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Unity Celebration day:

Bangladesh Day

 

With Parade

 

On April 1, 2007, Sunday

 

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BUFLA

Bangladesh Unity Federation of Los Angeles

BUFLA Website:  www.bufla.com

 

Minutes of the Meeting

November 5, 2006,  Sunday,  2PM to 4 PM

Shatto Recreation Center, 3191 W. 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020

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Summary of the Mtg-Minutes:

 

  1. About 50 people representing 25 different Organizations attended this meeting.
  2. Oct 1, 2006 Mtg Minutes were approved.
  3. BUFLA-Logo discussion was referred to the next meeting.
  4. The date of Unity Celebration Day, was changed to April 1, 2007, to be celebrated as “Bangladesh Day” with Parade.
  5. Several Action-Committees have been formed for “Bangladesh Day” preparations.
  6. 3 other items were not discussed because of shortage of time.
  7. The Mtg ended at 4:20 PM
  8. Next meeting is on December 3, 2006, Sunday starting at 2 PM at Shatto.

 

 

Here are the details of the Minutes.

 

Attendees:  (in alphabetical order):

 

 

  1. Abdul Matin
  2. Abdullah Al-Mamun
  3. Abu Hossain -Manju
  4. Abul Kashem Toha
  5. Abul Khair
  6. Ahlan Habib
  7. Alam Noor
  8. Anisur Rahman
  9. Badrul Brad Chowdhury
  10. Delshad Rahman
  11. Dr. M. A. Hashem
  12. Dr. Zahangir Sayem
  13. Emdadul Haque -Bob
  14. F. Khan
  15. Farid Khan
  16. Ferdous Khan
  17. Humayun Kabir
  18. Ishtiaq A. Chisti
  19. Jalil Khan
  20. Jewel
  21. K. M. Showkot Hassan
  22. Kamal Khan
  23. Khaleed Hossain
  24. Khandakar Alam
  25. Lincoln Khan
  26. Mahbub Khan
  27. Mahtabuddin Tipu
  28. Majib Siddiquee
  29. Md. Babul
  30. Md. Denise Arnold
  31. Md. Rafiqul Islam
  32. Mizanur Rahman –Shaheen
  33. Mohammad Enamul Haque – Emran
  34. Mohammad F. Hossain
  35. Mujibur Rahman
  36. Mushfiqur Chowdhury –Khosru
  37. Omar Huda
  38. Quazi Moshurul Huda
  39. Quddus Khan
  40. Saleh Kibria
  41. Shah H. Alam
  42. Shohel Rahman -Badal
  43. Syed Abed Nipu
  44. Zaman

 

 

All 50 Organizations are listed below in alphabetical order.

25 Organizations were represented (in bold black) with the names of the representatives. The Organizations in regular Italic blue were not represented.

 

  1. AABEA   (Saleh Kibria)
  2. Agni Bina
  3. Ahle-Sunnah al-Jama’a  (Abu Hossain -Manju)
  4. Anjumane Rahman   (Abu M. Hossain)
  5. ASBBS
  6. Awami League California, USA  (Shohel Rahman Badal,  F. Khan)
  7. BAC – Bangladesh Association of California
  8. BALA (Bangladesh Association of Los Angeles)  (Ishtiaq Chisti, Emdadul Haque -Bob)
  9. Bangabandhu Foundation
  10. Bangla Pathshala  (Quazi Moshurul Huda)
  11. Bangladesh Academy
  12. Bangladesh Asociation of Valley, LA   (Mohammad Enamul Hoque –Emran, Ferdous Khan, Abul K. Toha)
  13. Bangladesh Association of Greater valley
  14. Bangladesh Awami League, California Branch   (Mizanur Rahman - Shaheen)
  15. Bangladesh Cultural Organization
  16. Bangladesh in America   (Mahtabuddin Tipu)
  17. Bangladesh Mela
  18. Bangladesh Shiksha Kendro  (Syed Abed Nipu,  Alam Noor)
  19. Bangladesh Valley Association
  20. Bangladeshi American Democratic Party of California   (Mahtabuddin Tipu)
  21. Banoful
  22. BAPAC (Bangladeshi American Political Action Committee)    (Jalil Khan,  Omar Huda)
  23. Baul  (Mizanur Rahman –Shaheen)
  24. BDSAC (Bangladesh Students Association of California)   (Abdullah Al-Mamun, Kamal Khan)
  25. Bengal Heritage of California
  26. BNP    (Emdadul Haque -Bob)
  27. Boishakhi Mela   (Lincoln Khan)
  28. BSLA (Bangladesh Society of Los Angeles)
  29. BWAC (Bangladesh Women’s Association of California)
  30. California Jalalabad Association
  31. Chittagong Association of S. CA   (Mujibur Rahman)
  32. Christian Association
  33. Dhaka University Alumni Association  (Quazi Moshurul Huda)
  34. Jalalabad Association of California
  35. Jalshaghar Entertainment   (Shah H. Alam,  Khaleed Hossain)
  36. Jatio Party
  37. Jhumur Gushti
  38. Khulna Society
  39. LA-Sherrif’s Advisory Committee    (Jalil Khan,  Omar Huda)
  40. MUNA (Muslim Ummah of North America)    (Anisur Rahman,  Mohammad F. Hossain)
  41. Munshiganj Bikrampur Samity
  42. NANA (Narayanganj Association of North America)   (Shohel Rahman Badal,  Zaman)
  43. Organization of Orange County
  44. Shishu Kishore Jagot
  45. Tablig Jamat
  46. Taranga (Nazrul Academy)
  47. USBBF (US-Bangladesh Business Forum)
  48. USBCC (US-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce)   (Dr. Zahangir Sayem,  Md. Denise Arnold)
  49. Uttoron  (Dr. M. A. Hashem, Md. Babul, Farid Khan, Ahlan Habib, Emdadul Haque -Bob)
  50. Writers’ Association   (Quazi Moshurul Huda, Mahtabuddin Tipu)

