any tournaments or practicing proposed by Javid. Yes-4 No-0 5-Overhead LED lighting retro-installation already voted (5 Yes-1 No) Associated expenses including parts and installation to be shared with badminton and pickle ball and estimated $2,800 total project /3=$940 to SDTTA as estimated. Waiting for city decide when and going to install.
DISCUSSION & DECISION
6-June announced not interested being part of the Board along with Jean, our Member Relation Director, resigned and for replacement for their positions selections Amir Hamdy was nominated for the board and will be discussed by next board meeting. Yes- 4 No-0 7-Borko’s learning school Volunteer Coaching by Javid! To appreciate memory of Borko and what a wonderful things he did for our club Javid is offering to pick One of the slow nights of the week and starts Volunteering Coaching for 2 hours a week on Mondays, exactly like Borko used to do. Proposed by Javid Yes-4 No-0 8-Borko Cup Weekend Team competition sometimes in August, Dedicated to Borko and suggested his wife give the prizes to the winners, proposed by Javid Yes-4 No-0 9-Fire Department Group Tournament on Tuesday June 21st 3:30pm – 8:30pm. Since Javid is not available anymore on Tuesdays to run the tournament, board suggested would be great if Danny or Behnam or together running it. Yes-4 No-0 10-Thu, suggested Mini Olympic San Diego League it’s little too many strong players and could be little more reasonable fee to register for our members. Javid’s response to this comment was, We are hoping and looking to find few sponsors so hopefully not even paying to register! Javid and SDTTA’s goals and wishes for creating this kind of tournament to get every single clubs and players involved with Mini Olympic San Diego League to bring Table Tennis sport to the better level in San Diego county!
7:00 – 8:15pm Attendees Danny, Thu, Behnam, Javid, Ruben ( June and Jean on the phone )
Announcement & Report 1- Donation from Patty Wasserman & Appreciation Letter going to be mailed as soon as we receive the funds. 2- Sponsorship Nittaku Balls from Paddle Palace June secured 1,440 Nittaku balls sponsored by Paddle. Unclear as to when the balls will be shipped to SDTTA 3- Financial Reports/Statement Yearly Financial Audit completed and discussed. No outstanding items or deviations identified by the Auditor(Salaam). Explained by Ruben. Also related to this, the City SUP was revised and approved by the city. Ruben issued a $404.00 check to the City to pay for the Special Use Permit of the facility for 3 years. June Lim, Ruben Guilloty and Victor Johnson II attended the meeting. Government Filings: * Filed Federal IRS form 990N * Filled CA State Form S-100 * Filed State Form 199N
DISCUSSION & DECISION 4- Online Pre-Entry’s Registration instead of registering on the same day of tournaments proposed by Javid originally, Javid suggested there needs to be deadline date of at least day or a couple days before the tournaments to have enough time for seeding the all-registered players. Doing it in the same day of tournaments is not a good idea. They need email or contact only the tournaments Directors, not everyone on the SDTTA Board. (Yes-7 No- 0) 5- Nittaku Weekend RR Tournaments suggested to be continued on Sundays! (Yes-6 No-1) June is not interested to continue running the Nittaku RR weekend tournaments because it’s not going to be on Saturdays anymore. 6- Mini Olympic 3 Players San Diego league on Sundays. Grand Opening May 1st. proposed by Javid (Yes- 6 No-1)
7- New type with June’s original idea of Barriers at $50 each to replace with old barriers Proposed by June (Yes-1 No- 6) 8- Second Option Purchasing New Barriers suggested by Phil Van De Wiele it’s on sale for $20.00 each. it’s going to be next monthly board meeting’ agenda item and not decided yet. Stag Barrier: Polyester 230 cm x 70 cm (7.5 ft x 2.3 ft) It’s still on Discussion & Decision on next month board meeting. June proposed to Increase the Annual membership fee from $50.00 to $70.00 for new members in 2023 to cover costs of the new barriers and the replacement of old cards by a new magnetic badge cards. Each encoded new card will contain name, membership status and rating. (Yes-2 No-5) 9- New layout of Mini Olympic San Diego League team tournaments including (Umpires, scoring boards, Safe access road, Pictures or recording some of the games) exactly like Javid did on Weekend Nittaku RR on April,02,2022. proposed by Javid. Javid believe this is the best way to find Sponsors for the much bigger Tournaments to come in future for our Club. (Yes- 7 No- 0) Behnam proposed whoever runs the tournament has the option to set up the way they see fit. There is no right or wrong way. (Yes- 7 No- 0) Javid proposed we need the Barriers with Noticeable colors to divide between practicing court and access road on any tournaments or practicing proposed by Javid. (Yes-7 No-0) (Yes-7 No- 0) 10- June had proposed to “Did you Know?” article to be posted by the Board members? This article should relate to Table Tennis and board members were assigned for each month. (Yes-7 No-0) 11- Fire Department Group Tournament on June 19th or 20th Javid is volunteering to run the tournament. (Yes-7 No-0) Tuesday 3-8:30pm 10-Adding 100-150 To all members ratings to bring the value of the club up for to get Sponsors & and brings Stronger Players to our club and tournaments? He suggested please don’t forget 98 Percent of our members don’t even register to any USTTA tournaments? Javid believes our members ratings are not accrued? Proposed by Javid (Yes- 2 No-5) 12- Team league status hearing by Jeff Rui was requested and scheduled many times for Jeff to come to the board and explain all the details in person but he rejected. June Proposed, His correspondence by the mail is limited to FY19 a 20. This timeline is outside of the provision of the current FY2022 Board. If anyone is willing to pursue, have previous board involved to resolve. He still needs to pay back the remaining balance of $238.00 to SDTTA. (Yes-6 No-1) At the end of the meeting Ruben also mentioned that he had sent a draft of the 2022 Budget and received no response (Black Whole) from any member. This will be reviewed in the May Board Meeting
