Minutes of Igate Devcorp Meeting: March 18th, 2015 The meeting was officially called to order at 5:46 pm upon the arrival of Shail Khiyara. Also present were Art Pontau, Rick Lazansky, Jeff Wolf, John Mahoney, Dr Woody Clark (phone), Secretary Marshall Kamena, Chair Sblend Sblendario and Pam Ott. Ms Ott was declared by consensus to be a voting member in place of Mayor Jerry Thorne. Also in attendance was Executive Director Brandon Cardwell. Rameet Kohli, by phone, spoke as a member of the public. He suggested that the Board wait until the next quarterly meeting to make the decision as to the composition of the DevCorp Board and the Advisory Group. It was moved by Mahoney & seconded by Khiyara and passed unanimously to accept the minutes of 02-‐12-‐2015 with the addition of E.D. Cardwell’s name as being present. ITEM 1, the Brown Act and its responsibilities were discussed. They were: A) No “Reply all” responses to email are permitted; B) teleconferences are not permitted; C) telephone participation in meetings is permitted if proper posting of member’s site is accomplished; D) the local government site available to one’s computer is a good guide to Brown Act rules; E) other brochures are available on the table for reference; F) Form 700 requires an FPPC approved Conflict of Interest Code & we do not yet have one. For the April meeting the Executive Director (E.D.) was asked to bring legal advice in general on the Brown Act & how specifically this Board may get into compliance. ITEM 2, the Advisory Group was discussed. See the attached iGATE Advisory “Board” Draft prepared by Committee Members Kaye, Mahoney & Sblendario. The essence of the Advisory Group was stated to be a resource to the E. D. and presumably to the Governing Board (DevCorp) for recipes for success with start-‐ups both strategically and tactically. Event planning & spreading the word about such would also be an Advisory Group function. The Group needs a chair according to the discussion’s consensus. It was also in general agreement that the Advisory Group meets as needed, may be any size, and the members hold six-‐month terms. The “iGATE Advisory Group” was deemed to be the actual name of the new group. In answer to Director Mahoney’s question concerning who appoints the members, it was the opinion of those present that: iGATE management would nominate the A. G. Group members to the Governing Board. However, no formal motion was made to that effect. Director Khiyara mentioned that he thought the Advisory Group may be a path for funding projects, but probably not a primary path. He suggested a dual path for the public & private sector boards similar to one proposed in Pleasanton. For a future agenda it was suggested that 1) a discussion of how and when iGATE might switch to private funding as the vehicle for success, rather than public sector funding; 2) the method for changing the composition and number of members of the
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