| |
These are copies of minutes of this organization (in reverse order of
chronology - oldest last - NEWEST FIRST). Note that minutes of meetings
that take place AFTER the Founder's death, are to be shown on the subsequent changes
page.
The following
meeting minutes, 3/1/17,
are tentative and subject
to board approval in the following year's meeting.
meeting at Suspiros 14, Wednesday, Mar 1,
2017, attendees Dennis Finch, Janice Page, Michael Wein, all using Skype -
the Agenda for this meeting has been submitted to all trustees prior to the
meeting and it was a follows -- Any actions taken in this meeting were added to
the agenda in BOLD letters
acceptance of Annual Financial
Statement which is also publicly displayed at http://www.mpwcf.org/financial_statement.htm
ACCEPTED
acceptance of Minutes of last
year's meeting which is also publicly displayed at http:// www.mpwcf.org/minutes.htm.
ACCEPTED
Old and unfinished business: Current
status of our expected endowment is tabulated below
DISCUSSED AND ACCEPTED
...status marks of our future
endowment:
12-31-10
12-31-11
12-31-12 12/31/13
12/31/14 12/31/15
12/30/16 2/28/17
...current value
of entire MPW estate (excluding any increase in house value) is
understated
at ($000s omitted)…. …………… $6,893 .$7,146
$8.198
$10,427 $11,252
$11,100 $12,260
$12,849
...portion of estate to go to foundation...................2,997
..3.201
3.617
4,648
5,009
4,914
5,487
5,775
...percent of estate that goes to MPWCF................44%.... ..
...43%.... ...45%
44%
44%
45%
45% 45
%
..a
more detailed discussion of the estate and distributions may be found at http://
www.mpwcf.org /funding.htm
 | Status
of Founder's health – Dr. Maxwell stated that the Founder remains in
“end stage emphysema” and must take oxygen 21 hours a day, every day, as
long as he wishes to continue to live here in SMA – ANY stress in his life
Is extremely harmful to his continued life, and even much more harmful to
the quality of howsoever much of his life may yet remain.
NO
CHANGES
DISCUSSED
|
| Discussion
of Foundation’s termination approx 2 years after Founder’s death
- reasons for this and lack of any other options
NO
CHANGES
|
| Resolution
of our Goals and Mission – the attempt to bring Transparency and
Continuity to San Miguel Allende has ceased. We are pleased at the fact that
there has been some progress but saddened by the fact that all of our SMA
grantees are now in default. So
we are continuing our grant program with annual grants to the default USA
organizations, Rider University and the American Civil Liberties Union
Foundation. As these where
listed in the original IRS application, there will be no further attempts to
re-recruit local organizations due to the terminal state of the Founder’s
health.
|
| Goals
and mission – we continue to
be aware that each past SMA grantee has and had a mission that is both
unique and necessary in SMA. As a result of this, we had wished to fund
every such grantee. However,
this Foundation was founded with the original goals of encouraging both
Transparency (too many organizations remained secretive over the years) and
Continuity (since too many organizations had begun to believe that their
volunteers were immortal). As
students of the history of SMA
organizations commencing in 1993, we have observed the many serious problems
that the absence of achievement of these original goals caused various
organizations prior to their eventual discovery that either or both of these
beliefs turned out to be false and incorrect.
|
| Discussion
of our plans for final grants just after the founder’s death can be found
online at www.mpwcf.org/allocations.htm
NO CHANGES
|
| Discussion
of the status of the consequences of Andy Blair’s unilateral abrogation of
our contract, including discussion of the status of our continuing attempts
to bring her to justice.as well as the consequences of her actions vis a vis
the allocations of our endowment between San Miguel and USA grantees.
Reference is made to webpage http://www.mpwcf.org/alloctions.htm
DECIDED THAT EVEN THE MONIES EXPENDED FOR ATTORNEY'S FEES TO EVA COMACHO
HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM US. She never tried to understand the
CLAIM against Andy Blair and has delayed and refused to correct her
erroneous assumptions. We can not go further with this claim and
are still attempting to get the fees advanced to Eva returned to
us. She refuses to accept her errors and insists she did nothing
wrong.
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New business:
·
Election of Directors and
Officers
·
Selection of a date and time
for next year's meeting
Although
the by-laws state the following is necessary in
each meeting, we agreed to dispense with all of
the stipulated portions called for below except
the points marked (XX) which are covered above
anyway.
a.
roll call
b.
reading of the minutes of the preceding
meeting (XX)
c.
reports of committees
d.
reports of officers
(xx)
e.
old and unfinished business
(xx)
f.
new business (XX)
g.
good and welfare
h.
adjournments
Respectfully submitted, for your additions,
corrections, and comments,
Michael Wein, Secretary
Meeting on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at
2:15pm attendees Mike Schiavo,
Barry Barnett, Michael Wein, all attending personally or via Zoom
(online) CHRIS PEETERS WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND. --- The
agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to
all Trustees prior to the meeting, was as follows
and any actions taken in this meeting, were added
to the agenda in ALL BOLD letters or indented
below each category:
acceptance of
Annual Financial Statement which
is also publicly displayed at http://www.mpwcf.org/financial_statement.htm
--- DONE
acceptance of Minutes of last year's meeting
which is also publicly displayed at
http://
www.mpwcf.org/minutes.htm.
--- DONE
We are sad to announce that long term Trustee
Peggy Bell passed away Jan 31 2016. We were
fortunate enough to have known her for so many
years and publicly express our greatest
appreciation for her many contributions to this
Foundation and to all of San Miguel. DISCUSSED
Old and unfinished business: Current status of
our expected
endowment is
tabulated below
status marks of our future endownment
:12-31-09 12-31-10 12-31-11 12-31-12 12/31/13
12/31/14 12/31/15 2/23/16
...current value of entire MPW estate
(excluding any increase in house value) is listed
below and is understated
at ($000s omitted)…. ..
$6,241 $6,893
.$7,146 $8.198
$10,427 $11,252 $11,100 $10,554
...portion of estate to go to foundation.
2,725
2,997 . . 3.201
3.617
4,648
5,009 4,914 4,642
...percent of estate that goes to MPWCF......44%.... .43%. ...45%
44%
44%
45%
44% 44% DISCUSSED
...a more detailed discussion of the estate and
distributions may be found at http://
www.mpwcf.org /funding.htm as well as on
http://www.mpwcf.org\history-estimates.htm
Progress
on the subjects of "transparency"
and "continuity"
- more info
on this subject can be found on the webpages
http://
www.mpwcf.org/transparency.htm,
http://
www.mpwcf.org/continuity.htm and http://www,mpwcf.org/allocations.htm
Status
of Founder's health – Dr. Maxwell stated
that the Founder remains in "end stage
emphysema" and must take oxygen 21 hours
a day, every day, as long as he wishes to
continue to live here in SMA – recent stress
in his life was extremely harmful to his
continued life, and even much more harmful to
the quality of howsoever much of his life may
yet remain. DISCUSSED
Goals
and mission – we continue to be aware that
each grantee (both past and present) has a
mission that is both unique and necessary in
SMA. As a result of this, we wished to fund
every such grantee. However, this Foundation
was founded with the original goals of
encouraging both Transparency (too many
organizations remained secretive over the
years) and Continuity (since too many
organizations had begun to believe that their
volunteers were immortal). As students of the
history of SMA organizations, we have observed
the many serious problems that the absence of
achievement of these original goals caused
various organizations prior to their eventual
discovery that either or both of these beliefs
turned out to be false and incorrect.
In
an effort to make it easier for grantees to
respond each year, we had continued to improve
our 3 pages of templates http:// www.mpwcf.org/templates.htm
wherein we created forms for all of the input
that we expected from grantees each year. That
not only cut down on their work, but also
showed the grantees exactly what we want and
need and all they to do now was to fill in
their own unique responses. This, apparently,
was not sufficient for them to comply with our
needs (their promises)
Discussions,
if any, of the History of the Founder and his
commitments to the MPWC as well as the History of the Founder's
agreements with its partners/grantees in the
original period of the founding of this
Foundation
see http://www.mpwcf.org/history.htm
DONE
Consideration of adding an additional
administrative Trustee – discussion of the
status of the consequences of Andy Blair’s
unilateral abrogation of our contract,
including discussion of the status of our
continuing attempts to bring her to justice.as
well as the consequences of her actions vis a
vis the allocations of our endowment between
San Miguel and USA grantees. Reference is made
to webpage http://www.mpwcf.org/alloctions.htm
DONE
Discussion of Foundation’s termination
two years after Founder’s death - reasons
for this and lack of any other
options DONE
New business:
Election of Directors and
Officers DONE
Selection of a date and time for next
year's meeting DONE
Although
the by-laws state the following is necessary in
each meeting, we agreed to dispense with all of
the stipulated portions called for below except
the points marked (XX) which are covered above
anyway.
a.
roll call
b.
reading of the minutes of the preceding
meeting (XX)
c.
reports of committees
d.
reports of officers
(xx)
e.
old and unfinished business
(xx)
f.
new business (XX)
g.
good and welfare
h.
adjournments
Respectfully submitted, for your additions,
corrections, and comments,
Michael Wein, Secretary
2:15pm
meeting at Suspiros 14, Friday, Mar 13, 2015
, attendees Michael Wein and Chris Peeters in
person and Barry Barnett using Skype Prior
to this meeting, Peggy Bell resigned as Trustee,
then said she retracted the resignation, and then
did not attend after notifying us of her inability
to attend quite late at night on March 12, 2015. The
agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to
all Trustees prior to the meeting, was as follows
and any actions taken in this meeting, were added
to the agenda in ALL BOLD letters or indented
below each category:
acceptance of Annual Financial Statement which
is publicly displayed at http://www.mpwcf.org/financial_statement.htm
DONE
..acceptance
of Minutes of last year's meeting which is
publicly displayed at http://
www.mpwcf.org/minutes.htm.
