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

[jojane (jojane]

Personally, I feel strongly about this.  In part because recycling is so
basic to our overall eco-ethics and to the Green Team plan (which has
many more parts to it, but recycling is an important part....).  Also
because the funding question has been batted around this program year - 
I think we just need to figure it out.  Green Team update is already on
the agenda for Sunday's planning retreat - this can be one of the
specifics.  Thanks for raising it, Madalyn!   - Jo


On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 21:35:43 -0500 "Madalyn Cioci & Joe Lazur"
<joemadalyn [at] earthlink.net> writes:
> 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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