December Minutes

Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting for Business
December 9, 2007

Present: Janet Carter, Henry Muller, Julia Giordano, Margaret M. Currie, Mary Williams, Nettie West, Robert West, Sybil Perry, Valerie Suter, Vonn New, Mary Foster Cadbury, Christopher Cadbury.

Minutes are numbered from the beginning of the calendar year.

2007-55 The Epistle from New York Yearly Meeting Fall Sessions is read.

2007-56 Clerk of the Finance Committee, Mary Williams, presents the proposed budget for 2008. She asks committees of the meeting to contact her about any changes they wish to propose. The final draft of the 2008 budget will come before our January Meeting for Business for approval.

2007-57 The Nominating Committee asks us to approve the proposals they brought before us at November Meeting for Business:

1- the release of Mary Cadbury from Hospitality Committee to enable her to compile a monthly calendar of events for the meeting.

2- the appointment of Carol Rice to Hospitality.

3- the appointment of Leif Anderson as our representative to the NYYM Meetings for Discernment. (These meetings will provide an opportunity for Friends to meet in worship at least twice a year to consider how the Spirit is moving in their monthly meetings.)

Meeting approves the two nominations and Mary Cadbury’s release from service.

2007-58 The Nominating Committee asks us to consider approving the names of Valerie Suter for Treasurer and Nancy Angell for Assistant Treasurer for the calendar year, 2008. These names will come before January Meeting for Business for final approval.

2007-59 At their meeting on November 29, 2007, the Ministry and Counsel Committee approved the following travel minute for Vonn New:

“Our beloved member Vonn New proposes to travel under the weight of her concern for a form of worship combining her creativity in music with worshipful silence. Under this leading, Vonn plans to visit Friends meetings and other groups to present workshops and concerts. We recognize her leading to this ministry. We unite in supporting her travel under the weight of this concern, and we commend her to your care.”

The meeting approves this minute and agrees to forward it to Nine Partners Quarter and to New York Yearly Meeting for their endorsement.

2007-60 In a letter of November 12, 2007, Catherine McCabe asks to be released from membership in Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting. The Ministry and Counsel Committee recommends her release from membership. The meeting approves.

2007-61 The Clerk has received a letter from the New York Yearly Meeting Task Group on Youth asking us to gather and respond to a series of queries about building spiritual community across the generations. We send this communication to Ministry and Counsel Committee for their consideration. Meeting approves.

Announcements:

Nettie West and Vonn New offer to provide musical instruments to go along with hymn singing at 10am on Sunday, December 16^th. The Christmas potluck will then begin at 12:30pm.

We adjourn to meet at the appointed time for Meeting for Business on January 13.

Julia Giordano, Clerk
Sybil Perry, Recording Clerk

November Minutes

Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting for Business
November 18, 2007


Present: Lee Haring, Julia Giordano, Mary Foster Cadbury, Christopher Cadbury, Nettie West, Robert West, John Perry, Sybil Perry, Henry Muller, Vonn New, Margaret M. Currie, Karen Snare, Denise Sherman, Valerie Suter.

Minutes are numbered from the beginning of the calendar year.

2007-50 The minutes from the October 14, 2007, Meeting for Business were lost and reconstructed from memory by the clerks. The minutes are read and approved.

2007-51 The Nominating Committee asks us to approve the release of Mary Cadbury from Hospitality Committee to enable her to compile a monthly calendar of events for the meeting. They nominate Carol Rice to Hospitality. They also nominate Lief Anderson as our representative to the NYYM Meetings for Discernment, a chance for Friends to meet in worship at least twice a year to consider how the Spirit is moving in their monthly meetings.

2007-52 The Treasurer’s Report, Regular Budget, 2007, is presented and accepted.
THE REPORT WILL BE FORWARDED AS AN EMAIL ATTACHMENT OR A USPS MAILED ENCLOSURE.

2007-53 Vonn New volunteers to design a web site for us and we approve. We suggest to Vonn that she stay in touch with the meeting for input as her work progresses.

2007-54 We receive from Montclair Monthly Meeting an open letter to all monthly meetings of New York Yearly Meeting as well as a three-page statement of their response to the Friends United Meeting hiring policy and general board meeting in Kenya, February, 2007. We send this statement to Ministry and Counsel and ask them to plan a program for us to consider our response to these issues. We approve the minute.
*Julia will attach a copy of the letter to the minutes.
THE LETTER WILL BE FORWARDED AS AN EMAIL ATTACHMENT OR A USPS MAILED ENCLOSURE.

We adjourn to meet at the appointed time for Meeting for Business on December 9.

Julia Giordano, Clerk
Sybil Perry, Recording Clerk