Dear BB:
These are wonderful suggestions. And your acute perceptions are impressive. But diagnoses and suggestions like these and are dime a dozen. What makes a difference is when one gets involved and attempts to solve a/the problems. Have you tried that? Would you try that? I will be pleased to propose your name and your community for the next Oxomiya whtchmacallit in July 2005 ( 2004 is taken). >Can we expect unity and cooperation among community members if our leaders >show >such kind of tone and line of argument? We all need a little >attitude >adjustment here. It is best done by DOING it. And the very least you could do is attend some of these. cm At 4:20 PM -0400 6/13/03, Bharat B wrote: > > >Not knowing the history (my apology to CM and ABS), I told that excess >money should be given to charity to avoid this kind of rumblings. Dilip >Deka told indirectly the same in reference to my letter what Chairperson >of Houston verbally told Mr Bhuyan. Unless DDeka is also on AFNA board, I >do not see any problem. I think it was the failure of a Board Member to >convince his own organization to send the money where it belonged. Part of >the blame game on AFNA also falls on Mr Bhuyan himself. Since from the >first paragraph he is representing a group of people, I can clearly see >the lack of leadership vision here. Can we expect unity and cooperation >among community members if our leaders show such kind of tone and line of >argument? We all need a little attitude adjustment here. > > > >Here are few my suggestions: > > > >1. Charge all organization some fees for meeting space etc. AFNA can >adjust that unpaid $500 to such cost. > > > >2. As JKalita wrote spending $55 per person for food, why not just give >only one special dinner or lunchon costing 20-25. you can reduce a lot in >your budget. People should have their own meal other time. > > > >3. Registration fees should reflect the per person expense avoiding >subsidy for some; every one makes good money to afford it. > > > >Some of these suggestions may be already in use; subsidy is no answer to >deficit budgeting. Even Gogoi and company is raising educational fees in >Assam to avoid subsidy in education! > > > >My few cents > > >From: Kedar Bhuyan >To: Dilip Deka >CC: Chandan Mahanta , Assam >>Subject: [Assam] Surplus from Houston >Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:24:53 >-0700 (PDT) > > > > >Dear Dilip: > > Your emails regarding surplus >drew quite a bit of attention in many quarters of Assamese community >across USA. I am not a member of Assam net, so I did not have the >opportunity to read your emails in real time. But there is so much >interest about the comments you made that some very respected community >members have forwarded your emails to me and personally called me and >discussed about it. > > > > 20th Assam Convention/26th Assam Day was >held in Houston long time ago. Your memory regarding that may be getting a >little bit fogy by now. The surplus from Houston was not given to Cherry >Hill organizers as seed money as you have suggested. In stead the surplus >(you said $2200) was in fact given to AFNA. Chairperson of Houston >verbally told me at that time that the surplus amount was given to AFNA to >administer for the benefit of future Assam Conferences. It was not a >donation to AFNA. The surplus was for the sole use of future Assam >Conferences. > > > > Out of this Houston surplus AFNA loaned $2000.00 >to Cherry Hill organizers. I was a director of AFNA during that time. Per >AFNA President�s email to the Board of AFNA Directors (attached here as >ready reference) Cherry Hill organizers repaid $1500.00 to AFNA with >$500.00 remained unpaid. Cherry Hill could not return remaining $500.00 >because there was no more fund left. > > > >AFNA had rejected >Toronto�s request for fund from Houston surplus amount. Similarly Denver >also did not get any money from this Houston surplus amount. Hence balance >of the Houston Surplus is still with AFNA. Surplus from Toronto was >directly given (not a loan) to Denver. Similarly Denver is also directly >given (not a loan) the surplus to St. Louis. > > > > Now instead of >looking backward I would like to look forward for a brighter future and >better co- operation from the entire Assamese community. Joint conferences >of all Assamese organizations are still evolving. There are lots of areas >that need stream lining. Surplus or deficit is one such area. I think that >the surplus from Assam 2003 or beyond should directly go to the next >year�s organizing committee. Any surplus fund should not be used or >diverted for any other purposes. Our community leaders should openly >discuss these matters in St. Louis and find out where lies the consensus. >> > > >So far we have only discussed about the surplus. What about the >deficit? Who > >is responsible for any deficit? Suppose there is a big >deficit at St. Louis and then is the Chairman personally responsible or >liable? Or entire organizing committee is jointly and severally >responsible? If they are not responsible, who is? Unless we openly discuss >these matters and come to a consensus, in the future very few people will >be coming forward to take this responsibility. Organizing Assam Conference >is a thankless job with no material upside, whereas it potentially carries >a huge personal liability. This is one the reasons that now a days people >are very reluctant to take that responsibility. > > > > > > Thanks. >> > With best regards > Kedar Bhuyan > > > >>--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Free online calendar >with sync to Outlook(TM). ><< AFNAPresidentsemail.doc >> >The new <http://g.msn.com/8HMVENUS/2737??PS=>MSN 8: smart spam protection >and 2 months FREE* _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam
