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溫大嶺 任北卡三角區華聯會長

【本報記者王政賢北卡羅來納州報導】北卡羅來納州三角地區華人聯誼會日前在洛麗市漢語學校舉行年會，有數百名華聯會員及其家屬到會，會中並選出新會長溫大嶺、董事會主席陳劍文。北卡羅來納州三角地區華人聯誼會(Chinese-American Friendship Association in the Triangle Area，簡稱CAFA和華聯)成立於1996年10月5日，該會的主要宗旨是開闢華人聯誼橋樑，維護華人權益，協助華人融入美國社會，促進中美文化藝術和科學技術的交流。華聯目前是北卡州內人數最多的華人團體，擁有會員約兩千人。華聯每年都會舉辦各種大型的聯誼和娛樂活動，還積極參與當地的各種社區服務和活動。

年會由本屆董事會主席周大操主持，會長陳建報告本屆華聯的工作，並頒發獎牌給會員部周青部長以及安晏、溫大嶺、馬加、王殿霞、賈俊卿、郭倩、劉慧明等人，獲得本年度獎牌的還有本屆華聯董事會，成員包括姜海翔、龐濤、婁玉、夏育陸、謝衛華、嚴定、姚承偉、陳劍文、賈晶、章勇和周青。董事會主席周大操代表董事會接受獎牌，他感謝本屆執委會會長陳建、副會長姜海翔、秘書長郭旭光、財務長馮菊生和會計師劉佩珠的貢獻。劉佩珠和馮菊生接著報告本年度財務情況，結餘將留交給新一屆執委會。

華聯新一屆執行委員會由溫大嶺出任華聯新會長，幹部包括：副會長郭旭光、秘書長胡玉明及財務長馮菊生和會計師劉佩珠。溫大嶺感謝大家對他和副會長的支持，他也對上屆執委會的出色工作和給予的寶貴經驗表示感謝。溫大嶺表示，除了要把已經制度化的工作和活動做好外，更要把一些單項活動，如中文學校的比賽、文藝、體育俱樂部的活動等，納入到華聯的工作計劃中，要讓各個職能部門發揮更大作用，還要多聽取會員的回饋，加強溝通，讓華聯更像個會員之家，保存強大的凝聚力和向心力。

第十一屆華聯年會後不久，華聯領導層在離任會長陳建和副會長姜海翔工作所在的杜克大學，舉行了新舊董事會交接會議。經過早先的公開選舉，新一屆董事會由陳劍文、郭旭光、黃偉師、賈晶、龐濤、齊金根、溫大嶺、謝衛華、嚴定、姚承偉、張勇、周大操、周青組成。新一屆董事會一致推選陳劍文為第十二屆華聯董事會主席。陳劍文感謝大家對他的信任，他也表示，會發揚光大歷屆董事會的無私奉獻與積極參與的優良傳統，一如既往地維護和保持與執委會的合作。

2008 Plan for CAFA Board of Directors (BOD):

1. To assist Executive Committee (EC) in executing EC’s 2008 Plan:
http://www.cafanc.org/events/EC_annual_plan_2007.htm

2. To improve the communication with CAFA members.
Emails and Web are the two most important channels to communicate with CAFA members. Will improve both of these channels through the following initiatives:

• Create an online Forum to allow CAFA members to exchange any information among them, as well as to provide feedbacks to CAFA officials.
• Create an online Blog to allow CAFA members to access what CAFA Board and EC are working on and to provide comments on some proposals.
• Use permanent CAFA email addresses for CAFA officials so that members can always reach CAFA officials and encourage members to send feedbacks to CAFA officials.
• Always inform members in advance on the upcoming events through announcements in Email and on the Web.

3. To make majority of documents online.
If technically possible, make CAFA Web two levels of access:

• Documents for general public: news, events, by-laws, guidelines, resolutions etc.
• Documents for CAFA Members only: finance reports, annual reports, budget proposals, board meeting minutes etc.

