From your Session
The Elders of Westminster met on Wednesday April 17, 2024, for their monthly Stated Meeting. The Elders voted on a motion to approve the Budget and Finance Committee to proceed with a two-year building loan campaign beginning April 29 and ending May 26, 2024.
They also voted to approve the Deacon updated job description and approved adding to the church website the New Member Information and adding a link to the church website: “The Work of the Church,” that will list committees, describe their work and meeting time, and include each committees’ most recent minutes.
The focused discussions included updates from Deacons Dianne Greenlee and Deanie Anderson on the reorganization of deacon duties and a visit from Jean Severson from the Events committee. A motion was passed to approve up to $1,000 for a vendors’ fair to be held in May to introduce them to our space. A motion was passed to add Dick Hughes to the Personnel Committee.
The session moved into Executive Session at 7:30 to vote on two motions which were also voted out of Executive Session to be made public. The first was to form an ad hoc team with one person from Personnel, one from Budget and Finance and one from Buildings and Grounds to evaluate and make recommendations for the church financial operations. The second motion was to form a “Scout Task Force” led by Suzanne Taylor and Teri Mohney to find out who owns the scout records and look through the records at the Scout Lodge with Christine from the Scout Troop.
The session also voted on some bylaw changes for Elders and Deacons. The first was to change page 1 language from "prior to June 1" to "Spring Election Meeting". Next was on pages 4 and 5 from "March Meeting" to "Spring Election Meeting". Then replace "the church shall have a minimum of 12 elders" with "between 9-12" and "a minimum of 12 deacons" to "at least 4 deacons".
The Session closed with prayer at 8:10. The next stated meeting with take place on May 15, 2024.
Sandy McLean, Clerk of Session
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