DONE
…As
a result of our difficulties in gathering our
Trustees at meetings, it was resolved, discussed,
and passed that from now on the Trustees of this
Foundation must have Skype-capability both before
and on the date of each meeting from now on
- Resolution discussed and passed unanimously
Old and unfinished business:
Current status of our expected
endowment is tabulated below and
DISCUSSED
...status
marks of our future endowment: 12-31-08
12-31-09
12-31-10
12-31-11
12-31-12 12/31/13
12/31/14
3/12/15
...current value
of entire MPW estate (excluding any
increase in house value) is
understated
at ($000s omitted)….
$5,247
$6,241 $6,893
.$7,146
$8.198
$10,427
$11,252
$11,388
...portion of estate to go to foundation..........
2,328
2,725
2,997
..3.201
3.617
4,648
5,009
5,066
...percent of estate that goes to MPWCF........
.....44%....
..44%.... ...43%...
...45% 44%
44%
45%
47%
...a more detailed discussion of the estate and
distributions may be found at http://
www.mpwcf.org /funding.htm
DISCUSSED
Progress
on the subjects of "transparency" and
"continuity" - more info on this
subject can be found on the webpages http:// www.mpwcf.org/transparency.htm,
http:// www.mpwcf.org/continuity.htm
and http://www,mpwcf.org/allocations.htm
| Status
of Founder's health – Dr. Maxwell stated
that the Founder remains in “end stage
emphysema” and must take oxygen 21 hours a
day, every day, as long as he wishes to
continue to live here in SMA – recent stress
in his life was extremely harmful to his
continued life, and even much more harmful to
the quality of howsoever much of his life
remains.
DISCUSSED
|
| Goals
and mission –
we still believe that each grantee
(both past and present) has a mission that is
both unique and necessary in SMA. We always
wished to fund every such grantee.
However, this Foundation was founded
with the original goals of encouraging both
Transparency (because too many organizations
remained secretive over the years) and
Continuity (since too many organizations had
begun to believe that their volunteers were
immortal).
As students of the history of
SMA organizations, we have observed the
many serious problems that the absence of
achievement of these original goals caused
various organizations prior to the eventual
discovery that either or both of these beliefs
turned out to be false and incorrect. DISCUSSED
|
| In
ongoing efforts to make it easier for grantees
to respond each year, we continued to improve
our 3 pages of templates
http://
www.mpwcf.org/templates.htm
wherein we created forms for all of the input
that we expected from grantees each year.
That not only cut down on their work,
but also showed the grantees exactly what we
wanted and needed and all they to do now was
to fill in their own unique responses.
NO CHANGES in the past year(s)
|
| Discussions,
if any, of the History of the Founder and his
commitments to the MPWCF see http://www.mpwcf.org/history.htm
|
| discussions,
if any, of the History of the Founder's
agreements with its partners/grantees in the
original period of the founding of this
Foundation http:// www.mpwcf.org/history.htm
|
·
Consideration
of adding an additional administrative Trustee –
discussion of the status of the consequences of
Andy Blair’s unilateral abrogation of our
contract, including discussion of the status of
our continuing attempts to bring her to justice.as
well as the consequences of her actions vis a vis
the allocations of our endowment between San
Miguel and USA grantees.
Reference is made to webpage http://www.mpwcf.org/alloctions.htm
The
current status of the ongoing legal action by the
attorney Eva Comacho was discussed and although
the Trustees noticed how slow was her progress, we
agreed to continue to pursue this matter.
·
Discussion
of Foundation’s termination two years after
Founder’s death
- reasons and lack of other options
no
changes other
that noting with regret that the Andy Blair
default has caused this Foundation and the women
and children of San Miguel millions of USA dollars
in losses because of the restrictions in the
Michael Wein estate papers and their application
to this Foundation, known not only by Andy Blair
but also partially written by Andy Blair at the
Foundation’s conception
New
business:
Election
of Directors and Officers All
3 Trustees were re-elected and Barry Barnett was
elected for the first time as VicePres.and 4th
Trustee.
Selection
of a date and time for next year's meeting a date in late February is contemplated
for 2016, at 2:15 in the afternoon, and we expect
all trustees to attend solely by use of Skype.
Although
the by-laws state the following is necessary in
each meeting, we agreed to dispense with all of
the stipulated portions called for below except
the points marked (XX) which are covered above
anyway.
a.
roll call
b.
reading of the minutes of the preceding
meeting (XX)
c.
reports of committees
d.
reports of officers
(xx)
e.
old and unfinished business
(xx)
f.
new business (XX)
g.
good and welfare
h.
adjournments
Respectfully submitted, for your additions,
corrections, and comments,
Michael Wein, Secretary
This meeting, held at
2:15pm
, Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at Suspiros #14, was attended by
MPWCF trustees Chris Peeters and Michael Wein. (Peggy
Bell notified us on Feb 20th that she was still in
California and would not be able
to attend.) The agenda
for this meeting, having been submitted to all three
Trustees prior to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this
meeting, were added to the agenda in ALL
BOLD letters or indented below each category:
acceptance
of Annual Financial Statement which is
publicly displayed at http://www.mpwcf.org/financial_statement.htm
acceptance
of Minutes of last year's meeting which is
publicly displayed at http://
www.mpwcf.org/minutes.htm.
Old and unfinished business:
Current status of our expected
endowment is tabulated below
|
the
status of our foundation follows:
|
...status
marks of our future endowment:
12-31-08
12-31-09
12-31-10
12-31-11
12-31-12 12/31/13
2/25/14
...current value
estate (excluding any increase in house value) is
therefore
understated
at ($000s omitted)….
... $5,247
$6,241 $6,893
.$7,146
$8.198
$10,427
$10,310
...portion of estate to go to
foundation................
2,328
2,725
2,997
..3.201
3.617
4,648
4,543
...percent
of estate that goes to MPWCF...............
.....44%.....
..44%.... ...43%...
...45% 44%
44%
44%
...a more detailed discussion of the estate and
distributions may be found at http://
www.mpwcf.org /funding.htm
| Progress
on the subjects of "transparency"
and "continuity" - updated
information on this subject can be found on
the two webpages http://
www.mpwcf.org/transparency.htm
and http://
www.mpwcf.org/continuity.htm
|
| Status
of Founder's health – The Founder's doctor
stated that the Founder remains in “end
stage emphysema” and must take oxygen 21
hours a day, every day, as long as he wishes
to continue to live – the recent extreme
stress in his life continues to be very
harmful to the potential continuation of his
life, and even much more harmful to the
quality of whatever of his life remains.
|
| Goals
and mission –
since we
continue to be aware that each grantee (both
past and present) has a mission that is both
unique and necessary in SMA, we wish to fund
every such grantee.
However, this Foundation was founded
with the original goals of encouraging both
Transparency (since too many organizations had
become more secretive over the years) and
Continuity (since too many organizations had
begun to believe that their volunteers were
both immortal and transcendental).
As students of
SMA organizational functions, we have
observed the problems caused prior to the
eventual discovery that either or both of
these beliefs still turn out to be false and
incorrect and are likely to remain so (that
being a "real fact" of life)..
|
| In
an effort to make it easier for grantees to
respond each year, we continue to improve our
3 pages of templates
http://
www.mpwcf.org/templates.htm
wherein we created forms for all of the input
that we expect from grantees each year.
That not only cuts down on their work,
but it also shows them exactly what we want
and need and all they must now do is fill in
their own unique responses.
|
| Discussions,
if any, of the History of the Founder and his
commitments to the MPWCF see http://www.mpwcf.org/history.htm
|
| discussions,
if any, of the History of the Founder's
agreements with its partners/grantees in the
original period of the founding of this
Foundation http:// www.mpwcf.org/history.htm
|
|
Consideration
of adding an additional administrative Trustee
– discussion of the consequences of Andy
Blair’s unilateral abrogation of our
contract, including discussion of the allocation of as much as
is necessary to bring her to justice. In the absence
of fair and equitable "justice", the
provisions of the Founder's Will, and the
restrictions specified on this website, will come
into play and less of the Foundation's assets
will be allocated to San Miguel and will be
defaulted instead to similar organizations in
the USA. Although everyone involved with
this Foundation, the Founder most of all, is
not happy with this result, unless some great
change becomes soon apparent, there will be
little opportunity for any other solution.
|
|
Discussion
of Foundation’s termination two years after
Founder’s death
- reasons and lack of other options,
all in accordance with plans set in motion as
far back as at the conception of this
Foundation.
|
New
business:
·
Election
of Directors and Officers - all officers are
re-elected to the same offices for another year.