4. To formalize and to document every major decision in a resolution.
Here is an example:

• Resolution No: BOD-2007-11-13
• Title: CAFA Financial Guidelines
• Content: ……
• Sponsors: ABC, XYZ
• Last change: 2007-11-13

5. To revise and amend CAFA By-laws
Form a by-law amendment sub-committee to study and propose By-Law amendments. Certain provisions in the CAFA By-Laws are a little out-dated. Here are some of the examples:

• ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP (need to add life-time membership and honorable membership)
• ARTICLE IV, Title 2. Representation (need to modify county representation)
• ARTICLE V. Title 6, terms (need to change term limit for Secretary, Treasurer & Accountant)
• ARTICLE VI. Title 2 Membership (need to change term limit for SC members)
• ARTICLE VI. Title 3 COMMITTEES (need to update the list of the Standing Committees)
• ARTICLE VII. Title 1 (send nomination to the Election Committee rather than to Secretary)
• ARTICLE IX. MEETINGS (removing or changing annual meeting timing)

6. To review and revise existing CAFA Guidelines and make them available online as resolutions:

• Financial guideline
• Election guideline
• Mailing list guideline
• Club guideline

7. To propose new CAFA Guidelines

• Board Committee Guideline 
• Membership guideline
• Fund-raising guideline (example: general sponsors with different sponsor levels, event sponsors etc.)
• Discipline and ethics guideline

Need form a sub-committee for each of the above guidelines:

• Sub-committee on the Board Committee Guideline: 
• Sub-committee on Membership Guideline:
• Sub-committee on Fund-raising Guideline: 
• Sub-committee on Discipline and Ethics guideline:

Each sub-committee will propose a draft guideline for the Board to discuss and to vote as a resolution.

8. To Improve the effectiveness of the BOD Committees
In the past, the BOD committees have been working very closely with the corresponding Standing committees. Need to have this close working relationship while maintaining BOD committees’ independence and oversight responsibility.  Need to clearly define each BOD committee’s mission statement, role and responsibility. Focus more on the dual duty of policy-making and oversight.

• BOD Membership Committee:
  · Review and revise membership policy on how to grow our membership base
  · Create new membership types to attract other members, such as youth membership, senior membership, student membership and life-time membership,
  · Create and review membership report
  · Assist and oversee this Standing Committee: Membership
• BOD Internal Committee:
  · Review and revise related guidelines and policies
  · Assist and oversee these Standing Committees: Communication and Publication, Culture Promotion, General Affairs, Science and Technology, Business, Sports
• BOD Finance Committee:
  · Review and revise finance guideline
  · Review and revise fundraising guideline
  · Quarterly financial report
  · Audit income statements
  · Audit expense claims
  · Assist and oversee these Standing Committees: Finance, Fundraising
• BOD Public Relation Committee:
  · Review and revise related guidelines and policies
  · Assist and oversee this Standing Committee: Public Relation

9. To publish a CAFA annual report and distribute it to all CAFA members:
· Major event report
· Membership report
· Financial report
· PR report
· Board report

The above plan was proposed in the CAFA Board Transition Meeting on 11/13/07. Does any board/EC member have anything else to add or have any comments on the above plan?

Thanks.

-Owen

CAFA Board of Directors has four sub-committees: public relation committee, internal committee, membership committee and finance committee.   As decided in last night’s Board meeting (11/13/07), here is the BOD committee member assignment:

Public Relation committee: Owen Chen (chair), Tao Pang, Dacao Zhou, Daling Wen, Weishi Huang

Internal committee: Weihua Xie (chair), Ding Yan, Jing Jia

Membership committee: Qing Zhou (chair), Yong Zhang, Chengwei Yao, Xuguang Guo,   

Finance committee: Dacao Zhou (chair), Jim Qi, Jusheng Feng, Peizhu Liu

As mentioned by many board directors, the challenging questions for these BOD committees are how to define the mission of each of these BOD committees and what the role and the responsibility of these BOD committees are.  

What is your thought?

 -Owen