Bulls Head Oswego Monthly Meeting for Business
April 13, 2008
Present: Vonn New, Valerie Suter, Mary Foster Cadbury, Nettie West, Robert West, Karen Snare, Christopher Sammond, Chris Cadbury, John Perry, Julia Giordano, Denise Sherman, Henry Muller, Sybil Perry.
Minutes are numbered from the beginning of the calendar year.
2008-16 The clerk reads from Faith and Practice.
2008-17 The clerk will email and mail to us the Nominating Committee’s slate of suggested appointments for 2008, ready for first reading at May Meeting for Business.
2008-18 Two of our members died recently: Curt Beck on March 21st and Hans Janitschek on Feb. 21. We ask the clerk to send a letter to each family about their passing.
2008-19 The Nominating Committee wonders since we now have Mary Cadbury providing our calendar, should we take out the entries for newsletter editor and assistant, and substitute an entry for calendar editor? The meeting agrees, although we miss the newsletter. We note that anyone who has news can contact Vonn New to post it on our meeting web site, which is Bullshead.quaker.org We ask Ministry and Counsel to consider ways to disseminate information, both at the meeting house and at the web site.
2008-20 The Nominating Committee has a concern for religious education.
They wonder if the meeting is satisfied with the way in which children are
cared for when they come to meeting, and whether the committee should be looking for a Religious Education Coordinator. We see that children are not coming regularly, but we want to find a way to welcome children when they do come and, more, to begin planning for regular young attenders. We ask Nominating to find a Religious Education Coordinator to take action for us.
2008-21 Ministry and Counsel presents the State of the Meeting Report. Friends listen and ask to add our web site. We approve the report. THE REPORT IS ATTACHED.
2008-22 Denise Sherman and Karen Snare report on the Spring Sessions of New York Yearly Meeting, held last week at Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie. The Meeting is grateful to hear our representatives’ full oral reports of what happened.
2008-23 The Treasurer presents the treasurer’s report for first quarter, 2008.
Friends accept this report. THE REPORT IS ATTACHED.
We adjourn to meet at the appointed time for Meeting for Business on May 11th.
Julia Giordano, Clerk
Sybil Perry, Recording Clerk
