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ICC Board of Directors Meeting (2
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BOD17
Date: April 12th, 2022
Attendees: Moslem Noori (1), Amir H.
Ghaseminejad (2), Reza Namdari (3), Arezou
Khadir(4), Ahmad Ehsandar(5), Daniel
Sarvestani(6), Mohammad Rad(7)
Absantees: Saman Tabasinejad (3) Mohsen
Khaniki (3)
Meeting Agenda:
1.
Welcoming Mohammad Rad
The meeting of the Board of Directors (BoD)
was called to order at 8:32 pm eastern time
by Moslem Noori.
● Minutes of this meeting were taken by
Amir-hassan Ghaseminejad.
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The meeting started with welcoming Mohammad
Rad who outlined his plans for holding a
number information sessions and webinars to
serve the community including newcomers and
job seekers. The sessions will be proposed
to the BOD and will be held afterwards.
Mohamad provided the BOD with the
information regarding his first webinar
which can possibly be a source of donation
income for ICC.
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Arezou reported the success
international women's day event that was
held with mental health committee and arts
committee which had good reception in social
media. The arts events for Norooz Eid were
discussed. A joint project is going to be
mounted regarding the analysis of data from
statistics Canada regarding Iranian-Canadian
community. Volunteers with academic
background can help this research. A number
of podcasts are planned that will run with
Daniel. There is an effort going on to apply
for research grants.
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Amirhassan reported that the Mail
server on iccongress.net is ready to be used
and can reduce our Nation Builder costs. The
research on Free and open source CRMs is not
concluded yet as all have some modules that
are paid. We need a comparison of the total
cost of staying with Nation Builder compared
with alternatives or porting some of the
capabilities to free alternatives. It was
discussed that we can minimize our costs by
keeping some core functionality in Nation
Builder and the rest in Free Alternatives.
Hosting our website in Wordpress can give us
enough control on tracking interactions with
emails. Ahmad will report about the
breakdown of the contacts that we are
holding in Nation Builder and its costs and
capabilities. Sending Blue a solution based
in France, and CiviCRM were proposed as
possible alternatives.
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Daniel has had a number of meetings
with Arezou and will have meeting with
Amirhassan and others regarding funding
sources. He had a podcast on first nations.
Will work with Arezou on various paths that
we can pursue getting funding in relation
with first nations. Discussion is necessary
with a legal advisor regarding proper
structure for applying for funding joint
with other institutions, as may be required
by funding sources. A comparison of
different approaches should be provided to
BOD.
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Ahmad reported a number emails that
were sent to members. The birth of his child
has delayed his work on minutes BOD
meetings. Minutes of January is ready to be
finalized and February minutes is in
progress.
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Reza has produced a number of copies
of a nice done ICC calendar based on art
exhibition gallery which can be obtained
with a minimal donation. Moslem emphasized
that although we have reduced the
operational costs to a minimum, still the
board members have been paying from their
pocket to overcome financial difficulties
ICC is facing; therefore, attracting
donations is very important. Various
possible approaches to collecting donations
were discussed.
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Moslem raised the importance of
providing services to our member which may
be a source of income for the organization.
He has been in touch with a Canadian
reporter who is interested in publishing an
article regarding the difficulties that
Iranian-Canadians are facing if they have
done their mandatory military service in
Sepah. A number of cases that were reported
to ICC were discussed. A symposium for
Iranian-Canadian institutions can be held in
which such organizations can introduce
themselves to community can be planned for
the Fall.
Meeting was adjourned at 9:45 PM ET.
ICC Board of Directors Meeting (2
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BOD16
Date: March 03rd , 2022
Attendees:
Moslem Noori (1), Amir H. Ghaseminejad (2),
Reza Namdari (3), Ahmad Ehsandar(4), Mohsen
Khaniki (5), Saman TabasiNejad(6), Daniel
Bagheri Sarvestani(7), Younes Zandiabadi
(8)
Absantees: Arezou Khadir
Meeting Agenda:
1. Updating the ICC bylaws according to ONCA
2. Public Forum on Iranian Canadian
organizations in Canada
3. Public Relation committee
The meeting of the Board of Directors (BoD)
was called to order at 8:14 pm eastern time
by Moslem Noori.
