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• The BAGR community was saddened at the demise of Anjan Bagchee’s mother, Lilly Mitra’s mother, Dinesh Tyagi’s mother, Indrajit Banerjee’s father and Sanjay Palit’s mother. Our thoughts are with the Bagchee, Mitra, Tyagi, Banerjee and Palit family.
• Congratulations to Saurabh Ghosh, son of Ranu & Amitabha Ghosh for graduating from high school. Saurabh joins SUNY Buffalo to pursue his undergraduate studies.
• Congratulations to Subrata Das, daughter of Mamata and Sudhakar Das for graduating from SUNY Buffalo. Subrata joins Syracuse University to pursue her career in medicine.
• Congratulations to Shabnam,Akib, Zoya & Intekhab Alam on their new home.
• Congratulations to Indrani & Shyamal Mitra on their new home.
• Congratulations to Christina and Subhasis Mukerjee on the birth of their daughter Anika Niki Mukerjee.
• Congratulations to parents Amit and Urvashi Saha and grandparents Dr. Sushil and Sabita Saha on the birth of Ariana and Roshan Saha.
• A warm welcome to our new community members Dipti and Sagar Ghosh Dastidar and their son Sanjoy.

General Body Meeting Minutes

0. Introduction
 - 2009 BAGR General Body Meeting was held on April 18, 2009 at ICC.
 - It was attended by nearly the complete membership.
 - No PA system was available.

1. General Remarks
   - Had problem with print vendor for Bivash.
   - Alternate Bivash print vendor has been identified.
   - Bivash samples were available & orders were taken.
   - Advertising revenues remained steady during the year.
   - Please patronize our advertisers and mention you saw their Ad in Bengali Magazine.
   - Restaurant Advertisers were: India House, Tandoor, and Thali of India.
   - Grocery Advertisers were: Desi Bazaar, India House, and Namaste.
   - Mention Bengali Association at Tandoor Restaurant and get $1 off lunch
 & $2 off dinner per person
   - Website, Email List, & Facebook group have been created and/or updated.
   - Directory is available. Added a merchants' section to the directory.
   - Committee decided that good financial situation justified adding another event.
   - Committee decided to revive Winter Picnic.
   - Online access to checking account has been set up.

2. Year-in-Review
   - Kunal Bhowmick, the Secretary, provided a vivid description of our year's events.
   - They were: Summer Picnic, Bijoya, Saraswati Puja, Winter Picnic, & Noboborsho.
   - Slideshow played during dinner with pictures from the events.

3. Financial Update
   - Summary report showed estimated slight net surplus for the year.
   - Summary report was prepared and signed by Peter Paul.
   - Summary report was audited and signed by Asit De.
   - Final report will include exact Noboborsho & Bivash revenue and expenses.
   - Maintaining slightly more than $6500 in the bank account.
   - Detailed spreadsheet showing every check written and detailed revenue is available.

4. Questions from the floor
 Question on whether the Winter Picnic was self-financed? No, it was not.
 Proposal to require that the Winter Picnic be completely self-financed was rejected by a majority vote of the general body.
 Proposal to allow the Executive Committee to decide, based on the financial situation at the time, whether or not to have a 
 Winter Picnic was passed by a overwhelming majority vote of the general body.
 Question on what is the size of the BAGR membership? ~53 Members (Ed: actual number is 43)
 Question on what % of the Rochester Bengali Community are members of BAGR? Based on membership and size of the directory, ~75% (Ed: actually closer to 60%). 
 It was noted that some Community members are not listed in the directory so the actual number is lower.

5. Elections
   - The President (elected last year) is Lilly Mitra.
   - The following people were elected to office at this meeting:
   Secretary: Avijit Dasgupta
   Treasurer: Falguni Bagchee
   Committee Members: Indrani Mitra, Ranu Ghosh, Anita Banerjee,and Nilanjan Dasgupta
   President-Elect for 2010-11: Soumyaroop Bhattacharya

6. Meeting Closure
 The new BAGR President, Lilly Mitra, led the membership in thanking the 2008-09 committee for their service and the meeting was closed.

Executive Committee 2009-2010

BAGR has elected the new Executive Committee for the year 2009-2010 during Poila Boisakh. Click here to see the new members. We thank the outgoing Executive Committee for their excellent performance throughout the past year. We also thank the members for their participation.

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