The club is now closing at 8:30pm on Tuesday and Thursdays. This new time change now conflicts with the Thursday Round Robin and doesn’t allow enough time to finish all of the matches. Because of this, the new start time for the Thursday Round Robin will be 6:00pm.

Meeting Minutes, 8-8-2022, 7p.m. – 8:15 p.m.

Attendees; Ruben,Danny, Behnam, Javid, Thu (on the phone) Amir is not present, Dennis (on the phone)

ANNOUNCEMENT & REPORT

1-Financial statement of August presented by Ruben.

2-Javid became the only USTTA Certified Coach in our Club and very happy to continue his Volunteering Coaching for all the levels and ages every Monday from 5-7pm to show his love and support to our club!

3-Recognition Certificates provided by Javid handed to Ruben to give them to our wonderful sponsors for this year!

Patty Wasserman, Simon Lee, Yuman Young and Raad Yaamo.

4-Formation of election committee run by Phil.

Behnam is going to contact Phil to see if he could help us with coordinating the Board Member Elections!

Proposed by Behnam

5-Advertisement Barriers shouldn’t be permanently at the club!

Especially when they are not sponsoring!

There are some blue Barriers with advertising of real estate company from tournaments in past.

Ruben is going to contact Jeff regarding that.

Proposed by Behnam.

6-Purchase SDTTA Shirts for the club and Board members.

Thu is searching online to find the right new Shirts for the club and board members.

7-Thu is going to order the Table Cleaner to clean all tables on August 19th.

8-Thu is going to print revised list of members

9-Behnam get quote for the banners

10-Ruben to send letter to Latece asking to allow to keep the tables open Friday and Saturday of Tournament dates (done)

11-Ruben is going to send Board Meeting schedule to Latece to secure meeting room availability.

12-Replacement of Brand New white board with the old one after Mini Olympic VOL2 on August 20-21.

Javid is planning to use for the upcoming tournament.

13-Provide WiFi for our club 

Ruben is going to contact City of San Diego to follow up the status.

14-Overhead LED lighting retro-installation already voted 

Yes – 5       No – 0

Ruben is going to contact City of San Diego to follow up the status.

15-Friday August 19th is scheduled for all the board members for the inventory, setting and cleaning up the tables and make sure the place is clean and leave the tables in the place on both Friday and Saturday.

After tournament in over on Sunday August 21st all board members will make sure place is clean and all Tables and Barriers are back to storage room.

16-Sunday round robin will end on 8/14/2022. 

We will make an announcement if we are going to continue or not.

Sunday RR tournament attracts around 40 players each week and is very popular. 

17- Participate in set up and tear down. 

Dennis will send email to all members to help out. 

18-Yearly picnic in September 

We are asking members to bring their own favorite food and drinks. We also agreed to ask Simon and Samnuk for help.

 DISCUSSION & DECISION

19-Advertisement Banner for our Sponsors that operating any kind of businesses on their own expenses to advertise their business only on tournaments day.

Proposed by Javid

Yes – 5       No – 0

20-Borko’s Wheelchair was donated to the club by his wife.

Give it to Jesus Sanchez proposed by Javid

Yes – 4      Abstained – 1

Sincerely,

Javid Khazaeli
Secretary SDTTA Board of Directors

Meeting Minutes, 7-11-2022, 7p.m. ~ 8:25p.m.
Attendees; Ruben,Thu, Behnam, Javid, Danny, also Maurizio and Mark two of our club members.
(Amir not present)

ANNOUNCEMENT & REPORT

1-Financial Reports
Statement Financials Summary as of July 11,2022 for the San Diego Table Tennis Association completed and reported by Ruben.

2-Sunday Weekend RR from 11am until about 1pm.
You need to create an account at www.multiroundrobin.com (Click on login/register then under New User click Register, fill the form. For club, type the letters SAN and SDTTA will pop up. For USATT rating

3-Thursday tournament RR you must register before 6:30 same procedure as above. I don’t think you need to confirm with the organizer (Jaxon) if you have registered online.
Note the multiroundrobin.com account is NOT the same as your SDTTA.org account.

4-25 New Barriers and 15 New Scoreboards delivered and added to our inventory for upcoming tournaments and replacement with the old damaged one to keep our club professional look and beautiful for our visitors!
Special thanks to Thu, Amir and few of our members for spending lots of time and effort for putting new barriers together.
Javid could fixed all the old damaged Scoreboards as well except one which wasn’t fixable, Now we have 28 scoreboards in our inventory!

5-Thu sent Appreciation letter to Friendly Car Wash for continue supporting Sundays weekend RR.

6-Amir is going to be out of country from July 7th-September 10th.

