Present:
08/21 Previous minutes were approved as received.
09/21 Treasurer’s report - As attached. $100.62 available in Restricted funds. $1,289.71 available in Unrestricted funds. LeeAnn Stevens shared that after difficulty getting the new signatories set up in the bank, that it would be helpful to keep Marian Baker as a backup signatory on the account.
The transfer of the bank account to the new treasurer has not yet been finalized due to needing to update the minute of authorization for the change in signatories with more details required by the Credit Union. This report was accepted with gratitude. We are setting up a Quarterly Meeting address and email account so that any future change in signatories will be much easier. We are not currently listed on State of NH of organizations, although the Credit Union grandfathered us in, but we need to get this resolved soon.
We approved the minute with gratitude.
We approved keeping Marian Baker as a back-up signatory.
10/21 Authorization for new signatories of our bank account
With regards to our accounts at Holy Rosary Credit Union, we authorize the following changes:
11/21 Right relationship with Native Americans
Sara Smith, reported that the NEYM committee had a Listening session last week over the apology but has not yet come up with the official document for this year’s session. The committee has been sharing resources with various meetings to help us all learn our true history. No feedback negative to the apology has been received. Question arose as to why we are focusing on this issue at this time. Sara explained that NEYM has a Legacy Gift Fund received from the sale of property in Massachusetts. A meeting in southern Massachusetts, that includes members of the Mashpee Nation, asked for a grant to enable them to relearn their native language. The Legacy Fund had not been set up to fund such a project, but last year they brought a minute to the Yearly Meeting sessions to ask us to find a way to have right relationships with the local Native Americans from whom our ancestors took away their land. There are around 7,000 Native Americans in NH. The clerk then asked each meeting to report that they have done on this topic this year.
Weare Henniker Meeting - They have Sherry Gould, a local member of the Abenaki, coming to their meeting on September 12th. Marian shared that as Hillsboro celebrates its 250th next year, she has recently received a NH Humanities Grant to focus on the Abenaki who were already living on the land. A History Alive event will be held the 21-22 August to which others are invited to come learn more from archeologists, and Abenaki artisans, singers, storytellers, people about the history, the meaning of Indian names of land forms in NH. Marian will also be leading two book discussions on Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer this month.
Gonic Meeting is blessed by having a member who is Iroquois. They are doing a book study on The Gathering. Their Iroquois attender gives insights, such as when considering putting up a sign at their meetinghouse acknowledging it being located on land taken from Indigenous people, they were told that Native Americans do not want white man’s signs. Gonic does not want study of this issue to end in just one year. Hearing from different cultures is helpful.
Dover has a Racial awareness group. They have approved supporting the letter of apology at their business session, as a beginning of the process. They are also working with Dover City Council as well, where there has been some resistance to the idea of apology or reciprocity.
We need to educate ourselves first, not to expect Native Americans to educate us. They do not expect our work on this issue to end soon.
We approved sending this list of local meeting reports on how they have been working on the issue to the NEYM Committee on Right Relationship, and to put the issue to approval of the Letter of Apology on the agenda for our next Quarterly Meeting.
Announcements were made about
12/21 Dover Sanctuary Renewal Report. Thanks were given for the donation from the QM. Dover Meeting has approved their building plans and contractors are studying the plans and estimating costs. Due to added cost of a sprinkler system, the total estimate is likely above the $85,000 originally estimated.
Fundraising initiatives cover a wide spectrum from making and selling Bluebird Houses to hosting a Burial Shroud Making Workshop next fall. We have a dual purpose for all of this work. We hope to offer mercy and refuge to community members in need of Sanctuary and we hope to embody the Beloved Community as we live into a community-based response to the immigration crisis. They invite Friends and others to a special celebration and witness for Immigration Justice – part of a national celebration at three sites in the US displaying large original banners.
Familias Separadas Art Exhibit and Party. Sunday, June 13, 2 p m., Dover Friends Meeting (Quakers), 141 Central Ave., Dover, NH. Join Dover Friends and others for an extraordinary afternoon of original public art, a dance performance inspired by immigrant stories, speakers, and food. Large-scale, original banners convey the journeys to justice of two asylum seekers who had been detained at the Strafford County House of Correction. Grace Kindeke is a local artist working with the project to finalize the banners. She is an AFSC-NH staffer. Maggie Fogarty, Director of AFSC-NH will offer reflections. Familias Separadas is a national justice through public art initiative led by Michelle Angela Ortiz.
Start your afternoon at the Car Rally at Strafford County Jail. Meet at the Courthouse across the street at 1 p.m. Travel to Dover Friends Meeting by 2 p.m. The official invite will be sent out with these minutes. Others acknowledged what Dover is doing, building the community, and not just getting lost in financial details.
13/21 Sharing from the Recorded Ministers in our Quarterly Meeting.
Marian shared about her recent challenges at a recorded minister. Brian Drayton will be asked to share at the next Quarterly Meeting.
During Covid, Marian ended up staying in the States longer than usual. She has sent some financial support and encouraged several Kenyan women who continue to travel into Uganda and Tanzania to lift up other women.
