June 26th, 2006

Executive Board Meeting

Start: 6:44 pm - End: 7:48 pm

 

Present: Ramy, Zeshahn, Hodhaifa, Maher, Shan, Rania

Absent: Hany, Ayman, Nousseiba

 

1.      Opening Du'a by Ramy

 

2.      Attendance

§         The weekly meetings are mandatory and they are every week unless they are canceled or rescheduled

§         New Policy: The Warning System: If you don’t notify Ramy 24 hours before the meeting that you, the eboarder, will not be attending the meeting then you will get a warning. Once you get 3 warnings you are on grounds for impeachment.

 

3.      Ramadan

§         Taskforce – both confirmed: Suhaib Hanooti and Mohammad Al-Saadi

·         Salmiyeh e-mailed with TMA’s interested members for the Ramadan Task Force: Houda Fawaz, Nawal Al Saad and Salmiyeh Karamali

¨        TMA will choose one of the 3 sisters to be on the Ramadan Task Force

·         Amal Hassan will be the 4th person on the task force.

·         TMA will be helping collect the funds.

·         Duties

¨        The two brothers will do all the field work

¨        Amal will be in charge of the purchasing of the paper products and drinks

¨        One brother and one of the sisters that will be selected will be in chage of the funds

·         Meeting with V. Chancellor Henderson will be next month.

 

4.      Picnic

§         Food prices have been collected:

·         Burgers and Hot Dogs: 200 hamburgers and 200 hot dogs totaling $100

·         Chicken: 160 pieces for $60

·         Hummus prices still being looked into

§         PR: Dax will be start printing Tuesday and should inshallah be done by Thursday.

·         Mailing out by Friday

·         Cost $125

·         WE should invite Alim to the picnic.

§         Inflatables

·         Ford field requires that we get insurance from the inflatable company

·         Everyone needs to look at the email with the inflatable prices on it. Need to choose your top 3 buy Thursday

§         Hodhaifa needs to start making a budget sheet for the picnic

·         Figure out how it is going to be split up.

 

5.      MI Council

§         Conference was approved for February 16-18

·         Need to reserve Kockoff Hall – All three rooms

¨        Fits about 500 people

·         Need to work out the food problem

¨        Ask Bill about serving food in the SSB

·         MSA National Rep coming in July to checkout the site

·         Targeting 550 – 600 people to come

§         Need to choose 2 people for the committee

·         Maybe have 1 eboard member and 1 non-eboard member

 

6.      Finance

§         Pledges: Letters will be send out by Wednesday

§         Find out the Pin number otherwise need to get a new one

§         Fundraising – Halal Pizza, Kassies, basically get a certain percentage of revenue to get it from them

§         Look for other ideas

§         E-mail Hodhaifa with any reimbursements needed

§         Site reserved. Hodhaifa needs to get a receipt for the reservation

§         Meeting next Wednesday

§         Food with be taken care of by Dearborn

§         Grills

§         Ad

§         Supplies

 

7.      IT

§         Checking to see if the website is all updated

§         Put the picnic flier up, Shan needs to send it to Rania

 

8.      Sisterhood – Ramy will contact her

 

9.      Education – Ramy will contact him

 

10. Outreach

§         Schedual upcoming Jummahs earlier

§         Islamic Awareness Week – didn’t check

§         Activities

·         Fast-a-thon

·         Have the tent idea

·         Day in a life

§         Need more ideas and more detail about them by next meeting

 

11. Unity Dinner

§         Have a plan by next meeting

§         Location – Ford Performing Arts Center

§         Ramy and Hodhaifa will take care of reservation

 

12. Islamic Relief Concert – July 30th

§         Volunteers get in for free

§         Dearborn needs to sell tickets for it:

·         VIPs – First 7 rows (no reserve seating – first comes first serve) $30

·         Regular - $20

·         People need to keep their tickets, no record of it being sold

§         All money collected goes to the UN Children Funds

§         Who has What:

·         Shan: 5 Regular 5 VIPs

·         Rania: 10 normal ones

·         Zeshahn: 5 Regular 5 VIPs

·         Hodhaifa: 10 regular 4 VIPs

·         Maher: 10 Regular 4 VIPs

·         Ramy: 10 Regular 7 VIPs

 

13. Closing Du'a – Ramy

 

Zeshahn Humayun