Minutes of Coimbatore ACME Round Table 133’s 364th meeting

& 10th for the year held on 22nd October 2009 at 8 pm hosted by
Tr. Jaykumar at his residence.

AIMS AND OBJECTS:

1. To develop the fellowship of young men through the medium of their business and professional occupations and
community service activities.

2. To encourage active and responsible citizenship by cultivating the highest ideals in business, professional and civic
traditions.

3. To promote and further international understanding friendship and co-operation.

4. To promote the extension of the association.

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ATTENDANCE:

S. FOR THE OUR

NAME AT THIS MEETING % OTHER CREDITS
NO YEAR CREDITS

1 LMF Tr. Amir A Vagh AP 7 70.00% 1

2 Tr. Arun Kumar V.R. AP 5 50.00%

3 LMF Tr. Balamurgan P 9 90.00% 3

4 Tr. Chirag P Majithia P 6 60.00% 1

5 LMF Tr. Chirag Vora P 9 90.00% 6

6 LMF Tr. Gautam Pasricha A 5 50.00%

7 LMF Tr. Guhan V P 10 100% 7

8 Tr. Jayakumar P 10 100% 2

9 Tr. Madhu. A P 10 100% 2

10 LMF Tr. M. Nishant Jain P 8 80.00% 2

11 Tr. Prabhakar A 5 50.00% 1

12 Tr. Prasanna Krishna AP 7 70.00% 3

13 LMF Tr. Satish Balagopal P 8 80.00% 1 7

14 Tr. Satish S. P 4 40.00% 2

15 LMF Tr. Sivakumar P 10 100% 2

16 Tr. Sundararaman (T) P 7 70.00% 1

17 Tr. Survesh P 8 80.00% 3

18 Tr. Vignesh (C) P 10 100% 2

19 LMF Tr. Vijayanth AP 3 30.00% 24

20 LMF Tr. Vikas D Zaveri P 7 70.00%

21 LMF Tr. Vikram Mohan (IPC) P 6 60.00% 1

22 Tr. Vinay Kumar (S) P 9 90.00% 5

Attendance% For this meeting – 72.3%

HTs present

Visiting Tablers/Sq. Legs

P-Present, PL-Present but Late, AP-Apology, A-Absent

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TOAST:

Chairman called the meeting to order with toasts to the President, Republic of India and to the Sponsor Table
Coimbatore Penta Round Table 101.

AIMS AND OBJECTS:

Tr. Madhu read the Aims and Objects of Round Table India.

WELCOME:

The Chairman welcomed the fellow and visiting Tablers, HTs and Sq. Legs to the 364th meeting & 10th for the year.

APOLOGIES:

Apologies were received from Trs. Prassana, Tr. Vijayanth, Tr. Amir, Tr. Aurn, HT Hari

APPOINTMENT OF SERGEANT:

Tr. Satish S was appointed as the sergeant.

CORRECTIONS IN 362nd and 363rd MEETING MINUTES:

Nil

CONFIRMATION OF PREVIOUS MINUTES:

The minutes of the 362nd and 363rd meetings were confirmed with Tr. Madhu proposing and Tr. Chirag seconding.

363rd meetings were confirmed with Tr. Vikas proposing and Tr. Siva seconding.

MATTERS ARISING THERE FROM NOT COVERED ELSEWHERE:

HT Govind gave Rs. 10,000 from pin sales to Tr. Satish Balagopal.

Tr. Satish Balagopal thanked all the various tables for their contributions for Tiger Growly pins.

CHAIRMAN’S TIME:

A few tablers attended the 1st AEX meeting at Coonor.

Joint meeting with Penta 101 alongwith Tr. Bruno from Italy – details in IRO section.

SECRETARY’S TIME:

The FORT raffle initiative was discussed and the Chairman requested the tablers' to support. It was understood that
this was an initiative to compensate greeting card sales.

