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
