Date: December 7, 2023

Agenda and Minutes of the FUUCSL Leadership Group Meeting

At at Sofia’s Beach Cabana

Zyzzy called the meeting to order at 5:33 pm SLT

Present: Sofia, Et, Zyzzy, Raven, Zoe, TED

Absent:Prosper, Pomona

Observing:

Minutes – Zyzzy

• Approved the October Minutes

Treasurer’s Report – Sofia

Treasurer’s report October 31, 2023

Treasurer’s report November 30, 2023

*Newest member: LillyLal

UUtopia Report – Zyzzy

• I’ve extended Pomona’s rental on the teahouse property. What should we do with this long-term?.

Outreach – Et

• FYI: Revised Article II is a topic for January in my RL congregation.
• Et to update the Article II billboard with the latest wording.

Library Report – ?

• Pomona will not be in SL for the foreseeable future.
• Et has set up a blue ball object behind the new Article II Values billboard to accept notecards: service notecards or OOS’s. They will be renamed “OOS yyyy-mm-dd topic (name)” (it might change, Et to rename.) Also setting up a set of panels, one for each year, to retrieve services. In progress.

Thursday
Worship Report (Sofia)

Here is the upcoming schedule for Thursday services through mid-2024. Note the color-coded blocks. Please double check the schedule for accuracy and availability. (The regular rotation is Zyzzy-Zoe-Sofia).

2023

2024

2024 pagan holidays

Raven is willing to help DJ at a party after pride service in June.

Saturday Service
– TED

This Saturday The Bug-Eyed Lens, next Open Topic, then BUNT, then OpenTopic

New Business

• Are we still called Lovelace? (Check FUUSCL website; may be a historical artifact)

Next meeting: January 25

at little dome meeting circle

The meeting was adjourned at 6:02 pm SLT.

Parking Lot
:
(revisit or delete)

• Pride Party in 2024 – 2nd Thursday or Saturday of June? Pride Service and Party
• 8th Principle vote. See See next bullet. Also update Region Covenant.

Sofia’s Beach Cabana

Date: October 26, 2023

Agenda and Minutes of the FUUCSL Leadership Group Meeting

At at Sofia’s Beach Cabana

Zyzzy called the meeting to order at 5:34 pm SLT

Present: Sofia, Et, TED, Zyzzy

Absent: Raven, Prosper, Pomona, Zoe

Observing:

Minutes – Zyzzy

• Approved the September Minutes

Treasurer’s Report – Sofia

Treasurer’s report September 30, 2023

UUtopia Report – Zyzzy

• Freda offered to cover Orikosh, as I still have not heard from Ori. The outlook is unclear.

Outreach – Et

• No news is no news.

Library Report – Pomona

• Pomona will not be in SL for the foreseeable future.
• Library avatar holds donations. Zoe has access, if password not changed.
• Zoe, for now, is Librarian.
• Prosper has ideas to add content.
• Are there copyright issues with UU World content?
• Are the OOSes in the library? (Authors have them in their inventory.) Pomona may have been collecting these, Prosper may help here.
• Zyzzy: Can OOSes be put on fuuscl.org? In case we lose inventory.
• SacredText.com has a lot of public domain text.
• Et to look into making an “oos basket” that authorized users can add notecards. And then a day to organize by date (possibly topic?) “yyyy-mm-dd OOS name topic”

Thursday Worship Report (Sofia)

Here is the upcoming schedule for Thursday services through the end of 2023. Note the color-coded blocks. Please double check the schedule for accuracy and availability. (The regular rotation is Zyzzy-Zoe-Sofia).

2023

Saturday Service – TED

New Business

Next meeting: December 7 at Sofia’s Beach Cabana

The meeting was adjourned at 5:51 pm SLT.

Parking Lot: (revisit or delete)

• Pride Party in 2024 – 2nd Thursday or Saturday of June? Pride Service and Party
• 8th Principle vote. See See next bullet. Also update Region Covenant.
• Propose OOS name convention

Date: September 28, 2023

Agenda and Minutes of the FUUCSL Leadership Group Meeting

At Pomona’s Tea House

Etaoin and Sofia called the meeting to order at 5:34 pm SLT

Present: Sofia, Zoe, Et, TED, Prosper

Absent: Zyzzy, Pomona, Raven

Observing:

Minutes – Zyzzy

• Approved the August Minutes

Treasurer’s Report – Sofia

Treasurer’s report August 31, 2023

UUtopia Report – Zyzzy

• Freda offered to cover Orikosh, as I still have not heard from Ori. The outlook is unclear.

