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I Would Like to Call Your Attention to Two Changes That Was Voted on at the Annual General Meeting on November 14, 2015 Vol.55 - No.4 A Publication of UMA, Inc Oct – Dec 2015 Editor: Ricardo de Senna, 1950 Elkhorn Court – Apt 423, San Mateo, CA 94403 E-mail: [email protected] I would like to call your attention to two changes that was voted on at the Annual General Meeting on November 14, 2015. UMA News Bulletin In keeping up with the times, effective immediately, all members with email addresses on file with us will have the UMA News Bulletin e-mailed to them. Paper subscribers will still receive the paper edition of the UNB in addition to the e-mail edition. All UMA News Bulletins are also available to everyone on our website www.uma-casademacau.com For your convenience there is no need for login and password entries. Simply save our website address on your “Favorites” option on your computer, so you can just click on it to access our website and click on CURRENT BULLETIN to enjoy our bulletin. Macau Encontro There will be no timeline eligibility requirements for prospective members to join UMA to participate in the upcoming Encontro 2016. In closing, I would like to wish all our Members a very Merry Christmas and Blessings in the coming New Year filled with health and happiness. Sandy Souza President UMA NEWS BULLETIN – 2015-Q4 Issue Page 1 of 28 . At UMA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING November 14, 2015 Macau Cultural Center, Fremont, CA It is with pleasure that I welcome you to UMA’s Annual General Meeting. I am so glad to see you all here. It has been a very interesting year to say the least. Attendance is up since we reduced the attendance fee for the events and absorbed the increase in expenses. I received many favorable comments at our parties. My appreciation goes to the hard-working Social Committee headed by Flavia. My personal thanks also to our Board members who encouraged me to stay on during my temporary eye problem, especially to Zinha who resumed the position of Presidency briefly during that period. A special thanks goes to Francis Carion, our Ex-Treasurer and now our Membership Chairperson for all time he had put in for UMA. After all these years, he will relinquish this duty as of December 31. I will take om this on responsibility until a volunteer steps up. Please see me if you are interested. We are keeping to our Mission Statements. Preservation of Cultural Heritage: Portuguese classes were held at the MCC and in early 2016 a Patua work shop to be conducted by Dr. Miguel de Senna Fernandes from Macau, pending funding from Macau. Maintenance of Fraternal relationship with similar groups: I have attended various events with various Portuguese Organizations representing UMA. We maintain a good working relationship with Club Lusitano of California and Casa de Macau California. We still jointly held the Dia de Sao Joao as well as Our Lady of Fatima Mass and Luncheon for the members of three Casas. We also jointly participated in hosting Jorge Forjaz (Historian), author of Famílias Macaenses during his visit here to update his forthcoming edition of the book in 2016 in time for the Macau Encontro. We will be covering our Proposed Events later in the meeting. We have a very exciting year ahead filled with events as well as the Encontro which is scheduled for late 2016. In closing I would like to personally wish you all the best, and a very Healthy and Happy 2016. As always, I am always open to suggestions and ideas for the betterment of UMA, after all this is your Club and I am at your service. Sandy Souza President UMA NEWS BULLETIN – 2015-Q4 Issue Page 2 of 28 Minutes - UMA AGM November 14, 2015 at Macau Cultural Center, Fremont, CA (subject to approval by the UMA BoD) 1. Roll Call and Prayer The meeting was called to order at 11:20 a.m. President Sandy Souza gave the opening prayer. Pauline de Assis called roll. Present: Sandy Souza, President, Flavia Greubel, VP, Joanne Segovia, Treasurer, Pauline de Assis, Secretary, and Directors Luiz Ozorio, Maria Gomes, Vilma Remedios and Ramon Xavier Absent - Marie Guterres 2. Approval of Minutes Raquel Remedios requested the Minutes be read and Pauline obliged. Flavia moved to approve; seconded by Joanne. 3. Treasurer’s Report Joanne reported UMA’s Income & Expense Statement for the fiscal year Oct. 1 - Sept. 30, 2015 reading the breakdown of the different categories from the projected statements on the wall with the final figures of income at $27,532.28, expenses of $29,184.66 for a negative of $1,652.28 (see below report). Sandy stated UMA will be giving a lot more in subsidies for next year’s events. Of note was the discrepancy of $388.42 which will need to be resolved. Ozzie moved for temporary approval until resolution of the discrepancy, and the Directors will approve by email; Maria Gomes seconded. 