Meeting Minutes on 8th

Attendees:
Olga, Rahul, Rakshmi, Sofia, Juna and Rao

Minutes:
1. Discussed fund raising ideas mainly to meet the administrative expenses for the Association. Decided to go ahead with Raffle competition on the eve of Halloween celebrations. Since the school is organising Assembly on 23rd October, we want to draw raffles to distribute Hampers to 5 or more children. Each Raffle would cost €1 and PA would be selling them to Parents at the school in the morning.
Actions: Rao to print posters, Olga to buy Raffles, Juna to sell tickets for the week of 13th and Sofia to identify Hampers. Rakshmi/Sofia would present on 23rd at the Assembly to distribute gifts.
2. Logo Competition: Due to Halloween Raffle meetings, we want to organize this at the end of November. There will be a gift voucher if there is a winner. Olga will arrange to send letters to PA via Tom.
3. Calendar 2010: On behalf of Tina, Rao informed the members that the proposed Calendar idea has been dropped due to lack of sufficient funds to invest at this stage and also not enough progress is made on the proposed theme "Concept of Ireland". There was mixed reaction to this and we discussed different alternatives. The options are left open to see the feasibility of bringing a decent calendar by 1st Dec and at a reasonable price.
4. Next meeting: Mostly Nov 5th. If required earlier, all registered members will be informed.

Rao