Congregational Meeting March 3rd to Elect Search Committee

The special congregational meeting will be held in the Sanctuary on March 3rd after second service, and should take about an hour. Tellers will begin checking in members at 12:30pm. The Board has called this special congregational meeting, and in accordance with Article IV, Section 4 of the Bylaws of UUCA, no business will be transacted other than the election of the seven member Search Committee for a Settled Senior Minister. You are eligible to vote if you have been on the rolls for at least 90 days as of March 3rd. The Nominating Committee has published a list of its nominees. The second meet the candidates forum will be the morning of March 3rd after first service. For more information go to the governance page on this website. UUCA Governance

On March 10 after second service, there will be a congregation wide workshop: Governance Structures at UUCA. The Board is sponsoring the workshop, and It will be facilitated by Laura Park, who has been the Board's governance consultant this year.

The next regular business meeting of the Board will be March 19th at UUCA at 7:30pm.

Comment

Comment by John L. Bohman on February 14, 2013 at 12:02am: John,

-In Page Two last Sunday, there was an announcement that two opportunities to meet candidates have been scheduled: 2/24 after second service and 3/1 after first service.

-In early January, the Nominating Committee, with the assistance of members of the Board of Trustees, made over 800 phone calls to Church members to solicit the names of possible candidates. This extraordinary effort was made so that as many voices as possible would have a say.

-The Nominating Committee will announce its slate by the 24th. The Nominating Committee has been interviewing possible candidates since the calls were made to the membership. The Nominating Committee will issue a report including bios of those on its slate.

-The quorum for a congregational meeting is the lesser of: 75 members eligible to vote or 8% of the members eligible to vote. The exact number eligible to vote has not yet been determined, but it is about 860.

-We will have a written ballot.

--Keep in mind that the Nominating Committee itself was elected directly by the congregation at the last annual meeting, and this year a very important part of its charge from the membership is to nominate a slate of candidates for the search committee. The members of the Nominating Committee have been serving us well, and I thank each of them for the countless hours the have put into their efforts on behalf of all of us.

John Bohman

Comment by Chris & John Sutton on February 13, 2013 at 6:01pm: 1. Will there be ample opportunity for discussion of the slate; will this be an up/down vote on the entire slate?

2. Will the vote be taken by paper ballot? Or, will members raise their hands to be counted? Or....?

3. What is the required quorum of members?

4. What were the criteria used by the Nominating Committee for selection of candidates? Will those criteria be presented to members along with biographic data and values statements by each candidate, and when?

John and Chris Sutton

John