Outreach – Et

• No news is no news.

Library Report – Pomona

• (Etaoin says) Pomona sent an email about having to drop out of SL for a while, and plans to return.
• See New Business

Thursday Worship Report – Sofia

Here is the upcoming schedule for Thursday services through the end of 2023. Note the color-coded blocks. Please double check the schedule for accuracy and availability. (The regular rotation is Zyzzy-Zoe-Sofia).

2023

Saturday Service – TED

New Business

• Do we need someone to step in and cover the Library for the LG? What responsibility is involved?

• Library avatar holds donations. Zoe has access, if password not changed.
• Zoe, for now, is Librarian.
• Prosper has ideas to add content.
• Are there copyright issues with UU World content?
• Are the OOSes in the library? (Authors have them in their inventory.) Pomona may have been collecting these.

• Zyzzy: Can OOSes be put on fuuscl.com? In case we lose inventory.

• SacredText.com has a lot of public domain text.

Next meeting: October 25 at Sofia’s Beach Cabana

The meeting was adjourned at 5:49 pm SLT.

Parking Lot: (revisit or delete)

• Pride Party in 2024 – 2nd Thursday or Saturday of June? Pride Service and Party
• 8th Principle vote. See See next bullet. Also update Region Covenant.

Date: August 24, 2023

Agenda and Minutes of the FUUCSL Leadership Group Meeting

At the Library of World Religions, ground level meeting room

Zyzzy called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm SLT

Present: Zyzzy, Sofia, Zoe

Absent: Et, Raven, TED, Prosper, Pomona

Observing: Hyacinth

Minutes – Zyzzy

• Approved the July Minutes

Treasurer’s Report – Sofia

Treasurer’s report July 31, 2023

Our dollar balance is lower than last month because of two factors: (1) Our Kiva balance is no longer $475 (our initial investment) but $130. That is because, every time a micro-loan is made, a small service fee is subtracted, which gradually erodes the value of the account over time, and some loans are not repaid. The Kiva account automatically makes new micro-loans when earlier loans are repaid. (2) I transferred $1000 out of Second Life and into a paypal account set up for Byk. In the process I paid a $50 fee, so only $950 ended up in paypal. I have transmitted all the login information needed to control the finances of the congregation to Etaoin and Zyzzy.

UUtopia Report – Zyzzy

• Orikosh is now over 2 months behind on rent. I’ve IM’ed her, but no response. If anyone has other contact methods, please try them.

Outreach – Et

• No news is no news. Road Tripping, may be visiting TED next week!

Library Report – Pomona

• (Etaoin says) Pomona sent an email about having to drop out of SL for a while, and plans to return.

Thursday
Worship Report (Sofia)

Here is the upcoming schedule for Thursday services through the end of 2023. Note the color-coded blocks. Please double check the schedule for accuracy and availability. (The regular rotation is Zyzzy-Zoe-Sofia).

2023

Saturday service – TED

New Business

• Sofia – suggestions for the 48 cushions in the Sanctuary. Possibly pick up every-other cushion. We decided to do it as a trial. Zyzzy will make it happen.
• How do we amend our Bylaws? Sofia passed the bylaws around and the process is there.

Next meeting: September 28 at Sofia’s Beach Cabana

The meeting was adjourned at 5:52 pm SLT.

Parking Lot: (revisit or delete)

• Pride Party in 2024 – 2nd Thursday or Saturday of June? Pride Service and Party
• 8th Principle vote. See See next bullet. Also update Region Covenant.

Date: July 27, 2023

Agenda and Minutes of the FUUCSL Leadership Group Meeting

At the Library of World Religions, ground level meeting room

Zyzzy called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm SLT

Present: Zyzzy, Sofia, Et, Zoe, Raven, TED

Absent: Prosper, Pomona

Observing:

Minutes – Zyzzy

• Approved the June Minutes

Treasurer’s Report – Sofia

• I have created a PayPal account for Treasurer Byk. I would like to propose a motion to transfer $1000 from inside of Second Life to this PayPal account. I will share the login details for this account with Zyzzy (moderator) and Etaoin (secretary). We should discuss whether more people want to or should be party to this information.
• Moved to transfer US$1000 to the PayPal account that RL Sofia set up. Login information to be shared via notecard to Zyzzy and Etaoin. Seconded by Zoe. Passed unanimously.

