The Board of NOLAA met on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at the Aladdin’s Eatery at 6:00PM.  In attendance were 6 Board Members including Rick Ganim, Nicole Gove, Pierre Chelala, Joe Khadige, Paul Daher and George Nassif.

Heritage Ball: new invitation was presented and the Heritage Ball Committee will decide on it at the next meeting scheduled for 9/14/09. The Board is in the process of confirming the MC. Nicole and James will continue the facilitation of the Heritage Ball.

Feed the Homeless: September 21^st, 11am-1pm at St. Herman’s House of Hospitality. NOLAA will partake in our quarterly volunteering efforts of feeding the homeless.   We need 6 people from 11am-1pm - Joe is going to email the membership to see if anyone is interested in volunteering.

Refund: LACENTRE taxes were refunded from last year’s event. Guardian Title refunded our $5,000 deposit. Picnic raised $1,080 from proceeds collected as the result of the reverse raffle and t-shirts sales.

Membership: The promotion of our organization will remain an ongoing effort to introduce our community to NOLAA and its accomplishments. We will set up a table at the Heritage Ball and put membership forms at the tables.

Golf Outing: Paul and George are working on this - They will have a Texas Hold’em competition at the outing as well as a raffle during dinner.

Building: Rick suggested a continuous outreach effort to members of the community to gain their feedback in respect to their desired long-term vision for this organization.  George echoed Rick’s notion by adding the need for awareness and the commitment from our community to achieve growth.  This will give us a feel for what type of support we can expect from the community.

MOTION by Joe to place an offer of $175,000 for the purchase of a property and land in Strongsville, Ohio. The asking purchase price is $229,000.00.  The motion was approved by: Joe, George, Paul, Rick, Nicole.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:00pm

The next Board Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 6:30pm.