SLG Business Minutes, February 2001

The meeting was called to order at 7:20 by Don Clayton.

Present: Don Clayton, Rodney Cox, Jan Henderson, Rob Henderson, Gen Stoyak, Patrick Monagin, Kirn Greymalkin, Maria Valayil, Fred Wark, Laurel Beyer. There was a quorum.

Absent: Matt Tannehill,

There was a quorum

Calendar Review

The calendar was reviewed and revised with the following changes made:

April

April 3, 10, 17 add Druidic Lore class at Guild House from 7:30 to 9:00. Note: the outline for the classes will be in the next newsletter.
Trillium starts on Thursday, April 12^th.
Bug ID day on April 29^th goes until 5:00.
Craft night on the 30^th is actually a party to celebrate Robin's first year plus one day with the community.

May

Liturgists moved from May 1^st to April 11^th.
A motion was made by Kirn second by Jan to keep Beltaine on April 28^th. Yeas: Jan, Kirn, Rod, Maria, Patrick, Fred. Nays: Rob, Don. Abstain: Gen. Motion passed.
The location for gathering for the Dawn Rite was changed to Jan's.
Game night on May 12^th was moved to Rob's.

General

Time for Liturgists Roundtable should be changed to 7:00 to 9:00 PM.

Officer Reports/Guild Leader Reports

Senior Druid

4 houses were visited by the 'Biddies'.

Assistant Senior Druid

No report

Administrator

No report

Scribe

No report. Jan requested a copy of the January minutes from Don.

Outreach Coordinator

No report

Pursewarden

Patrick submitted written financial statements. He has also gotten information on a company that does Green, socially responsible investing. He will bring the material to the next business meeting.

Grove Ecologist

The DEQ got a poor rating from an environmental watch dog agency. Also, March 11^th is the date for the Creek Festival.

Chronicler

The newsletter is in progress. Many articles were submitted this time!

Youth Activities Coordinator

Planning is underway for the rite on Imbolc. Two children attended the Yule rite. Hopefully the membership will grow.

Guild Leader Reports

Seers

The Seers had their retreat. There was a good sharing some serious, some not. The Beltaine ritual was discussed.

Healers

No report

Warriors

No report

Magicians

No report

Naturalists

The Guild participated in the Stonefly Search. The next guild meeting is in two weeks. They may have a new member who watches birds.

Producers

The Producers made soap! They also made Brid crosses. There 7 people at the last meeting. They made 17 crosses from the wheat stalks from last year's crop.

New Business

Gen made a motion, second by Patrick to shift the order of the agenda items as follows Convocation, Bring Back the Snakes Party, Bylaw Additions. Motion passed.

Convocation

The web site has a comprehensive list of classes. The site will be updated this weekend. Send details to Gen tonight for anything you want sent in. Mickey offered to help as needed and was immediately drafted to help man a table. Don will have Lugh Fest flyers printed so they can be distributed. Patrick will be working at hospitality all weekend. Gen needs an advance of $50 for hospitality.

Maria thanked everyone who is working on the Brid classes and ritual. The final meeting to practice chanting will be at Mickey's after fire watch.

Rob will set the list for activities at the SLG room.

BBSP

There was discussion about whether the party would still be a joint venture with Willow Marsh. Gen requested that someone volunteer to plan the party. Mickey offered to organize and host it at his house. Rob was asked to call Mark to see if Willow Marsh still wanted to co-host and to explain that we don't have anyone to plan it. Mickey had t-shirts made with a BBSP logo. There is a web based form to order shirts. The shirts are awesome!

Bylaw Additions

Tabled for the March meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 9:05.

Respectfully submitted,

SLG Business Meeting Minutes

February 8th, 2001