·
Selection
of a date and time for next year's meeting - a
date in late February is contemplated for
2015,
at 2:15 in the afternoon, a much more comfortable time for the meeting.
Although the
by-laws state the following is necessary in each meeting, we agreed to dispense
with all of the stipulated portions called for below except the points marked (XX)
which are covered above anyway.
a. roll
call
b.
reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
c.
reports of committees
d.
reports of officers (xx)
e.
old and unfinished business (xx)
f.
new business (XX)
g.
good and welfare
h.
adjournments
Respectfully submitted, for
your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael Wein, Secretary
This meeting, held at
10am
, Wednesday, March 6, 2013, at Suspiros #14, was attended by
three MPWCF
trustees, Peggy Bell, Chris Peeters and Michael Wein. The agenda
for this meeting, having been submitted to all three
Trustees prior to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this
meeting, were added to the agenda in ALL
BOLD letters or indented below each category:
acceptance
of Annual Financial Statement - http://www.mpwcf.org/financial_statement.htm
acceptance
of Minutes of last year's meeting -
http://
www.mpwcf.org/minutes.htm.
Old and unfinished business:
Current status of our expected
endowment is tabulated below
...status
marks of our future endowment:
all-time-hi 12-31-08
12-31-09
12-31-10
12-31-11
12-31-12 2/28/13
...current value of
Founder's estate (excluding any increase in house
value
and therefore understated at ($000s omitted)
......
...................................................................….......
$8.506 $5,247
$6,241 $6,893
.$7,146
$8.198
$8,647
...portion of estate to go to
foundation.....................2,828
2,328
2,725
2,997
..3.201
3.617
3,850
...percent of estate that goes to MPWCF.................
.33%.... .....44%.....
..44%.... ...43%...
...45%
44%
45%
...a more detailed discussion of the estate and
distributions may be found at http://
www.mpwcf.org /funding.htm
| Progress
on the subjects of "transparency"
and "continuity" - more info
on this subject can be found on the two
webpages http://
www.mpwcf.org/transparency.htm
and http://
www.mpwcf.org/continuity.htm
discussed
in greater detail
|
| Status
of Founder's health – Dr. Maxwell stated
that he remains
in “end stage emphysema” and must
take oxygen 21 hours a day, every day, as long
as he wishes to continue to live here in SMA
– last year’s stress was extremely harmful
to his continued life, and even much more
harmful to the
quality of whatever of his life remains.
discussed
in greater detail
|
| Goals
and mission –
we know that each grantee (both past
and present) has a mission that is both unique
and necessary in SMA. We wished to fund every
such grantee.
However, this Foundation was founded
with the additional goals of encouraging both
Transparency (since too many organizations had
become secretive over the years) and
Continuity (since too many organizations had
begun to believe that their volunteers were
both immortal and transcendental).
As students of
SMA organizational functions, we have
observed the problems caused prior to the
eventual discovery that either or both of
these fallacious beliefs turn out to be quite false and
incorrect. discussed
in greater detail
|
| In
an effort to make it easier for grantees to
respond each year, we continue to improve our
3 pages of templates
http://
www.mpwcf.org/templates.htm
wherein we created forms for all of the input
that we expect from grantees each year.
That not only cuts down on their work,
but it also shows them exactly what we want
and need and all they must now do is fill in
their own unique responses. discussed
in greater detail
|
| Discussions
of the History of the Founder and his
commitments to the MPWCF see http://www.mpwcf.org/history.htm
|
| discussions
of the History of the Founder's agreements
with its partners/grantees during the period
of the founding of
this Foundation http://
www.mpwcf.org/history.htm |
| Consideration
of adding an additional administrative Trustee
– discussion of the consequences of Andy
Blair’s unilateral abrogation of our
contract, including discussion of a us$200,000
allocation intended to bring her to justice. discussed
in greater detail
|
| Discussion
of Foundation’s now intended termination
approximately two years after the Founder’s death
- reasons and lack of other options
discussed
in much greater detail
|
New
business:
·
Election
of Directors and Officers current officers agreed to serve and were re-elected for another
year.
·
Selection
of a date and time for next year's meeting a
date in late February is currently contemplated for
2014,
however it was decided that 2:15 in the afternoon
is a much more comfortable time for the meeting.
Although the
by-laws state the following is necessary in each meeting, we agreed to dispense
with all of the stipulated portions called for below except the points marked (XX)
which are covered above anyway.
a. roll
call
b.
reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
c.
reports of committees
d.
reports of officers (xx)
e.
old and unfinished business (xx)
f.
new business (XX)
g.
good and welfare
h.
adjournments
Respectfully submitted, for
your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael Wein, Secretary
This meeting, held at
10am
, Wednesday, February 22, 2012, at Suspiros #14, was
to be attended by two MPWCF
trustees, Chris Peeters and Michael Wein (Peggy
Bell notified us on Feb 9th that she was undergoing surgery and obviously would not be able
to attend).. The agenda
for this meeting, having been submitted to all three
Trustees prior to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this
meeting, were added to the agenda in ALL
BOLD letters or indented below each category:
…introduction of Andy
Blair, new assistant to the President – the
new assistant, although legally bound by a contract and a
privately funded paid advance,
did not notify
us that she would not attend and did not show up. The president
apologized to the Trustees, said he was overwhelmingly
embarrassed by this and promised to
follow-up on this incident and report back to the Trustees
and our Grantees and all of our other constituents.
…presentation of Annual
Financial Statement - see http://www.mpwcf.org/financial_statement.htm
…presentation of Minutes
of last year's meeting – see http://www.mpwcf.org/minutes.htm.
Old and unfinished
business: Current status of our
expected endowment is tabulated below
...status marks of our
future endowment:
all-time-hi 12-31-07 12-31-08
12-31-09
12-31-10
12-31-11 2/
21/12
...current value estate
(excl increase in house value)
understated
at ($000s omitted)……...................... $8.506 $7,801
$5,247 $6,241 $6,893 .$7,146
$7,611
...portion of estate to go to foundation.....................2,828
2,518 2,328 2,725
2,997 ..3.201 3,277
...percent of estate that goes to MPWCF..................33%........32%.......44%.......44%........43%......45%
43 %
...a more detailed discussion of the estate and its distributions may be found
at http://www.mpwcf.org/funding.htm
and a discussion of why that portion of the estate that goes to the foundation
changed so dramatically in 2008 was discussed and will be found in the 2/26/10
minutes
| Progress on the subjects of
"transparency" and "continuity" - more info on
this subject can be found on the two webpages http://www.mpwcf.org/transparency.htm
and http://www.mpwcf.org/continuity.htm
discussed
in greater detail
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| Status
of Founder's health – Dr. Maxwell stated that the Founder is in
“end stage emphysema” and must take
supplemental oxygen 21 hours a day, every day, as long as he wishes to
continue to live here in SMA. discussed in greater detail
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| Goals and mission – each grantee (both past
and present) has a mission that is both unique and necessary in SMA, and of
course, we wish to fund every such grantee.
However, this Foundation was founded with the additional goals of
encouraging both transparency (since too many organizations had become
secretive over the years) and continuity (since too many organizations had
begun to believe that their volunteers were both immortal and
transcendental). As
students of SMA organizational
functions, we have observed the problems caused prior to the eventual
discovery that either or both of these beliefs turn out to be incorrect.
discussed
in greater detail
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New business.
| The continuity of this Foundation is being
further enhanced by the training program for our newest volunteer -
On
behalf of our grantees, we are
profoundly
embarrassed to find out that our own continuity is now under fire and in a
distressed state.
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| In
an effort to make it easier for grantees to respond each year, we have
created a new page of templates http://www.mpwcf.org/templates.htm
wherein we actually create forms for all of the input that we expect from
grantees each year. That not
only cuts down on their work, but it also shows them exactly what we want
and need and all they must now do is fill in their own unique responses.
This was discussed in great
detail.
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| Presentation
of the History of the Founder and his commitments to the MPWCF see http://www.mpwcf.org/history.htm
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| Presentation of the History of the Founder's
agreements with its partners/grantees in the founding of this Foundation
http://www.mpwcf.org/history.htm
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| Status
of current receipts from Founder, as well as status of Founder's own source
of such receipts, as well as options for the future
the options for the future are discussed
below
in the Founder's "statement" and read in
conjunction with the termination discussion shown immediately below
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| Consideration
of termination or dissolution of this Foundation – this
option will
be seriously considered as no other options appear to be feasible. In
any possible event, we will have to change our process as the contracted and
paid for assistance from Andy Blair is now in contractual default.
