Our 2023-2024 Leadership Board

Chair: Sherry Lookofsky
Vice Chair: Julie Amberg
Treasurer: Kathy Smith
Secretary: Leslie Johnston
Directors:
Diane Kearney 
Merry Barnas
Jake Miller
​Board Meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month from 6:30-8:30 pm online.

​Board Priorities

​Establish effective processes and communications to strengthen Board’s visioning role  Review and manage long range plan and associated initiatives  Review and revise UUCY governance documents Support work of Minister and staff leaders  Support Treasurer’s oversight of the budget to ensure fiscal stability

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​About Our Leadership Board

Our Leadership Board is:

• Governed by our Bylaws, Mission, and Vision Statements
• Regulated by its Board policy and informed by membership through intentional and deliberate discovery as a standing agenda item at every Board meeting
• Accountable for creating conditions that achieve the mission and vision of the church—its decision-making is always biased toward this end.
  

The Board’s job is to answer these three questions:

1. What difference do we want UUCY to make in this world?  What are we called as a congregation to do?
2. For whom?
3. At what cost and priority?
   
   

The Board focuses on the future, listens deeply to membership, and determines the programs and initiatives that will enable us to make our vision a reality.

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​Unitarian Universalist Polity

Congregational Polity sees no power that extends beyond those who elected them, that is, the congregation. A congregation has the right and responsibility to choose and ordain its own clergy, elect its own officers, direct them in the course of their duties, and replace them when necessary. There are no synods, bishops, or other persons empowered elsewhere with authority over a congregation.
 ~ Jane A. Page, Statesboro, GA