November Newsletter Article
Update from the Constitutional Change Task Force
To the UUSE community:
We the members of the Constitutional Change Task Force (CCTF) would like to share what we have been working on and what our plans are as we do our work. We are addressing all areas of the Constitution that do not relate to UUSE's relationship to the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).
We have met five times as of mid-October with our first meeting to receive our charge having convened on July 30, 2024.
So far the CCTF has reviewed the proposed changes as presented at the meetings on May 5 and 19, 2024, and we have compiled and discussed the concerns and suggestions made at those meetings.
We are now in the process of reaching out to committees and leaders who would be impacted by constitutional changes. We have received some feedback from the Membership, Social Justice/Anti-Oppression, and Finance Committees so far. We will continue this step of the process over the next weeks.
Taking into consideration what we will have learned, the CCTF will then write a new set of proposed changes to the Constitution and share them with the wider UUSE community in order to receive further feedback. Finally, we will work with the Policy Board and possibly the UUA Discernment Task Force to present the results of our work for a congregation-wide vote at a duly called meeting. We hope to complete this last step in the first few months of 2025.
Thank you for your help and support,
Reta Soderholm, chair
Laurie Semprebon, vice-chair
Carol Marion
Kevin Holian-Borgnis
Malcolm Barlow, Policy Board Liason