Attendees Present: 

1. Patty Martinez-Kahn

2. Sunil Buya

3. George Pisa

4. Ruben Guilloty

Attendees Phone:

5. Behnam Kazemi

Absent:

6. Ahmed Ghazi

7. Open position (Secretary)

Meeting Started promptly at 7:05PM

Items discussed

1. Previous minutes had been issued by Behnam and were approved by the Board.

2. Ruben provided the financial summary report for June

3. Discussed potential candidates for resuming the Secretary activities:

        Potential candidates include Daniel Paez, Pedjam Adhami or Salam Semaan. We will approach each         to make a decision. PJ and Salam were members. Daniel will need a short resume and objectives.

4. Behnam will be approaching Patty (Badmington) to get an idea of what will be required to support the Balboa parking situation.

5. Anastasia Stener requested time to coach at Balboa. Sunil to contact Anastasia to explain that we already have 4 active coaches in Balboa and are not seeking additional coaches at this time.

6. Ruben to review past purchases of Barriers to determine the cost we incurred to purchase Tall Barriers and determine how much we should sell used one for. We preliminarily estimated 50% of our cost in order to cooperate with those interested.

Meeting adjourned at approximately 8:15PM

Next Board Meeting scheduled for August 12, 2025 at 7:00PM

Attendees (present).  1. Behnam kazemi 2. P. Martínez 3. K. G. Pisa 4. R. Guilloty .  Attendees (present by phone)  . 1. S. bulla 2 A. Ghazi . Attendees (not present )  1. J. Khazaeli   .The meeting started by B. Kazemi at 7pm. Financial statement was presented by R. Guilloty. It showed income and expenditure in May.  We spent the rest of the hour by discussing preparation for our big yearly tournament . Decisions were made for type of food, drinks, and supplies. Board decided to offer free pizza and water. Ruben offered to pick up the pizza and drinks from Costco both days of the tournament . Our board and member volunteers will set up and tear down before and after tournament. Due to work schedule conflict , Javid will not be able to act as Secretary. Meeting was over at 8pm.  

The City is considering the final version of the City Budget for 2026 this Tuesday, June 7th (at 1:00).  Patty and I don’t plan to attend to make comments, but we are each submitting a public comment, which will be distributed to each Councilmember before the meeting, and will become part of the record of the meeting.

The draft Budget proposes to reduce the operating hours of (nearly) all of the rec centers to 40 hours/week, and reduce the staff accordingly.  The Budget also proposes that the City would start charging for parking at Balboa Park, including the Inspiration Point lot (next to the chapel/Veterans Museum, and the lot south of Presidents Way) that we use to get to BPAC.  

Would you please send out an email to all SDBC members asking each of them to submit a comment to the City Council before Tuesday at 8 AM!  Each person in a family can submit a comment (and non-City residents can submit them too).  This may be our last chance to keep our hours at BPAC, and to be able to avoid parking fees that could be prohibitively expensive!

Here’s the link to get to the City’s comment form, for you to fill out and submit to the City Council:  https://www.sandiego.gov/city-clerk/agenda-comment-form

Our yearly open was a great success with over 220 players demonstrating their table tennis skills. I like to thank all the volunteers that made it possible. Especially Ruben (our treasurer) , Steve (previous board member) , Raquel, our coaches Javid and Pisa, Ahmad (with arm injury), Patty and James (table and net set up), Phil Van de vile (previous board member and tournament director), my apology for names missing. our club winners were Remzi 2050 first place, Remzi/Sunil 3500 doubles first place, Gary/Ruben 3500 doubles 3rd place, Remzi/Derrick 3850 doubles first place, Satish/Luong 3850 doubles 2nd place, Luong and Hoang in 3250 doubles first place ,Darin/Salam 3250 doubles 2nd place, Lina/Minh 3250 Doubles 3rd place, Arun over 60 2nd place, Gary over 60 3rd place. San Diego Table Tennis Board

We are looking for volunteers for the San Diego Open Tournament!
We need help on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th of this month.
Please enter your name in the form below if you can help out on any of those days! 😊

Volunteer Form

Thank you!

club will be closed on Friday May 2nd Saturday May 3 rd and Sunday May 4th. Due to badminton tournament.

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