From the President, February 2010
The major accomplishments of our outgoing Board in 2009, led by Bruce Allen, include the development of our Core Values and our Covenant of Right Relations. These were both crafted from information shared by you at the Big Event in the Fall of 2008.
Among the promises we made in the Covenant are to:
-- Resolve conflicts in a timely manner with compassion, dignity, and empathy
-- Communicate clearly leadership activities and decisions
-- Create, communicate, and follow clearly defined congregational policies
During 2009, your Board also refined and developed new organizational policies that will support these covenants and many other aspects of our congregation. We will all be learning and implementing these important policies throughout 2010.
We now have a new Conflict Resolution Policy and a Conflict Resolution Team to ensure that we resolve conflicts – should they occur – in a timely manner, and with compassion, dignity, and empathy. The team consists of Ingrid Martine, team chair, Joy Hayes-Gates, and Tracey Villanueva with our minister Nathan Stone as an ex-officio member.
Your new Board has already met in a daylong planning session. We have set many ambitious goals, among them to communicate more effectively through the use of Gmail and our wonderful new web site. The Board and team chairs have received Gmail training.
We also are committed to completing a new UUFW Mission and Vision, followed by a Strategic Planning process later in the year.
And we plan to establish a new Ministerial Letter of Agreement with Nathan, for whom this task is long past-due and recommended by the UUA. This negotiation will be spearheaded by Joy Hayes- Gates, chair of our Ministerial Relations Team, with team members Bruce Allen and Ingrid Martine. They will work closely with Nathan and present their plan for approval at the April Congregational Meeting.
Your At-Large Directors are already hard at work, as well. They will be meeting with team chairs on Saturday, February 6, to share board goals and philosophy and leadership skills and ideas.
On March 20, we want all members to join us for an important, and hopefully interesting and fun Mission/Vision planning process. A seasoned planning team led by Anita Knight has already begun meeting. Team members include JP DeMeritt and Joy Hayes-Gates, who will be aided by our friend and UU consultant, Joe Sullivan.
So we are off and running for the new year. I encourage all members to check out our new policies on [this Website] under the Administrative menu.
Meanwhile, if you have any questions about what is happening or would like to offer suggestions, feel free to call me or email me at my new Gmail web address, jane.derrick@uuwaco.org. I am looking forward to an exciting new year!
Remember the joy!
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