● Minutes of this meeting were taken by Reza
Namdari.
The meeting started with discussion
regarding a few topics including updating
ICC bylaws,
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Moslem Noori explained that we need to
update our bylaws based on ONCA by 2024. He
also described the process to register ICC
as a federal non-profit corporation based on
information from volunteer lawyers. The
process is complicated, and we need to
discuss with corporation lawyers to get an
official opinion.
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Reza Namdari informed that he verified the
process to register the name and there are 2
other firms registered with the names close
to Iranian Canadian Congress. It is
impossible to register the same name
federally or provincially for anyone else.
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Moslem Noori & Mohsen Khaniki emphasized
that we have to review the bylaws to fill
the gaps required by the law.
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Amir H. Ghaseminejad asked if the new ONCA
has any change regarding the privacy of the
members information. Moslem Noori answered
that he has checked and that part of the law
has remained unchanged.
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Moslem Noori moved to the next important
topic of a public Forum to introduce Iranian
Canadian organizations to the community. The
timeline of such Forum would be some time in
summer 2022. The motion was seconded by Reza
Namdari and it was passed unanimously.
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The next topic was creating an outreach
committee to connect with elders and
experienced Iranian Canadians and increase
membership. Moslem Noori explained that he
discussed with Kayhan Razavi if he would
like to take charge of the committee but he
prefers to help from aside and not directly
having the responsibility of such committee.
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Reza Namdari volunteered to run this
committee. Amir H. Ghaseminejad suggested
the name would be Public relation committee
as foreseen by the bylaws.
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Moslem proposed the motion to create the
Public Relation committee and Reza Namdari
as the chair of this committee. The motion
was seconded by Amir H. Ghaseminejad. The
motion was passed unanimously.
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Moslem Noori reminded that the article one
of the bylaws needs to be changed on the
website as it was passed at the AGM.
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Saman Tabasinejad, Reza Namdari and Daniel
Bagheri Sarvestani informed the board on the
progress for 8th of March program
(International Woman’s day).
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Younes Zangiabadi informed the board that he
has to resign from the board since he does
not have much time to put for ICC’s works.
He would prefer to make the space for new
people to join the board and he will be
helping ICC as a member from now on.
Meeting was adjourned at 9:20 PM ET.
ICC
Board of Directors Meeting (2
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BOD15
Date:
February 03rd,
2022
Attendees:
Moslem Noori(1), Amir H. Ghaseminejad(2),
Reza Namdari(3), Arezou Khadir(4), Daniel
Bagheri Sarvestani(5), Saman Tabasinejad(6),
Mohsen Khaniki(7).
Absantees: Younes Zangiabadi
Meeting Agenda:
1. Update from the board members on current
projects
The meeting of the Board of Directors (BoD)
was called to order at 8:04 pm eastern time
by Moslem Noori.
● Minutes of this meeting were taken by
Ahmad Ehsandar.
The meeting started with discussion
regarding a few topics including PS752 and
upcoming AGM
➢Moslem Noori updated the board that during
the last month he mostly worked on getting
ready for AGM, preparing financial report,
etc.
➢He also had a meeting with member
regarding the biometric office in Tehran
that right now is providing service for
European countries and but not Canada.
➢He also thanked all board members for
their work on AGM. And also complained about
the lack of support during the AGM from our
supporters.
➢Arezou informed that she and Daniel and
other volunteers are working on the and
Communal healing/Resilience Building project
in mental health committee. next step is to
publish the results.
➢She also informed the board that she has
asked for a meeting with Micheal Parsa to
share the result.
➢Arezou mentioned that she is also working
on Nouroz event.
➢Moslem Noori raised the issue of
membership payments and explained that it is
much easier to have only online payment for
membership fee.
➢AmirHassan GhasemiNejad added that it will
be on secretary’s discretion to accept
payment in cash or other methods or ask for
documents to make sure he or she is eligible
to join the organization.
➢Moslem Noori also mentioned that we can
have an acknowledgement clause that people
can check when they are registering.
➢AmirHassan GhasemiNejad explained that
legally we cannot prevent Canadian citizen
from joining our organization. however, we
encourage only Iranian Canadian to join.
