CMM 2018-06-10

Minutes of Meeting for Worship for Business

Concord (NH) Monthly Meeting of

the Religious Society of Friends

Sixth Month 10, 2018

Attending: 18

Friends gathered with a short period of waiting worship.  The clerk reviewed the minutes of 5^th month Meeting for Worship to conduct business.  They were felt to have been faithfully recorded as posted on the website.

6.1  Budget Report:  We received the budget report from the treasurer for the final month of the fiscal year.  It was noted that we came close to the projected budgeted income at the beginning of the year and that the expenses were $25,749.13, which is $1,590.21 less than the income of $27,339.34.  Some discussion of several particulars ensued.  Ways of dealing with desires to amend the budget to meet needs that weren’t anticipated in the 2018-19 approved budget were suggested.  Committees that feel a need for adjustment in their budget lines should be in touch with the budget committee.

6.2  NEYM Annual Sessions Representatives:  Some representatives to 2018 annual sessions of NEYM were appointed.  Others may be appointed at Meeting for Worship with attention to business in 7^th month.

6.3  AMTP Land Transfer Celebration:  Friends agreed to try to have a celebration of the land donation from AMTP.  The tentative date of fifth Sunday in July was set and Friends agreed that the ad hoc committee planning the event will be in contact with erikcleven [at] gmail [dot] com (subject: Dover%20Quarterly%20Meeting) (Dover Quarterly Meeting clerk) to see if they would like to hold their session here and join us in the celebration.

6.4  Green Burial:  A report about “green burial” possibilities on our new land was received.  The member who brought this report requested an ad hoc committee to do further discernment.  Rob S volunteered to be the convener and others named were Jon H, Bevin T, Mark B and Pat W.

6.5  Property Across From Meeting House:  The Meeting discussed whether we might want to purchase a plot of an acre and a half across the street from us.  This might be a good thing to do for various reasons.  The land across from us is zoned commercial but is too small to be attractive to most businesses so there might be an opportunity to interest the current owner in a partial donation of their property to Meeting.  No clear discernment about this emerged.  Jonah S, Jennifer S and Lucy N will help with the process of exploring this and report back if anything useful is learned.

Meeting concluded with a period of prayer, purposing to meet again on the 8^th day of 7^th Month, 2018.

* added to Budget for Fiscal 2018; see Minute 2018.1.3

NB. The Income & Expenses Sheet was created with two decimal points, which were removed for readability, the cents being unimportant to the overall understanding. This can have the effect of throwing off any given sum by a dollar due to compounded rounding.

Prepared by Greg Heath and Chris Haigh

‡ This was not in the original spreadsheet, but was calculated later.  In future, only Total Equity, without the breakdown detail, will be shown.

NB.  The following was not in the original spreadsheet, but was calculated from data in the spreadsheet.

Do we have the resources to support our obligations? YES

Variable Assets Less Current Liabilties and Replacement Reserve = $5,664

NB. The Balance Sheet was created with two decimal points, which were removed for readability, the cents being unimportant to the overall understanding. This can have the effect of throwing off any given sum by a dollar due to compounded rounding.