CMM 2021-02-14

Minutes of Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business

Concord (NH) Monthly Meeting of

the Religious Society of Friends

Second Month 14^th, 2021

Fifteen Friends gathered by Zoom connection and entered into quiet worship. We accepted the minutes of First Month [1] as posted on the website.

We opened with a brief period of Worship.

02.1 Membership: Ministry and Counsel reported that clearness committees met with Michael and Joanna Evans regarding transferring their membership from Bloomington Indiana Monthly Meeting to Concord Friends Meeting. We enthusiastically approve this transfer and welcome them with joy.

02.2 State of Society Report [2]: We heard the proposed 2020 State of Society Report. We approved it as amended. A copy is attached.

02.3 Treasurers’s Report: The Treasurer reported that we are at 67% of our budget with just four months to go. We aren’t getting as much income as we had thought but our expenses are also lower than expected. The Finance Committee would like committees to meet soon and visualize what we want to do in the next year in order to ask for funding in the next budget. We are reminded that money is a tool for advancing God’s work in the world. We accept the financial report as given. The Income and Expenses vs. Budget from June 2020 – January 2021 report is attached.

Income & Expense Summary
Total Income:	$16,110
Total Expenses:	$14.803
Net Income:	$1,307

02.4 The Nominating Committee is at work putting together a slate of new officers and committee members for approval at the May meeting and are also working to create a document describing the purposes and procedures associated with this work. A written report is attached. We are reminded that the NEYM Permanent Board has a template to help with this task.

02.5 Right Relationship Working Group: A report from the Right Relationship working group is attached.

02.6 Ministry and Counsel: Ministry and Counsel shared a number of announcements. They are all in the attached committee report.

02.7 Annual Statistics Report: We reviewed our annual statistics report [3]. If you are interested in tracking attendance at meetings, please contact the clerk.

After a brief time of quiet worship, Meeting adjourned, purposing to meet again on the Second Sunday of the Third month.

Submitted by,		Accepted as the Approved Record,

/s/ Heidi Babb, Recording Clerk		/s/ Richard Kleinschmidt, Presiding Clerk

Concord Monthly Meeting

Income and Expenses as of First Month 31, 2021 [4]

(66⅔% of Fiscal Year 2021)
Concord Monthly Meeting Income & Expenses	2020-06-01 – 2021-01-31	FY 2021 Budget	$ Over Budget	% Budget
Income
Contributions	$15,880	$25,415	$9,545	62%
Interest Income	$0	$810	$810	0%
Rental Income	$0	$500	$500	0%
Solar Roof Lease	$240	$240	$240	100%
Total Income	$16,110	$26,965	$10,855	60%
Expenses
Program
Budget/Finance Committee	$25	$30	$5	83%
Hospitality	$0	$180	$180	0%
Library	$83	$140	$57	59%
Ministry & Counsel	$63	$400	$337	16%
Outreach
Outreach - Committee	$0	$475	$475	0%
Website Expenses	$114	$300	$186	38%
Total Outreach	$114	$775	$661	15%
Peace, Social & Earthcare Concerns	$0	$300	$300	0%
Youth & Religious Education	$9	$300	$291	3%
Total Program	$294	$2,125	$1,831	14%
Property
Building Maintenance	$395	$500	$105	79%
Data Usage	$254	–	-	–
Debt Service	$2,855	$3,805	$950	75%
Donation in Lieu of Taxes	$0	$500	$500	0%
Electricity	$667	$1,000	$333	67%
Grounds	$0	$100	$100	58%
Insurance	$1,393	$2,155	$762	65%
Replacement Reserve Expense	$2,540	$3,810	$1,270	67%
Snow Removal	$335	$2,000	$1,665	17%
Supplies - Bldg. & Maintenance	$44	$300	$256	15%
Wood Pellets	$820	$1,680	$860	49%
Total Property	$9,303	$15,850	$6,547	59%
Support
AFSC [5]	$1,067	$1,600	$533	67%
Dover Quarterly Meeting	$0	$10	$10	0%
FCNL [6]	$0	$150	$150	0%
Friends Camp [7]	$0	$300	$300	0%
FWCC [8]	$0	$65	$65	0%
Interfaith Council [9]	$0	$50	$50	0%
NEYM [10] - Equalization Fund	$0	$300	$300	0%
NEYM - General Fund	$4,140	$6,210	$2,070	67%
NH Council of Churches [11]	$0	$75	$75	0%
Woolman Hill [12]	$0	$230	$230	0%
Total Support	$5,207	$8,990	$3,783	58%
Total Other Misc. Expense	$0
Total Expense	$14,803	$26,965	$12,162	55%
Net Income	$1,307

NB. The Income & Expenses Sheet was created with two decimal points, which were removed for readability, the cents being unimportant to the overall understanding. This can have the effect of throwing off any given sum by a dollar due to compounded rounding. — Prepared by Greg Heath and Chris Haigh.

