Hello UTUUC! The Board of Trustees met via Zoom this past Tuesday, August 9 and will hold its Reflecting with the Board session tonight, Monday, August 15 at 7pm.

Zoom link can be found here. Meeting ID: 838 6603 4326 / Passcode: Unity

Here are some highlights of the Board's August meeting deliberations and actions:

We approved several nominations for Board committees at the August 9 meeting and a special meeting on July 29: Jeff Liebert, Jeff Piper, Kristin Schmidt, Rick Van Dyke for the Stewardship Committee, Laura Drumm and Jonathan Burden for the Properties Committee, and Don Bussey and Beth Martell for the Finance and Investment Committee. Many thanks to the Nominations Committee for their hard work screening and vetting candidates for these new board management positions.

We welcomed Charles Lewis, our new Acting Director of Finance & Administration, to his first Board meeting.  We discussed the water/sewage event that occurred on July 23 and again thanked Dan Crimmins for all his help. Work on the repairs is ongoing.

Rev. Gage discussed plans for her upcoming sabbatical, which will be from October 1 through March 31. We discussed an upcoming WTTW program that will feature Unity Temple and the effect that it may have on our services.

We are beginning the process of ministerial evaluations for both Rev. Cooley and Rev. Gage. We will seek wide input for this process. We finished reading and discussed "Serving with Grace" by Erik Wikstrom. Several committees are also reading this book, and all congregants will be welcome to join an All-Congregation book discussion in October.

Here is a link to the approved minutes from the July 12, 2022 Board meeting. Here is the link to the approved minutes from the Special Board meeting on July 29, 2022.

Your UTUUC Board of Trustees,

Amanda Kaleta-Kott, President Matt Bruce Aimee Conrad, Vice President Aisha Ellis Stephen Lee, Secretary Ed McDevitt Sandy Meyer Rich Pokorny Michael Weekes