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Letter to the Board of Temple Beth Am Temple Beth Am is plummeting towards its destruction. The first month we cannot pay the mortgage, Point Center will take over the property. Under our present financial structure, the Corporation will not survive. We have only pulled through by re-financing and increasing our debt or by an occasional large donation. This is neither necessary nor desirable. The Temple can survive by responsible fiscal management. My obligation as President of the Temple Beth Am Corporation is to right this situation and save the Corporation. The Union for Reform Judaism guidelines addresses this very point and state that the obligation of the Temple Board is to the Corporation and not to any particular individual or group of individuals. I believe the Board has demonstrated gross mismanagement and negligence. There is also evidence of fraud. Furthermore, the Board has made very poor business decisions. If this situation is allowed to continue, not only will the Corporation go under, but the Board will be subject to ridicule. The failure to act in a prudent fiduciary manner also creates exposure for board members and the organization by the IRS and Nevada attorney general. We will be subject to various kinds of legal harassment by our creditors and there will be a long line of ex-members saying ?I told you so.? In order to rectify the situation, I am suing for the following injunction to be ordered by the court: 1. We immediately start a forensic audit to determine where our money came from and where it is going. 2. We put the Corporation into a receivership, that is, we appoint an impartial third party to manage out financial affairs until we resolve our problems. 3. Prevent the lease or sale of any property that the Corporation holds until our financial affairs have been resolved. I am suing AS the President of the Corporation, and that at this point, everything that is done must be done under the auspices of a completely neutral third party, such as a receiver and a forensic auditor appointed by the court. I can't be removed from the Board because I took the action necessary to force the forensic audits that the others refused to have done, or get ah the financial records of the Temple turned over for a full and complete accounting and audit. In any case, the suit will continue whether or not I am President. The only way to prevent the law suit is to agree to the above three actions in the next Board meeting. Meera Kamegai President