Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes – October 8, 2020

UUFSM Board Meeting Notes 10/13/2020

Meeting Start Time: 7:34 PM

Attendees:

Lisa Napier, President

Corinne Stubbs, Vice President

Kathy Donigan, Treasurer

Cathey Moffatt-Bush, Secretary

Carl Lavsa, Member at Large

Frank Reiser, Member at Large

Approval of last meetings minutes: all in favor

Treasurer’s Reports:

  • No checks written in July and August
  • Annual Dues to UUA are due
  • Money coming in have been donations: July- $420, August- $370, From Amazon Smile $38.92
  • July: Checking: , Savings:
  • August: Checking $24,405.74; Savings: (minus endowment: ) $53 (These are correct, not the report)
  • September deposit: $1125
  • We still need to give the accountant the budget for FY21 as well as putting in our projected pledges for this year.
  • Guestimated Projected Income from the last 3 months donations: $7200
  • Carl wrote to the UUA for dues reduction of 10% each year
  • Waiting to pay until we get that new number with reduction
  • Kathy Donigan still needs to get on the Vanguard account so she can transfer the endowment donation from the Savings account to the Vanguard account

Paypal:

  • Yes we are a 501(c)3
  • We no longer have a UUFSM phone number anymore
  • We need a EIN (on our tax information)

Email forwarder:

  • Cannot forward to directly to a Gmail or we get blacklisted
  • Other free services are ok
  • Possible for Frank to set up an email box on the server for church emails
  • Carl can continue to forward the emails to Kathy Donigan

Pop Money:

  • Used by CPFCU that can people use to this to send us money

Greg Syler/Church of the Ascension

  • Now have electronic keys to get into the building
  • Physical keys still work
  • We should look at their guidelines for regrouping and create our own guidelines for regrouping
  • Told him we are currently continue to meet on Zoom
  • He will talk to the Archdiocese about getting the building for the next 50-90 years, so he can offer us a more permanent space

Holiday brainstorming with UUA- Solstice Spiral and how do we accomplish this?

  • Solstice package that we could send to everyone with greens and a candle and a labyrinth or a spiral and then we can all do it on Zoom
  • Could do a luminary with a spiral on it for people to put on their porch
  • We could have a scavenger hunt before the solstice spiral where everyone collections their own greens, candle, bag, and spiral.
  • Share food, create a cookbook or order from the same place?
  • Send popcorn and thread to string popcorn for the birds?
  • Mail the packets? Pick location? Choice between the 2?

Communication:

  • Start sharing minutes?
  • What do we want to do with regular communicating?
  • Add board meeting notes from July 2020 until now to our website after each have been approved
  • Board members have Zoom login information

Next Meeting: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 7:30 PM

Meeting Adjourned: Lisa moved, ended 8:47 PM