16 July 2006

Present: Debbie, Marilyn, Curtis, Paul, Maggie, Daryl, Bob, and Lynda

Minutes from 11 June 06 were approved with corrections.

Query: none to be reviewed

Calendar:

First Day:

July 23 - Intergenerational Meeting – Religious

Education

July 30 - Open discussion

August 6 - Query 8 – Curtis

August 13 - Discussion over Discipline Revision

Committee’s work – Carol

August 20 - Business Meeting

August 27 - Discussion on OTOC: Richard, Bob,

& Ginny

Other:

July 25-30 - Yearly Meeting at Scattergood Friends School near West Branch, Iowa

July 26 - forum on immigration by Our Lady of

Guadalupe and OTOC at St. Paul

United Methodist at 54^th and Corby at

7:30.

August 4-7 - Youth retreat, Penn Valley – talk to

Debbie

August 19 - Paint-a-thon – location TBA (original

site reported has been changed)

August 19 - potluck after showering after painting

during the day. Location TBA. Please

call Debbie (553-2211) before the 19^th if you can’t make the painting but want to eat with us later so we can call you.

October 13-15 – Meadowlarks at Callie & Larry

Marsh’s in Solon, Iowa (just north of

Iowa City – talk to Marilyn for more info

Peace and Social Concerns Committee Report:

Debbie will take orders for the Paint-a-thon t-shirts. Marilyn will be responsible for collecting payments for the shirts. Once paid in full, Marilyn will give checks to Lynda, who will pay the t-shirt shop.

Lynda gave the Committee the mailing on Nebraska Advocacy Services the clerk gave Frank last month. The Committee is to look into this.

Buildings and Grounds:

The clerk has asked the committee to talk to Carol about getting individual keys. The Committee and Carol will determine who gets a key with suggestions made to include clerks and someone on the Committee.

The clerk gave a key to someone a couple months ago when she was not going to be at Meeting. Would that person, please, return the key to her?

Religious Education:

The Committee has been asked to consider the giving of Bibles to our youth from the Meeting. If there are suggestions of Bible versions, please email those suggestions to Curtis.

The Committee also was asked to consider discussing membership with the youth.

Marshall’s Oversight Committee:

Marshall is driving his route now because of health complications. He does some walking along the way to and from his vehicle. He is meeting with various Quaker Meetings and discussing with them their views on Quakers’ relationships with the environment.

Here is his blog address:

http://journal.earthwitness.org/

Webmaster’s report:

The website is up! Open it at

http://members.cox.net/omahafriends

Paul will talk with the Yearly Meeting webmaster about creating a link between the YM and Omaha’s websites. Current minutes will be on our website Paul has been diligent about removing any last names on the site, and plans to continue to do so. At Meeting for Business in August we will see if there are any suggestions for other things to include on the website.

Treasurer’s Report:

The report was approved for June and July.

The Yearly Meeting apportionment was paid on time.