Wy’east UU Board Meeting Minutes, Monday, February 3, 2025
Wy’east UU Board Meeting Minutes
Monday, February 3, 2025
- Present: Linda M., Debra T., Larry B., Kathy S., Marcy S., Diane A., and Leslie B.M.
- Absent: none
Meeting Minutes
- January Meeting Minute
- Minutes moved and approved
- Worship Committee
- An upcoming event we are hosting is the “Since I’ve Been Down” Film, which we will host in March after our service with the creator of the film and the prisoner featured in the film as a guest speaker to answer Q and A after the film.
- The committee is asking for:
- approval for additional time at the CfPA that day ($120)
- The committee is asking to buy the train tickets for the 2 guest speakers from Seattle (approximately $120 for train tickets round trip plus $30 lunch= about $150)
- Possibly provide some snacks during this service? Probably will have people bring their own brown bag lunch, but we may provide popcorn snack or something during the movie.
- The board approved all of these items for the worship committee
- Question: will there be action items people can do after seeing this film?
- Answer: No specific plans of action are planned after the film, but hopefully it will spark some motivation to do something in the congregation.
- There will be a special collection for “T.E.A.C.H,” which is the organization that the guest speaker has started.
- The committee is asking for:
- An upcoming event we are hosting is the “Since I’ve Been Down” Film, which we will host in March after our service with the creator of the film and the prisoner featured in the film as a guest speaker to answer Q and A after the film.
- Small Groups
- Diane A. wants to start walks or an art day in March
- Who do we talk to to get it started?
- Membership committee could help get the word out, Gigi could also help get the word out by putting it on the slides that we have or newsletter, and also put it out on the chat.
- Does Gigi have a spreadsheet that we can add things to of events?
- If someone wants to do a small group, they don't need special permission from the board, they should just do it.
- Membership committee could help get the word out, Gigi could also help get the word out by putting it on the slides that we have or newsletter, and also put it out on the chat.
- Who do we talk to to get it started?
- Diane A. wants to start walks or an art day in March
- Certification of UUA- Membership and Financials
- Larry will contact D’on to get the specific numbers for the financials that are needed and get back to Gigi before Wednesday, February 5th.
- Committee on Ministry- no report at this time
- Minister Report - No Report at this time, but will be focusing on the special event held in March with the film.
- Follow up for Vision Meeting
- What do we do next to follow up?
- Diane will send an email out to see when people want to meet again with this.
- Religious Committee
- Marcy was at the RE this Sunday. We had a new preschooler, but were not prepared with a lesson for the younger students because Matt was sick that day and nothing had been prepared, but we did our best with what we had.
- To attract new families we should be prepared with a UU lesson for that age range.
- Could we have a bag of a prepared lesson for the younger age if we have children coming to RE that day…often times we never know
- Debra could look at other congregations to see what they are doing it needed
- Marcy can also look at some material to have some prepared lessons ready.
- Marcy was at the RE this Sunday. We had a new preschooler, but were not prepared with a lesson for the younger students because Matt was sick that day and nothing had been prepared, but we did our best with what we had.
- Social Justice Committee Report
- Membership Committee Report
- Treasurer Report
- Things are going well, and we are continuing to bring more in than we spend.
- Big Question: What should we do with our extra money in savings with regard to investing?
- Does there need to be an ad-hoc committee to invest savings?
- D’on wasn’t interested in this
- Larry will be asking around to see who is interested in giving some advice on investing money in a CD or something.
- Does there need to be an ad-hoc committee to invest savings?
- We have savings and philosophically do we keep those savings for a rainy day or do we use the money to help causes we support (including but not limited to monthly special collections) To "spend down" we might need congregational vote.
- The Rehab Sister’s donation was about $1400, which was really great!
- For Special Collections, can we have an electronic way to support the special collections for people who don’t have cash?
To Do’s and Who
- Marcy will notify Gigi on changed board meeting to March 11 and send January meeting minutes to post
- Marcy will look at the K-1 or preK material and prepare some lessons in case we need a sub for younger RE classes
- Larry will meet with D’on to get the financial numbers for the UUA and get back to Gigi by February 5 or sooner.
- Diane A. will contact members from the vision meeting to schedule a follow up meeting.
Next Meeting
- March 11, 2025 at 7 pm via Zoom
Respectfully submitted by Marcy Sullwold
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