Memorandum

Date: April 4August 14, 2002

Subject: The fourth CAST-UTAH Board Meeting Summary and Follow-ups

On AugustMarch 130, 2002, from approximately 124:3045 to 2:206:45 pm, the Chinese Association for Science and Technology - Utah Chapter (CAST-UT) held its fourth first second board meeting of the year in the China King Buffet restaurant. the Salt Air Room, Union Building of the University of Utah. Fourteen of the seventeen members of of the Board of Directors (BOD) attended the meeting as follows:. (Suggestion: You may simply listed the names of those present, the names of those excused, and names of those Chen Xiaodi, Cheng Weili, Dong Xiquan, Huang Y.S.(Steven), Le Taowen,

Liu Feng (Frank), Liu Feng, Liu Liping, Mu Honghua, Peng Enhua, Shen Hua, Song Yucheng, Zhao Hongjie, Wan Le, Xia Weidong, Zhang Zhe, and Zhu Hao. Wan Le Chen Xiaodi and Mu Honghua werewas excused. , Zhao Hongjie was out of town and Zhang Qiuqing and Li Minhua did not receive the meeting notice due to an old email address. aserabsent.) In addition, the board warmly welcomed CAST-UT members Li Xiqing and Tao Honglai who attended the meeting and appreciated their active involvement and effort in participating in CAST-UT events. VariouVariouss items were discussed and approved during the meeting. The following are the meeting summary:

1. As part of farewell activities for Dong Xiquan’s new career in other state, the board, on behalf of all members, presented a memorable gift signed by all attendees for his great contribution to this organization and our community. The principal of the Oriental Chinese School, Ms. Xue Yaping, and the president of the United Chinese Association of Utah, Dr. Chen Zhong attended the farewell activities. Many people presented a few words and congratulations to Dong Xiquan.

2. The board unanimously approved Xia Weidong and Zhang Zhe as new BOD members to replace the vacancies.

3. The board unanimously elected Zhu Hao as the president of the CAST-UT, Cheng Weili as the vice president, and Wan Le as the Secretary General.

4. The meeting approved assignments of BOD members as follows (mostly change made to the previous list, and a rstric* indicating the individuals who is group leaderin charge of for the assignment):

· Newsletters: *Peng Enhua (Chief Editor), Mu Honghua (Editor). Li Xiqing expressed an interest in helping newsletter editing after the meeting.

· Seminars: *Zhang Zhe, *Mu Honghua.

· Science and Technology Cooperation: *Liu Feng, Cheng Weili, Mu Honghua

· Proposal Writing: *Xia Weidong, Liu Feng.

· Finance: *Shen Hua, Song Yucheng, Li Minhua.

· Website: *Zhao Hongjie, Huang Yishu.

· Membership: *Zhu Hao, Li Minhua.

· Fellowship Activities: *Xia Weidong, Liu Liping, Shen Hua.

· Public Relation (External Affairs): *Liu Liping, Huang Yishu.

The meeting did not discuss coordinators for above assignments. Based a discussion after the meeting, Cheng Weili will be the coordinator for the first four assignments: newsletters, seminars, science and technology cooperation, and proposal writing; and Wan Le will coordinate the remaining task areas: finance, website, membership, public relationswebsite, and fellowship activities. The coordinators will perform assistance in these assignments and make necessary coordination if needed.

The meeting did not discuss the CAST-UT Business Advisory Committee (BAC) that was raised during the previous board meetings. It is assumed that Zhao Hongjie continues to be in charge of drafting operating policies and the BAC related work.

5. Due to time constrains, the meeting did mot discuss in detail the work performed during the previous months. It is recommended at the meeting that individuals who lead the task areagroups will at each board meeting givepresent a brief review on any accomplishments and provide a brief discussion on projected activities and any encountered or anticipated problems and difficulties.

6. The board agreed that it is imperative to maintain the CAST-UT webpage updated. Huang Yishu has initiated updating work at the present time when Zhao Hongjie is currently not available.

7. The BOD members appreciated Peng Enhua for his leading effort in editing the CAST-UT newsletters. The deadline for the fourth issue of the year is set by the end of August 2002. He encourages all members of CAST-UT to write articles for the newsletter.

8. The meeting briefly discussed participation in the upcoming CAST-USA 10-year anniversary plus business and technology conference in November 2002. It is suggested that CAST-UT should send individuals as many representatives as possible to attend the conference.

Attendees reviewed the many activities jointly held by CAST-UT and other organizations of the conducted with other local Chinese communityies during the first quarter of the year, including: such as, the Chinese Nnew Yyear ccelebration partyparty, the Chinese Culture Day, cultural Olympics, the airport welcomeing extended to the Chinese Olympic delegation, and the Ccelebration Pparty with the Chinese athletes, etc..

1.The meeting meeting included discussionsdiscussed of the assignments, duties, and obligations of for the members of the Board of Directors (BOD) of CAST-UT.AH (BOD). A consensus was made as follows: It was understoodAll attendees agreed that that all Bboard members should strive to perform their assigned duties and tasks with quality and in time, and all board members should make greatest efforts in attending CAST-UTAH board meetings. A motion was All attendees of the board members unanimously approved a provision that a board member will would automatically be removed from the BOD or will be considered as voluntarily withdrawning from the his/her seat from the BOD Board if he/she faileds to consecutively attend three board meetings in a row three times without excuses.

