Wy’east UU Board Meeting Minutes, Monday, January 6 , 2025

Wy’east UU Board Meeting Minutes

Monday, January 6 , 2025

• Present: Debra T., Larry B., Kathy S., Marcy S., Diane A., and Leslie B.M.
  • Absent:  none

Meeting Minutes 

• Meeting Minutes review and approval:
  • Moved and approved
• Treasurer Report:
  • Larry sent out a summary of the balance of the bank account.  We continue to take in more than we are spending.
  • One question is how to manage the savings account?  Should we form a committee to manage this?  
    • We should bring this issue up at the Annual Meeting to help manage this.
  • Someone is matching our special collections, which is awesome!
  • Last week, Larry learned how to input data into the Realm database, which is nice to know how to do.
  • Paid UUA membership fee, and various paperwork
  • The next month’s meeting we will talk about different options to put the savings account balance into to gain more interest.
  • Question: How much did we send to Rehab Sisters special collection?
    • Larry will get back to us on this
• Small Group Events
  • Possible walking event in the Laurelhurst Neighborhood that Diane A. will organized
  • Communication of small group events can be announced during worship services
  • Diane I. has sent out a survey about interest in types of small group
    • Debra will communicate with Diane I., Ron, and the board on how the survey went and see if they can report back to us.
• Membership Report:
  • No report at this time
• Social Justice Report: 
  • Click here for report
• Website:
  • Marcy will email Anders to get accounts created and have him send the username and passwords to the board members who do not already have one.
• Minister Report:
  • Click here for the link
• Worship Committee Report
  • From Leslie: They will be experimenting with announcements and Leslie will be the coordinator/director of this, so people should let her know if they have any special announcements and she will decide which announcements will be announced at the worship service. 
  • Could we use the announcement board at the CfPA and put our own announcements of special events during the service as another form of communication?
    • Gigi has made a slide of announcements for the virtual services that is used virtually, so maybe we could use this slide to post announcements?
      • Debra offered to print if needed, and Larry could be a backup
      • Could we ask Linda M or Ron to be a back-up person to display this?
      • We will keep this task as a work in progress
• Gigi Access to Realm:
  • D’on and Hank are communicating with Gigi about some things and figuring out Realm and what is possible
  • Directory: how do we manage this information? This is a good question to continue to discuss.
    • Diane I. has collected some pictures, but need to make sure people want to have their picture and info on directory.
    • Maybe Realm has the ability to organize this?
• January 19th meeting after the service
  • Will address RE vision in the next 5 years, and possibly need to talk even more at later dates about the RE program and direction we want to go.
  • Will look at some of the data from the Committee on Ministry on the vision statement and look at some of the unanswered questions there.
    • Who should participate or be invited? 
      • Board and other leaders
    • Bring Your Own Snacks
    • At Kathy S.’s house - gather at 12:15 and start at 12:30 and will probably last a couple of hours.
    • May have to look at some reports from the Committee on Ministry 

To Do’s and Who

• Leslie will continue to create agenda for Jan 19th meeting
• Marcy will email Anders to get website logins
• Marcy will send Dec minutes to Gigi to post on website and newsletters
• Larry will get back at how much Rehab Sisters received at the last special collection
• Debra will communicate with Ron or Diane I. about the results of the survey sent out about interest in  small group events

Next Meeting

• February 3, 2025 at 7 pm via Zoom

Respectfully submitted by Marcy Sullwold