7-Our members are able to see the results of Sundays and Thursdays Tournaments very soon.
The site should be linking to SDTTA’s part of https://multiroundrobin.com, since that’s where the results live.
Proposed by Daryl.

8-Member master list-FY22

9-Message from Patty Martinez!
Please let all my friends know at the Balboa Park club that I won 3 Gold medals and 2 Silver medals. I owe it to so many there at the club. Including Behnam practice was so valuable! I am pleased to represent San Diego at such a large tournament.

10-Mark to check with his contacts to initiate a draft proposal for a New or Revised SDTTA website including a cost estimate and timing for the Board to evaluate.

11-Javid Introduced Maurizio to Daryl so they can discuss options or ways to make improvements to the website as it relates to Round Robin and Teams Rankins.

12-Senior tournament September scheduled on 25th and run by Steve McGrew.

DISCUSSION & DECISION

13-Purchasing SDTTA with the new design Shirts.
Proposed by Thu.
Yes 5 NO 0

14-It’s a great idea to give SDTTA shirts to few young players of our club as a gift to encourage them to improve their games for our club’s future hope!
Proposed by Behnam.
Yes 5 No 0

15-Picnic on September for our members scheduled on Sep 24th, 2022.
Yes 5 No 0

Javid Khazaeli
Secretary SDTTA Board of Directors

Although it was Fathers Day, we had even a better turnout. 33 players battled for balls and a car wash.

Group 1:  First place – Kiet Tran Second place – Eon Sea Chang

Group 2: First Place – Saher Jirjees Second Place – Ling Xu

Group 3: First place – Kevin Wang  and James Kahn

Group 4: First place – Mark LeSage  Second place – Thu Tran

Group 5: First place – Saurabh Mishra  Second place – Rever Oraha

Group 6: First place – Tony Ordas  Second place – Michael Strauss

Group 7: First place – Huong Luu   Second place – Marisela Hernandez

Group 8: First place – Ryan Acton Second place – Fritz Kalaw

ANNOUNCEMENT & REPORT

Attendees; Danny, Thu, Behnam, Javid, Amir* Dennis (Ruben not present) and Matt one of our club members.

1-Donations’s funds received from Patty Wasserman,& Simon Lee and Yuman Young and Appreciation Letters mailed from SDTTA board by Thu!

2-Mini Olympic League VOL 2 is back and scheduled on August 20-21. Tournament director Javid!

Yes-5       No-0

3-BORKO CUP Team Tournament October 15th & 16th.

Our yearly tournament this time called “BORKO CUP” scheduled on October 15-16 and will be posted on Omni-Pong to register online! Tournament director Javid!

Yes-5       No-0

4-Member Relation Director position selection* 

Amir Hamdy was selected .

Yes-5      No-0

5-Purchasing new Barriers, Scoreboards,

25 Barriers and 15 Scoreboards purchased for upcoming tournaments and replacement with the old damaged one to keep our club professional look and beautiful for our visitors!

Special thanks to Thu for spending lots of time and effort for finding a good deal and being a excellent shopper!

6- Thu mentioned the lighting upgrade for our club, Behnam said there is a schedule for technicians to come for inspection, most likely this week.

7-We need to get more active on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to promote our club to get more members! Proposed by Javid

Board going to ask Daryl for help and advise.

8-Financial Reports/

Renewal Policy Transmittal Client Code: SANDIE10  Named Insured: San Diego Table Tennis Association Coverage: Directors & Officers Liab Payee Company: United States 06/14/2022 to 06/14/2023 9-Member master list-FY22

DISCUSSION & DECISION

10-Fire Department Group Tournament on Tuesday June 21st 3:30pm – 8:30pm.

Danny & Amir together running it.

 Yes-5     No-0

11-Weekend RR tournament on Sundays

Good results turnout and It is getting stronger each week.  A lot of players would like to continue Sunday tournaments. Proposed by Behnam.

Yes-5    No-0

12-Background Check & SafeSport for all Coaches and Tournament Directors!

Javid and Behnam already passed and received the certificate! Amir and Salam are required to pass Background Check & SafeSport as well!

Yes-5     No-0

13-2 Hours a week Volunteering coaching proposed by Behnam,

We give privileges to be a Coach for our club and exercise their coaching with our members.

In return they need to spend at least 2 hours a week Volunteering Coaching for Our members! 

Yes-3     No-2

14-Did you know?

Originally Proposed by June in past,

Javid going to post it every month to appreciate and respect June for the great things he did while he was Chairman of the board! Proposed by Javid!

Yes-5      No-0

Sincerely,

Javid Khazaeli
Secretary SDTTA Board of Directors