UUFM BOARD OF
DIRECTORS MEETING
Monday, March
11, 2013
Present:
Nakota Ashstarte, Lynn
Hughes, Barb Roush, Genevieve Woodard, Ken Moore, Phil Newman
Absent:
Brian DeMarco
1. Opening of meeting 6:11pm
a. Opening invocation-Chalice
lighting, Nakota read from Richard Rohr from Weight
of Shadows and T.S. Elliot regarding times continuum.
b. Meeting is called to order
c. Determination of Quorum-quorum is
met.
d. Approval of agenda-all approve
2. Approval of Minutes for February 11, 2013
Board meeting-minutes are accepted as corrected with no objections.
3. Continuing Business Updates:
a. Treasurer’s Report-presented by
Barb. Bank Balance $15,778.63, Available Cash $11, 718.63.
b. Committee reports- Genevieve
reported on Religious Education –Stephen
is the Chair of the committee. Michael is the RE Coordinator. Board would like
to see Adult RE activated and it was suggested Stephen discuss this with the
committee. Vicki, Wendall, Phil, Chris and Vern may
be interested in being involved. Question raised -would nonviolent
communication training fall under Adult Education?
Nakota
reported on Care and Concerns-They
have been considering Lay Ministry training. Rick at the Salem UU offers a mini
workshop on having face to face meetings after the service with those in need.
He will be coming to UUFM 4/27/13 as our speaker.
Barb spoke about Finance Committee coming together to discuss the next year’s budget
and received input from the various committees.
Phil spoke for the Social Justice committee to report
there had been discussion about the Nonviolent Communication Workshop and it
was decided to put it in the RE budget.
Brian reported on the Worship Committee which now has Chris
acting as Chair. They had discussed the next year’s budget and Nakota had gone over the upcoming Speakers.
Phil reported on the progress the Building Committee has made and that
they will be presenting this to the Fellowship on Saturday, 3/15/13 as
informational only-no decisions will be made.
4. New Business:
a. Review of proposed budget- Barb
will email Chairs of committees to inform them they should be prepared to
discuss any questions that may come up. The proposed budget at this point is
for almost $5000.00 more than last fiscal year.
b. Upcoming
schedule for important meetings: Bylaw changes- will be reviewed with the
fellowship March 17th to solicit any input from them. Pledge drive
will begin in early April and continue into May. May 19, 2013 will be the
Annual Business Meeting with election of new officers and approval of the Bylaw
changes.
c. Bylaw changes, as submitted by
Brian and any input he may have received from Board members, were reviewed and
suggested corrections made. Lengthy discussion about section 8.5.2 which
addresses Nominating Committee duties in recommending nominees for Board
positions that will be vacated. The concern especially is that the Treasurer
post takes some training and background experience/aptitude for numbers. The
current practice has been that the Board members get elected by the Fellowship,
then the new Board elects their own officers. However, due to the nature of the
Treasurer’s position, a candidate was trained in advance by the outgoing
Treasurer and then elected to position. An option would be to hire a bookkeeper
but we agreed this is not in the budget for such a small church as ours.
5.
Action Items:
a. Ken will mention to Eric about
involving the Tao group in more events.
b. Barb and Denise agree to comprise
the Event Team as long as they don’t have to be called a Committee. They would
help coordinate social events such as the Summer picnic and Winter holiday
meal.
5.
Announcements: Next board meeting will be April 15, 2013 at 6:00pm at Phil’s.
6.
Adjourn: 9:09 pm
Submitted
by: Lynn Hughes 03/11/13