The Buffalo Club hand shake was discussed and the appropriate usage of the right hands was also discussed.

OUTGOING MAILS: AEX/NEX:

362nd and 363rd meeting minutes sent to AEX and NST

Correction in our 1st quarterly report sent to AST Tr. Chirag Vora about our fund raiser collections, where
we raised Rs. 7 lakhs and not Rs. 3,50 lakhs.

INCOMING MAILS:

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Mail from NST Tr. Ashwinni Hemdev on Fri 09/10/2009 on receipt of our 1st quarterly report.

Hi Vinay.

Nicely presented quarter report. Good allround activities in all facets of Tabling.

Looking forward to 133s participation in the National initiatives... The Freedom Drive, FORT, Buffalo Club,
LGC etc.

Thanks! And wishing you all the best.

Cheers!!

Ash Hemdev

Mail received from National Pres. Tr. Himanshu Gupta on Fri 09/10/2009 on receipt of our 1st
quarterly report.

Dear Vinay,

Excellent report. It is nice to see all the pictures. The layout is very good.

Please convey my congratulations to the members of your Table for having had a good 1st quarter of
Tabling, performing in most of the facets of Tabling.

Congratulations on a successful Tambola Night fundraiser.

All the best for the NFD celebrations.

Do celebrate October as the Freedom Month by promoting the sales of the Freedom Coupons to raise
funds for your Table and to generate publicity for our movement. These Freedom Coupons also double
as a Lucky Draw for the Donors who buy the Freedom Coupons.

I wish you all the very best for the year ahead.

May all your dreams come true.

Dream On & Reach For The Stars!!!

Himanshu Gupta

National President,

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Mail received from Tr. Aanand Khara & Tr. Vishal Mirpuri regarding ‘Freedom Drive’ and
circulated in our groups and to our Supply House convenors.

Mail received from Nat. Fellowship convenor Tr. Praveen Goel About Reporting, National Fellowship Day (21st
Nov.), Full Toss- National Cricket Championship, Buddy Table, Buffalo Club, Safe-T Mascot & Bi-Monthly Events (sent
to our FCs)

Received an e-mail from AST Tr. Balaji Jagadeesan about Area 9 Flood relief fund transfer modalities – and Tr. Ram
has been informed about the same to help him release funds appropriately.
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Received an e-mail from AC Tr. Baboo with a report about CRT’s 500 the meeting and the 1st AEX at Coonor

TABLES:

Minutes from various Tables were received through ‘Area 7’ groups

TREASURER: (Tr. Sundaraman)

The balances were reported as:

Charity Rs. 5,76061.35

Admin Rs. 1133.85

F&S Rs. 72,495.80

Trust Rs. 91,715.49

FDs – Rs. 3,35,000

Tr. Ram to decide on FD renewals based on the best interest rates.

RTI grant for Thondamuthur school was not received – Tr. Ram to follow up. Rs. 20,000 was to be given to Tr.
Vikram for the Thondamuthur school that he has paid to the contractor.

Cash of Rs. 34,500 given to Tr. Ram by Tr. Satish Balagopal towards collection from Growly pins.

PROJECTS: (Tr. Sivakumar & Tr. Survesh)

For the project under discussion - Apachi Koundanurr school – Guna Associates has arrived at an estimate for
changing the roof at Rs. 2,49,000 inlcuding the floor plastering, painting everything, and changing the doors and
windows (except fixing the compound wall).

The floor approved the estimate and decided to move forward. Tr. Siva informed that he expected around Rs. 20,000
from the locals.

Another school (SSA project) was visited Samathapuram Elementary school – 9 lakhs was budgeted by SSA and 50%
of the funds has already been received by the head mistress. In 1 acre land there is an approval for a 3 classroom
block with kitchen block (very close to Chettipalayam)

Funds were being raised for repairing the toilet block and to build the kitchen block by the school – if so they wanted
us to build 4 classrooms vs. 3. The school was located at a very good location ideal for the area.