4. Membership Chairperson’s Report Francis Carion reported on the membership change numbers of 2014 to 2015, for members in the different categories, i.e., U.S. (senior, honorary, young adults, regular and subscription), overseas and Scotland with the total in 2014 of 560 as compared to 559 in 2015, a decrease of just one member (see attached reports). He will step down as Membership Chairperson as of Jan. 1, 2016. Sandy thanked him for his many years of dedicated service and she will take over until a volunteer steps up. 5. President’s Report Sandy presented her President’s Report (per page 2). UMA NEWS BULLETIN – 2015-Q4 Issue Page 3 of 28 6. UMA Bulletin - Editor’s Report Ricardo de Senna, UMA’s new Editor, thanked Daniel Gomes, his predecessor, the Bulletin article contributors and the UMA Board for their guidance, confidence and expectations he’ll strive to live up to. As Editor for the last three quarters he commented on CMC’s (Content Management Corp) reasonable prices, their good job; however, he believes the processes and procedures are somewhat archaic and inefficient, and had given his personal check of $500 to cover postage rather than wait for the postage cost from UMA (Sandy stated that Ricardo be reimbursed). Because the cost of printing, mailing, etc. is costly, he suggested that Subscription members (no hard copies) receive the NB by e-mail instead of viewing online. A lengthy discussion followed as to the pros and cons of sending the NB by e-mail where it could be widely distributed. A consensus was reached that it is free advertising and can garner new members as well as save money. Joanne moved to approve and Zinha seconded. 7. Printing for UMA Bulletin, CMC The matter of printing the UNB for was brought up by Ricardo wherein, because CMC is a small company, they cannot absorb the cost of postage and therefore held back sending out the UNB until funds came in from UMA. Ricardo, therefore, deposited the $500 needed. He will be reimbursed his out-of-pocket. 8. Report on MCC Sandy reported on the Macau Cultural Center (MCC) Board of Directors Meeting on August 16 reading all the particular categories held at the meeting, including the suggestion by Ricardo de Senna regarding the MCC Bylaws concerning unification of the casas in Clause 5 of Section 1 which states “To strive toward the unification of Casa de Macau USA, Inc., Lusitano Club of California Inc., and UMA Inc., with the intent to merge them into one single entity”. Two casas, UMA and Lusitano were not ready to unify and Sandy proposed that the clause be deleted, seconded by Ozzie. Lengthy discussions followed as to reasons for or against unification. Lunch break was taken at 1:20 pm and meeting resumed at 2:10 pm. Ricardo de Senna gave his spiel on the unification of the casas. Upon further discussion, general membership included, it was passed by majority vote to reinstate the unification clause to the MCC Bylaws. 9. Report from 2015 Committees Flavia did not have a specific report. Ramon gave the different events held in 2015. UMA NEWS BULLETIN – 2015-Q4 Issue Page 4 of 28 10. Proposed Events for Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2016 Flavia, chair of the Social Committee stated that the functions in the coming year will basically be the same as last year. Place and dates based on availability to be determined at our Social Committee meetings. 11. Proposed Budget for Jan. 1 - Sept. 30, 2016 Sandy gave the budget expense for the 2016 events with details of the profit/losses incurred, and the projected amounts for next year, including the increase to $1,000 to So. California for their dim sum luncheon. 12. Macau Encontro 2016 Sandy stated that the proposed 2016 Encontro will likely be on the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving. The issue of the subsidy from Macau for attending the Macau Encontro was discussed in great detail with a motion proposed by Vilma that there be no restrictions except that attendee must be a member of UMA; Pauline seconded the motion and by majority vote, motion carried. Zinha made a motion that Flavia head the travel arrangements for the Encontro, using the same travel agent, Sahyang, of the last Encontro, and Singapore Airlines, seconded by Vilma. 13. Additional New Business Ricardo brought up the unification of the casas issue again asking what UMA proposes to do. More discussion ensued regarding unification and the general consensus was that it was UMA’s original intention, but due to resistance by one or more casas, it never came about. So, other than reinstating clause 5, Section 1 of the MCC Bylaws, the issue remains unanswered for the time being with hopes that at future MCC meetings, it may finally happen, sooner rather than later.
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