 

 

Out of the 8 Newspaper/TV Representatives, 4 were present (in bold black) at the meeting, as listed below:

 

  1. ATN Bangla   (Dr. M. A. Hashem, Emdadul haque -Bob)
  2. Channel-I   (Quazi Moshurul Huda)
  3. Ekush    (Quazi Moshurul Huda)
  4. Freelance
  5. NTV
  6. Thikana
  7. News Asia
  8. Vinnomot   (Quddus Khan, Syed Abed Nipu)

 

 

The Agenda of the meeting was as follows:

 

1. Introductions by the attendees.

2. Approval of Oct 1 Meeting Minutes.

3. BUFLA Logo review.

4. Review of BUFLA Website www.bufla.com

 

5. Re-visiting the date of the “Unity Celebration Day”.

6. Re-visiting the Location of the  “Unity Celebration Day”.

 

7. Formation of several Action committees for the “Bangladesh Day” preparations

i)  Parade Route determination and Venue Reservation,  ii)  Stage set-up and Booth setup, iii)  Booth collections,  iv)  (a) Inviting dignitaries (b) Reception of Dignitaries.  v)  Coordinators,  vi)  Program: (a) Parade, (b) Speeches by the Dignitaries, (c) Discussion session on Special topics,  (d) Cultural Program,   viii)  Sound system,  ix) Fund raising,   x) Brochure,   xi)  Treasurer.

 

8. Invitation to Dr. Yunus to LA / Southern California

 

9. Selection of Ad-hoc Committee for Draft Constitution.

 

10. Selection of several Sub-Committee members (4 to 5 members per Sub-Committee), as follows: (i) Community Center,  (ii) Job-training,  (iii) Job-finding,  (iv) Immigration help,  (v) New-Comers’ help,  (vi) Political liason with local/state officials,  (vii) Youth Network liason,  (viii) Outstanding Service or Achievement selection,  (ix) Burial Service,  (x) Bylaws, (xi) Website (xii) Other specific community needs.

 

11. Next meeting date.

12. Close of the meeting.

 

 

The meeting continued as follows:

 

Agenda Discussion:

 

At first the Agenda of the meeting was presented and discussed. It was unanimously approved. Then the meeting started.

 

Item – 1:  (Introductions)

 

All the attendees introduced themselves individually.

 

Item – 2:   (Oct 1, 2006  Mtg-minutes)

 

The October 1, 2006 Mtg-Minutes was discussed in this meeting for any errors, and then it was unanimously approved.

  

 

Item – 3:   (BUFLA Logo)

 

Shah Alam offered in the last meeting that he will present several Logo drawings by a professional Bangladeshi artist in this meeting for the team’s review. But Shah Alam was absent in this meeting. So, Dr. Hashem has been requested to coordinate with Shah Alam or another community member and present some Logo designs in the next meeting.

 

Item – 4:   (Website)

 

(a) Suggestion was received to improve the website. It will be done by forming a website sub-committee. (b) Suggestion was also received to organize the Community Calendar, so that people do not have to go through a long list of events to find the next events. So, the events list will be re-arranged to have the upcoming events first.

 

 

Item – 5:   Re-visiting the date of the “Unity Celebration Day”.

 

In the last meeting, the Unity Celebration day was selected to be the “Bangladesh Day” on March 25, 2007, Sunday. For our community, the celebration day needs to be on a Sunday because of the work schedule of our community members. March 25 is the closest Sunday to March 26 in 2007. But March 25 is a sad day for Bangladesh, and there were mixed reaction in the community about celebration on that sad day. So, there was a very long, hour long discussion in this meeting about this date. Finally, the following motion was moved:

 

BUFLA Unity Celebration Day will be the “Bangladesh Day” on the last Sunday of March of every year. However, if in any year, the last Sunday falls on March 25, then the “Bangladesh Day” will be celebrated on the following Sunday (April 1).

 

This motion was moved by Majib Siddiquee and seconded by Jalil Khan

 

After a very long discussion, this motion was unanimously approved.

