Announcements
[This is the Announcements page. Also see the Upcoming Events page.]
Summary Board Minutes: November 26, 2019
December 3, 2019Minutes of the UUFRC Board Meeting, November 26, 2019 Attending: Rev. Gretchen Woods, Steve Hill, Chris Stovall, David Vallerga, Stephen Webster, David Stoutamire, Suzanne Griffin and Beth Harrison. Steve lit the Chalice and Gretchen presented an opening reading. Check in followed. Consent Agenda: The Administrator’s Report, Minister’s report, Personnel Committee Report, Search Committee ...more...Summary Board Minutes: October 29, 2019
November 15, 2019Summary Minutes of the UUFRC Board Meeting, October 29, 2019 Attending: Rev. Gretchen Woods, Chris Stovall, David Vallerga, Stephen Webster, David Stoutamire, Suzanne Griffin and Beth Harrison. Steve Hill called in. Consent Agenda: The Administrator’s Report, Minister’s report, Personnel Committee Report, Search Committee Report, Connections Report and the Minutes of the Previous ...more...Summary Board Minutes: September 24, 2019
October 4, 2019Attending: Rev. Gretchen Woods, Chris Stovall, David Vallerga, Steve Webster, David Stoutamire, Suzanne Griffin and Beth Harrison. Steve Hill called in. Cal Sloan, Derby Davidson and Jennifer Bahr-Davidson also attended. Consent Agenda: The Administrator’s Report, Minister’s report, Personnel Committee Report, Search Committee Report, Connections Report and the Minutes of the Previous Meeting with ...more...Summary Board Minutes: August 28, 2019
September 23, 2019Consent Agenda: Received Administrator’s and Minister’s Report. Approved minutes and briefly discussed “No Trespassing” sign. Finance Committee: Received report and discussed implementation of Realm, the program we are using for the Directory and can use for other functions. Personnel Committee Update: Rev. Gretchen will send an announcement that Jen Gill will be ...more...Summary of the Minutes of the UUFRC Board Meeting, July 30, 2019
August 23, 2019Board meetings are public; every member is invited to attend. We started with a review of Financial Procedures led by Anna Dyer and Jennifer Bahr-Davidson, then approved the consent agenda; reports and minutes. Then we elected officers: Steve Hill will be President, Chris Stovall will be Vice President. Steve Webster ...more...Notice of the UUFRC Annual Meeting
May 8, 2019Sunday, May 19, 201912:00 pm to 1:00 pmUUFRC Sanctuary We will hold the Annual Meeting of our Fellowship on Sunday, May 19, 2019 in the Sanctuary. We need a quorum of members to convene the meeting. Please plan to attend. The meeting agenda, voting information, and links to ...more...WE HAVE A MINISTERIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE!
March 25, 2019We are very happy to announce that you, the membership, have chosen the people to be on your Search Committee: Tracey Fecher, Erika Pretell, Cal Sloan, DeeDee Stovel, Bill Welch. Their work is just beginning. Please congratulate them this Sunday or when you next see them.more...Congregational Votes, Sun Mar 17
March 4, 2019On Sunday March 17, 2019 at noon in the sanctuary we will hold a special congregational meeting to elect the members of the Ministerial Search Committee and vote on the Covenant of Right Relations document you have been working on over the last several weeks. ...more...Preparing to Search
February 6, 2019After this last weekend, the board and transition team is ready to start making phone calls to all of the members about creating a search committee. If you missed the Sunday after church workshop on the search process led by our UUA coach Nancy Edmundson, ...more...Summary of the Minutes of the UUFRC Board Meeting, January 29, 2019
February 4, 2019Attending: Chris Stovall, Steve Hill, Beth Harrison, Bob Holden, David Zarubin and Anna Dyer. Also attending were Tanya Webster, Solveig Zarubin, Cindy Johnson, Jeanne DeShazo and Jennifer Bahr Davidson. 1. The Board briefly discussed Derby’s DRE Report in which he raised his concerns about the “announcement creep” during services ...more...Summary of the Minutes of the UUFRC Board Meeting, January 8, 2019
January 23, 2019Attending: Rev. Gretchen Woods, Chris Stovall, Steve Hill, Beth Harrison, David Vallerga, Bob Holden, David Zarubin and Anna Dyer. Also attending were Tanya Webster, Derby Davidson, Alex Stagner, Solveig Zarubin and Jennifer Bahr Davidson. 1. Tanya Webster reported on the monthly newsletter and suggested that continuing the weekly email ...more...Board Update
January 3, 2019Well here we are in another new year. I hope everyone had a good holiday season because now it is back to work. At our recent special congregational meeting we voted, overwhelmingly, to ordain Ellie Kilpatrick, so look for details on that soon. The board along with the Transition Team ...more...Summary of the Minutes of the UUFRC Board Meeting, November 27, 2018
December 13, 2018Attending: Rev. Gretchen Woods, Chris Stovall, Steve Hill, Beth Harrison, David Vallerga, Bob Holden, David Zarubin and Anna Dyer. Also attending were Leslie Vallerga, Tanya Webster and Jennifer Bahr Davidson. Rev. Gretchen led us in a brief educational history of what it means to Ordain a minister, ...more...Change of Date: December BoT Meeting
November 29, 2018Instead of meeting Dec 25th, the Board will hold its next meeting on January 8 at 7pm.more...Board Blog: December 2018
November 28, 2018At our upcoming Special Congregational meeting on Sunday 12-9-18 after the regular service we will be addressing two items. The first will be a vote on if this congregation wishes to ordain Eleanor Kilpatrick. This is something only a congregation has the privilege and responsibility ...more...Board Blog: November 2018
November 7, 2018Well, the midterms have ended and, as they say, the 2020 campaign has begun. Hopefully we get a little break before all of the robo-calls and leafleting start up again. Ellen and I did our part to get out the vote by volunteering at call centers ...more...Summary of UUFRC Board Meeting Minutes, October 30, 2018
November 4, 2018Summary of UUFRC Board Meeting Minutes, October 30, 2018 Attending: Rev. Gretchen Woods, Chris Stovall, Steve Hill, Beth Harrison, David Vallerga, Bob Holden David Zarubin, and Anna Dyer. Also attending were Jeanne DeShazo, Jen Bahr-Davidson, Solveig Zarubin and Cindy Johnson Rev. Gretchen discussed the possible Board Covenant that ...more...Summary of UUFRC Board Meeting Minutes September 25 and October 2, 2019
October 17, 2018Summary of UUFRC Board Meeting Minutes September 25 and October 2, 2019 Attending one or both meetings: Rev. Gretchen Woods, Chris Stovall, Steve Hill, David Vallerga, Bob Holden, Anna Dyer, Beth Harrison, David Zarubin. Also attending on 9/25 were Jen Bahr-Davidson, Derby Davidson, Jessica Roybal and Tanya ...more...October 11, Day of Awareness: Coming Out Day
October 1, 2018Every October 11 on Coming Out Day, people around the nation step forward in support of LGBTQ+ civil rights. Whether you are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, self-identify in other ways, or come out as a straight ally, raise your voice and your pride October 11. ...more...On the Books: Board Blog, October 2018
October 1, 2018At the recent Leadership Training session we held there was a lot of focus on the changes we are going through during this Interim Ministerial period. This session was planned by and delivered by Chris Stovall and Rev Gretchen with great assistance and additional training ...more...