Attendees 

Sheryl Kirby, Donna Hodge, Ginny Taft, Trish DuToit, Dennis Ashley, Roye Ely, Tami Savage, and Donna Smith.

The meeting was called to order at 6:22 with prayer.

Agenda

Minutes from May were approved as corrected. Motion was made, seconded and carried

Finance Committee Report

  • Despite making budget, our expenses exceeded our income. The shortfall was taken 50% out of each church’s reserve fund. Congregation will be informed with the thermometer method this week.
  • Coffee made money this month. Donna S will send a thank you to Lloyd Hodge.
  • Tami and Cheryl will start working on planning the Spiritual Fair, which is scheduled for Aug. 27.  

Minister’s Report

  • We are participating in Pride in the Park.
  • Eleven volunteers have signed up Community BBQ on Aug 25.
  • Classes have started to bring in income and there are more classes planned
  • Attendance has averaged around 100/Sunday
  • Margaret Walmer has agreed to be the Volunteer Coordinator, there aremultiple ministry teams who all have chairs now.
  • Announcements are in the overheads, in the bulletin and from the pulpit. Hopefully this will increase people’s attention to them.
  • Check out our Facebook page, Patty Ashley is posting on it regularly
  • We are going to do a better job of advertising potlucks

Old Business

  • Turkeys and more. Trish, who is on their board, reported that they will be distributed from our building on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. UCSG will be needing volunteers for that.
  • We need to get volunteers for the Governance Committee. We will consider who in the congregation might be appropriate and ask them.
  • Pay for musicians: we need to clarify who is getting paid what. Dennis will talk to Gwen and get her input in how to make sure it is equitable.
  •  The issue of our carpet was brought up, ours is getting old. Trish offered to get some bids for carpet, but we may need to wait for a major expenditure until after the merger is complete. She will bring any information she has to the next board meeting.

New Business

  • We need more volunteers or staff in the technology dept.  
  • Lighting outside to improve safety while leaving the building.  Will see if James can do anything about it.
  • We will see if our “free” worker is able to do some of the needed grounds work without having to pay the landscaper we had hired.
  • Fire extinguisher: we need to make sure we have one and that it is new and usable. Dennis will ask Jerilyn to make sure ours is updated.

Next Meeting

  •     Next meeting will be July 15 at 6:15.
  •     August meeting will be August 23 at 6:15

The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 pm.    

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