As soon as this is resolved, we will report our new process to all of our
grantees as well as all of our other constituents,
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| Election of Directors
and Officers - current officers agreed to serve and were re-elected for another
year.
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| Selection of a date
for next year's meeting - a
date in late February is currently contemplated for 2013.
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Statement from the Founder
(submitted to the Trustee's meeting):
While I
donated the profits from rental of apartments to SMA organizations ever since I
purchased the house in 1996, I formed the Foundation in 2000 and then promised to
donate my house after I died. I
added another factor after that by stating that I would donate the greater of my
Mexican estate OR us$1,000,000 shortly thereafter.
As my estate grew, I added other items to the promised donation, so that the
calculated (even now, in this economic crisis) value of my after death bequest
is now in excess of us$3,000,000. But
I always continued with the current annual donations of the amount of the net
profits from the rentals of the two apartments.
Even in 2009, when apartments
were vacant, I paid 2010 grants out of my own pocket.
But I said at that time, I would not continue that practice indefinitely.
Now the rentals have stopped completely.
I offer some options, however in any option that a grantee chooses, you
will have to agree to, and actually continue, your part of the annual input,
just as you've been in the past: 1) - you can continue to receive the annual
grants at current amounts, but you will be dropped from the "after death
endowment" (forfeiting your share of the income from the us$3,000,000
endowment. 2) - you can continue to expect your share of the income from the
us$3,000,000 endowment, but you will not receive any annual grants until I die.
3) - you can offer the Foundation (and this can be in conjunction with other
MPWCF grantees) volunteer help so that the apartments become rented without
almost any effort on my part. I will
oversee the "end of the" (as defined) interview process and the exit
process (to insure no damages), but your group must do ALL of the work IN BETWEEN as well as assure us
of proper care and maintenance of the physical apartment itself.
For the usage of the apartments, you (and any other volunteering
organizations)
will receive XX% of the proceeds
Although the
by-laws state the following is necessary in each meeting, we agreed to dispense
with all of the stipulated portions called for below except the points marked (XX)
which are covered above anyway.
a. roll
call
b.
reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
c.
reports of committees
d.
reports of officers (xx)
e.
old and unfinished business (xx)
f.
new business (XX)
g.
good and welfare
h.
adjournments
Respectfully submitted, for
your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael Wein, Secretary
This meeting, held at
10am
, Wednesday, February 23, 2011, at Suspiros #14, was attended by all three
MPWCF trustees, Peggy Bell, Chris Peeters, and Michael Wein.
The agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to all Trustees prior
to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this meeting, were added
to the agenda in ALL BOLD letters or
indented below each category:
Old and unfinished
business:
|
Current status of our
expected endowment is tabulated below
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...status dates of our
future endowment: all-time-hi dec-2006 dec-2007 dec-2008
dec-2009 dec-2010
feb2011
...current value estate (excl increase in house value) is
...............(with $000s
omitted)............................
$8.506 $7,923 $7,801
$5,247 $6,241 $6,907
$7,240
...portion of estate to go to foundation....................2,828
2,679 2,518
2,328 2,725
2,997
3.244
...percent of estate that goes to MPWCF.................33%........34%........32%.........44%........44%..........43%
45%
...a more detailed discussion of the estate and its distributions was published
on our webpage at http://www.mpwinsma.com/funding.htm
Further discussions of future
expectations were held as well
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Progress on the subjects of
"transparency" and "continuity" - the MPWCF
webpages http://www.mpwinsma.com/transparency.htm
and http://www.mpwinsma.com/continuity.htm
disclose our requirements of our grantees (and of ourselves) and we
discussed the fact that transparency is becoming common in San Miguel among
grantees and non-grantees alike, mostly due to our efforts in the community.
We are now concentrating on continuity and we hope and expect that
more and more organizations will recognize continuity’s benefits to their
own organizations
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| Status
of the Founder's health – Discussion of the fact that that Founder is now
on supplemental oxygen 21 of every 24 hours and is expected to remain in
that status for the rest of his life.
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New business:
| Recognition
of Feed the Hungry replacement Trustee, Chris Peeters and
discussion of FtH's place in our past AND future see
http://www.mpwinsma.com/history.htm
-- Ms. Bell and Mr. Wein welcomed Mr. Peters to the Board of Trustees – we
discussed the past and future of our relationship with FtH and we hoped that
FtH would soon re-commence its submission of our annual requirements.
In turn, should that occur satisfactorily, the Foundation expected to
institute grants to FtH (but only after the Founder’s death) in the
vicinity of 30% of our Founder’s post-death annual grant pool each year.
Jovenes Adelante would be receiving approximately 30% too, but would
participate in the current pre-death annual grants as long as it maintained
its current input regimen.
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| Presentation
of the History of the Founder and his commitments to the MPWCF - this
is now on webpage http://www.mpwinsma.com/history.htm
and it was discussed at the meeting.
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| Presentation
of the History of the Founder's agreements with its partners/grantees in the
founding of this Foundation this is now on webpage http://www.mpwinsma.com/history.htm
and was discussed at the meeting.
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| Status
of current receipts from Founder, as well as status of Founder's own source
of such receipts, as well as 3 options for the future – the lack of
rental income, normally used to finance current grants, was discussed at the
meeting. The 3 options were not
discussed but are here listed for public information.
The grantees who wish to stay in our programs may (this is just a
possibility to be decided in the future) be offered continued grants against
the Founder’s out of pocket expenditures but no future grants after his
death OR no grants until his death but definite grants after such death OR a
share of any reasonably acceptable rentals that any grantee brings in
against the Founder’s offer of such space as is currently offered but not
now rented. In each of the
foregoing options, the grantee is expected to continue with its transparency
and continuity program progress.
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| Election
of Directors and Officers -- Directors
elected to same positions as in 2010 except Tony Adlerbert was replaced by
Chris Peeters.
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| Selection
of a date for next year's meeting -- We agreed to meet in
the last week of February 2012 |
Although
the by-laws state the following is necessary in each meeting, we agreed to
dispense with all of the stipulated portions called for below except the points
marked (XX) which are covered above anyway.
a.
roll call
b.
reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
c.
reports of committees
d.
reports of officers (xx)
e.
old and unfinished business (xx)
f.
new business (XX)
g.
good and welfare
h.
adjournments
Respectfully submitted, for
your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael Wein, Secretary
This
meeting, held at
10am
, Friday, February 26, 2010, at Suspiros #14, was attended by all three MPWCF
trustees, Peggy Bell, Tony Adlerbert, and Michael Wein.
The agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to all Trustees prior
to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this meeting, were added
to the agenda in ALL BOLD letters or indented below each category:
| presentation of Annual Financial Statement - SENT
BY EMAIL & read and accepted.
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| presentation of Minutes of last year's meeting
- SENT BY EMAIL
& read and accepted
|
Old and unfinished
business:
| Results of last year's recruitment of
grantees: no further recruiting is being done. With the addition of Lions
Club, our roster of grantees is now full – NO
FURTHER DISCUSSION
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| Status of current receipts from Founder
- same, although source of normal Founder's income fell to zero last
year. This in the past and the future expectations were discussed
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| Current status of our endowment -
changes in Founder's Will and Trust documents enable better endowment BASICALLY, IN THE
PAST, THE FOUNDER’S SISTER GOT A 30% LIFETIME INTEREST IN ASSETS LEFT OVER
AFTER DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE FOUNDER’S EARLIER TRUST CLAUSES’ BEQUESTS TO
THE MPWCfoundation, RIDER AND THE ACLUfoundation.
BECAUSE THE CURRENT WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS REDUCED THE BEQUESTS THAT
THE MPWCFoundation WAS GOING TO GET AT LEAST TEMPORARILY, THE FOUNDER
CHANGED HIS TRUST TO SPECIFY THAT THE SAME “LIFETIME INTEREST ONLY”
HAPPENS WITH REGARD TO THE 17% REQUEST THAT HIS BROTHER WAS GOING TO
RECEIVE (BUT PREVIOUSLY ONLY IF THE BROTHER DID NOT PRE-DECEASE THE
FOUNDER), THAT CHANGE BRINGS THE
AMOUNTS THAT THE MPWCFoundation BACK UP EVEN HIGHER THAN IT WOULD HAVE
OTHERWISE BEEN PRIOR TO THE
CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS. SEE TABULATION JUST BELOW:
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status
marks of our future endowment: all-time-hi
dec-2006 dec-2007 dec-2008
dec-2009
current value of the Founders estate (EXCLUDING the increase in his
house’s
value) is understated at
($000s omitted)........... $8.506 $7,923
$7,837
$5,243 ... $6,522
portion of estate that goes to foundation…............2,828
2,679 . 2,518.
2,328 2,837
The
Founder’s Trust has been now changed so that whether or not his brother
pre-deceases the Founder,. the Foundation will get the bequest (after the
brother's death) that otherwise was to go to the brother
| Progress on the subjects of
"transparency" and "continuity" –
all
current grantees have significantly improved their annual inputs of
financial information and other disclosures and transparency seems to
continue to improve after all of these years of our trying to obtain it.
