Special Vestry Meeting

November 1, 2009, 9 AM

Parish Hall

 

Present:  Al Colburn, Dick Dabrowski, Linda Kaferle, Lorraine Leonard, George Miller, Ginger Quarles, Louise Rogers, Erica Scattergood, Marianne Welton

Absent:  Sue Hildreth, Mary Medeiros

 

I.                   Vestry Member Replacement

A.     Motion unanimously approved to appoint Ginger Quarles to fill Don Ulsch’s Vestry seat until the next Annual Meeting

 

II.                Parish Calling Lists Distributed

A.     Linda distributed a parish calling list broken down into sections of ten parishioners’ names to a block

1.      One block was assigned to each Vestry member (with the exception of Sue Hildreth) to call and invite the parishioners to church to meet Joyce over the next few weeks

a.      Names of choir members, Vestry members and Search Committee members were eliminated from the calling list since they would be in attendance during Joyce’s first few weeks

 

III.             Joyce’s Contract

A.     Dick contacted the Rev. Cynthia Hubbard regarding the question of term limits of a Rector’s contract which was brought up at the last Vestry meeting

1.      Cynthia explained that the contract between a Rector and the parish is like a marriage and has no specific term limits on it.

B.     Motion to accept Joyce’s contract (given the explanation of term limits) was approved by an 7 (yes) to 1 (no) to 1 (abstention) vote

 

IV.              Meeting Adjourned – 9:55 AM

 

Respectfully submitted,

Linda Kaferle