Our Program Council, 2018- 2019
Left to right: Ann Martin, Spirit & Witness; Linda Birmingham, Staff; Doug Hober, Finance;
Shawn Fink, Lifelong Learning & Connections; Jim Hershey, Operations.
Shawn Fink, Lifelong Learning & Connections; Jim Hershey, Operations.
What does our Program Council do?
What does our Program Council deliberate about?
- Manages the day-to-day affairs and operations of UUCY.
- Conducts the worship services, events, and programs that make this a Special Place.
- Applies the necessary time, talent, and treasure to achieve UUCY’s goals and justify the reason for its existence .
- Protects the resources and operations that produce positive outcomes and contribute to the mission of the church.
- The Program Council acts in the present and determines the means to achieve desired outcomes.
What does our Program Council deliberate about?
- How will our programs and initiatives flow from the energy and creativity of our members?
- What do we need to change about our current situation to achieve positive outcomes?
- Who will be responsible for initiating new programs?
- Who will be responsible for managing programs?
- How will we manage, protect, update and enhance our resources to achieve our goals?
- How do we comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable?
. As with Board meetings, visitors are welcome to attend as silent participants, unless they have made an earlier granted request to be a part of the meeting Agenda.
Our Current Leadership Minutes and Work
| Program Council Minutes April 2018 |
| Leadership Manual Draft |
Program Council Roundtables
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Spirit and Witness
This Roundtable strives to support the overall health and well-being of the UUCY community and its members. We consider ministry as an ethic of care for which all members bear some responsibility, not just our ministerial team. Areas of support include the Committee on Ministry, the Worship Committee, the Music Committee, and the Care Committee. Who does your heart break for? This roundtable also manages our initiatives on:
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Lifespan Learning and Connection
This roundtable emphasizes lifelong learning--children, youth, and adult--and oversees planning and programming that awakens the conscience, develops moral discernment, and results in divine living and right action. The scope of its oversight includes classroom learning, worship and reflection, age-appropriate social service activities, and spiritual development. It has a particular imperative to assure that children and youth are well integrated into the life of our congregation. |
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Fiscal-Looking for a leader
Visionary growth of revenue and sensitive use of our resource of treasure toward achieving our Mission and Vision is the focus of this Roundtable. It plans for the stewardship of UUCY. Specifically, this is done through our endowment committee, our annual appeal, our fundraising efforts, and our rental program. |
Operations
The underpinnings of operations enable us to more efficiently and effectively focus on achieving our Mission and Vision. Technology, physical plant and grounds maintenance and care, security and safety, and assets inventory are all cared for in this Roundtable. |
Resource to Program Council- The Communications Steering Team
The Program Council has one resource support team: Communications.
It is guided by a Communications Steering Committee.
This is their Charge:
The team will:
- Meet quarterly
- Review short term initiative and provide feedback to the Program Council
- Provide input and guidance on long-term initiatives
- Implement specific tasks that are part of these initiatives.
- Provide quarterly updates to the program council on activities.
- Provide annual update to the congregation via the annual congregational report.
The team is responsible for:
- Lobby design/communication
- Web site management
- Social media
- Press releases / media relations
- Congregational announcements/communication/surveys
- Advertising/marketing (including marketing materials)
- Providing input on communications policies to the Board and Program Council.
Team funding will come from an advertising line item in the congregational budget. The team is convened by the DCA, with group makeup managed by the DCA.
Our talented Communications Resource Team needs writers, photographers, social media users, and graphic designers. Experts need not apply. Most of what we do is done from home, on your schedule.
It is guided by a Communications Steering Committee.
This is their Charge:
The team will:
- Meet quarterly
- Review short term initiative and provide feedback to the Program Council
- Provide input and guidance on long-term initiatives
- Implement specific tasks that are part of these initiatives.
- Provide quarterly updates to the program council on activities.
- Provide annual update to the congregation via the annual congregational report.
The team is responsible for:
- Lobby design/communication
- Web site management
- Social media
- Press releases / media relations
- Congregational announcements/communication/surveys
- Advertising/marketing (including marketing materials)
- Providing input on communications policies to the Board and Program Council.
Team funding will come from an advertising line item in the congregational budget. The team is convened by the DCA, with group makeup managed by the DCA.
Our talented Communications Resource Team needs writers, photographers, social media users, and graphic designers. Experts need not apply. Most of what we do is done from home, on your schedule.