A Night for discussing plans

The Trustees met tonight and discussed several things on the agenda. We looked at our finances and noted that giving was a little behind schedule. George Rezendes and Frank Royce noted that of things continued as they were, we would only be behind by about 2% which isn't too bad. The only category where we didn't have and hopes for meeting the budget was in fundraisers.

Mary Brockway volunteered to head up a community tag sale next spring if we wanted her to. We would sell tables and make our money that way. It would be a lot easier to manage and everyone would take their own stuff away afterwards. We could raise between $200- 500 with minimum effort.

We also talked about the Stewardship Campaign this Fall and made some suggestions to the Budget Committee. Ray Deptulski shared that the Property Committee is planning on painting the nursery area and adding lighting and a drop ceiling to the room.

We discussed the furnaces and decided that we would wait until next year to tackle the possiblity of replacing them with gas furnaces.

Then we spent some time talking about the Kitchen project and the Capital Campaign. The final cost is going to be about $100,000. Curt Brockway is going to put together a team to raise the money. They will probably be looking for gifts to be paid out over between three and five years. It was suggested that the team needs to be made up of people who are really excited about the project. We also recognized the facxt that we will need to adjust our timeline if we are going to go ahead with the project. We would move into the funraising phase in the Spring and look to do the construction in the summer or early Fall.

Cal