OMD Annual Meeting Minutes
April, 2006

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These are the official minutes of the 2006 District Annual Meeting, held April 29, 2006. Written reports can be found in the Annual Report for 2006. If you have questions about any of the items mentioned, please contact a board member. Please note that items voted on are led by *** If you are interested in seeing photos and other information about the Annual Meeting, please visit the Annual Meeting Page.

Meeting called order at 3:15 pm by President Lawrence Anderson-Huang, who also welcomed the assembly and shared a reading.

Appointment of tellers: Current board members and nominating committee members were appointed as tellers for the meeting.

Roll Call was done by secretary Beth Casebolt. APF and District Dues recognition for FY 04-05 was given during the roll.

President’s Report (see written report in the annual report)

• No questions were asked.
• Lawrence Anderson-Huang introduced Rev. Tom Chulak and Jeanne Crane to the assembly.

• Gerry Blomgren gave a description of the Annual Program Fund and what it supports.

District Staff Reports (see written reports in the annual report)

• District Executive Report
• Growth and Leadership Consultant
• Lifespan Faith Development
• Youth Programs Consultant
• There were no questions for the staff.

Recognition of Fair Compensation Societies and Compensation Consultant Report (see written report in the annual report)

• North UU Congregation in Lewis Center and Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Charleston, WV were recognized as new Fair Compensation Congregations.
• Glenn Solomon also provided a Q&A on the new UUA healthcare policy.

UUA Trustee Report (see written report in the annual report)

Recognition of Congregational Presidents in attendance

Financial Report and Budget Presentation (see the budget in the annual report)

• Mary Livengood summarized the changes in our budget for next year including cuts in salary and staff and operating expenses.
• Mary presented a brainstorm of possibilities of what we could do with money if we could meet our operating expenses with our dues and use our 5.5% for projects and programming in the district.

• A question of was asked what the net income line represents and how much of the money comes from youth programming and why cut the youth program consultant – Most of the net income line comes from Summer Institute, other conferences and retreats contribute smaller amounts. Staff cuts were part of the plan all along and were necessary to meet the budget requirements and this may allow us opportunities to re-imagine how we deliver services.

**Dave Drumm of Wooster moved and several folks seconded to approve the budget as presented. The assembly voted in favor of adopting the budget, with 2 opposed and 0 abstentions.**

Nominating Committee Report (see written report in the annual report)

• Deb Widner, chair of the nominating committee moved the committee’s nominations:
  • Donald Zeilman, of the Allegheny UU Church in Pittsburgh, for President, no nominations from the floor
  • Kathy Slater of the UU Church of Kent for Vice President, no nominations from the floor.
  • Philip Reed of West Shore UU Church; Jamie Goodwin of UU Church of Akron and Rev. Lynn Acquafondata (formerly Brodie) of UU Church of the South Hills.
  • Karina Leppik of the Oberlin Church was nominated from the floor by Michael Dobson.

**A ballot was cast for the three positions. The winning candidates are: Philip Reed, Rev. Lynn Acquafondata and Jamie Goodwin.

• Deb Widner-Cannon from Columbus for Nominating Committee for a 1-year replacement term. There were no nominations from the floor.
• David Maywhoor of Columbus, Jack Hickok of the UU Congregation in Charleston and Dawn Parsons of First Unitarian Church of Toledo for two year Nominating Committee term. There were no nominations from the floor

**The president asked for a voting card vote for the remaining slate (other than the contested Trustee election). Moved by George Blomgren, several delegates seconded the motion. Motion passed.

• The Banner Contest winner was announced. The design by Betty Lau of the UU Society of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, OH won, although the vote was close.
• The board motion for creating a policy for public representation by the district was read to the assembly. This policy will be voted on at the 2007 Annual Meeting. Congregations will be receiving notification of this motion and encouraged to set up discussion groups around this issue.

Lawrence presented Donald Zeilman with the instruments of the office of the president.

Meeting adjourned at 4:50 pm with a reading by Lawrence Anderson-Huang.

Respectfully Submitted,
Beth Casebolt, Secretary for the OMD Board