This grant year has also seen early attempts by all applicants to describe
their efforts at continuity. This,
even more so, will have to improve but all organizations seem to realize
their own need for such provisions.
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| Status of the Founder’s Health – Although
continuing to be attached to an oxygen tank some 17 hours every day, the
Founder’s health is otherwise stable and he may continue to enjoy long
life.
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| Status of the Founder’s Immigration Problem –
If it were not so bitterly battled, the outcome would have been considered
high comedy. The Mexican INM
finally admitted after 3 ½ years that all of the many faults were their own
and they finally issued a no-renewals-required FM2 Inmigrado Pernanente.
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New business:
| Election of Directors and Officers – Directors
elected to same positions as in 2009 even though Tony Adlerbert announced
that he will serve until he is replaced.
He announced that he must retire for medical reasons).
The other two Trustees
joined in telling him of their appreciation for his services during the last
10 years).
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| Recruitment of a Trustee to replace Tony
Adlerbert – Our
first choice is a replacement from Feed the Hungry and Tony said that he
would take as long as 60 days to find an acceptable replacement.
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| Selection of a date for next year's meeting
– We
agreed to meet in the last week of February 2011
|
Although the by-laws state the following is necessary in each
meeting, we agreed to dispense with all of the stipulated portions called for
below except the three marked (XX) which are covered above anyway.
a.
roll call
b.
reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
c.
reports of committees
d.
reports of officers (XX)
e.
old and unfinished business (XX)
f.
new business (XX)
g.
good and welfare
h.
adjournments
Respectfully
submitted, for your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael
Wein, Secretary
This meeting, held at
10am
, Wednesday, February 25, 2009, at Suspiros #14, was attended by all three
MPWCF trustees, Peggy Bell, Tony Adlerbert, and Michael Wein.
The agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to all Trustees prior
to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this meeting, were added
to the agenda in ALL BOLD letters or indented below each category:
| presentation
of Annual Financial Statement - SUBMITTED
BY EMAIL
AND
READ
AND
ACCEPTED
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| presentation
of Minutes of last year's meeting - SUBMITTED
BY EMAIL
AND
READ
AND
ACCEPTED
|
Old
and unfinished business:
| Results
of last year's recruitment of grantees: Accepted
and gave grants to Casita Linda, Casa Hogar Santa Julia, Mujeres en Cambio,
In addition, we are expecting the Lions Club (providing glasses to those
Mexicans who have visual problems) to make a grant request for 2009.
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| With
the addition of Lions Club, probably no more recruiting of grantees
Our web-site now states that we
are accepting no new grantees or grant requests.
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| Status
of current receipts from Founder – with
the current world economic problems, the Founder has made a donation to the
MPWCF for the 2009 grants and will attempt to make a similar donation for
the 2010 grants although that is more in doubt.
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| Current
status of our endowment – with the Founder’s financial situation summarized below, the
future endowment of the MPWCF is not quite as badly hard hit by the economic
problems as are the Founder’s other beneficiaries.
Depending upon the longevity of the Founder AND the economic
downturn, perhaps the Estate AND the endowment will recover in a few years.
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…status
marks of our future endowment:
all-time-hi
dec-2006 dec-2007
dec-2008 jan
-08 feb 18 2009
... current value of the Founders estate (but EXCLUDING any increase in
value since 1996 purchase
of his house) understated at
($000s omitted)..................
........... $8.506 ..
$7,923 $7,837
$5,243 $5,397
$4,554
…portion of that estate that is to go to this foundation…......
................2,828
2,679 . 2,601.
1,845 1.880
1,714
… probable contingency is that the Founders brother will pre-decease the
founder and therefore his brother's
bequest will additionally go to
this foundation.............. ................+800
. . .
+ 730 . . + 720 .
270 . 275
200
| Progress
on the subjects of "transparency" and "continuity" –
Mr. Wein reported that all current grantees have significantly improved
their annual inputs of financial and other information and transparency
seems to have arrived after all of these years of trying to obtain it.
While improvements are still expected, current input is generally
satisfactory. This grant year
has also seen first attempts by most applicants to describe their efforts at
continuity. This, even more so,
will have to improve but all organization seem to realize their own need for
such provisions.
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| Microloans
to Women project – Since we did not get the one missing ingredient, the providing by
Mexicans of a place to deal with the women loan applicants (as DIF had
promised), our successful attempts to get volunteers and processes into
place to start the program as soon as the “room” appeared went for
naught. This project,
unfortunately, has come to an end. The
irony of all of this is just as the world has started to recognize what the
absence of credit is doing to the world’s economy, this attempt by us was
made to end.
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| Status
of the Founder’s health – Although now attached to an oxygen tank some 17 hours every day,
Mr. Wein’s health is otherwise stable.
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| Status
of the Founder’s Immigration problem – The
papers that Mr. Wein provided on March 30, 2006 (and which were accepted by
INM in SMA as acceptable) have still not manifested themselves in the
issuance of permanent (not necessary to renew annually) FM-2 status.
INM-SMA, INM-Mexico City, the USA Embassy in Mexico City, the USA
agent-consul office in SMA and others are all aware of the problem and the
lack of progress. Mr. Wein
consulted with a local attorney this past year who informed him that in his
opinion, no problem exists with the current (no papers) status but the
Foundation and other beneficiaries will probably suffer financially after
Mr. Wein’s death unless the final legal documents are issued.
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New
business:
| Election
of Directors and Officers - DIRECTORS
ELECTED TO SAME POSITION AS IN 2008
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| Selection
of a date for next year's meeting - AGREED
TO ATTEMPT TO MEET IN LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2010.
|
Although
the by-laws state the following is necessary in each meeting, we agreed to
dispense with all of the stipulated portions called for below except the three
marked (XX) which are covered above anyway.
a.
roll call
b.
reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
c.
reports of committees
d.
reports of officers (XX)
e.
old and unfinished business (XX)
f.
new business (XX)
g.
good and welfare
h.
adjournments
Respectfully
submitted, for your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael
Wein, Secretary
This meeting, held at
10am
, Friday,
February 29, 2008
, at Suspiros #14, was attended by all three MPWCF trustees,
Peggy
Bell
,
Tony
Adlerbert
, and
Michael
Wein
. The agenda for
this meeting, having been submitted to all Trustees prior to the meeting, was as
follows and any actions taken in this meeting, were added to the agenda in
ALL
CAPS or indented below each category:
Old Business:
…minutes of the last
meeting of the Trustees,
Feb. 16, 2007
– SUBMITTED BY EMAIL
AND
READ
AND
ACCEPTED.
...presentation of
Financial Reports of the Foundation – SUBMITTED BY EMAIL
AND
READ
AND
ACCEPTED
...discussion of proposed
Grants to organizations, subject to
receipt and acceptance of their financial and other input as requested for this
year’s grants –
DISCUSSED prior year’s recruitment actions and as a result of personal
contacts of all sorts, we have (or hope to have) new grant requests from Casita
Linda, Casa Hogar Santa Julia, Mujeres en Cambio, as well as from our standbys
(past grantees) Feed the Hungry, Jovenes Adelante, Computadora Pro Jovenes, and
Rotary-Midday. And we AGREED ONCE
AGAIN that we will no longer make grants to any organization that does not meet
our transparency requirements as we can not let these requirements lapse any
more. WE ALSO emphasized that
CONTINUITY is the next order of priority for future years.
…the Founder’s estate
documents were finally signed and now reflect the promises made by the Founder
to this Foundation.
…we discussed the
following status marks of our future endowment:
..........................................
all-time-hi.
dec-2005. dec-2006
dec-2007
feb28-08
…....the current value
of the Founder’s estate (EXCLUDING the increase in his
house’s value) is now understated at ($000s omitted)...$8.506
$6,996
$7,923
$7,837
$7,538
…….portion of estate
to go to mpwcf 2,828
2,531
2,679 2,601
2,581
…….additionally, it
is probable that the Founder’s brother will pre-decease
the founder and that bequest will also to go to mpwcf………
+800
+710 .
+ 730 +
720 +
711
…The long-term goal of
transparency made a quantum leap forward this year but continuity is still more
a promise and wish.
New Business:
...The Loans to Women
microloan project progressed nicely to the point of the current stalling point
(and maybe death of the project) is the acquisition of a permanent desk space at
DIF or some other permanent organization wherein WE provide the manpower and
everything else except the desk space and waiting room for the applicants.
...Elections of officers
and Trustees for next year – OFFICERS, DIRECTORS ELECTED TO SAME POSITION AS
IN 2007
...Discussion regarding
next meeting (time, date, place, purposes) – AGREED TO ATTEMPT TO MEET IN LAST
WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2009.
Although the by-laws state the following is necessary in each
meeting, we agreed to dispense with all of the stipulated portions called for
below except the three marked (XX) which are covered above anyway.
