Present:  Dorothy Long, Janice Zerfas, Amy Eklund, Emily Hecht, Jim McConnell, Dave Sarra

Minutes from January, moved by Emily, Dorothy seconded, approved as submitted.

Dave said Spiritual Frontiers has keys to the office and they could return the key.  They are no longer using it.  Day has a key and uses it because they store a TV in the sound room.  If a group can’t access their key for a particular meeting date they are encouraged to contact a BUUF board member to work out the locking and unlocking of the building for them for that meeting.

The background check setup is still progressing.  Dave has gotten the numbers and paperwork submitted and is waiting for the final approval.  He is still looking for a 501C3 paperwork copy.   Dorothy will check with Charles to see if he knows where it is.  Dave has some possible interest in using the building for a birthday party.  He was encouraged to pull out the policy to see how it reads regarding member usage.

Emails were received regarding OWL training in April in our district.  We decided to wait another year for retraining so that we could do all the kids in one group since some are not old enough yet.

DRE:  going a week at a time, Jennifer thought perhaps the kids would do a choir but there didn’t seem to be enough interest.  There will be some work with the RE teachers in terms of consistent expectations for attention and participation.

Dave will check with the piano tuner to see if the second tuning between Milne performances was necessary so we will know what to plan on next year.

Dorothy gave the treasurer’s report.  She distributed a profit and loss statement and a balance sheet.  The checking account has a negative number but money has been moved over to cover that.  There are negative numbers in the endowment funds but they were really checks we received as a result of some class action suit.  Dorothy will talk with someone on the endowment fund about putting some of the money into the restricted endowment.  Dave talked to the bank and they seemed confused about how to do this.  They will keep pursuing this. The $20,000 gift is now listed under special gift funds but since it has no restrictions on it, she suggests that we put it under income under misc contributions.  There is still some money sitting in an Emergency Housing Fund from 2008 that we may rename next year and decide what to do with.  (Aside: There was also mention that a member was looking for assistance for a disabled family member who is moving out of state.  It was decided that this would be best handled as a request to the congregation to contribute to this cause as they wished. ) The profit and loss statement shows negative $8000 and there are some people who tend to pay only once or twice a year so that should help offset that.  Expenses and payments do not always come in an orderly fashion. Dorothy has created a slip of paper to sign after counting the collection receipts.  The signed copy will go to Gretchen with the money for deposit and will be kept as a record.

Jim will be talking to the kids today about selling food for the cabaret and use that money to finance a meal at the Broadway soup kitchen.  15 gallons of chili and 100 servings of dessert would be provided on March 6 and preparation would be done on Saturday March 5.  Today they will be viewing the movie Flatland.  Wednesday he will be attending his first area ministerial meeting.  He is still mulling the idea of a informational class.  He is proposing a worship committee.  Jim presented Asher and Kathy (previous guest speakers) were presented with a framed photo and a book.  Committee on Ministry will be meeting again next week.

Gary will be Emcee for cabaret.  Some have signed up for acts already but there is lots of room on the list yet.

Dorothy moved to adjourn, Emily seconded.  Adjourned.