Minutes of Revive Bombay - Second Meeting
Time: 5:00pm Sunday March 17th, 2002 Athena
NOTE: SEE YOU SUNDAY APRIL 7TH, 5 PM AT LIQUID LOUNGE

Hello everyone,

These are the minutes of the second meeting of the organization.
We did quite a lot of work at this meeting and missed a lot of you that weren't able to make it.

There were a lot more ideas and therefore a lot more opinions flying around but at the end we did come to a consensus on a variety of things. Before moving on, a few definitions:

Team Leader - the person who spearheads the project that they or a fellow member proposed.

Vote: Hand vote

No Votes: The projects that got only a few or no votes continue to be on

the Table, therefore will continue being considered until the Author requests it to be Withdrawn. Due to the absence of some of the Project Proposers,the projects will be introduced by them and the work they have done, at the next meeting.

1) Name
There were two options that were put on the table. The City Improvement Trust, and Revive Bombay. After a hand vote of 17-23, Revive Bombay is the name of this organization.

2) Structure
There were three options here.
i)Hierarchical - with President (or Chair), Secretary, & Treasurer
ii)Managing Committee
iii) Key person overseeing running
With Hierarchical it follows the typical structure of Pres who runs the
meetings, Secretary for the Minutes, and Treasurer for keeping track of the finances.

Managing Committee follows the form where each Team leader is a member of the Managing Committee. The Committee then collectively makes the decisions.

Key person overseeing the managing committee By a vast majority, people wanted to follow a Hierarchical structure. The details of it will be discussed at the next meeting.

3) Membership
There were two options here. Membership vs No membership.
By a very vocal hand vote, there was a call to have membership with a membership fee. This would add to the actual running of the organisation, and its corpus fund.

What was decided by the majority of people was that we should have amembership fee, and after a few options that people looked at, everyone felt that the membership will be Rs 1000. However, this fee will be for all of you who are present at the founding of this organisation. That would give all the people who pay this at this time the status of Founding Member.But everyone did feel that though the majority of the people present would be able to afford this, future members might not. Therefore, the question of the membership fee for the future will be debated in an upcoming meeting.

4) Office space
I am offering my office space, that is, a cabin, a fax and telephone number for the use of the organisation. If anyone has any reservations, they can bring them up at the next meeting.

5) Projects
While we tried to categorize projects and have people heading those
categories, that did not work. We then decided to vote on which project should be put on a Fast Track by the organization and which one on a Slow Track. 8 projects got 12 votes and higher and they were chosen to be Fast Track Projects.
They are:
CLEAN AIR -PUC/TAXIS
TREE PLANTATION
RECYCLING & PROPER WASTE DISPOSAL
HANDICAPPED ACCESS
ROAD SIGNAGE
DUSTBINS
FOOD DRIVES
WALK OF FAME

Each team will have to find an Advisor. This person will be formally invited by the organisation to be on the Advisory Board of the organisation. Their role as an Advisor begins and ceases with the project they are advising on.

6) SIGN-UP
If you were not present or did not sign up for the project you are
interested in, PLEASE email the people incharge. The Team Leaders have already gotten their act together so if you are interested, please contact them. The information is given below. They need people to sign up.

7) FUND-RAISING
Furthermore, do not approach any one for fundraising until we are a fully chartered organisation. This would include getting permission from the Income Tax Department to be a Charity organization, so that any contribution to the organization is Tax deductible.

8) WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER PROJECTS?
The Projects that are a FAST TRACK PROJECT are those that people consider to have a life of 3-6 months for their initial success. The others will continue to be a SLOW TRACK PROJECT, and the proposer will continue working on that project until they feel that the project can now be a FAST TRACK PROJECT, or that there is no scope, whereby it can be withdrawn. Each project with over 10 votes is classified as FAST TRACK. Therefore, if any person who did not get the required minimum 10 votes can still get a team of TEN people, they can be a FAST TRACK project.

Congratulations to those of you who's projects have been chosen! Those that didn't get the required votes (cos that includes some of mine!), we need to get more work done either on our own, or with our friends and bring the proposal back to the organisation when it is READY to be a FAST TRACK.

