March 5, 2000
Max"s Restaurant
Greenbelt, Makati
Meeting was called by the District director Ben Cenir, DU1VC. It
was called to order at around 2:30 P.M. Several clubs were
present. Parlinc had about at least four members present. Taking
the minutes was Mike DY1PJM of the ARMI group. Somebody from
KALIKASAN was there. Another one from LARC, another one from the
Girl Scouts. Other clubs were also represented but
disappointingly, there was no introduction of all those present.
CW Philippines was represented by the President, Jake 4F1AKH,
Immediate Past President Tito 4F1CJC, Past Presidents, Gus 4F1EAA
and Rey 4F1FZ. The presiding officer, Ben Cenir, the district 1
director made an introduction regarding activities in the
National Organization. Some of the things he mentioned were: the
membership fee, the election committee of PARA, the minutes of
the meeting immediately prior to the election, the determination
of quorum, and the election itself.
On the membership fee, Tito Yu 4F1CJC raised a point of
clarification regarding a letter from the Treasurer of PARA
sending CW Phils. a statement of account of P10.000.00
representing membership fee for the year 1999 and 2000. This,
after PARA excluded the club in the list of paid up members for
the year 1999 when there was an overpayment of P2,500.00 in the
year 1998. This is base on an agreement in a District meeting
sometime in July of 1999 that the authorized membership fee is
P100.00 based on the old Constitution, since the amendments
Constitution has not yet submitted and approved by the Securities
and Exchange Commission.. It was also agreed that the over
payment will be applied to the current year. This was witnessed
and approved by the DU1EBV (PARA Pres. 19999). And since CW
Phils. was dropped from the list of paid-up member for 1999, it
is just fair for the club to demand a refund of the overpayment.
The representative from the girl scouts also made it clear that
they are demanding the reimbursement of their overpayment.
DISTRICT 1 DIRECTORS EXPOSE'
Ben Cenir then reported that as per the minutes of the meeting
immediately prior to the election, there was on record a question
of Tom Hashim DU1TH, to the effect the.."what are we going
to do in as much as nobody submitted a waiver of intention to
serve required by the By-laws". Submission of waiver should
have been anytime prior to the election day. He also made remarks
as to the integrity of the Election Committee members.
He also made mention of the establishment of quorum. He noted
that. there were 2 clubs listed as present when in fact they were
absent. The loss of 2 voting clubs means the quorum was not
satisfied.
Regarding the waiver, Tom Hashim confirmed that there was an
unintentional, no malice and non-conspiratorial violation of the
By-Laws.
Rey Fermin 4F1FZ, also pointed out that it should be the old
Constitution and By-Laws that should be in effect since there was
no approved amendments. Gus Arguelles 4F1EAA suggested that if
PARA needs funds, they should request donations from the members
and not to charge membership fee that is not mandated by the
By-Laws.
It was also confirmed in the meeting by DU1TH that there were 3 different versions of the AMENDMENTS to the Constitution for submission to SEC. And that some officers refused to sign the documents because of the discrepancies.
Meeting ended following these proposed actions to be taken by
the District Director:
1. He will see to it that the Board Of Directors of PARA answers
the letter from CW Philippines.
2. He will disseminate all the documents to each and every club.
3. A study of the proposed amendments to the Constitution and
By-Laws shall
be undertaken and all clubs shall be informed about this.
4. 2 courses of action were forwarded by Rey Fermin: (A). A
holdover officers should run PARA. (B) The legitimate members of
the Board, the 9District Directors plus any incumbent Director at
Large should convene and vote from among themselves the new
officers of PARA.
Meeting was adjourned at around 4:30PM.