Trustees prepare to make case for smaller board
The Unitarian Universalist Association Board of Trustees met in Charlotte, N.C., today for the first of two days of meetings before the start of the 2011 General Assembly. The board discussed the best ways to explain to GA delegates several proposed changes in governance and social witness. A proposal to reduce the size of the [...]
Board meeting: Significant changes ahead for GA resolutions
The UUA board held its traditional post-General Assembly meeting on Monday morning, June 28. They conducted an informal evaluation of the board’s General Assembly workshops; discussed the possibility of reevaluating Responsive Resolutions and Actions of Immediate Witness; approved the Panel on Theological Education’s budget; revised a board policy to include the establishment of a site [...]
Board report: UUA governance ‘ready for transformation’
The UUA board reported on its activities this past year at the Saturday morning plenary. Four at-large trustees, including Charlie King, a member of the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn, N.Y., the Rev. José Ballester, minister of the Bell Street Chapel in Providence, the Rev. Jeanne Pupke, minister of First UU Church of Richmond, [...]
Congregational presidents consider UUA changes
UUA Moderator Gini Courter and the Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Association, met with several hundred congregational presidents Thursday afternoon to share information about changes within the UUA and to answer questions. Morales said the UUA staff is embarking on an era of “much closer collaboration and cooperation with congregations.” He said that consultations [...]
UUA board, president seek common ground on Ariz.
The pre-GA meeting of the UUA Board of Trustees in Minneapolis started off with a tense and sometimes emotional discussion about the nature of the relationship between the board and UUA President Peter Morales. At its Tuesday, June 22, meeting, the board noted that after it had placed a business resolution on the agenda of this [...]
Trustees start awkwardly, but seek common vision
After a mid-morning break, the UUA Board of Trustees—which is meeting for the first time with newly-elected UUA President Peter Morales—acknowledged that they started awkwardly this morning. “We started weird,” Moderator Gini Courter said. The Rev. Jeanne Pupke, a newly elected trustee-at-large, said she was concerned that a statement read by the Rev. Will Saunders [...]
Board welcomes Morales, asks about new relationship
After each trustee briefly introduced himself or herself at this morning Board of Trustees meeting in Salt Lake City, UUA Moderator Gini Courter said, “I don’t know if you’re as excited as I am, but please welcome our new president, Peter Morales.” The trustees applauded and cheered. Morales offered a few reflections on the campaign. [...]
UUA Board gathers with newly elected president
The UUA Board of Trustees is meeting this morning with newly installed UUA President Peter Morales in Salt Lake City. At the opening of this morning’s meeting, the Rev. Will Saunders, the trustee from the New England District, told Morales that the UUA’s governance was “at a crossroads.” (The UUA begins operating under a modified [...]
Board wants broad conversation about new Principles
Should the UUA revise Article II of its bylaws (the Principles and Purposes)? The Commission on Appraisal has proposed a revision [pdf] following several years of denomination-wide input and review, and this year’s General Assembly will take the first of two votes on the revised text. At its Tuesday, June 22, meeting in Salt Lake [...]
Board agendas and reports available online
The UUA Board of Trustees meets four times a year—three times in Boston and once at the site of the General Assembly. The board meets in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday, June 24, and again on Monday morning, June 30. Its meetings are open to the public. Here are the agendas and reports related to the [...]