1. Opera House Restoration/Revival VOTES: 6
- Hemanth Rao Email: hemanthmekarao@yahoo.com

FAST TRACK 2. Tree Plantation VOTES: 22
- Sravanya Rao Email: sravanya@hotmail.com

3. Umbrella for Childrens' organisations VOTES: 3
- Anushka Jagtiani Email: anushkaj@hotmail.com

4. Stray Dogs/Animal Hospital VOTES: 3/7
- Ramona Sunavala Email:zoomingbabe@hotmail.com

5. Public Library VOTES: 2
- Kanika Vasudeva Email: kanikav@hotmail.com

FAST TRACK 6. Road Signage VOTES: 12
- Binoy Khimji Email: bbk1@hotmail.com

7. Public Restrooms VOTES: 8
- Meghna Khimji Email: megbin50@hotmail.com

FAST TRACK 8. More Dustbins/Garbage disposal VOTES: 16
- Akshay Sahgal Email: positiveprints@vsnl.com

9. Beach cleaning VOTES: 5
- Mayana Sobti Email: msobti@yahoo.com

FAST TRACK 10. Clean Air - CNG/Taxi drivers VOTES: 12
- Puneet Khurana Email: puneet_k@yahoo.com

11. More Parking Spaces VOTES: 3
- Pranay Mehta Email: pranman@hotmail.com

12. Clean Railway stations VOTES: 2
- Sharlene Merchant Email: sharlene_merchant@hotmail.com

13. Byculla Zoo VOTES: 5
- Ramona Sunavala Email: zoomingbabe@hotmail.com

FAST TRACK 14. Recycling & proper Garbage disposal VOTES: 23
- Neha Mehta Email: neha@idfc.com

15. Drunk Driving VOTES: 6
- Kanika Doshi Email: kanikadoshi@hotmail.com

FAST TRACK 16. Food Drives VOTES: 12
- Chirag Doshi Email: ccdoshi@walchand.com

FAST TRACK 17. Walk of Fame VOTES: 12
- Hemanth Rao Email: hemanthmekarao@yahoo.com

18. Immunization - WITHDRAWN BY THE AUTHOR

19. Extended Trains - WITHDRAWN BY THE AUTHOR

20. Old Age Home - NO REPRESENTATION

21. Marine Life VOTES: 0 (Not present. Excused absence)
- Smiti Ruia Email: smiti@smiti.com

22. Better Roads & smoother Traffic VOTES: 0 (Needs more research)
- Hemanth Rao Email: hemanthmekarao@yahoo.com

FAST TRACK 23. More facilities for the Handicapped VOTES: 22
(Amended from Special Olympics)
- Manish Maker Email: mrmaker@makersinternational.com

24. Make-A-Wish VOTES: 0 (Needs more research)
- Saumya Lashkari Email: saumya.lashkari@gecapital.com

25. Art Plaza VOTES: 0 (Not present. Excused absence)
- Saumitra Srivastav Email: saumitras@hotmail.com

26. Energy - Solar/Waste VOTES: 0 (Needs more research)
Saumya Lashkari/Hemanth Rao Email:
saumya.lashkari@gecapital.com/hemanthmekarao@yahoo.com

27. Adopt-a-pavement VOTES: 0 (Not present. Excused absence)
- Nandish Kilachand Email: nandishk@hotmail.com

28. Heritage restoration VOTES: 0 (Not present. Excused absence)
- Anushka Jagtiani - anushkaj@hotmail.com

29. Clothes Drive VOTES: 0 (Needs more research)
- Meghna Khimji Email: megbin50@hotmail.com

*FOR NEXT TIME:
1) Each FAST TRACK Team will give their report and progress, advisors, etc and the organization will see where their networks can help that Team.
2) Hear the proposals on the projects that did not get enough support, or were not presented
3) We will finalize the charter, membership, structure, standing committees like Fundraising, Managing Committee to work with the Hierarchy etc.
4) join Chirag Doshi in watching the Formula 1 Brazil Grand Prix at Karma after!

*******NEXT MEETING: SUNDAY APRIL 7TH, 5:00 PM. LIQUID LOUNGE*******

Chirag & Kanika Doshi have been most gracious to allow us the use of Liquid Lounge for the next meeting.

If someone wants more information on:
i) The meeting as a whole - Please contact me, or a friend that was present
ii) An idea that has been mentioned - Please email the person that will be
following up on it.

While we saw many new faces at the second meeting, we hope that the ones who couldnt make it, will still try to come for the next meeting! In the mean time, I'm sure you're all doing your own bit for Bombay.
See you all in about three weeks - SUNDAY APRIL 7TH, 5 PM.

Hemanth.

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