UCityUnited

In attendance: Anne Marie Kiddon, Stella Hughes, Shelley Welsch, Jesse Swanigan, Margaret Johnson, Acme Price, Lisa Greening, Michael Donovan,

Excused: Bronwen Zwirner, Dave Olander, Mark Siegel

Guest: Maggie Stanley

Agenda approved.
Minutes approved.

“Town Hall Forum” discussed
• Overall consensus by members was that the last forum was good. There was no time to talk about other topics at the forum. Presenters were excellent. Dr. Williams did not state what everyone expected – that race does matter. He was a very powerful speaker.
• 70 people attended
• Crowd was diverse
• 4 people joined as new members
• Acme suggested we stay with the same topic next time. Others thought about how to support new superintendent and schools.
• Most difficult aspect of the forum was “quieting down” audience members who had great concern about their issues. Stella suggested that people are restricted on the amount of time to speak. Margaret suggested that people write questions on index cards and we ask the questions.
• Need a stronger relationship with media.
• For the September forum, UCC board members need to set up a subcommittee.

Treasurer’s Report: Lisa Greening
• Balance is $628.55
• June 28 social board get together is still on. Margaret and Bronwen are organizing the social.
• Lisa will schedule fundraising committee meeting
• Michael will refocus on 501© 3. It was suggested that Rose Jenkins and Cynthia with Boeing can help. Michael will have an active website for us by the next meeting, July 17. Maggie Stanley, a member, can help with the website.

Issues Committee Report: Margaret Johnson
• School group and cool cities groups are still meeting
• Race group abandoned last meeting because nobody from the board attended.

Leadership Development Report: Shelley Welsch
• Three sessions of the Leaderships forums ended last month. It went very well. The first forum may have had too many speakers. And, attendance needs to be greater.
• Next year, the candidate forum will be scheduled in November, 2007 and the three leadership forums will take place in January and February, 2008
• Shelley would like someone on the board to take over the leadership committee work. Anne suggested we find a leadership person among our new members by the end of the summer.
• Publicity for leadership seminars needs to be done better. Need help spreading the work from other members. Jesse suggests communication/monitoring committee set up a step-by-step guide to promoting events – and maybe we need a PR person
• When the website is up, Jesse will send a letter to members asking them how they can get involved.

Old Business
• UCityUnited business cards were printed and distributed.

New Business

• New Members need to be sent a member card or thank you letter. Jesse will speak to Bronwen about sending thank you letters to new members and keeping an excel document of members and their interests.

Next Board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, July 17 at 7:00 pm at Acme’s house. August board meeting will be announced later.

Respectfully submitted by Lisa Greening, UCU Treasurer
6/11/07