February 2011 Board of Trustees Meeting Agenda

FUUCA Board of Trustees
Meeting date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Location: FUUCA

Agenda: 1. Committee business
1.1. Call to Order
1.2. Board Covenant
1.3. Process Evaluation
1.4. Consent Agenda Resolution #:
1.5. Adopt Agenda Resolution #:

3.1. Board Activity Timeline
There are a large number of important board activities coming up March-May. Brendan will guide us through the forest of dates.

3.2. Fiscal Year 2010 Recap Sean Hale / 10 min

3.3. Update on DRE and VC hiring process Ed Brock / Ed will give an update on where we are in the process of finding suitable candidates for the Director of

Religious Education and the Volunteer Coordinator positions.

3.4. Report on progress toward an internal audit

3.5. Governance Task Force Reports and Exercise

3.6. Linkage updates

3.7. Break

3.8. Policy Approval

3.9. By-laws revisions

3.10. Executive Session

4. Committee business

4.1. Process Evaluation

4.2. Board-Executive Team Covenant Reading

Guidelines for Requesting an Agenda Item for Board Meetings

The Executive Committee meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 5:45 at the church to set the agenda for that month’s board meeting. The Board of Trustees meets on the Third Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the church, usually in the gallery. You can view a list of church governance meeting dates here:

http://www.austinuu.org/wp2011/category/board-docs/2009-2010-meeting-dates/

You can view the online calendar for the Board of Trustees here (may take awhile to load):

http://www.austinuu.org/wp2011/category/board-docs/board-calendar/

Board meetings are open to church members and there is time set aside on each agenda for members to make comments and/or bring items to the attention of the board that do not require extended discussion and/or board action. Such items do not require an additional agenda item.

Committee Chairs or others who have business should first check with the Executive Team (Executive Director or Minister) to see if it is a board-level policy issue or can be resolved more quickly at the staff level. If the issue is one of policy, requiring extended discussion and/or action by the board, please work with the Executive Team to bring the item to the Executive Committee for placement on the board agenda. Please keep in mind that such requests are needed by 5 p.m. on the day before the next regularly scheduled Executive Committee meeting.

In the event that an urgent item of business becomes needed after the Executive Committee has set the agenda for that month’s board meeting, contact the Executive Team as soon as possible. Please reserve this option only for items requiring action that cannot wait until the following month.

The Board of Trustees welcome your ideas and participation and invites you to attend our meetings!