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A motion was moved by Moslem Noori to define
the membership eligibility. Based on new
definition anyone who is a citizen or is
currently residing in Canada can become a
member upon paying his membership fee. The
secretary will have the power and authority
to ask any
ICC Board of Directors Meeting (2
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BOD14
Date:
January 06th,
2022
Attendees:
Moslem Noori(1), Amir H. Ghaseminejad(2),
Reza Namdari(3), Arezou Khadir(4), Ahmad
Ehsandar (5), Mohsen Khaniki(6), Saman
TabasiNejad(7).
Absantees: Kayhan Razavi (resigned)
Meeting Agenda:
1. Discussing the timeline and steps for
upcoming AGM
The meeting of the Board of Directors (BoD)
was called to order at 8:11 pm eastern time
by Moslem
Noori.
● Minutes of this meeting were taken by
Ahmad Ehsandar.
The meeting started with discussion
regarding a few topics including PS752 and
upcoming AGM
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Moslem Noori mentioned that we need to
prepare a statement for anniversary of
downing
flight PS752. Reza mentioned that we should
include calling government to provide
permanent residency to the families of the
PS752 victims in the statement. Saman
Tabasinejad and Reza will work together to
prepare the statement. The draft will be
shared
with the other board members for their
approval before publication.
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Reza Namdari informed that he is covering
stories regarding this tragedy by posting
them all
ICC’s social media.
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Saman Tabasinejad will follow up with a
volunteer who created an animation for PS752
and
ask for her permission to post it on ICC’s
social media.
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Moslem Noori moved to the next important
topic of upcoming AGM. He informed that Reza
and Mohsen are following up with accountant
to have the financial report ready as soon
as
possible.
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Moslem also informed that Mr. Mehran
Farazmand has agreed to help with preparing
the
2021 financial report.
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Mohsen Khaniki informed the board that the
Audited report of 2019 financial statement
has
been prepared and shared with Ahmad and
Moslem. He asked secretary to upload it in
our
website.
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Ahmad Ehsandar raised the issue of members
who asked to pay for the membership fee
without a credit card. He mentioned that he
is currently following the process laid out
by
Marvin for the last AGM. He asked the board
to decide and provide guidelines to members
on how they can pay for their membership
fee.
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Moslem Noori suggested that it might be
better to have the credit card option as the
only
acceptable type of payment for membership
registration. This way it can keep
everything
simple, reducing the workload on secretary
and treasurer, as well as easily track the
payments through Stripe payment processing
platform.
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Ahmad Ehsandar and Mohsen Khaniki argued
that not all people have credit cards, and
it
might prevent unjustly some people in our
community to become a member of ICC.
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Moslem Noori then suggested we can initiate
the PayPal service for payments if one is
not
willing to use a credit card. PayPal is a
better choice as compared to Interact
payment since
it can be tracked easily for financial
purposes. In addition, if the number of
people using
Interact becomes large, we don’t have the
resources to process their request.
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Ahmad Ehsandar also raised this issue that
the board need to clarify what are the
eligibility
conditions for the people to become a member
of the ICC. The first paragraph of Article
15,
Section 1 ends with making a condition of
residency in Canada.
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Mohsen Khaniki suggested we keep the
membership conditions open, but we recognize
that
it falls under secretary’s discretion to ask
for a valid ID to verify the identity of
members.
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Board had inconclusive discussion on this
topic, and it was decided to continue the
discussion in the next meeting.
Meeting was adjourned at 9:58 PM ET.
member or registrant for the documents to
confirm their identity and their
eligibility. The motion was seconded by Reza
Namdari.
o Attending: 7, in favor: 6,
o abstention: Mohsen Khaniki
o Against: --
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A motion was moved by Moslem Noori to limit
the acceptable the method of payment for
membership registration to online method
which can be done through our website. Those
who have legitimate excuse are encouraged to
contact the secretary. The secretary will
have the power and authority to ask for the
documents required to confirm their identity
and their eligibility. The motion was
seconded by Daniel Bagheri Sarvestani.
o Attending: 7, in favor: 6,
o abstention: Mohsen Khaniki
o Against: --
➢Amirhasan GhasemiNejad thanked all people
who put time and effort into preparation of
the AGM. He also asked the board to
officially express the ICC’s gratitude to
those who helped the board in the last few
months.
Meeting was adjourned at 9:59 PM ET
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