1.3. The board overwhelmingly approved a provision motion that CAST-UTAH will would recommend its current ex-immediate past president to CAST-USA to be consider nominated as a candidate of vice president candidate of CAST-USA. The meeting also discussed the different roles of a vice presidentofficers of CAST-USA and the president of CAST-UTAH. It was agreed that person that represents CAST-UT both in local activities and in national affairs is the current president of CAST-UT. While the president of CAST-UTAH should be is responsible for leading normal executions of all CAST-UTAH local activities, a vice presidentofficers of CAST-USA who are members of CAST-UT are responsible for their specific duties assigned by CAST-USA. However, in fulfilling assignments given by CAST-USA, the latter should act in the best interest of CAST-UT.

1.from CAST-UTAH should participate in activities at the CAST-USA headquarters level and act as a local representative to the headquarters for the interests of CAST-UTAH.

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The board also approved a provision motion that the current president of CAST-UTAH shall notcannot represent or actserve as a president or , a vice-president of another local Chinese organization during his service as the current president of CAST-UT. However, such constraint is released as soon as he/she finishes his/her service as the current president of CAST-UT. Such constraint does not apply to any other positions at CAST-UT.

, or similar functions of all other local community organizations during his/her term of services in CAST-UTAH.

5.The board approved the motion that a member of CAST-UTAH becomes will be eligible to be elected as a member of the CAST-UT BOD three months after three months of joining joining CAST-UT.

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The above motions and decisions board-approved provisions will be incorporated into the CAST-UTAH bylaws. Zhu Hao is appointed by the Board to recommended to take the lead in to ddrafting the revised bylaws.

7.raft languages of the incorporation for comments and the final approval of the board.

Zhao Hongjie updated reported on the status of the Business Advisory Committee (BAC). It was approved that Hongjie indicated that the BAC would will consist of five to seven members of CAST-UT and that the final composition of the committee would need to be approved by the Board of Directors of CAST-UT. Zhao and he Hongjie will also draft guidelines of BAC operational procedures for BOD to review and approveboard approval.

8. The board concurred approved with Zhao Hongjie’s initiative proposal to upgrade and maintain CAST-UT’sAH website. and maintenance. It is apparent that much lots of work needs to be done and Zhao Hongjie needs a lotlots of help! Anyone that could render Zhao Hongjie assistance to Zhao Hongjie in this regard would be deeply appreciated. If you are willing to provide help, please email Zhao Hongjie at ads@5starads.com for more information.

9. Each BOD member that was present at the meeting agreed to write at least one article for our newsletter. Peng Enhua proposed an article-submission deadline of April 10 for articles for the the next issue of the CAST-UTAH newsletter. as April 10, 2002. A projectBrief introduction of CAST-UT members’ list of Sino-US science and technology exchange and cooperation projects will be sought and published will be published in the next issue. Attendees also discussed the possible methods of the newsletters distribution, such as , pdf files, format, web-links, and email, etc.

10. A planning of the Ssecond quarter activities was were discussed. With help of all members, Shen Hua and Liu Liping with help of others will be in chargein charge of the organization of of the upcoming spring party and summer outing, etc.. for CAST-UT. Mu Honghua and Chen Xiaodee will still be assigned in charge of seminar organizations. It was suggested that sSome of the previously-covered old topics such as , e.g., real estate, taxation, immigration, etc. could be coveredcovered again for updateare recommended for refresh seminars, also given the constantly-changing Chinese population in the area. in the area.nature of these areas.

11.Liu Feng (Frank) recommended that a liaison should be appointed a new appearance from CAST-UTAH with Cbetween CAST-UT and CAST-USA in organizing members to attend to promote and enhance Sino-US cooperation and exchange groups or delegations. in areas of science, technology, economy and education and to send delegations of these extensive areas to China. Dong Xiquan is appointed by the BoardOD as the new liaisonrecommended for assuming the duty..

12. Le Taowen Le Taowen indicated that he wrote a letter to the Embassy of People Republic of China to USA requesting a portion of travel funds for Eric Cheng, a CAST-UTAH member from Taiwan and an expert of transportation safety, who is invited as a keynote speaker of the first Beijing 2008 Olympics transportation management conference in Beijing. recently wrote a letter of recommendation for a member of CAST-UT in applying for travel funds to attend an international conference. He encouraged members to take advantage of their membership in CAST. The board promotes actions that benefit members of CAST-UTAH for their activities enhancing the objectives of CAST-UTAH.

13. At the meeting, Song Yucheng gave a financial report. The BOD applauded his efforts in maintaining a complete and clear record of financial transactions. briefly presented the checks and balances of CAST-UTAH finance, lots of tedious work to which he was assigned.

14. Some new lifetime members at CAST-UTof CAST requested to receive thea certificate s of their lifetime membership in CAST. CAST-USA will be contacted in this regard. permanent membership from the CAST-USA headquarters.

15. The BoardOD was The board overwhelmingly concerned about the risks and potential risks imposed on CAST-UT by people who tried to use CAST-UT as a channel to make donations to other organizations for tax or other purposes. It was decided that CAST-UT would refuse to participate in any such transactions.

to this organization associated with financial transactions through CAST-UTAH to other organizations for tax or other purposes. The board rejected such a request.

16. The BoardOD decided to hold a farewell Board members recommended a faraway gathering for Le Taowen in late April as he will be returning to his return service to China in late May.