Materials & Info for Board Meeting - May 15th

The Governance Handboook and other documents related to meetings are available in the

Governance section of www.uucava.org (http://uucava.ning.com/page/uuca-governance) and in

the blog titled “Materials and Info for Board Meeting”

(http://uucava.ning.com/profiles/blogs/materials-and-info-for-board).

You may also contact the Chair, Natty Averett, for copies of the material for meetings.

Material for May 15th

MeetingMaterial_for_15MAY2012.pdf

Governance Handbook - BOTHandbookrevision20110714.pdf

Trustees are asked to complete an Advance Report Response Form. This form is used to allow Trustees to share their opinions about the content of the reports and to share their opinions about Board matters and church affairs in general.

The link for the form is:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/May2012_FYI_ExecLimit_Eval

Please respond no later than Saturday May 12th. 

If guests and congregants prefer to submit written or verbal commentary external to the

survey, it can be submitted to the Chair, Natalia (Natty) Averett at

nataliaaverett@aol.com

, 703-868-8189.

A Note Regarding Reports: As the governing leadership of the congregation, the Board interprets the congregation’s mission, vision and other congregational statements into goals related to how the church will be of service to the world. These goals, which we call Ends, are more specific than a vision but less specific than a work plan, program outline or management directive. In line with the governance model we use, Policy Governance, the Board recognizes that the staff, paid and volunteer, doing the work are the ones best qualified to handle the day-to-day management and the creation of programs designed to meet the needs and desires of the congregation. The staff are given the freedom to operate in support of the church’s ends so long as they remain within the boundaries of the Board’s Executive Limitations. These limitations are the Board’s interpretation of the congregation’s values, best interests, culture, and moral and legal obligations articulated in terms of those aspects of the church’s operational way of being or staff actions that are most important to promote, sustain or avoid. The Board has designated the Lead Team Minister, Rev Michael McGee, and the church administrator, Bill Peters, as the Executive Team, the central reporting authority and liaison between the Board and the staff. The Executive Team (ET), often with the assistance of other staff, reports to the Board on the church’s progress toward its ends and staff’s compliance with the limitations. The Board seeks input from and responds to the congregation and the staff in order to revise the directives it gives the staff, including the Executive Limitations and the Ends. The Board also continues to discern, articulate and promote the values and goals of the congregation as a whole. The written directives of the Board, or the Board policies, can be found in the Board Governance Handbook. The most recent version is available in the Governance section of www.uucava.org (http://uucava.ning.com/page/uuca-governance).

FOR REFERENCE/ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS

Meeting Minutes: