UUFM Board of Directors

Regular board meeting

March 10, 2014

Present: Nakota Ashstarte, Ken Moore, Brian Demarco, Jay Teller, Genevieve Woodard, Madeline Bishop, Greg Valentine, Kathleen McKinney

Absent: None

1. Opening of the meeting

a. Chalice was lit and covenant was read.

b. Meeting was called to order.

c. Agenda was approved with one change. Nakota wants to talk about new hymnals under music committee.

2. The minutes from the previous board meeting were approved as amended. Kathleen made the motion for approval, Genevieve seconded. Unanimous acceptance.

3. Continuing business updates

a. Treasurer’s report.

i. Jay discussed current budget status. He needs to check to see why the OWL line item is out of money.

ii. Budget proposal. This is the first draft of next year’s budget proposal the board has seen. Jay asked Ken how much he needed for adult RE. There was some discussion on how much adult RE will be needed with the new simplified services since some of that may be wrapped into those services. There was some discussion on how the budget process works. Currently the finance committee is putting together what committees are asking for into a budget. This is not based on how much income there might be for the time being. It will then be scaled back if needed. There was some discussion on different ways the budget process could be done. Ken mentioned adding on the extra meetings will cause our rent to increase and therefore significantly increase our budget. Ken said we might then ask members to increase their pledges to cover that increase. There was some discussion around that.

iii. We then went into an executive meeting. A motion was made that we donate $600 to Lutheran Community Services for their immigration services to honor the request of the donor who wished it to help the Latino community. The motion passed with one abstention.

4. Committee reports

a. Membership. Ken reported that we have three new members for sure and possibly two or three more.

5. Simplified service. Madeline as the facilitator of the first simplified service said that she and Janet are putting together a list of what facilitators need to do. The first service was attended by thirty people and went well.

6. Vision – the vision committee has been stuck a bit. They are not sure they have landed on the right statement but have decided that it needs to go out to the community for feedback. There was some discussion about the way to do this but it was finally decided that the draft statement will go out to all members and an invitation to come discuss it after the service this Sunday. That will not give much time but hopefully enough to give the vision committee some feedback so they can continue. The plan is that eventually the congregation will vote on it.

7. Other business

a. Nakota is not going to the NW Conference in Spokane. It was too difficult to get there. The money for registration will be returned to us.

b. Nakota asked for any feedback on the special meeting we had via teleconference when she was out of state. People felt it went well. Brian is amending the discussed bylaw. He will have it to us by our next board meeting so it can then be voted on in our May 18^th business meeting.

c. Nakota said we need someone to head up a pledge drive. TAO is willing to do it but Ted and Ken are both too busy right now. We talked about a different way to do a pledge drive; something that is more serious. Greg, Jay, Nakota, Madeline and Kathleen are willing to get up and talk for a few minutes about why they pledge and what UUFM means to them. This would happen on the second Sunday in April and the first Sunday of May. Brian mentioned that although Ted is busy that he might be willing to involve some of the TAO in the pledge drive.

8. Announcements – none

9. We set the next board meeting to be April14^th. Genevieve offered to host again.

The meeting adjourned at 7:49 pm.