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a. roll
call
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b. reading
of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
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c. reports
of committees
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d. reports
of officers (XX)
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e. old
and unfinished business (XX)
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f. new
business (XX)
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g. good
and welfare
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h. adjournments
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Respectfully submitted, for
your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael
Wein
, Secretary
This
meeting, held at 10am , Friday, February 16, 2007, at Suspiros #14, was attended
by all three MPWCF trustees, Peggy Bell, Tony Adlerbert, and Michael Wein.
The agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to all Trustees prior
to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this meeting, were added
to the agenda in ALL CAPS or indented below each category:
…minutes
of the last meeting of the Trustees, Feb. 24, 2006 – SUBMITTED BY EMAIL AND
READ AND ACCEPTED.
...
presentation of Financial Reports of the Foundation – SUBMITTED BY EMAIL AND
READ AND ACCEPTED
...
discussion of proposed Grants to organizations,
subject to receipt and acceptance of their financial and other input as
requested for this year’s grants –
DISCUSSED COMPUTADORES PARA JOVANES,
$2,000 in prizes at Oct 2006 party that was intended to raise awareness
of MPWCF work and solicit entries from prize winners (science camp, mujares en
cambio, casita Linda, and SPA), and any others
(including UU and FTH) that MET our requirements as we can not let requirements
lapse any more.
New Business:
...Elections
of officers and Trustees for next year – OFFICERS, DIRECTORS ELECTED TO SAME
POSITION AS IN 2006
…a further
discussion regarding grantee's "financial accountability" to all of
each grantee's constituents (their employees, volunteers, grantors, grantees,
etc.) I was asking for nothing
other than that which IRS asks to make any contribution tax deductible, plus a
plan of continuity to give us some minor assurance that the grantees will
continue their missions after this foundation’s founder is deceased.
DISCUSSED AND AGREED THAT THIS IS A MUST FOR ALL GRANTEES
…reveal and discuss
Michael Wein’s own status and plans regarding the following:
·
current health and future prospects
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·
current estate (now some us$8,500,000 plus) and controls over its
ever-increasing values. With
the imminent death of the Founder’s brother considered, this foundation is
expected to have an endowment in excess of $3,500,000 after the Founder’s
death. |
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·
his will and how he controls the allocations to beneficiaries (the
MPWCF and others) including "restrictions" over some
beneficiaries' use of their bequests |
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·
the MPWCF and its bylaws and current and future operating
instructions - THE THREE
TRUSTEES UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED THAT THE REVISED CORPORATE BY-LAWS, PREVIOUSLY
SUBMITTED TO EACH TRUSTEE BY EMAIL, BE ACCEPTED AS SUBMITTED AND THAT A COPY
OF SAID BY-LAWS (INITIALED BY EACH TRUSTEE AT TODAY’S MEETING, BE ATTACHED
TO THESE MINUTES.
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·
the founder's intentions (25% to FTH, 15% to UU%, 60% elsewhere) and
the restrictions for all grantees regarding the MPWCF's requirements for
grantee's missions and transparency |
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·
default provisions if any or all grantees do not meet these
requirements either before or after the founder's death |
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·
why he insists (and have insisted since 1997)
on transparency and processes for continuity of operations |
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·
controls over trustees' actions or changes now and after the
founder's death (both by the default grantees and by local parties)
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·
ALL OF THE ABOVE WAS DISCUSSED AND DETAILS OF THE DISCUSSION ARE
ATTACHED TO THESE MINUTES – EMAIL OF THE ATTACHED WAS ALSO SENT TO EACH OF
THE TRUSTEES COPYING THE DISCUSSIONS
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...Discussion
regarding next meeting (time, date, place, purposes) – AGREED TO ATTEMPT TO
MEET IN LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2008.
Although the
by-laws state the following is necessary in each meeting, we agreed to dispense
with all of the stipulated portions called for below except the three marked (XX)
which are covered above anyway.
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a. roll
call
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b. reading
of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
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c. reports
of committees
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d. reports
of officers (XX)
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e. old
and unfinished business (XX)
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f.
new business (XX)
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g. good
and welfare
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h.
adjournments
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Respectfully submitted, for your additions, corrections, and
comments,
Michael
Wein, Secretary
This meeting, held at
10am , Friday, February 24, 2006, at Suspiros #14, was attended by all three
MPWCF trustees, Peggy Bell, Tony Adlerbert, and Michael Wein.
The agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to all Trustees prior
to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this meeting, were added
to the agenda in ALL CAPS or indented below each category:
…minutes of the last
meeting of the Trustees, Feb. 25, 2005 – SUBMITTED BY EMAIL AND READ AND
ACCEPTED.
... presentation of
Financial Reports of the Foundation – SUBMITTED BY EMAIL AND READ AND ACCEPTED
...discussion of proposed
Grants to organizations other than FTH and UU,
subject to receipt and acceptance of their financial and other input as
requested for this year’s grants –
DISCUSSED GLOBAL JUSTICE, RED CROSS, COMPUTADORES PARA JOVANES AND OTHER
POSSIBILITIES
New Business:
...Elections of officers
and Trustees for next year – OFFICERS, DIRECTORS ELECTED TO SAME POSITION AS
IN 2005
…a further discussion regarding grantee's
"financial accountability" to all of each grantee's constituents
(their employees, volunteers, grantors, grantees, etc.)
DISCUSSED AND AGREED THAT THIS IS A MUST FOR ALL GRANTEES
…reveal and discuss Michael Wein’s own status and
plans regarding the following:
·
current health and future prospects
·
current estate (now some us$7,000,000 plus) and controls
over its ever-increasing values
·
his will and how he controls the allocations to
beneficiaries (the MPWCF and others) including "restrictions" over
some beneficiaries' use of their bequests
·
the MPWCF and its bylaws and current and future operating
instructions
·
the founder's intentions (25% to FTH, 15% to UU%, 60%
elsewhere) and the restrictions for all grantees regarding the MPWCF's
requirements for grantee's missions and transparency
·
default provisions if any or all grantees do not meet these
requirements either before or after the founder's death
·
why he insists (and have insisted since 1997)
on transparency
·
controls over trustees' actions or changes now and after
the founder's death (both by the default grantees and by local parties)
·
ALL OF THE ABOVE WAS DISCUSSED AND DETAILS OF THE
DISCUSSION ARE ATTACHED TO THESE MINUTES – EMAIL WAS ALSO SENT TO EACH OF THE
TRUSTEES COPYING THE DISCUSSIONS
...Discussion
regarding next meeting (time, date, place, purposes) – AGREED TO ATTEMPT TO
MEET IN LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2007.
Although the
by-laws state the following is necessary in each meeting, we agreed to dispense
with all of the stipulated portions called for below except the three marked (XX)
which are covered above anyway.
a. roll
call
b. reading
of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
c. reports
of committees
d. reports
of officers (XX)
e. old
and unfinished business (XX)
f.
new business (XX)
g. good
and welfare
h.
adjournments
Respectfully submitted, for your additions, corrections, and
comments,
Michael Wein, Secretary
This meeting, held at
10am
,
Friday, February 25, 2005
, at Suspiros #14, was attended by all three MPWCF trustees, Peggy Bell, Tony
Adlerbert, and Michael Wein.
The agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to all Trustees prior
to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this meeting, were added
to the agenda in ALL CAPS or indented below each category:
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…minutes of the last meeting of the
Trustees,
Feb. 25, 2004
– SUBMITTED BY EMAIL AND READ AND ACCEPTED.
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... presentation of Financial Reports of
the Foundation – SUBMITTED BY EMAIL AND READ AND ACCEPTED
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...discussion of proposed Grants to
organizations other than FTH and UU, new to us this year, if any.
Grants to most organizations (increasing from 1st year’s us$250s to
us$400 and to $600) accepted subject to receipt and acceptance of their
financial and other input as requested in December 2004 for this year’s grants
– NEW THIS YEAR IS ANYEL
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…discussion of constituencies and
transparency and then of transparency awards.
Main reason for this is the “I believe” statement made by MPW in 1997
resulting in his reason for creating this Foundation.
Secondarily is the current belief that organizations should be held
accountable to their entire constituencies.
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...Approval of previously discussed
Lifetime Achievement award recipient and new grant this year, if appropriate.
SEREDA MILOSZ LAST YEAR. POSSIBILITY
OF PHIL MAHER THIS YEAR.
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...Approval of previously discussed
Grants and Grantees for last year Lions Club, PEN, Suzuki
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...Discussions, if necessary, on Proposed
Goals of the Foundation (**) – REFERRED TO WEB-SITE BUT CHIEFLY TRANSPARANCY
FOR ALL SMA ORGANIZATIONS SOLICITING FUNDS FROM THE PUBLIC
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...Discussions, if necessary, on Proposed
Duties and Responsibilities of the Foundation's Trustees (**) – REFER TO
WEB-SITE
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New Business:
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...Elections of officers and Trustees for
next year – OFFICERS, DIRECTORS ELECTED TO SAME POSITION AS IN 2004
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...Status of web-site (**) – AGREED TO
USE WEB-SITE AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY OBJECTIVE AND KEEP IT UP-TO-DATE SO
THAT THE FUTURE TRUSTEES AND ANY OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES CAN SEE IT AND KNOW
OUR PROCEDURES, METHODS, AND RULES OF OPERATION.
WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO MAKE THE WEB-SITE AS CLOSE TO OUR FINAL OPERATING
RULES AS IS HUMANLY POSSIBLE, ALL THE WHILE BACKING IT UP WITH A PAPER TRAIL.
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...Discussion of how Founder's will is
being changed to:
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-
replace him as trustee immediately after his death-SEE METHOD DESCRIBED
IN CODICIL TO WILL ON WEBSITE
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-
handle changes between original and current bequests from Founder –
WEB-SITE WILL SOON CONTAIN COPIES OF PROPOSED WILL WHICH GUARANTEES THE mpwcf A
MINIMUM OF us$2,400,000 AND PROBABLY MORE.
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-
enforce guarantees regarding amounts Foundation is to receive after
Founder's death - WEB-SITE NOW CONTAINS GUARANTEE WHICH APPEARS ON THE mission
and goals page of the web-site (4th item from top of that page).
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...Discussion of "no changes"
in methods or processes of operation after Founder dies (**) – SEE
WEB-SITE GUARANTEE
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...Transparency of Operations (which is
intended to make our web-site, open to all, our Bible regarding operations)
(**). SEE ABOVE NEW BUSINESS ITEM #2 REGARDING TRANSPARENCY.
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...Brain Trust idea (regarding getting
outside volunteer advisors to help with new ideas and later to aid in
investments, etc.) THIS IN PROCESS IDEA IS INTENDED TO HAVE IDEAS SUBMITTED FROM
THE OUTSIDE AS WELL AS HAVING BACK-Ups (AND NEW YOUNGER CANDIDATES) FOR
REPLACEMENT OF US, THE TRUSTEES
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...Discussion regarding next meeting
(time, date, place, purposes) – AGREED TO ATTEMPT TO MEET IN LAST WEEK OF
FEBRUARY 2006.
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(**)
the most updated versions of these Foundation statements are shown at
their current status on our web-site at http://smanumber1.tripod.com/
Your attention is particularly drawn to the many vastly redone pages
of the web-site
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a. roll
call
|
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b. reading
of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
|
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c. reports
of committees
|
|
d. reports
of officers (XX)
|
|
e. old
and unfinished business (XX)
|
|
f.
new business (XX)
|
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g. good
and welfare
|
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h. adjournments
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Respectfully submitted, for
your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael Wein, Secretary
This meeting, held at
10am
,
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
, was attended by all three MPWCF trustees, Peggy Bell, Tony Adlerbert, and
Michael Wein.
The
agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to all Trustees prior to the
meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this meeting, were added to the
agenda in ALL CAPS or indented below each category:
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…minutes
of the last meeting of the Trustees,
Feb. 24, 2003
– SUBMITTED BY EMAIL AND READ AND ACCEPTED.
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|
...
presentation of Financial Reports of the Foundation – SUBMITTED BY EMAIL AND READ AND
ACCEPTED
|
|
...discussion
of proposed Grants to organizations other than FTH and UU new to us this year,
if any. NONE NEW THIS YEAR –
HOWEVER grants to most organizations
(increasing last year’s us$250s to us$400 and BP $1000 to $1100) accepted
subject to receipt and acceptance of their financial and other input as
requested in December 2003 for this year’s grants.
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...Approval of previously discussed Lifetime
Achievement award recipient and new grant this year, if appropriate. AGREED
TO USE ATENCION AND OTHER
MEDIA TO ASK FOR NEW APPLICANTS FOR THIS YEAR.
LUISA VELTE LAST YEAR. |
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...Approval of previously discussed Grants
and Grantees for last year and new grants
to Casa de los Angeles, Crescimiento, FAI, Lions Club, PEN -
EXCEPT FOR LIONS’ FINAL GRANT OF $400, OTHERS ACCEPTED SUBJECT TO SUBMISSION
OF PREVIOUSLY REQUESTED (SEE ABOVE) FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND
INTERNAL CONTROL INFORMATION
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...Discussions,
if necessary, on Proposed Goals of the Foundation (3) – NOTHING NEW HERE BUT
REFERRED TO WEB-SITE
|
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...Discussions,
if necessary, on Proposed Duties and Responsibilities of the Foundation's
Trustees (3) – SAME AS ABOVE
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New Business:
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...Elections
of officers and Trustees for next year – OFFICERS, DIRECTORS ELECTED TO SAME
POSITION AS IN 2003
|
|
...Status of web-site (3) – AGREED TO USE
WEB-SITE AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY OBJECTIVE AND KEEP IT UP-TO-DATE SO THAT
THE FUTURE TRUSTEES AND ANY OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES CAN SEE IT AND KNOW OUR
PROCEDURES, METHODS, AND RULES OF OPERATION.
WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO MAKE THE WEB-SITE AS CLOSE TO OUR FINAL OPERATING
RULES AS IS HUMANLY POSSIBLE, ALL THE WHILE BACKING IT UP WITH A PAPER TRAIL. |
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...Discussion of how Founder's will is being
changed to: |
|
- replace
him as trustee immediately after his death – SEE METHOD DESCRIBED IN CODICIL
TO WILL ON WEB-SITE |
|
.
- handle changes between original
and current bequests from Founder – WEB-SITE NOW CONTAINS COPIES OF PROPOSED
WILL WHICH GUARANTEES THE mpwcf A MINIMUM OF US$1,000,000 AND PROBABLY MORE. |
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- enforce
guarantees regarding amounts Foundation is to receive after Founder's death
WEB-SITE NOW CONTAINS GUARANTEE WHICH APPEARS ON THE mission and goals page of
the web-site (4th item from top of that page). |
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...Discussion of "no changes" in
methods or processes of operation after Founder dies (3) – SEE
WEB-SITE GUARANTEE |
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...Transparency of Operations (which is
intended to make our web-site, open to all, our Bible regarding operations) (3).
SEE ABOVE NEW BUSINESS ITEM #2 REGARDING TRANSPARENCY. |
|
...Brain Trust idea (regarding getting
outside volunteer advisors to help with new ideas and later to aid in
investments, etc.) THIS IN PROCESS IDEA IS INTENDED TO HAVE IDEAS SUBMITTED FROM
THE OUTSIDE AS WELL AS HAVING BACK-Ups (AND NEW YOUNGER CANDIDATES) FOR
REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEES |
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...Discussion
regarding next meeting (time, date, place, purposes) – AGREED TO ATTEMPT TO
MEET IN LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY 2005.
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(3) the most updated versions
of these Foundation statements are shown at their current status on our web-site
at http://smanumber1.tripod.com/index.htm
Your attention is particularly drawn to vastly redone pages of FAQs
(frequently asked questions), IRS (regarding our relationship with the USA IRS),
and Trustees (which describes most of our internal processes both before and
after the death of the Founder).
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roll call
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reading
of the minutes of the preceding meeting (XX)
|
|
reports
of committees
|
|
reports
of officers (XX)
|
|
old and
unfinished business (XX)
|
|
new
business (XX)
|
|
good and
welfare
|
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adjournments"
|
Respectfully
submitted, for your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael
Wein, Secretary
This
meeting, held at
10am
this morning,
February 24, 2003
, was attended by
all three trustees, Tony Adlerbert, Peggy Bell, and Michael Wein.
We read, accepted, and signed the minutes of the last meeting of the
Trustees,
Feb. 13, 2002.
The agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to all Trustees prior
to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this meeting,
were added to the agenda in ALL CAPS:
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...Discussions, if necessary, on Proposed Goals of the Foundation (**)
|
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...Discussions,
if necessary, on Proposed Duties and Responsibilities of the Foundation's
Trustees (**)
|
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...Financial
Reports of the Foundation (chiefly receipts and expenditures to date and
financial status on this date) (1)
|
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...Discussion
of Proposed Grants to organizations other than FTH and UU
|
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……Biblioteca
– problem – PROBLEM RESOLVED WITH THE SUBMISSION OF ALL REPORTS REQUESTED
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……Mujares
en Cambio – no information – AGREED TO CONTINUE WITH PROPOSED $400 GRANT,
SUBJECT TO LATE RECEIPT OF REPORT
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……new
grants to Casa de
los Angeles
, Crescimiento, FAI, Lions Club, PEN – DISCUSSED AND ACCEPTABLE
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……special
one-time grants – Atencion and $400 more still available – DISCUSSED WITH
$400 REMAINING, SUBJECT TO MPW’S DISCRETION
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……Lifetime
Achievement Award - $1,000 and publicity to encourage Volunteer work –
DISCUSSED AND CONSIDERED GOOD IDEA
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...Discussion
of ways and means to handle a replacement Trustee for me, after I leave this
earth.—COPIES OF MPW WILL AND WEB-SITE INFO TO BE SENT TO ALL TRUSTEES BY
EMAIL THIS AFTERNOON.
