Weblog of the PoP Building Committee activities

After a couple of months off, we met again tonight. During an hour’s discussion we decided to make a short presentation at the Annual Meeting. In attendance were Tom, Mary, Neil , Steve, Kurt and Pastor Steve. Tom also presented a draft annual report summary which we reviewed and commented upon. Tom will do the presentation with input from us. Our input is our own personal bullet point summary of the major findings to date from the surveys received.

Our next meetings are Thursdays,

25Feb10
25Mar10
29Apr10

Mark your calendars. The 25Feb meeting will be for detailed survey analysis. So please be there. We are currently missing surveys from

Social Ministry – Steve
Education – Kurt
Witness – Tom/Pr Steve
Youth – Jim
Creation Care – Jim

We believe that many of these are done, but they have not found there way back to the Building Committee. Please give them to Neil or Tom.

Our longer range plan for 2010 is

• Make the presentation at the Annual Meeting
• Convene some forums and focus groups to get more congregation input during the spring
• Determine a date to start a capital campaign. We have not done anything in this area for 5 years.

Neil will make a motion at the annual meeting to propose no need to “pay back” any past use of Building Fund money to pay for building the BYC. I will research the 2006 and 2007 annual reports to see how much we borrowed and how much we have “paid back.”

Our Survey has been  updated, now labeled “2009/2010.”

All of the responses (PDF) received to date, including Tom’s from tonight are posted to our blog.

We are all supposed to look over the responses and send 5 or so key bullet points to Tom. The bullets are our analysis of what the most prominent results are from looking at all the surveys received to date. Tom will use our inputs to create a Powerpoint slide or two for presentation an the annual meeting on Feb 7. So be kind and get your input to him at least a few days in advance, say by Groundhog Day.

Next meeting is 25 February 2010 in the BYC at 7:30pm. This is a THURSDAY.