Bulls Head-Oswego Monthly Meeting for Business
June 8, 2008
Present: Valerie Suter, Denise Sherman, Vonn New, Nettie West, Robert West, Henry Muller, Julia Giordano, Mary Foster Cadbury, Christopher Cadbury, Carol Rice, Caroline Webster, Sybil Perry, John Perry.
Minutes are numbered from the beginning of the calendar year.
2008-27 At our May meeting the Naming Committee (Vonn New and John Perry) recommended the appointment of Mary Cadbury (2008-2010) and Nettie West (2008-2011) to the Nominating Committee. We approve these nominations and lay down the Naming Committee
2008-28 We approve the slate of appointments (in boldface type on the attached list) brought to us by the Nominating Committee at our May meeting.
2008-29 We read a report from Leif Anderson, our representative to the Meetings for Discernment of New York Yearly Meeting, about the first of these meetings, which he attended in March. Our clerk reads Lee Haring’s report for the Steering Committee about Meetings for Discernment (which replace the former Yearly Meeting on Ministry and Counsel.)
BOTH REPORTS ARE ATTACHED.
Vonn New shares her experience as an elder at the Meetings for Discernment where she says they were there “to hear concerns,” to truly listen to one another. She found it a deep and meaningful experience. One member wonders if our meeting has any questions to bring to the Summer Session Meetings for Discernment? We shall bring any questions to our July Meeting for Business.
2008-30 The Hospitality Committee brings two proposals before us.
First, they want to move from paper plates to real plates for potlucks if there is a volunteer dishwasher, and they ask us to donate our extra plates from home. Whoever is doing hospitality can choose.
Second, they want friends to wear nametags to Meeting for Worship and during social time afterwards, to make our meeting more welcoming to newcomers. We are invited to recycle our nametags from other events and to make a nametag for a newcomer in the course of welcoming him/her to the meeting. We approve these two proposals.
2008-31 Ministry and Counsel has brought two minutes for action.
They propose a minute for us to consider on sexual orientation and gender identity. We unite with their concern, but we ask Ministry and Counsel to reconsider the wording and present a new version to us at July Meeting for Business.
Next, they offer a preliminary draft memorial minute for our member, Hans Janitchek. A final draft will be presented at July Meeting for Business.
2008-32 Ministry and Counsel is planning a retreat for us in the fall to continue our consideration of the issues raised in the State of the Meeting report. Janet Carter, Julia Giordano and Carol Rice have agreed to serve as the planning committee.
2008-33 Ministry and Counsel is working on concerns arising from FUM, issues from the State of the Meeting Report, and communication within the meeting. We agree to invite the Quarterly Meeting to Bulls Head for our scheduled potluck August 3rd and talk by Vonn New on Quaker Quest. Approved.
We adjourn to meet at the appointed time for Meeting for Business on July 13th.
Julia Giordano, Clerk
Sybil Perry, Recording Clerk