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...Elections
of officers and Trustees for next year.— ALL OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS REELECTED
TO SAME POSITIONS
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...Discussion
regarding next meeting (time, date, place, purposes) – NEXT MEETING SET FOR
NEXT FEBRUARY, 2004
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(**) the most updated versions
of these reports are shown at their most complete status on our web-site http://www.geocities.com/mpwinsma/toc.htm
(1) email of report presented at Annual Meeting was sent to all Trustees
by email on
2/11/03
.
Although the by-laws state the following is necessary in each meeting, we
agreed to dispense with all of the stipulated portions called for below except
the three marked (XX) which are covered above anyway.
"The order of business at all meetings
shall be as follows:
-
roll call
-
reading
of the minutes of the preceding meeting (which is to be handled by email after
each meeting)
-
reports
of committees
-
reports
of officers (XX)
-
old and
unfinished business (XX)
-
new
business (XX)
-
good and
welfare
-
adjournments"
Respectfully
submitted, for your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael Wein, Secretary
This
meeting, held at
10am
this morning, was
attended by all three trustees, Tony Adlerbert, Peggy Bell, and Michael Wein.
(meeting of Feb 13, 2002)
We read, accepted, and signed the minutes of the last meeting of the
Trustees,
August 29, 2001
(the
organizational meeting).
The agenda for this meeting, having been submitted to all Trustees prior
to the meeting, was as follows and any actions taken in this meeting,
were added to the agenda in ALL CAPS:
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Discussions on Proposed Goals of the Foundation - NO CHANGES
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Discussions
on Proposed Duties and Responsibilities of the Foundation's Trustees - NO
CHANGES
|
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Discussions
on Tony's proposed change to by-laws re: annual meeting date - DECIDED TO MAKE
NO CHANGES NOW, BUT TO CONSIDER CHANGES TO TIMING OF MEETING (UP TO 8 WEEKS
BEFORE AND 8 WEEKS AFTER 3RD WEEK IN MARCH).
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Discussions
on any other by-laws changes that any of us suggest - NO OTHER CHANGES AT THIS
TIME.
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Financial
Reports of the Foundation (chiefly receipts and expenditures to date, plus
status of contracts - chiefly agreements with FTH and UU - and
pledges and financial status on this date) - ACCEPTED AS GIVEN, COPIES TO
BE SENT TO ALL TRUSTEES, BY EMAIL, TODAY.
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Discussion
of Proposed Grants to organizations - DISCUSSED.
|
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Discussion
of ways and means to handle a replacement Trustee for me, after I leave this
earth. - TO BE CONSIDERED AND DISCUSSED AGAIN IN FUTURE.
|
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Elections
of officers and Trustees for next year - ALL OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES WERE
RE-ELECTED TO SAME POSITIONS AS LAST YEAR.
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Discussion
regarding next meeting (time, date, place, purposes) – DISCUSSED AND DECIDED
TO “MEET VIA EMAIL”.
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The order of
business at the above meeting included the following, interspersed with all of
the above:
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roll call
|
|
reading
of the minutes of the preceding meeting
|
|
reports
of committees
|
|
reports
of officers
|
|
old and
unfinished business
|
|
new
business
|
|
good and
welfare
|
|
adjournments
|
Respectfully
submitted, for your additions, corrections, and comments,
Michael
Wein, Secretary
The
combined first meeting of ORGANIZERS and TRUSTEES of the corporation was held on
August 29, 2001
at
10 a.m.
The
following ORGANIZERS of the corporation were present:
Michael Wein, Anthony
Adlerbert, Bart Mullis, being all of
the ORGANIZERS of the corporation and a quorum.
The following original TRUSTEES of the corporation were present:
Michael Wein, Anthony
Adlerbert, Bart Mullis, being all of
the TRUSTEES of the corporation and a quorum.
Michael
Wein was elected temporary chairman and temporary secretary.
The
chairman reported that the incorporators took the following action:
Adopted
by-laws regulating the conduct and affairs of the corporation.
Appointed
TRUSTEES of the corporation: Peggy Bell, Anthony Adlerbert, and Michael Wein
Fixed the address of the registered agent and the registered office
address at 5912
San Bernardo
,
Laredo
TX
78041-2506
,
USA
, and the principal business address of the corporation at Suspiros #14, San
Miguel de Allende, Gto., 37700,
Mexico
.
The
chairman circulated a copy of the Consent To Action Taken In Lieu of
Organization Meeting executed by the President and upon motion duly made,
seconded and carried, it was
Resolved,
that the actions taken by the incorporators as set forth in the Consent To
Action Taken In Lieu of Organization Meeting is hereby approved, ratified and in
all respects confirmed.
The
chairman stated that the election of officers of the corporation was now in
order. The following persons were
nominated:
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President:
Michael Wein |
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Vice-president:
Anthony Adlerbert |
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Vice-president:
Peggy Bell |
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Secretary:
Michael Wein |
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Treasurer:
Michael Wein |
A vote of TRUSTEES was taken and the nominees were elected officers of the
corporation.
The
president and secretary thereupon assumed their respective offices in place and
stead of the temporary chairman and the temporary secretary.
Upon motion
duly made, seconded and carried, it was
Resolved,
that since
Texas
does not require a physical seal, none be adopted, and further
Resolved
that the president and treasurer be and they hereby are authorized to issue
certificates for members, if and when we ever have members, although none are
existent now, and further
Resolved
that the corporate record book and membership roll book is not necessary at this
time.
Upon motion
duly made, seconded and carried, it was
Resolved,
that any persons designated by the President of the Corporation are authorized
on behalf of the Corporation to:
-
open and maintain one or more brokerage accounts for and in the
name of the Corporation at DB Alex. Brown, LLC, the clearing house for Wall
Street Access, a brokerage firm;
-
deposit, deliver, assign, withdraw and transfer funds, instruments
and securities of any type;
-
sell any securities owned by the Corporation;
-
buy any securities in a cash account;
-
execute all documents, and exercise and direct the exercise of all
duties, rights, and powers, and take all actions necessary or appropriate to
perform the powers enumerated above.
Further
resolved, that the president of the Corporation shall certify in writing any
changes in the powers, office or identity of those persons authorized to perform
the powers enumerated above. DB
Alex. Brown LLC (referred to herein as Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown) may rely upon
any such certificate of authority furnished by the Corporation until written
certification of any change in authority shall have been received by Deutsche
Banc Alex Brown. Any past action in
accordance with this resolution is hereby ratified and confirmed.
Powers previously certified by the Corporation shall not be affected by
the dispatch or receipt of any other form of notice nor by any change in the
position with the Corporation held by any person so empowered.
Any officer of the Corporation is hereby authorized to certify these
resolutions to whom it may concern.
Further
resolved, that any persons designated by the President of this corporation are
hereby authorized to sell, assign, transfer and deliver stocks, bands, evidences
of interest and/or indebtedness, rights and options to acquire the same, and all
other securities, corporate or otherwise, now or hereafter held by this
corporation in its own right or in any fiduciary capacity, and to execute any
and all instruments necessary, proper or desirable for the purpose; further,
than any past action in accordance herewith is hereby ratified and confirmed,
and further, that any officer of the Corporation is hereby authorized to certify
these resolutions to whom it may concern.
And further
resolved, that a resolution for that purpose on the printed form of said
depositary was adopted and was ordered appended to the minutes of this meeting.
On motion
duly made, seconded and carried, it was
Resolved,
that the signing of these minutes by the Trustees shall constitute full
ratification thereof and waiver of notice of the meeting by the signatories.
There being
no further business before the meeting, on motion duly made, seconded and
carried, it was adjourned.
Dated
August 29, 2001
Michael Wein, Secretary _____________________________________
Michael Wein,
Trustee _____________________________________
Anthony Adlerbert, Trustee ____________________________________
Peggy Bell, Trustee ____________________________________________
Consent to Action Taken in Lieu of the Organization
Meeting of THE MICHAEL PAUL WEIN
CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, INC.
The
undersigned, being the TRUSTEES of the corporation hereby consent to the action
taken, as hereafter stated, in lieu of the organization meeting:
A copy of
the certificate of incorporation together with the receipt issued by the Texas
Secretary of State showing the date and payment of the filing fee for the
original certificate of incorporation was appended to this statement.
By-laws
regulating the conduct and the affairs of the corporation, as prepared by
counsel for the corporation were adopted and ordered appended thereto.
The
following persons were appointed TRUSTEES of the corporation:
Anthony Adlerbert, Peggy Bell, Michael Wein
The offices of the corporation were fixed as follows:
the address of the registered agent and the registered office address at
5912 San Bernardo, Laredo TX 78041-2506, USA, and the principal business address
of the corporation at Suspiros #14, San Miguel de Allende, Gto., 37700, Mexico.
The undersigned accept their appointment as TRUSTEES:
Anthony Adlerbert____________________________________
Peggy Bell ___________________________________________
Michael Wein _______________________________________
The following are appended to this consent:
copy
of the certificate of incorporation
copy
of receipt issued by the Texas Secretary of State
copy
of by-laws
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