Krishna Temple of North Carolina

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May 08, 2008

Hare Krsna, Vikram,

I would like to keep everyone up to date on the progress in trying to get our site plan approved. In order to get approved we need to have all the permits required by the Town of Hillsborough. There have been some changes in how the Town of Hillsborough works through this process. The biggest hold up for us has been the Waste Water Recycle System. The system has to be completely designed first and once the design is complete we then can apply for the permit.

The designed process has taken much longer than we anticipated. Now the design work is finally coming to an end and is being reviewed by the engineers. Once the review of the plans is done we can apply for a permit from the state. The process for getting the permit can take as little as one to two months with an express review process that would also be costly or the regular review process that could take four to six months to compete.

We understand the importance of this project and the uniqueness of trying to build an environmentally friendly building. This as we are finding out is adding to the time it takes to get things designed and approved. We continue to look for your support and with Krishna mercy we will see this process through.

Daya-Vira das
ISKCON of NC

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Feb 18, 2008

Today was Lord Nityanand appearance day and I had an opportunity to meet Jadurani and her husband in the temple. I asked them about the outcome of the Feb 13th meeting. She told me that the City has asked for a Waste Water Treatment permit and they did not accept the letter of explanation obtained from State.

The issue is due to bad percolation tests of the soil from the temple site. This affects the amount of runoff that will come into retention pond and thus affecting the design of the temple. City wants a waste water treatment permit before-hand to approve anything.

Jadurani is working to get necessary paper works to get this thing done. Since City has given the next date after 3 months, there is nothing that can expedite this process.

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On Wednesday Feb 13th at 7:00PM, there will be a town hall meeting at Hillsborough to go over the plan for the water system for the new temple site. We had been asked to show our plan for the proposed water treatment system. Jadurani has a letter of explanation for the board that has been recently presented. It is important that all of the members of the community come to this meeting to show our commitment and support for Radha-Golokananda's new temple.

The model of the new Krishna Temple was displayed for the public during the Janma-Astami festival on Sept 4th, 2007. The model was prepared by Jadurani and her husband Omkara Prabhu ji.

This is the picture of Krishna Land where His new temple will be built. The Bhumi-puja is planned for October 28th, 2007. I will post picture of the land as we make progress for the temple construction.

The beautiful picture of Radha-Krishna on Sept 2nd, 2007.

The present New Golokananda Temple entrance sign-board. Dayavir got this sign-board remade.

Download picture of the land at Here
Download picture of Radha-Krishna at Here

The 14th meeting for the construction of new temple was held at the residence of HH Bir Krishna Das Goswami on Sunday Aug 28th, 2007. The following people attended the meeting.

• Bir Krishna Das Goswami
• Jadurani Mataji
• Krishnapriya Mataji
• Hrshikesh Prabhu
• Vikram Khatri

This meeting was arranged after a long time since Maharaj ji has been on world tour for a long time. Dayavir Prabhu gave the status update on the progress of the temple planning, approval from the county for the site plan etc.

• The site plans were submitted to the City of Hillsborough.
• The public hearing on the site plan was held on August 8th, 2007.
• There were some issues raised during the public hearing.
• The temple was asked to submit the clarifications/actions and next public hearing is on Sept 12th, 2007.
• The changes in the site plan are being carried by Michael A Neal & Associates.
• The additional details like hours of operations for street lighting etc are being put in the reply.

Bir Krishna Das Goswami announced that if the site-plan approval comes from City of Hillsborough, we will have Bhumi-puja for the new temple on October 28th, 2007.

Jadurani mataji told about the progress made on the model of the temple being prepared so that it can be displayed during the Janma-Astami festival.

Dayavir Prabhu gave the site plan so that it can displayed on this site.

Company that did site-plan for us

Where is the new temple in map?

Existing Conditions on ground as of today

Site Plan submitted to the City for approval

Lighting Plan for the site

Grading and Drainage Plan

Sediment and Erosion Control Plan

Miscellaneous Details

The following person attended the 13th meeting held at the residence of His Holiness Bir Krishna Das Goswami.

• Bir Krishna Das Goswami
• Jadurani and Omkara Prabhu
• Hrshikesh Prabhu
• Vikram Khatri

The purpose of this meeting was to decide the final orientation of the temple. Jadurani brought an encyclopedia of the ancient Indian temples to show that the deities in various prominent temple of India face all different directions. Maharaj ji told that the deities should face the cardinal directions and as per the layout of the current lot, it is ok if deities face West. It was decided to keep the current layout as originally planned by Jadurani and Omkara prabhu.

A meeting was called by Dayavir Prabhu to finalyze temple site plan and fund raising. The following people attended the meeting.

• His Holiness Bir Krishan Das Goswami
• Dayavir Prabhu
• Jadurani and Omkara Prabhu
• Golokanandapriya Mataji
• Mahatam Singh Prabhu
• Hrshikesh Prabhu
• Vikram Khatri

About fund-raising, Maharaj ji told that someone (anonymous) has pledged an amount of $30,000 for the planning phase. He also told that Mahatam Singh ji has also pledged an amount of $10,000. With this, Dayavir Prabhu told that we have $60,000 and that is sufficient for us to go until the end of this year to keep working on drawings etc.

The next fund raising event for the Krishna Temple of North Carolina is planned for Saturday, March 24th 2007 at Holiday Inn Express, Exit 41 on I-40/BUS 85 from 10:30AM to 2:00PM.

Invitations has been sent out to the people.

