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December 1, 7:00 pm via Zoom

Please mute unless you are talking

  1. Opening Prayer – Pastor Josh
  2. Changes to the Agenda
  3. Approve Minutes of the Nov 2020 Council meeting
  4. Status update Hoehl Foundation Grant Request for elevator
  5. Financial update – Cathy
    1. Current Budget (2020) overview
    2. Stewardship Update (2021 pledges)
      1. Pledges received #/amount
      2. Pledges outstanding #/estimate of amount
    3. Fundraising projection for 2021
    4. 2021 Budget development
      1. Current difference between budget requested and projected income
      2. Deficit even with outstanding pledges (if projecting 60 outstanding pledges come in at 2020 amounts)
      3. Path from here to proposed budget
        1. Committee input – prioritized spending requests
        2. Due to Cathy/Dan/Ann before Christmas
  6. Discussion/ questions from reports submitted by committees, recognized groups and teams – if warranted
    1. Communications – Andrea quick review of changes on the website
    2. Christmas and Advent activities update
      1. Not so secret Santa
      2. Giving Tree
      3. Decorations
    3. Annual meeting: vote on date (Feb 7) and format
    4. Annual reports (due to Doug No Later Than Dec 31)
  7. Executive Committee updates
    1. Decided to postpone meeting in person for now.
    2. Decided instead to focus energy on doing what we can to make this Christmas/Advent as special as possible creatively and safely.
    3. To be able to meet (whenever that is) we will need Ushers and Health Safety Officer volunteers to make that happen.
    4. Current target date to have in person worship is mid-January. EC will meet again after Christmas to make a go/no go decision about pressing with this date.
  8. Trustee / Capital Campaign update – Kaki
    1. Marvin Lounge
    2. Hall monitors
  9. Request for agenda items for next meeting on Jan 5th.
  10. Adjourn

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