 

So, the first Unity Celebration day will be the “Bangladesh Day” on April 1, 2007.

 

 

Item – 6:   Re-visiting the Location of the “Unity Celebration Day”.

 

There were two suggestions about the location of the celebration.  Those are: (a) Shatto Recreation center, and (b) Harvard Street between 3rd Street and 6th Street.  There was a good length of discussion about the positives and negatives of these two locations. At this stage Ishtiaq Chisti suggested to refer it to the Venue Reservation Action Committee, and everyone agreed to that suggestion.

 

 Item – 7:   Formation of Action Committees:

 

At this stage of the meeting, several Action Committees  were formed in the open forum, in order to prepare for the “Bangladesh Day” celebration. These Action committees are flexible, and are not closed. Anyone whose name is not in any of these Action committees, but would like to help, or would like to suggest any changes, then please contact the relevant Action-committee directly. As a result of feedback from the team, each person has now been assigned to one committee only. The Action Committees are now as follows:

 

Action Committees:

 

 

i) Parade Route determination and Venue Reservation

 

Abdur Razzaque

Emdadul Haque

Ferdous Khan

Mujibur Rahman

Mohammed Ahsan

 

 

ii)  Stage set-up and Booth setup

 

Abdullah Al-Mamoon

Dr. Jewel

Farid Khan

Humayun Kabir

Kamal Pasha

Lincoln Khan

Monwar Hossain

Sawraj

 

iii)  Booth collections

 

Abul Ibrahim

Anis

Babul

Imad

Liton

Matin

Syed Abed Nipu

Tarek

 

iv)  (a) Inviting dignitaries (b) Reception of Dignitaries.  (Guests to be invited are: Governor, Mayors, Senators, Congressmen-women, City Council members, Police Chief, Sherrif, County supervisors, UC-CSU-President-Chancellor, some Hollywood stars, some local Business Executives, Bangladesh Ambassador and Consul General and their full staff, Bangladesh Prime Minister and some other Bangladesh officials, some celebrity Artists of Bangladesh, etc):

 

Ishtiaq Chisti

Jalil Khan

Nazmul Ula

Omar Huda

Quazi Moshurul Huda

Rafiquzzaman

Shamim Hossain

Zainul Abedin

 

v)  Coordinators (To coordinate all Committees): 

 

Abul Kashem Toha

Dablu Amin

Mizan Shaheen

Mofazzal Hossain

Moinul Chowdhury

Mominul Haque Bachu

Shohel Rahman Badal

Siddiqur Rahman

Zahangir Sayem

 

vi)  Program

 

(a) Parade:  Major Hamid,  Major Kutubi

(b) Speeches by the Dignitaries:  Members of the Dignitaries inviting team

(c) Kids’ Cultural Program:  3 - 5  Youths will plan, organize and Conduct. the program

(d) Adults’ Cultural Program:  Ali Ashraf Runu, Zahid Hossain Pintu, Dr. Hashem

 

vii)  Sound system

 

Jalshaghar, Jhumur Gushti

 

 

viii)  Fund raising

 

Abdul Baset

Abu Hossain Manju

Ahmed kabir

Amzad Hossain

Anisur Rahman

Babu

Chinmoy Roy Chowdhury

Delshad Rahman

Dr. Moazzem Hossain

Enamul Haque Emran

Habib Ahmed Tia

Ismail Hossain

Khandakar Alam

Mafiz (Chittagong)

Majib Siddiquee

Maksudur Rahman Jewel

M. Alam

Mohammad Ali

Mohammad Hanif

Muktadir Chowdhury Tarun

Mushfiqur Chowdhury Khasru

Nazrul Islam Kanchan

Nil Kundu

Parish

Dr. Pradip Chowdhury

Serajul Islam Khukon

Shanku Ice

Shafiqur Rahman

 

ix) Brochure

 

Quddus Khan

Yunus Rahi

Jasim Ahmed

Shamsul Islam

Mahtabuddin Tipu

Zafarullah

 

x) Treasurer 

 

Badrul Chowdhury

Saleh Kibria

Shah Alam (Bangla Pathshala)

 

xi) Miscellaneous:

 

(a) Security: 

(b) Parking Control:

(c) Printing and Stationaries:

(d) Ad & Publicity in TV-Radio-NewsPapers-Flyers-etc:

(e) First-Aid:

 

 

 

The following 3 agenda items could not be discussed in the meeting because of shortage of time:

 

Item – 8:  Invitation to Dr. Yunus to LA / Southern California

Item – 9:  Selection of A-hoc Committee for Draft Constitution.

Item – 10:  Selection of several Sub-Committee members (4 to 5 members per Sub-Committee)

 

 

Item – 11:   (Next meeting Date)

 

The next meeting date is December 3, 2006, Sunday,  from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at Shatto Recreation Center, 3191 W. 4th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020. (on 4th Street near Vermont).

 

The meeting adjourned at 4:20 PM.

 

 

Respectfully,

 

Mahbub Khan

408-859-3566-cell

mahbubkhan@ieee.org