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daily tasks and annual meetings
May. 25th, 2022 10:40 pmYesterday I failed to buy groceries or buy some additional underthings, but DID successfully A) do laundry, B) order a refill of my Celexa prescription, and C) reschedule my dentist appointment and request a refill of my prescription toothpaste. Which is not nothing!
Anyway, today work was kind of blargh -- I always spend Wednesdays feeling like I am playing catchup to myself, because Mondays I work in the Collegetown office and Tuesdays are my day off. So I caught up on key returns/move-outs, and I caught up on email, and I took care of various minor tasks that had been hanging for a while, and I did a preliminary run at a new Task that Ms. Random Numbers requested I handle, and I started catching up on application responses.
Then I closed the office about 15 minutes early because I needed to get to church for our annual congregational meeting. That's where we approve the budget, elect people to the Board of Trustees and the Nominating Committee, and vote on any other business that needs the approval of the congregation at large -- which, in this case, was the adoption of the 8th principle.
See, Unitarian Universalism currently has 7 principles (rather than any creed or dogma), but there has recently been a movement to add an 8th principle to specifically address racism and other types of discrimination/oppression. It's a grassroots movement at the moment, with individual congregations voting on whether to adopt it, and whether to recommend that the UUA adopt it. I believe the UUA is currently slated to vote on whether we as a denomination should adopt the 8th principle in our 2023 General Assembly.
Anyway, that ate the bulk of the meeting because we had a number of people get up to speak for and against (mostly for!). I had initially been surprised by the 8th principle thing when I heard about it a year or so ago, because I felt it was implicitly covered by the existing 7 principles, but you know, when there's rain coming in through the roof, you don't say, "It's okay; the roof is so well-constructed that it should already have tiles over that spot!" You patch the roof. And also even if racism doesn't personally hit me where I live (I have that privilege, as a white woman), it hits a lot of other people where they live and I hope that I am the kind of person who doesn't need to be personally devastated by a problem to think it should be fixed. Which is more or less what I said during my 3-minutes to address the congregation.
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Anyway, we adopted the 8th principle by a healthy margin.
I have to fix up the minutes a little bit tomorrow or Friday, so they'll be in good shape for next year's meeting. And I know if I don't do that SOON, I will forget entirely because that is exactly what happened with the 2021 annual meeting minutes. *headdesk*
Anyway, today work was kind of blargh -- I always spend Wednesdays feeling like I am playing catchup to myself, because Mondays I work in the Collegetown office and Tuesdays are my day off. So I caught up on key returns/move-outs, and I caught up on email, and I took care of various minor tasks that had been hanging for a while, and I did a preliminary run at a new Task that Ms. Random Numbers requested I handle, and I started catching up on application responses.
Then I closed the office about 15 minutes early because I needed to get to church for our annual congregational meeting. That's where we approve the budget, elect people to the Board of Trustees and the Nominating Committee, and vote on any other business that needs the approval of the congregation at large -- which, in this case, was the adoption of the 8th principle.
See, Unitarian Universalism currently has 7 principles (rather than any creed or dogma), but there has recently been a movement to add an 8th principle to specifically address racism and other types of discrimination/oppression. It's a grassroots movement at the moment, with individual congregations voting on whether to adopt it, and whether to recommend that the UUA adopt it. I believe the UUA is currently slated to vote on whether we as a denomination should adopt the 8th principle in our 2023 General Assembly.
Anyway, that ate the bulk of the meeting because we had a number of people get up to speak for and against (mostly for!). I had initially been surprised by the 8th principle thing when I heard about it a year or so ago, because I felt it was implicitly covered by the existing 7 principles, but you know, when there's rain coming in through the roof, you don't say, "It's okay; the roof is so well-constructed that it should already have tiles over that spot!" You patch the roof. And also even if racism doesn't personally hit me where I live (I have that privilege, as a white woman), it hits a lot of other people where they live and I hope that I am the kind of person who doesn't need to be personally devastated by a problem to think it should be fixed. Which is more or less what I said during my 3-minutes to address the congregation.
...
Anyway, we adopted the 8th principle by a healthy margin.
I have to fix up the minutes a little bit tomorrow or Friday, so they'll be in good shape for next year's meeting. And I know if I don't do that SOON, I will forget entirely because that is exactly what happened with the 2021 annual meeting minutes. *headdesk*
