Minutes of Asha-Austin Meeting

1 October 2006

Attendees: Pankaj, Arvind, Ashwini, Sharanya, Santhosh, Sanjeev, Venkatesh, Sree, Arvind, Gaurav, Anita, Kavita, Ajay, Sais

1) Kavita gave a wonderful update about the mehdiganj water struggle. You can find her presentation at:

http://www.ashanet.org/projects-new/documents/707/mehdiganj_30sep06.ppt

2) Marathon update and discussions.

This year we have 52 runners this year

6 – Ultra Marathoners

9 – marathoners

4 – Motive half-marathoners

33 – Half-marathoners for AT&T/3M

The number of runners last year was 16. Rogue had come forward to let asha runners to participate in their programs for only $25. The number this year is much larger than anticipated either by us or by Rogue. Rogue has been facing a big financial crunch due to the large number of runners and has expressed their inability to continue to program with the cost.

We worked through the numbers and decided that we can support another $1300 to Rogue. These funds would come from asha’s admin expenses as we cannot to ask our runners to give another $25 in the middle of the program.

Since minutes are open to general public, Rogue’s internal finances are not mentioned in these minutes. Please contact any of the volunteers who attended the meeting to understand the reasoning for the above decision.

It was decided that we should communicate to Rogue that starting next year we should pick an amount that we can cover the coaches required meeting in July with Rogue.

We have also received a deal with Brooks to get a relatively cheap T-shirt. Plain T-shirts are $6 and with print they could be around $10. We however do not have our happy yellow color and we had only choice between Blue, Black, White, Red, Gray.

Blue – 1

Red – Rest

Yellow –1

We will go with the red T-shirts.

We went over the present logo. The feedback was:

- The team asha logo should be bigger

- The swipe looks like a cola logo and people didn’t like it