Concord Monthly Meeting FY 2021

Accrual Basis Balance Sheet as of First Month 31, 2021 [13]
Concord Monthly Meeting Balance Sheet	1^st Month 31, 2021
ASSETS
Current Assets
Checking/Savings
Checking 123410166	$17,638
Money Market 101049498	$6,603
Total Checking/Savings	$24,241
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable	$0
Total Accounts Receivable	$0
Other Current Assets
Prepaid Electricity	$7,333
Prepaid Insurance	$2,092
Prepaid Wood Pellets	$0
Undeposited Funds	$0
Total Other Current Assets	$9,425
Total Current Assets		$33,666
Fixed Assets
Building	$466,455
Land (including new lot)	$144,400
Total Fixed Assets		$610,855
Total Other Assets - NH Community Loan Fund [14]		$22,682
TOTAL ASSETS			$667,203
LIABILITIES & EQUITY
Liabilities
Current Liabilities
Accounts Payable
Accounts Payable	$0
Total Accounts Payable	$0
Other Current Liabilities
Building & Grounds Fund	$485
Friendly Assistance Fund	$1,000
Operating Reserve	$3,000
Solar Grant Funds	$1,209
Special Projects
AFSC-NH	$0
Christine / Kakamega Care Centre	$915
Social Justice Fund	$603
Total Special Projects	$1,519
Total Other Current Liabilities	$7,213
Total Current Liabilities		$7,213
Long-term Liabilities
Mortgage Loan 1	$16,005
Replacement Reserve	$44,009
Total Long-term Liabilities		$59,696
Total Liabilities		$60,014
Equity
General Fund Balance	$549,654
Unrestricted Net Assets	$49,015
Net Income	$1,307
Total Equity		$599,976
TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY			$667,203

NB. The Balance Sheet was created with two decimal points, which were removed for readability, the cents being unimportant to the overall understanding. This can have the effect of throwing off any given sum by a dollar due to compounded rounding.

Do we have the resources to support our obligations? YES

Variable Assets Less Current Liabilities and Replacement Reserve = $3,819

Current Liquidity Available
+ Total Current Assets	$33,666
+ Total NHCLF Loans	$22,682
Total Available Assets		$56,348
- Total Current Liabilities	($7,213)
- Replacement Reserve	($44,009)
- YTD Net Income	($1,307)
		($52,529)
= Net Unrestricted Funds: (if projected budget is achieved)		$3,819

Report and Announcements from Ministry & Counsel [15]

February 13, 2021

Our Work:

January 6^th Capitol Attack: At the request of January Business Meeting we organized a January 16^th sharing of reflections on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. We realize that we have a variety of responses to this unprecedented event. We do feel it is appropriate to talk about our values and what concerns us in this event and in government policy as a result of holding those values, while being careful to not talk about political candidates and political parties. It is also important to not make assumptions about each other’s views. We were encouraged to write our own responses which Sara has condensed into one Word document. We hope this sharing will strengthen our understandings and open us up to the diverse ways we think about this event. Recognizing that these are personal views, they will be emailed to individuals in the meeting on request. Please email Sara to request a copy.
New small groups: These groups have started:
1. Braiding Sweetgrass book group: 3 groups!
2. Walk once a week for an hour
3. Bible [Scripture] Study group
4. Deepening Daily Spiritual Practice
Yearly Meeting Sessions: Will be online again while Young Friends will meet at Friends Camp. Some intergenerational activities will be offered at the sessions. There will be separate younger Friends sessions at a different time.
New Pastoral Meeting [16] in Dover Quarter (Nashua) came to Jan. 31 Quarterly Meeting [17]; they meet in a home and are African Quakers and are interested in being in FUM. The entire quarter will be helping them, as requested. Heidi is assistant Quarterly Meeting clerk, working with Jeremiah Dickinson as clerk.
February Fourth Sunday will be reflections of the Tuesday group on their journey from studying the Testimonies to providing material support to people experiencing homelessness.

Our Request for approval:
State of Society: We completed some editing and some additions on this. We ask for approval to send this on to Quarterly and Yearly Meeting along with our Statistical Report on membership.
The clearness committee reported that they enthusiastically recommend Michael and Joanna Evans for membership as a transfer from Bloomington Indiana Monthly Meeting. We recommend their adult children seek a spiritual home near to their physical home.
We ask for the meeting’s affirmation of this transfer.

Right Relationship with Native Peoples [18]

The ad hoc Right Relationship with Native Peoples working group met on the 5^th day of 2^nd month 2021.

We began with silence and celebrating how well the Braiding Sweetgrass reading groups are going.

We reviewed various possible existing initiatives that the Meeting might be able to connect to. We have not yet identified any groups that we can connect to, but have a few more we will follow up with, and some new groups we might try to connect to.

We discussed a possible donation to the group planning updates to the current Hannah Dustin memorial. The sense of our group was that a donation to the memorial, probably from the social justice fund, would be appropriate.

We intend to meet again in March to plan a 4^th Sunday listening session related to the proposed apology from Annual Sessions.

CFM Nominating Committee Report [19]

2^nd Month 2021

Concord Friends Meeting Nominating Committee met in late January via Zoom.

We started the meeting with silent worship and gratitude for the work of meeting members and attenders.

The committee uses an Excel spreadsheet to support the process of creating a final presentation of nominations for leadership roles and committee members to the May 2021 business meeting.

Emails and phone calls to members and attenders will take place this month and the committee will meet again February 27^th.

– Kathy Urie, Clerk