UUtopia Report – Zyzzy

• Don Setzer left his parcel. He said he might return someday.

Outreach – Et

• No news is no news.

Library Report – Pomona

• (Etaoin says) Pomona sent an email about having to drop out of SL for a while, and plans to return.

Thursday Worship Report- Sofia

Here is the upcoming schedule for Thursday services through the end of 2023. Note the color-coded blocks. Please double check the schedule for accuracy and availability. (The regular rotation is Zyzzy-Zoe-Sofia).

Here are the upcoming pagan services for 2023. Raven has claimed some and some are open. If anyone wishes to lead one of the open services, please let me know, and I’ll include it in the schedule..

The (somewhat) regular rotation proceeds as follows:

2023

Saturday service – TED

• Homily proposed for this week. Open Topic every other week.

New Business

• None

Next meeting: August 24 at

Library of World Religions, ground level meeting room

The meeting was adjourned at 5:52 pm SLT.

Parking Lot: (revisit or delete)

• Pride Party in 2024 – 2nd Thursday or Saturday of June? Pride Service and Party
• 8th Principle vote. See See next bullet. Also update Region Covenant.
• How do we amend our Bylaws? Sofia will research this.

Meeting places:

• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UUtopia/147/100/1862
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/UUtopia/139/75/21

Date: June 29, 2023

Agenda and Minutes of the FUUCSL Leadership Group Meeting

Zyzzy called the meeting to order at 5:35 pm SLT

Present: Zyzzy, Sofia, Et, Zoe, Raven, TED

Absent: Prosper, Pomona

Observing:

Minutes – Zyzzy

• Approved the May Minutes

Treasurer’s Report – Sofia

Treasurer’s report May 31, 2023

At this meeting I would like to discuss the idea of removing the bulk of our dollar resources ($1096,68) from Second Life. After keeping a prudent balance in SL in case expenses exceed income, I would keep “our endowment” secure someplace outside of Second Life, with access available to other officers of FUUCSL. Ideas are welcome.

• Board agrees that Sofia looks at how to take out USD from SL. See Parking lot.

UUtopia Report – Zyzzy

• Nothin’ happenin’

Outreach – Et

• GA June 21-25. Et, Zyzzy, and Sofia attended. GA2024 is virtual, GA 2025 is in Baltimore (30 miles from Et).

Library Report – Pomona

• No news

Thursday
Worship Report (Sofia)

Here is the upcoming schedule for Thursday services through the end of 2023. Note the color-coded blocks. Please double check the schedule for accuracy and availability. (The regular rotation is Zyzzy-Zoe-Sofia).

Here are the upcoming pagan services for 2023. Raven has claimed some and some are open. If anyone wishes to lead one of the open services, please let me know, and I’ll include it in the schedule..

• Imbolc: February 2nd, 2023 Zoe (reg rotation)
• Ostara: March 23rd, 2023* Raven
• Beltane: April 27th, 2023* Raven
• Litha/Midsummer: June 22nd, 2023 Prosper
• Lughnasadh: July 27th, 2023 Pomona
• Mabon: September 21st, 2023 Zoe
• Samhain: October 26th, 2023* Raven
• Yule: December 21st, 2023*Raven

The (somewhat) regular rotation proceeds as follows:

2023

Zyzzy

Saturday service – TED

• Homily proposed for this week. Open Topic every other week.

New Business

• Taking $$$ out of Second Life and keeping safe somewhere else – Sofia investigating.
• Pride Party? Zoe has led a couple of Pride services and wonders if we want to expand that into a party.

• Raven: I thought about that. It might be better if we could plan ahead for next year. But if we wanted to hold a dance before the month is out, Wednesday before service or Friday after service at a decent hour sounds good. I’ve already DJed two pride dances at Sacred Cauldron & Left Hand Path Academy.
• See Parking lot

Next meeting: July 27 at Library of World Religions, ground level meeting room

The meeting was adjourned at 5:58 pm SLT.