While here in USA, she has helped build up a Northeast Region of USFW (United Society of Friends Women). This brings together women from programmed and unprogrammed meetings in New York, New England, Quebec, and Baltimore YM areas. By zoom, they held a Spring Gathering yesterday where Jane Mutoro from Kenya was main speaker. As Covid restrictions lessen, Marian expects to visit the Congolese, Swahili-speaking Friends Churches in Quebec, CA and Buffalo, NY.
She has also, due to her close to 50 years in Kenya, been helping create the first Quaker Archives for Africa. The hard copies will be housed at Friends Theological College in Kaimosi, Kenya, and tapes of oral interviews will be in the new Africa QREC (Quaker Religious Education Collaborative) office in Nairobi. They will be working to get the materials digitized as well.
14/21 Updates from each meeting
15/21 Our next Quarterly Meeting will be held on August 29. We hope to meet in person, possibly in Dover, as we[ll as] a place with internet capability. We can see the banners on the meetinghouse if we go to Dover.
Respectfully submitted,
Marian Baker, Recording Clerk
Holdings at Holy Rosary Credit Union (Rochester, NH), Beginning Balances as of 2018-08-31 | ||||
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Checking Account | $637.54 | Allocation | ||
Savings Account | $5.01 | Unrestricted Funds | $594.71 | |
Certificate of Deposit | $1,000.00 | Restricted Funds | $1,047.84 | |
TOTAL | $1,642.55 | TOTAL | $1,642.55 |
Holdings at Holy Rosary Credit Union (Rochester, NH), Ending Balances as of 2021-05-28 | ||||
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Checking Account | $1,385.32 | Allocation | ||
Savings Account | $5.01 | Unrestricted Funds | $1,289.71 | |
Certificate of Deposit | $1,000.00 | Restricted Funds | $1,100.62 | |
TOTAL | $2,390.33 | TOTAL | $2,390.33 |
Unrestricted Funds | |||
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2018-08-31 | Beginning Balance | $589.77 | |
2018-08-31 | Adjustment to correctly state balance | $4.94 | $594.71 |
2018-10-19 | Gonic MM Donation | $50.00 | $644.71 |
2018-06-12 | Dover MM Donation | $125.00 | $769.71 |
2018-06-12 | North Sandwich MM Donation | $25.00 | $794.71 |
2019-01-25 | Weare MM Donation | $50.00 | $844.71 |
2019-05-17 | Donation | $10.00 | $854.71 |
2019-07-22 | North Sandwich MM Donation | $25.00 | $879.71 |
2019-12-13 | Donation | $50.00 | $929.71 |
2020-01-22 | Donation | $50.00 | $979.71 |
2020-01-28 | Donation | $125.00 | $1,104.71 |
2020-04-16 | Donation | $25.00 | $1,129.71 |
2020-06-23 | Donation | $10.00 | $1,139.71 |
2021-03-25 | Gonic MM Donation (2020+2021) | $100.00 | $1,239.71 |
2021-05-10 | Weare MM Donation (replacement check) | $50.00 | $1,289.71 |
2021-05-28 | Ending Balance | $1,289.71 |
Restricted Funds** | |||
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2018-08-31 | Beginning Balance | $1,047.84 | |
2018-12-31 | CD Interest 2018-09-01 – 2018-12-31 ($1.63, $1.68, $1.63, $1.68) | $6.62 | $1,054.46 |
2019-06-30 | CD Interest 2019-01-01 – 2019-06-30 ($1.68, $1.52, $1.68, $1.63, $1.68, $1.63) | $9.82 | $1,064.28 |
2019-12-31 | CD Interest 2019-07-01 – 2019-12-31 ($1.68, $1.68, $1.63, $1.68, $1.63, $1.68) | $9.98 | $1,074.26 |
2020-06-30 | CD Interest 2020-01-01 – 2020-06-30 ($1.68, $1.57, $1.68, $1.63, $1.68, $1.63) | $9.87 | $1,084.13 |
2020-12-31 | CD Interest 2020-09-01 – 2020-12-31($1.68, $1.68, $1.63, $1.68, $1.63, $1.68) | $9.98 | $1,094.11 |
2021-04-30 | CD Interest 2021-09-01 – 2021-12-31 ($1.63, $1.52, $1.68, $1.63) | $6.51 | $1,100.62 |
2021-05-28 | Ending Balance | $1,100.62 | |
Unavailable Funds: 60-Month CD (2.00% interest, matures 2021-11-17) | $1,000.00 | ||
Available Restricted Funds | $100.62 |
Respectfully submitted,
s/ LeeAnn M Stevens
Treasurer, submitted 2021-05-30
**Restricted Funds are the “Mary G. Morrell and Horatio S. Morrell Trust Funds. Such funds are dedicated to help ‘poor...ministers… in the service of the Lord.’” (In the 1st Month 2000 Dover Quarterly Meeting for Business minute, the treasurer was directed to maintain the $1000.00 of the Restricted Funds as “principal” in keeping with restrictions on the funds, with the remainder available for use by the Quarter.) In 7th month 2017, it was agreed that interest earned on the H.S. Morrell Trust Fund will be accumulated and available as allowed by the Fund.
Links:
[1] https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/sites/all/files/documents/DoverQuarterlyMeeting-210530%20Minutes.docx
[2] https://www.concordfriendsmeeting.org/sites/all/files/documents/Dover Quarter Treasurers Report 8_31_18-5_28_21.pdf