Notes from Vestry May 21, 2013

• We welcomed our new administrative assistant, Sherry Poulos.
• Janitorial: we chose Clarence's company to clean the church. Their offer fit well into our budget, and they will clean three times a week.
• Admin Assistant: Thanks to Gordon Weighell for all of his work on this. We interviewed several people and have hired Sherry Poulos and very please that she has joined us.
• Alpha: no new news
• Fire Alarm: Information was combined with engineering.
• Pay Pal: we are working on putting an electronic system of giving for the web site. Chris is heading this up. He will be in touch with the Envelope Secretary.
• Vacation Bible School: we have decided not to have one this year either like last year or using the Crosstalk team. We are still in conversation with Fusion about a possible summer program.
• Revenue Opportunity: there is a music teacher who has expressed using the church as a base for teaching piano. He is willing to pay $800 a month for 10 months. The corporation is looking at exploring this more fully.
• Assistant: Chris is going on Marriage Encounter this weekend. He has been busy with Soup'd Up and the Facebook workshop. He is looking at working with the youth group in the fall.
• Financial. We have finished the first third of the year in a good position. We have a $9,606 surplus. But that is with the surplus from last year being rolled forward; without the surplus we would have a small surplus of $674 which puts us in a good position for the more difficult third of the year financially.
• Stewardship: Gordon Voth presented on our plans for the fall. They will be tied in with the Mission Fest and Back to Church Sunday.
• Executive Council: will meet on Thursday
• Youth: We are sorry to see Devon going but wish her well. She is going to the University of Victoria.
• Engineering: The fire alarms are in and functioning. The county was happy with all of the work that we have done. We may not have to put in fire doors as we thought. This will save us a lot of money.
• Maintainance: William is going on vacation for six weeks; he is passing the baton onto Jim Reville in the meantime.