Parking Lot: (revisit or delete)

• Pride Party in 2024 – 2nd Thursday or Saturday of June? Pride Service and Party
• 8th Principle vote. See

Next meeting at the
Library of World Religions, ground level meeting room

Date: June 29, 2023

Agenda and Minutes of the FUUCSL Leadership Group Meeting

Zyzzy called the meeting to order at 5:35 pm SLT

Present: Zyzzy, Sofia, Et, Zoe, Raven, TED

Absent: Prosper, Pomona

Observing:

Minutes – Zyzzy

• Approved the May Minutes

Treasurer’s Report – Sofia

Treasurer’s report May 31, 2023

At this meeting I would like to discuss the idea of removing the bulk of our dollar resources ($1096,68) from Second Life. After keeping a prudent balance in SL in case expenses exceed income, I would keep “our endowment” secure someplace outside of Second Life, with access available to other officers of FUUCSL. Ideas are welcome.

• Board agrees that Sofia looks at how to take out USD from SL. See Parking lot.

UUtopia Report – Zyzzy

• Nothin’ happenin’

Outreach – Et

• GA June 21-25. Et, Zyzzy, and Sofia attended. GA2024 is virtual, GA 2025 is in Baltimore (30 miles from Et).

Library Report – Pomona

• No news

Thursday
Worship Report (Sofia)

Here is the upcoming schedule for Thursday services through the end of 2023. Note the color-coded blocks. Please double check the schedule for accuracy and availability. (The regular rotation is Zyzzy-Zoe-Sofia).

Here are the upcoming pagan services for 2023. Raven has claimed some and some are open. If anyone wishes to lead one of the open services, please let me know, and I’ll include it in the schedule..

• Imbolc: February 2nd, 2023 Zoe (reg rotation)
• Ostara: March 23rd, 2023* Raven
• Beltane: April 27th, 2023* Raven
• Litha/Midsummer: June 22nd, 2023 Prosper
• Lughnasadh: July 27th, 2023 Pomona
• Mabon: September 21st, 2023 Zoe
• Samhain: October 26th, 2023* Raven
• Yule: December 21st, 2023*Raven

The (somewhat) regular rotation proceeds as follows:

2023

Saturday service – TED

• Homily proposed for this week. Open Topic every other week.

New Business

• Taking $$$ out of Second Life and keeping safe somewhere else – Sofia investigating.
• Pride Party? Zoe has led a couple of Pride services and wonders if we want to expand that into a party.

• Raven: I thought about that. It might be better if we could plan ahead for next year. But if we wanted to hold a dance before the month is out, Wednesday before service or Friday after service at a decent hour sounds good. I’ve already DJed two pride dances at Sacred Cauldron & Left Hand Path Academy.
• See Parking lot

Next meeting: July 27 at Library of World Religions, ground level meeting room

The meeting was adjourned at 5:58 pm SLT.

Parking Lot: (revisit or delete)

• Pride Party in 2024 – 2nd Thursday or Saturday of June? Pride Service and Party
• 8th Principle vote. See

Next meeting at the
Library of World Religions, ground level meeting room

Date: April 27, 2023

Agenda and Minutes of the FUUCSL Leadership Group Meeting

At the little meeting circle near the sanctuary.

Zyzzy called the meeting to order at 5:31 pm SLT

Present: Zyzzy, Sofia, Et, Zoe, Raven, TED

Absent: Pomona, Prosper

Observing:

Minutes – Zyzzy

• Approved the March Minutes

Treasurer’s Report – Sofia –

Treasurer’s report March 31, 2023

UUtopia Report – Zyzzy

• Nothin’ happenin’

Outreach – Et

• GA!. Et, Zyzzy, and Sofia planning on attending. Prosper may also. (GA 2024 may be all virtual.) discuss.uua.org has notes on Article II suggestions. Including one from me (on behalf of some RL congregation comments). Et will look for the banner.

Library Report – Pomona

• No news

Thursday
Worship Report (Sofia)

Here is the upcoming schedule for Thursday services through August of 2023. Note the color-coded blocks. Please double check the schedule for accuracy and availability. (The regular rotation is Zyzzy-Zoe-Sofia).

Here are the upcoming pagan services for 2023. Raven has claimed some and some are open. If anyone wishes to lead one of the open services, please let me know, and I’ll include it in the schedule..

