FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: Agenda for SAC Meeting/Retreat on June 8

[Madalyn Cioci & Joe Lazur (joemadalyn]

Hello all, 

I know I've not been to a single meeting this year -- and I won't make
it to the retreat on Sunday.  I want to thank you for all the hard and
thoughtful work you've been doing. 

I also wanted to put the recycling bins on your radar.  The green team
started down this road earlier as it was one of our Green Sanctuary
action plan items, and then I got incredibly busy and it looked like
funding for them wasn't available from Social Action.  I think someone
made a suggestion that funds might be available from the Greening FUS
fundraising campaign -- as yet I don't know if that is a possibility. 

I haven't looked lately, but I think we need about $800-$1,000 to get
the nice bins for outside the lower assembly hall, and maybe another
$200 to finish up bins for the other rooms, office, and kitchen.  I've
made some signs myself that can go on them --either as stickers or to
hang above.  

If this is something that might be fit into the SAC budget for next
year, it would be an investment with great payoff.  I think we could
increase our recycling enough that we could eliminate a trash pick up --
save dollars and keep good things our of the landfills. 

Let me know if there is any interest.  I know it's a far cry from
international aid. 

Madalyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcy Leussler [mailto:mleussler [at] hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:02 PM
To: Madalyn Cioci
Subject: [sa-talk] Agenda for SAC Meeting/Retreat on June 8



FUS Social Action Committee
Annual Planning Retreat
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
NOON ? 4pm (or earlier?)
 
DRAFT agenda
 
 
1. WELCOME!          

introductions if needed
get lunch
chalice lighting & opening reading
review agenda
 
 
2. Review meeting notes from May 20th SAC meeting  (hand-out) (Jo &
Polly)
 
 
3. Treasurer?s report          (hand-out)       (Adele)

should we have a table at the Peace Island conference? ($50)  - Sept 2 &
3 (Tuesday and Wednesday) ? can we staff a table? - Concordia College in
St. Paul

discussion about how SAC?s money situation is changing next program year
 
 
4. New staff position          (Marcy)

review job description (hand-out)
next steps ? SAC & Personnel Committee, what?s the hiring process, etc.
sustainable funding ? ideas, brainstorm, etc. relationship between SAC
and supervisor (Kendyl?s role) relationship re: strategic planning
implementation group what else?
 
 
5. Calendar for 2008-2009  (hand-out)

review/finalize calendar
UUA Sunday (funding)
UUSC request for Guest At Your Table & Justice Sunday (funding) ? review
info from Chris Bremer plan racial justice training/event?  Viola
Liuzzo?  Etc?. MUUSJA SJ training ? maybe Nov. 1st ? Beth Zemsky: social
change movement-building set August SAC meeting
 
 
6. Issues, working groups, program development

Youth ? SJ leadership development ? summer interns (Adele) Green Team
Racial & Economic Justice (housing, Nside, included) Peace GLBT Equality
Children?s Issues One-to-ones, etc.
 
 
7. Communications

SAC annual report - update website   (add May & June SAC activities to
report
use FLASH more
e-lists  -   general info (like now); plus core group email list for
voting between meetings (if you don?t come to meetings, you don?t vote)
newsletter expectations (one person to prep, make sure the page looks
good, etc.)
 
 
 8. International Work
 
Ø      ISLA health care programs in Nicaragua - Peter D'Ascoli and
Colleen Curran 
Ø      Ghana school-building - Sheila Callendar 
Ø      Khasi Schools in India (our congregation has been asked to
"adopt" one of the UU schools in that area)
Ø      micro-lending (international, and/or domestic & local
micro-lending programs)
Ø      Iraqi school water system - Carole Rydberg
(sponsor one Iraqi elementary school by providing a water 
purification system for that one school.  The cost for each unit depends
on the size - smallest unit is $500 and the largest is about $1200 with
a third size in between.  Tim Carlson, retired Minnesota teacher, is
heading up both the letter exchanges and the pure water projects and is
trying to set up hundreds of sister schools)
 
 
9.         Adjourn
 
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