OMD Board Meeting Summary
October, 2005
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This is a summary of the board meeting minutes from the October 8, 2005 meeting. If you have questions about any of the items mentioned, please contact a board member. Items preceded by ** indicate a vote was taken.
The October 8 meeting was a brainstorming workshop of district leaders, including committee chairs, staff, congregational consultants, small church resources liaisons, members of the ACT team and the OMD board.
The workshop was led by our new program consultant for growth, planning and leadership development, Jeanne Crane and it's purpose was to explore what shared programming with the Saint Lawrence District might look like.
Under the given assumption of separate boards, governance, and professional associations, we looked at all of our activities and some Saint Lawrence District activities from the aspect of how best to share their qualities both in leadership and in participation. Then we broke up into small groups based on similar activities, and worked out some of the steps we might take to continue our vision. Two steps are most important; developing good contacts and relations with our colleagues in the Saint Lawrence District, and bringing the discussion back to our congregations. To accomplish the latter, we plan on a series of cluster meetings with congregational leaders, district board members, Tom, and Jeanne, to be completed by the end of January.
Following the workshop, the board held a short meeting and to discuss and decide the following:
**The Kent Church Chalice Lighter’s request was approved and will be sent out**
** The board voted to accept Pat Moyer as our new finance committee chair. **
** The board voted to change the name of our Religious Education Consultant to Program Consultant for Lifespan Faith Development at Karen’s request. This is in keeping with the title system currently being used by the UUA.**
**The board voted to ask the Finance Committee to work with Lawrence Anderson-Huang, Rev. Chulak and Mary Livengood to come up with a five year plan to get us back to using only 5.5% of the investment portfolio to supplement the budget each year.**
In addition, the board discussed how to get the cluster meetings set up and planned, moved the December meeting due to a scheduling conflict with the annual UUA staff meeting in Boston and decided to sponsor a banner contest to replace our current banner because it is beginning to show a great deal of wear.