• Imbolc: February 2nd, 2023 ZOE (reg rotation)
• Ostara: March 23rd, 2023* RAVEN
• Beltane: April 27th, 2023* RAVEN
• Litha/Midsummer: June 22nd, 2023 Prosper
• Lughnasadh: July 27th, 2023 Pomona
• Mabon: September 21st, 2023 ZOE
• Samhain: October 26th, 2023* RAVEN
• Yule: December 21st, 2023*RAVEN

The (somewhat) regular rotation proceeds as follows:

Saturday service – TED

• No news.

8th Principle vote

• 4/20 service chat:

[19:22] Zyzzy Zarf: Ok. We’re voting now on these options:

[19:22] Zyzzy Zarf: – 1. Accept the National proposal

[18:51] – 2. Accept the FUUCSL proposal

[18:51] – 3. Accept Sofia’s chatGPT version.

[18:51] – 4. Craft a new proposal that satisfies our objections to the three.

[18:51] – 5. Reject all the proposals and not adopt an 8th Principle

[18:51] – 6. Not ready to decide anything. Keep discussing.

[18:51]

[19:22] Pomona Writer: Dav0? Hyacinth?

[19:23] dav0clure (dav0.turas): 6

[19:23] Aime Ravenhurst: 1

[19:23] LillyLal: 1

[19:23] Etaoin Barcelona: 1

[19:23] Hyacinth (coderchik): 1

[19:23] Pomona Writer: 2

[19:23] Zyzzy Zarf: 1

[19:23] TooEasilyDistracted: 2 or 4

[19:23] Hyacinth (coderchik): I am not a voting member though

[19:23] Pomona Writer: OK, thanks Hy.

[19:23] Zyzzy Zarf: That’s ok, Hy

[19:23] Zyzzy Zarf: Is that everyone?

[19:23] Zyzzy Zarf: Yes

[19:23] Zyzzy Zarf: Ok

[19:24] Etaoin Barcelona: (I’ll record this vote for the Leadership Group meeting next week)

[19:24] TooEasilyDistracted: Good work Et

[19:24] Pomona Writer: thanks, ET

[19:24] TooEasilyDistracted: Good work Et

[19:24] Pomona Writer: thanks, ET

[19:24] Zyzzy Zarf: Yes. We need to unscramble this. There’s a clear majority for option 1, but we’ll see if that’s enough

[19:25] Zyzzy Zarf: Thank you all!

[19:25] – ** Closing words and Extinguishing the Chalice **

• Discussion during LG: a too-small number of members.

No urgency to adopt right now. May be best to just note “support for the 8th Principle”

Resolve:In the spirit of the Eighth Principle, this congregation should continue to strive to understand and work against all oppressions.

m/s/p; Resolution passes.

• Proposed 8th Principle language: We value the cultural diversity, communication, and cooperation of all social groups; we hope to extinguish misconceptions, stereotypes, discrimination, and other oppressions in ourselves and in our institutions.
• National proposal: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountability dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
• Re-write by ChatGPT: As member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, we covenant to promote a journey towards spiritual wholeness. We will actively work to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community that dismantles racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions. Our commitment to accountability and justice will guide our actions. (Sofia)

New Business

Next meeting: May 25 at the meeting circle.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:49 pm SLT.

Parking Lot: (revisit or delete)

Date: March 23, 2023

Agenda and Minutes of the FUUCSL Leadership Group Meeting

At the little meeting circle near the sanctuary.

Zyzzy called the meeting to order at 5:34 pm SLT

Present: Zyzzy, Pomona, Sofia, Et, Zoe

Absent: TED, Prosper, Raven

Observing:

Minutes – Zyzzy

• Approved the February Minutes:

Treasurer’s Report – Sofia –

Treasurer’s report March 31, 2023

UUtopia Report – Zyzzy

• Aime moved to Alcott NNW
• A new resident, Stella Vespera (far.wanderer) immediately snapped up Aime’s 1024 in UUtopia

Outreach – Et

• GA!. Et, Zyzzy, and Sofia planning on attending. Prosper may also. (GA 2024 may be all virtual.) UUA accepting comments on the new Article II April 1-30.

Library Report – Pomona

• No news

Thursday
Worship Report (Sofia)

Here is the upcoming schedule for Thursday services through August of 2023. Note the color-coded blocks. Please double check the schedule for accuracy and availability. (The regular rotation is Zyzzy-Zoe-Sofia).

