MINUTES AND ACTION ITEMS FROM VIRTUAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING  MAY 1, 2022  

Chaired: Deepak Maskey  

Facilitator: Jagadish Shrestha 

Attendees: Anup Dahal  Arjun Banjara  

Dr. Dinesh Pokharel  

Gajendra Adhikari  

Laxmi P. Ghimire  

Madan Karki  

Madhav Nepal  

Mahendra Bhandari  

Manoj Baral  

Rajendra Shahi  

Santosh Sah  

Saroj Bardewa  Satkar Dhakal  Shanti Poudyal  Sujan Pokharel  

Suman Shrestha  Surendra Adhikari  Tikaram Subedy  Uddhav Giri  
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Meeting started with a condolence to Prajwal Bista who recently passed way  in a car accident and sympathy to the family:  

1. To approve the minutes of the last meeting as circulated  All participants approved minutes from the meeting held on April 3, 2022.  

2. Current Silver and Founding Members 

All executive members and active members are encouraged to become  founding member by December 31, 2022. All discussed on founding  member fee and other fees and clarified that the entry member can be  added to a founding member and other member fees (example for  Founding member fee: entry member fee $100 + $900 = $1000). As of the  meeting date, following members are registered Silver and Founding  members:  

Silver Member:  

1. Uddhav Giri  

Founding Members:  

1. A P Upadhya  

2. Arjun Banjara  

3. Deepak Maskey  

4. Gajendra Adhikari  

5. Mahendra Bhandari 

6. Narayan Selwal  

7. Rajendra Shahi  

8. Suman Shrestha  

9. Surendra Adhikari  

10. Sushil Joshee  

11. Uddhav Giri  

All members were reminded to take opportunity to become Founding  member by paying membership fee in installments and pass this  information to other members about the opportunity to become Founding  member through the installment payments. At present, following  members are paying in installments for Founding members:  

1. Jagadish Shrestha  

2. Mahesh Pandey  

3. Niranjan Wagle  

4. Satish Malla  

5. Shanti Poudyal  

3. Membership Drive  

The meeting discussed the membership drive strategy and decided that  the executive committee will arrange regional meetings specially in the  area where the new Nepali families moved in i.e. Roseville, Rocklin,  Natomas and Woodland.  

 SNCC was invited to participate June 22, 2022, picnic in Woodland and  decided to discuss in the next meeting for how to participate picnic.  

 The meeting also decided to attend the Nepali class organized by the  Rocklin people for the membership drive.  

4. Website Updates 

All participants discussed and suggested to update website to reflect  current membership status and SNCC activities. Saroj Bardewa briefed  status of updates, and he assured that website will be updated as  recommended in meeting with Deepak Maskey, Suman Shrestha,  Jagadish Shrestha, Santosh Sah, Tikaram Subedy, and Saroj Bardewa. 

5. Social Activities  

a. Jeevan Vigyan Satsang Program: All are notified that the Jeevan  Vigyan Satsang program jointly organized by SNCC and NAFCA will be  held on May 6, 2022 at Laxmi Narayan Temple. Everyone with their friends  and family are invited to attend the program.  

b. Free Medical clinic: As discussed in the last meeting to conduct free  medical clinic for visitors from Nepal or persons deprived of medical  insurance with the help of Nepali doctors, nurses, and community  members. Dr. Dinesh Pokharel took an initiation to coordinate with UC  Davis Medical Center and moving in positive direction.  

6. Miscellaneous  

The meeting discussed about to transfer the funds raised before the  incorporation of SNCC to the SNCC accounts. After discussing in detail  Deepak Maskey, Suman Shrestha and Madhan Karki will take an initiation  to discuss with other concerned persons first and will report the updates  in next meeting.  

  

The next monthly meeting is scheduled for 10:00 am-12:00 am, on June 5,  2022. The meeting will be held in person at Orchard Park at 2936 W. River Dr,  Sacramento, CA 95833. Meeting was adjourned with a vote of thanks to the  Chair.