Congregational Meetings

Tapestry has an annual congregational meeting every year in June to elect new board members and to handle any other business that must be approved by the entire membership. From time to time, additional congregational meetings are held as needed.

Annual Congregational Meeting, June 22, 2008

Draft Minutes of the Meeting

Meeting Documents

Invitation letter and meeting agenda (PDF, 37 KB)

Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Budget (PDF, 38 KB) (Excel Spreadsheet .XLS, 413 KB)

Download the committee reports (PDF, 50 KB)

Report of Affiliated Commnunity Minister Rev. Sarah Gibb Millspaugh (PDF, 138 KB)

Green Sanctuary Motion (PDF, 10 KB)

Minutes of January 27, 2008
Tapestry Special Congregational Meeting (PDF, 65 KB)

Minutes of April 13, 2008 Tapestry Special Congregational Meeting (PDF, 46 KB)

Special Congregational Meeting, January 27, 2008

Meeting agenda:

1. Call to Order
2. Approval of the Agenda
3. Approval of Minutes of Previous Meetings (June 2007)
4. Report of the Ad Hoc Committees (Exploratory Task Force)
5. Old Business
6. New Business: Whether to define an actionable path to unification with Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Church
7. Adjourn

Download meeting minutes (PDF format, 65KB).

Annual Meeting, June 10, 2007

Download meeting documents (PDF format):

Minister's Annual Report

Agenda

Budget

Draft Vision and Mission Statements

Committee Reports

Minutes of February 18, 2007 Meeting

Minutes of October 2, 2005 Meeting

Capital Campaign Meeting, February 18, 2007

On Feb. 18 we met to vote on whether to undertake a capital campaign. Four documents related to this meeting are available for downloading:

• Draft Minutes of the Meeting
• Meeting announcement and some background material
• New Facility Site and Space Proposal - based on UUA Facility Planning Guidelines
• Capital campaign fund restrictions

Special Membership Meeting, Nov. 19, 2006

On Sunday, November 19, 2006, at 12:30 after the second service, the Board has called a Special Membership Meeting for the congregation to:

• discuss financial projections for purchase of a new facility
• to vote on approval to conduct and fund the cost of a Financial Feasibility Study that will assess Tapestry's readiness for a Capital Campaign

Draft minutes are available for downloading.

The following documents are available for downloading:

• Invitation and Agenda (120K)
• Background Material for 5-Year Financial Projections for New Facility (66K)
• The revised, draft Pro-forma Budget to include a $2 million facility (Excel spreadsheet, 160K)
• The revised, draft Pro-forma Budget to include a $2 million facility (PDF, 43K)
• A summary of the changes in the draft Pro-forma Budget (PDF, 45K)

2006 Annual Congregational Meeting

See the 2006 meeting page for full details and downloadable documents.

Congregational Meeting, October 2, 2005

Proposal for Affiliated Community Ministry at The Tapestry, A Unitarian Universalist Congregation

Proposed changes to Tapestry Bylaws for Affiliated Community Minister

Five-Year Plan Long Form

Five-Year Plan Short Form

Annual All Membership Meeting, June 5, 2005

Documents for the Meeting

Draft Minutes of the Meeting

President's Report

Minister's Report

2004-2005 Committee Reports

Proposed 2005-2006 Budget

Proposed Change to Tapestry Bylaws re: cash reserve funds requirement

Resolution in Support of Same-Sex Civil Marriage Adopted by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the Pacific Southwest District of the UUA

Letter from Rev. John Millspaugh to California Legislators re: AB19, the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Act

Simplified Robert's Rules of Order

You can also download this agenda as a PDF file.

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