Here are the upcoming pagan services for 2023. Raven has claimed some and some are open. If anyone wishes to lead one of the open services, please let me know, and I’ll include it in the schedule..

• Imbolc: February 2nd, 2023 Zoe (reg rotation)
• Ostara: March 23rd, 2023* Raven
• Beltane: April 27th, 2023* Raven
• Litha/Midsummer: June 22nd, 2023 Prosper
• Lughnasadh: July 27th, 2023 Pomona
• Mabon: September 21st, 2023 Zoe
• Samhain: October 26th, 2023* Raven
• Yule: December 21st, 2023*Raven

The (somewhat) regular rotation proceeds as follows:

2023

Saturday service – TED

• No news.

8th Principle vote

• 3/30 through 4/20 services– discuss alternative wording during the services.
• 4/20 “this is not a regular service, this is a discussion/vote” Several of us can run the service.
• Voted by the Board to do this.
• Proposed 8th Principle language: We value the cultural diversity, communication, and cooperation of all social groups; we hope to extinguish misconceptions, stereotypes, discrimination, and other oppressions in ourselves and in our institutions.
• National proposal: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
• Re-write by ChatGPT: As member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, we covenant to promote a journey towards spiritual wholeness. We will actively work to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community that dismantles racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions. Our commitment to accountability and justice will guide our actions. (Sofia)

New Business

• Congregational vote to adopt 8th principle? Congregational vote to include current Principles in our Bylaws?

Next meeting: April 27 at the meeting circle.

The meeting was adjourned at 5:59 pm SLT.

Parking Lot : (revisit or delete)

Date: February 23, 2023

Agenda and Minutes of the FUUCSL Leadership Group Meeting

Party Platform.

Zyzzy called the meeting to order at 5:36 pm SLT

Present: Zyzzy, Pomona, Sofia, Et, TED, Zoe, Prosper

Absent: Raven

Observing: Hyacinth

Minutes – Zyzzy

• Approved the January Minutes:

Treasurer’s Report – Sofia –

Treasurer’s report January 31, 2023

*Pledge drive begins in February

UUtopia Report – Zyzzy

• Aime moved to Alcott NNW
• A new resident, Stella Vespera (far.wanderer) immediately snapped up Aime’s 1024 in UUtopia

Outreach – Et

• GA!. Et, Zyzzy, and Sofia planning on attending. Prosper may also. (GA 2024 may be all virtual.)

Library Report – Pomona

• No news

Thursday
Worship Report (Sofia)

Here is the upcoming schedule for Thursday services through May of 2023. Note the color-coded blocks. Please double check the schedule for accuracy and availability. (The regular rotation is Zyzzy-Zoe-Sofia).

Here are the upcoming pagan services for 2023. Raven has claimed some and some are open. If anyone wishes to lead one of the open services, please let me know, and I’ll include it in the schedule..

• Imbolc: February 2nd, 2023 Zoe (reg rotation)
• Ostara: March 23rd, 2023* Raven
• Beltane: April 27th, 2023* Raven
• Litha/Midsummer: June 22nd, 2023 Prosper
• Lughnasadh: July 27th, 2023 Pomona
• Mabon: September 21st, 2023 Zoe
• Samhain: October 26th, 2023* Raven
• Yule: December 21st, 2023* Raven

The (somewhat) regular rotation proceeds as follows:

2023

Saturday service
– TED

• Pretty good attendance at SatSvc recently, several Europeans, nice folks.

New Business

• Congregational vote to adopt 8th principle? Congregational vote to include current Principles in our Bylaws?
• Proposed 8th Principle language: We value the cultural diversity, communication, and cooperation of all social groups; we hope to extinguish misconceptions, stereotypes, discrimination, and other oppressions in ourselves and in our institutions.
• Do we explicitly include racism? ableism? Xenophobia? Agency? Right to choose? Gender identity? Other things we are “uncomfortable to talk about”?
• National proposal: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”

Next meeting: March 23 at the little meeting circle near Sanctuary.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:17 pm SLT.

Parking Lot
:
(revisit or delete)

• FOR NEXT MEETING, Should we as a congregation endorse the 8th principle? Sofia will take it as a topic in her series on the principle on December 29 so we should wait one more month before we discuss it at the Leadership Group (says Sofia).