The fourth General Body meeting of our association was held on Sunday,09-09-2007 ata tent pitched on the plot No. 138, Stage II of our layout.
1. The meeting was precided over by Dr. Lokanadh Rao. In all 35 members attended the meeting.
2. The meeting commenced at 10.30 am with invocation by kumari. Divyashree Arun.
3. Thereafter, Sri Kesu Nambodhri welcomed the gathering followed by a few preliminary words from the president who stressed the need of the members to keep their subscription payments up to date as without the finance, the association could not undertke any developmental activities. The President also invited all members present to come forward with their suggestions to strengthen the association both numerically and financially.
4. The Secretary thereafter, read out the minutes of the last GB meeting held on 17/09/2006 and the Secretary's annual report for the year 2006-07. The Treasurers report along with the Auditors report , which was circulated amongst the members was also read.
5. The report and the minutes of the last GB were generally considered by the GB and were adapted. A resolutiopn to this affect was passed.
6. The house then took up the consideration of the revised CDP 2015(now RMP 2015). Our concerns on the draft master plan circulated by the BDA earlier had all been addressed to our satisfaction and the survey No. 70 has been retainted as the residential Zone in the final CDP. The house expressed its happiness asd gratitude to the BDA.
7. The house thereafter discussed about the "Regularisation Scheme" notified by the Government in the late August 2007. The notification though was not to the absolute satisfaction of one and all, the general concerns was the latest orders were worthy of a try in that they were unlocking the various blockades such as non acceptance of betterment charges, non issue of khata, non registration of sites and various other problems such as non availability of loans and non sanctioning of building plans etc. regularised especially because the association does not have enough man power or financial resources to take the job upon that itself. It was however decided that the association would provide whatever is feasibly possible to assist the members in this regard.
8. To a pointed suggestion that the penalities etc. proposed in the latest notification are very high. It was explained by the President that precisely this point as also the constitution of the screening committee were the two points on which we had our reservations even earlier and we had lodged our objections thereabout. Unfortunately our suggestions have not been fully accepted even though some slight modifications have been made in the screening committee's composition.
9. Mr. Srinivas was of the opinion that perhaps most of the sites in our Layout were there purely for investment purposes and not for genuine construction of houses to live there. Noting that many houses have still not come up in our Layout though it is about 15 years old. The presumption of the member appeared to be correct. This doubt is further corroborated by very thin attendance in the GB Meetings and also the disinterest from many a plot owner to become the member of the Association. The President therefore appealed to the members to convey the request to every other plot owner irrespective of his being the member of the Association or not to atleast build houses and give a developmental facelift to the Layout.
10. The House then took up the election of a new Executive committee for the period 2007-09 since the existing committee had exhausted its term of two years.
With appropriate proposals and seconding a new Committe was elected. However, there was a proposal mooted by some of the members present, that the existing Committee could itself continue for another term. After some discussion on this proposal it was not accepted because our Association being only a small one it was necessary that all members are involved in rotation in the management of the Association and it was also necessary that no vested interest should be allowed to develop. Further some members of the existing Committee had some personal problem or other which was affecting the day to day running of the Association. It was therefore decided by the House that the burden of running the Association should be shared by all. It was however, stressed that the some of the members of the existing committe should be the members of the new team to serve continuity. Hence the following team was elected.
1. Sri Kesu Namboodiri President
2. Sri T P Jayaprakash Vice President
3. Sri Arun Manthalkar Secretary
4. Sri Anand Tatti Joint Secratary
5. Sri P G B Nair Treasurer
6. Dr. Lokanadha Rao E C Member
7. Sri Gilson Joseph E C Member
8. Sri K V Subramanian E C Member
9. Sri M T Srinivas E C Member
10. Smt Nandita Anand E C Member
11. Sri Balachandran P C E C Member
12. Sri K M Prasad E C Member
11. After completion of the official items as above, the President invited the members to come forward any other items or suggestions for consideration.
a) Mr. M T Srinivas suggested that in view of the poor finances of the Association now, it was not possible for the Association to take up cleaning activities of the Layouts in full. He therefore suggested that every plot owner must get his plots cleaned atleast once in a year. This was accepted.
b) Mr. Anand Tatti suggested that in addition to the cleaning of sites at least some trees should be planted. This suggestion was considered and it was decided to request all members to plant at least one tree in front of there plots.
c) Sri Kesu Namboodiri suggested that one more Big sign board of our Layout should be erected at the Layout side as also on the main road. This suggestion accepted but as erecting such sign boards on the main road will require prior permission of the BBMP etc and we may have to pay some fees for that. It was decided that we will take up this work after our finaces looked up.
12. The President then formally thanked all the members of the Associaiton present and not present for all the cooperation extended to the out going Committee and assured his personal as also the personal cooperation of all existing committee members to the incoming Committee.
13. All members present were served breakfast between 08.30 AM and 09:30 AM.
14. The meeting ended at 12.30 PM with a vote of thanks from Sri Arun Manthalkar.
Dr. Ch. Lokanadh Rao Gilson Joseph
President (OG) Secratary (OG)
