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Houston Hosting Committee Chairman Fawaz Massis opened the meeting and thanked everyone for their attendance and turned the meeting to the Board of UTAA. UTAA Treasurer report; Najib Khoury reported that $4200 in dues were collected as of July 5 2009. $6700 was collected for the year 2008. A treasury report was mailed with the Easter letter in April. Najib is working to put all the tax papers, state tax exemptions and filing up to date. There was a discussion about how to collect the rest of the annual dues since only about 90 families out of 500 paid their dues, Wadie Jaser is sending regular bills and past due notices for 2008 and 2009. It was mentioned that we should use the help of the regional directors Nader Habash, Loai Marouf, Jawad Muaddi and Magdi Taye to follow up with families about the dues. UTAA Scholarship awards; Loai Marouf reported about the UTAA Scholarship awards; since we did not receive any entries for the essay contest for the USA scholarship, all awards will go to Taybeh students as follows; $1,000 award to the highest average student in the Tawjihi scores, $1,000 to the second highest average student, $500 each to the 3rd and 4th highest average. All awards will be presented after the scores are announced. Next year we will promote the USA Scholarship of $1,000 better by sending emails to all high school seniors and 1st year college students and post it periodically on taybeh.org and taybeh.info. Taybeh Post Office: UTAA has contributed a total of $20,000 to this project. Project is going well and should be completed in the near future. Taybeh Convention 2010: Letters from Father Raed and Mayor Daoud Khoury were read. They were good wishes for a successful convention and an invitation to hold the convention of 2010 in Taybeh, a vote was taken and it passed by the majority. UTAA will work with all the groups in our beloved Taybeh to insure the success of this grand event. Since 2010 is an election year, it was decided to hold the election in Taybeh for 2010 if we have a total of 50 USA members voting, if not then the election will be held by proxy mail after our return from Taybeh. Latin Church renovation : There was a discussion about a request from Father Raed to help with this project and it was decided to send a contribution of $5,000. This was also done by motion and vote. The vote was for this motion by a majority. 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The next UTAA convention will be held in Taybeh, Palestine in 2010. UTAA elections for the year 2010 will be held in Taybeh if 50 voting USA members are present, if not then it will done by proxy mail few weeks after return. 2. A $5,000 will be contributed to the renovation of the Latin Church in Taybeh. 3. A UTAA calendar will be published this coming year and mailed with the Christmas letter. 4. Regional directors will work together with their communities to revive Taybeh Day in the USA. 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