The Following is the Minutes of SIAP Board of Directors meeting of on 11/20/2000

Date: November 20, 2000
Location: MGM Plaza

Present: 
Mohammad Vaghei 
Iraj Yamin-Esfandiari 
Mohammad Moayery
Farhad Ashofteh
Mohammad Borghei
Hashem Mojarab
Majid Falamaki

Absentees:
Shahab Ghods
Gregor Daneshvar

The following specific items were discussed or reviewed:

7.1 SIAP News letter; PAYEH
Iraj as the chief editor contacted members of his committee and called a meeting on October 19th. He reported that material was typed up and ready. (Meeting arranged)

Iraj set a deadline for publishing before end of year 2000.

Selling advertising for Payeh 2nd issue was discussed in the meeting and Mr. Esfandiary & Vaghei will follow up ($300 full page and $50 BC size ad- members will pay $25. Full color back page ad will be $700.)

8.4 METRO Field Trip
Mohammad Moayery proposed an event to include a field trip to LA Metro. Mohammad Moayery to follow up.

11.1 Up-coming events and SIAP calendar:

Nov. 30^th Sustainable Architecture, Speakers: Mr. Gharachedaghi & 2 from City of LA planning Department.
Dec. 07^th Year 2001 Elections / Norouz committee starts work
Jan. 25^th Building materials Expo. Featuring Lighting, Waterproofing, Tile and Stone, etc.

11.3 SIAP web site
Majid Falamaki has updated SIAP.ORG and will continue to add additional information regarding:
Members' names and pictures
Members' pages to present their works
Lists of alumni of various schools of architecture

13.1 Media Advertising to reach out to related Professionals
Board decided to advertise on TV and Radio regarding SIAP.ORG site and ask Architects, Planners, engineers, etc to contact SIAP.org and send their e-mails and eventually become new members.

13.2 Media Advertising Budget
Board allocated $500 to spend on Media advertising till the end of Dec 2000 for introducing SIAP.ORG and promote it to Iranian society.

13.3 Architectural Exhibition: 2001 in Rome, Italy
Mohammad Borghei reported that he represented SIAP in his visit to IRAN and contacted authorities in Iran including Parviz Kalantari, head of the society of consulting Architects & Planners who supported the idea and directed him to Iranian highest authority in Art. He is scheduled to be in Toronto, Canada shortly and also visit San Francisco on first week of this December. Therefore, Board asked Mr. Borghei to stay in touch with him for further coordination and possibly arrange a meeting between him and the board.

In Iran, Mr. Borghei continued reporting, SIAP volunteered coordinating the exhibition activities among the Iranian Architects who reside outside of Iran. SIAP will arrange for their work to be presented in the Exhibition. Tentatively, board decided on participation of 20 Architects.

Board decided to promote an Architectural symposium in conjunction with the Exhibition and inform Architects in a timely manner to submit their papers.

13.4 Iranian architectural magazines subscription & advertising
Mr. Borghei presented one copy of Iranian Architecture magazine called " Me-mor". He reported 16,000 Tooman for yearly subscription. Board decided to subscribe for 20 issues and M. Falamaki will provide required fund.

New Items:

14.1 Monthly meeting:
Board decided that SIAP be prepared in the meeting; in a more professional fashion by taking the following actions:
Have several large-scale SIAP logos at the meetings.
Promote inviting the guests to join and have membership applications available.

14.2 Next meeting:
The topic is " Sustainable Architecture". Mohammad Gharachedaghi is the keynote speaker who informed us that he will be accompanied by one speaker not two as was reported earlier. Mohammad Borghei will contact him by Nov. 25,2000 to get the information SIAP needs for the invitation flyer. Discussion about a decent Farsi equivalent for the topic continued without conclusion. Board asked everyone to share their thoughts with Mark Vaghei who will prepare the flyer by Wed. Nov. 22, 2000 and send it to Iraj for distribution.

14.3 Business Networking Meeting:
Mohammad Moayery reported that 15 people, including his 3 guests, were present on Nov. 16, 2000 meeting. He continued that the idea got some attention and only 3 members showed interest to participate. Mohammad Moayery elaborated on the idea for the board and presented Networking among the members based on Word-of-Mouth marketing technique. The goal is generating quality business referrals among the dissimilar professions.

Competition among the SIAP members raised some concerns. Mohammad Moayery suggested not worrying about this for now since parties in the same category did not yet show interest. In addition, Architects are practicing in different fields. General discussion and other ideas were presented but no decision was reached due to time. Mohammad Moayery will follow and keep board updated of further development.

Thursday December 7, 2000 7:00m PM
MGM Community Room

Meeting Chairman: M. Vaghei