News from Vestry: Meeting of January 15, 2012

• We started off our Vestry  mtg with Chris giving  a presentation of our use of social media and the website as a method of communication. One nice feature of Facebook that he pointed out was that we can track how much exposure our posts are receiving broken down into categories such as age, gender, geographic location and so on. 
• Until the budget is approved, the corporation decided to contract Janitorial services for the months of January and February.
• We are in the process of finding people willing to be part of the vestry for 2013.
• There was no financial statement as the entire financial statement for the year is in the hands of the Accounts Examiner. 
• Our big discussion was on the budget. The budget committee proposed a recommended budget to the vestry for consideration. Vestry will have a month to look at the numbers and will decide on the budget to bring forward to the congregation in February. The AGM is on February 24th.
• Betty Hopfner has agreed to organize the Shrove Tuesday dinner. She will be looking for volunteers.
• Brian Jolly brought us up to date on the situation with having the fire alarm system put into place. We have a contractor we are negotiating with. Hopefully, we can start to have the installation begin soon. 
• The annual Turkey Pie baking fundraiser will take place on two Saturdays: February 9 and February 23.