JA Club Minutes

Type of Meeting: General	Meeting Date: Sept 5, 2007
Time Started: 7:35 pm	Time Ended: 8:20p.m.

President Pat Baba called the meeting to order at 7:35 PM.

1. Corrections/Additions to Minutes

None

Treasurer’s Report:

David Ziesmer gave the following report:

Balance as of August 2007	16,050.61
Balance as of08/31/07	16,050.61

Acknowledgements/Announcements:

Thank you to the following for their generous donations:

1. $100.00 donation received from Tina Kang to the JARCC on behalf of Stacy Tamori

2. Athletic club donated $2,000 to the building fund

3. $40.00 received from the Daniel Nakahara family

4. $50.00 donated from Ken and Pat Baba in memory of her father, John Yee

5. $100.00 received from the Mee Lee family who were members of the Kendo club

Affiliated Clubs/Chairpersons Reports

• JARCC – Sam Sunada
• Working on fire alarm policy and procedures. Upon completion, the procedures will be reviewed with all clubs using the facility.
• Buddhist Fellowship –Sharon Akiyama
• Sunday school starts 9/9. Calvin Fujinaga will be the guest speaker for this day. The following week the children’s Sunday school classes commence.

· Jr. YBA –Sam Sunada

o No report

• Nippongo Gakuen- John Kubokawa
• Sat. 9/8 is registration and the first day of classes. There are immediate openings for students on all levels.
• Gakuen plans to sponsor the 2007 Holiday party on the first Sunday in December. They requested $1250.00 to cover the expenses of gifts for the seniors, food, crafts, a x-mas tree and the raffle prizes. This amount was approved.

• Athletic Club-Dave Uemura

• Basketball clinic is this week-end, 9/8
• Practices for basketball have begun, or will begin soon
• Building Superintendent –Jon Yokoyama
• No report

• Gardeners’ Club-no representative

· Ikenobo Club- Pat Baba

o No report

• JASEB –Yukio Kitagawa
• They had their annual golf tourney in August. Thank you to Sam Sunada and the Jr. YBA for helping with sign-in table. Thank you to Wayne Shin and Jon Shindo for participating. They took 5^th place.
• The annual walk-a-thon will take place 9/23 at the Berkeley Marina
• The Jaseb Calendar for 2008 is being worked on. Yukio submitted pictures from the JA club for consideration. He requested $100.00 donation to support the JASEB calendar.
• Judo Club – Leslie Hisaka
• Sign-ups for the new season take place Thurs 9/6 at 6:30 p.m.

Diablo Kendo Club Mike Espinosa

Chikara Yuki from the Kendo club made 100+ aprons for the JA club as part of his boy scout Eagle project. They will be used for Summer Festival.Thank you!

• Shinwakai – Yukio Kitagawa

o Thank you to Sam Sunada and Sharon Akiyama for covering in his absence at the July 21^st meeting. The Junior YBA also helped with the Bingo event.
Yukio was attending his mother’s 94^th Birthday party!

o At the Sept. 15^th mtg, they will have ochazuke. Members to provide pickled vegetables and dessert. Shinwaikai provides the tea and rice.

o The October meeting. will be their regular bingo meeting.

• Summer Festival – Ron Onizuka
• Post-festival meeting takes place next week on 9/12 at 7:30 pm.
• Festival appreciation dinner scheduled for 10/13

· Diablo Taiko club-Kathie Fujisaki

· Due to the number of Taiko drums and space availability, they are not taking any new members as they are already full!

· Membership Chair- Mike Espinosa

· This is renewal season. A senior is considered 70 years of age (as of 1/07). Seniors who do not have to pay membership dues must still submit a membership form to Mike Espinosa.

All clubs are to submit rosters by November 1^st.

OLD BUSINESS

None

New Business:

· Muriel Wakayama requested the JA club have a media room: ie: T.V., DVD player and projector so that senior groups/large groups could watch Asian movies together. She is to research cost and present at next month’s meeting.

Adjourned: 8:20

Recorded by: Leslie Hisaka

Approved by: Pat Baba, President