Guna Associates to prepare an estimate for the same.

Thepanur school has requested for a toilet block – estimate is Rs. 1.7 lakhs. Ladies circle 85 may not be able to do it
by themesleves because of lack of funds – so a 50% contribution from the table may be required.

FUND RAISING: (Tr. Chirag Majithia & Tr. Madhu)

Tr. Madhu said they were waiting on Tr. Satish Balagopal to call for a fund raiser meeting for the Area golf
tournament.

FELLOWSHIP: (Tr. Guhan & Tr. Nishanath)

Diwali night on the Thursday 15th was a 'blast' with twinklers and Tablers and Circlers bursting crackers attended by
many of us.

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3 tablers attended the 500th meeting at Coonor on 10th Oct and the social following.

The deadline for the fellowship meet was extended to the next meeting.

The table social for November shall be Tr. Chirag Vora (roto chart is being moved by a month)

PUBLICITY: (Tr. Gautham & Tr. Jaykumar)

For National Publicity day – Nov 10th – publicity for 'Save the Tiger' campaign was planned including a hoarding at
the Flyover.

Tr. Satish Balagopal informed that 19 pins were only remaining (Tiger Growly)

Another 100 pins were to be ordered.

WWF was informed by Mr. Krishnakumar that CART 133 has been supporting the Save the Tiger cause.

IRO: (Tr. Satish Balagopal)

Meeting with Tr. Bruno of Table 33 Italy on his visit to Coimbatore – wants to invite us for the Euro x33 meet. Joint
meeting with Penta 101 on the 28th for the same.

Tr. Vikram Mohan offered to home host Tr. Bruno and also offered to host the meeting at his resort Tamara in
Siruvani.

Euro 13 meet to happen in Munich in June 2010 – The convenor is Wolfgang Wondra from Munich 13.

Our Tr. Prassana met up with Aberdeen RT100 on 20.10.09

“It was gr8 fun” he says… ”We had a whisky tasting session to start with 5 rounds of Whisky – all rare collections
- aND thEN Anice dihnr and then de mting had 4 inductioans – seers to 100!

Pic below has Prassana with Aberdeen RT100 – Clue – he is the short guy!

RULES: (Tr. Satish Balagopal)

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SUPPLY HOUSE & GREETING CARDS: (Tr. Prabhakar & Prasanna)

HRD: (Tr. Amir)

Nil

Sports (Tr. Vikas)

Tr. Chirag Majithia and Tr. Amir participated in the Area match last week.

Dec 5th and 6th – Area cricket match

NFD & Archives (Tr. Vikram)

Madras preferred Masanagudi and as the rooms were not available for those dates – another meet with them was
suggested by them at a later date.

Yercaud was chosen as the new location from feedback received from Bangalore and Madurai 14. Both the tables
are fine with Nov 21st.

Various locations were discussed. Tr. Vikram to check on locations asap.

RT Events (Tr. Vijayanth)

Nil.

EXTENSION (Tr. Arun & Tr. Satish S)

Nil.

Our past Tr. Vikram Jaganatthan has expressed his interest in rejoining our table. Tr. Satish S to follow up on the
same.

Tr. Satish S. requested everyone to suggest prospects.

ANY OTHER MATTER:

HT Govind was recognised by the National Board with a plaque and a letter.

DATE AND VENUE OF THE NEXT MEETING:

The next meeting – 365th meeting to be held on 28 th Nov ‘09 – joint with Penta 101 . Venue shall be informed
later.

SERGEANT AT ARMS:

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Tr. Satish S. announced the following collections:

Fines – Rs. 800

Raffle – Rs. 800

Sunshine’s – Rs. 100

Pin fines/sales – Rs. 200

VOTE OF THANKS:

Tr. Vikas delivered the vote of thanks.

CLOSURE:

Chairman concluded the meeting with a Toast to Round Table India and Round Table International.

Help Growly save his species!

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