Dayavir Prabhu sent me the latest proposed outline drawing for the temple.

Open this NCtemple02062007.pdf document to see the drawing clearly.

The fund raising event on Jan 21st was a low turn out event mainly due to the very bad weather in the morning with some snow flurry. This kept people tied to the comfort of their home and only 30 people showed up at the door against a planned gathering for 100-150 people.

But, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna has plans for this temple. "This fund raising event was a total success" was the remark from His Holiness Bir Krishna Das Goswami and I was wondering how this was successful with a very low turn out of the people. He explained that ONLY people who were sincere in their devotion to Lord Krishna showed up in spite of the bad weather so we had a very good quality of the people instead of the quantity. Hmmm, I was thinking in my mind that we did not even reach close to our goal of fund-raising. Reading my mind's anxiety, he told me that one special person from this audience pledged donation of the complete marble for the temple which will be worth more than $150,000. This itself is just a huge success for this fund-raising event.

The fund raising event for New Krishna Temple of North Carolina will be held at Cary Senior Center at Bond Park, 801 High House Road, Cary, NC on January 21st, 2007 from 10:30am to 02:00pm. The invitations have been sent to 380 people to attend this event.

View Power Point Presentation of the New Temple

Vikram

The temple planning meeting was held on Nov 26th, 2006 at the residence of His Holiness Bir Krishna Das Goswami Maharaj. The following devotee / person attended the meeting.

• Bir Krishna Das Goswami
• Dayavir
• Mother Golokanandapriya
• Hriskesh
• Vikram Khatri

Dayavir Prabhu gave the details on the progress made so far in hiring the firm for the site-plan. He also told about the possibility of zone change for the parcel of land. Maharaj ji will meet with the temple lawyer to find out more details about it.

Vikram told about the progress being make in the fund-raising. Maharaj ji agreed to meet with the people suggested to make further progress.

The following devotee / people attended the meeting.

• Krishnapriya Mataji
• Dayavir Prabhu
• Hrshikesh
• Vikram Khatri

The following action items were decided.

• The home meeting program should continue. The suggestions of Rajesh Patel were discussed and it was decided.
• 20 8x10 pictures will be printed by Hrshikesh.
• Mata ji will order 20-30 frames.
• Dayavir Prabhu will get Prashadam, goodie bag and one Srila Prabhupada's book.
• The goodie bag will consist of Sri Sri Radha Golokananda picture, maha-prashadam, Srila Prabhupada book, New Goloka calendar and New Temple brochure.
  

Jadurani asked me to put-up the following list of items for donations. This is the first draft and may undergo changes in the future as and when the estimates are refined.

The new temple is across the street from existing temple. Please see the location of the new temple.

Dayavir Prabhu and Vikram attended the temple planning meeting on 10/06/2006. Vikram gave an update on the status of two meetings that were held yesterday with Dinesh Tailor and Rajesh Patel for expanding the network for fund-raising.

The following action points were discussed.

1. We need to scan the rough drawings and include them in the power point presentation. Dayavir Prabhu will take care of this and send the soft copies to Vikram.

2. All the emails and contacts will need to be entered in some sort of database so that we can send a news letter to the people regularly updating the status of the new temple.

During our last meeting we created organizational categories and assign chairpersons for each one. The categories are: Accounting, Fund raising, Planning, Public Relations.

Some action items were that the new temple would be broken down creating an itemized list of rooms and special needs that would be tagged with a price for the purpose of fund raising.

A booklet of the new temple will created for presentation purpose.
A brief planning and construction time line was created and will be posted under Temple planning.

We had a planning meeting on 7-5-06. We looked over the updated rough plans that were done by Omkara. Bir Krishna Goswami met with Jay from Greensborough who is very interested in getting involved with the New Temple. He will join our team and is going to help out with the fund raising.

There was a proposal that a rough time line for the planning and the construction be put together for presentations. Omkara and Jadurani will work on that.

There will be two events in September in Greensborough. This would be a great opportunity to present the New Temple to more devotees.
Our next general meeting will be 8-27-06. We will finalize our plans for fund raising presentations.

How can we sustain the New Temple?

A Great deal of time was taken in analyzing the size of the plan of the New Temple. The maintenance requirements like cleaning and future repairs.

Needs of the Deities in the new temple.

• Laundry room
• Prep room
• Sewing room
• Pujari room

What are the needs of preaching.

• Cultivating guest
• Support offices
• Multimedia room
• Gift shop

Needs of the devotees.

• Baby room
• Bathrooms

Size of the temple room.

The fifth meeting regarding construction of new Krishna temple was
held on July 14, 2006 at the residence of Hrishikesh das at Cary, NC.

The following devotees/people attended the meeting.

• Daya-vir das (Chair - Meeting)
• Hrishikesh das
• Vikram Khatri

Daya-vir
das opened the meeting and distributed a draft copy of the pamphlet prepared by Ratna Radhika.

The following comments / points were discussed during the meeting.

• Hrishikesh das will prepare a list of possible donors so that the fund raising committee can start meeting with the people as soon as possible.
• Vikram will make further changes to the document and send it to the team for the further review.
• Daya-vir will furnish details about the land, cost and name of the donors who have contributed cost of the land. He will also get a topographic map of the land so that we can put it in the document.
• It was decided that the final draft of the document will be made ready for the full meeting review scheduled to be held on either July 28 or 29th.
• Daya-vir will publish the details and venue of the next meeting so that it is an advance notice for all the people to attend.