Agenda for the Business Meeting at
YF camp (5th-10th
April)
Reports: (to be held Friday night
6th)
- Simon, Avon and Rowan Lookmire:
Australian Young Friends Camp and Australian Yearly Meeting.
- Jimmy Green: WEST.
- Thomas Owen: STAC
- YF Committee: Report back on
Yearly Meeting 2006.
'The Minute': (to be held Saturday morning
7th)
- Reading of 'The Minute'.
- Reading of the Yearly Meeting YF
minute.
- Structure of Aotearoa Young Friends
Meeting (discussion).
- Elders and/or Overseers within YFs
(discussion).
- Finance - fund raising, managing the
money, spending the money (discussion)
NB. This session will involve discussions
in small groups, and as a whole group rather than being done as a Meeting for
Worship for Business. The object is to prepare us for the business meeting
rather than to make any decisions on the above.
Main business meeting: (to held Monday morning 9th)
1. Housekeeping:
- Inform YFs that Yearly Meeting dates
are 6-8th of July in Whanganui. Encourage attendance.
- Inform YFs that Junior Young Friends
Camp dates are 24-30th September in Christchurch. Encourage
attendance of YFs as leaders.
- Inform YFs that Summer Gathering dates
are 29th December to 5th January at Chosen Valley in
Auckland. Encourage attendance.
- Possibility of after gathering on
Waiheke Island: needs to be discussed.
- YF Camp 2008: Where will it be?
2. Aotearoa Young Friends
Meeting:
- Structure of Aotearoa Young Friends
Meeting
- Whether to have Elders and/or
Overseers within YFs.
- Finance:
- fund raising
- how to manage the money (i.e having
our own bank account)
- what we should spend our money
on
- Nominations – how we do nominations,
e.g. YF Committee acting as the YF nominations committee, or doing it
separately
- Reporting to Yearly Meeting on YF
Structure
3. Nominations for
2007/2008
:
- Invite nominations for YF
representative to Australian Young Friends Camp and Yearly Meeting.
- Approve nomination of Hannah Newport
as YF representative to QPSANZ
- YF Committee:
- Proposal that YF committee will
remain the same. Positions will be reviewed next YF camp where we will
encourage two people to step down and two new people to replace them. The
remaining two members will have their positions reviewed again at YF 2009,
thus retaining institutional knowledge.
- Nominations for any new roles
(International Liaison, Overseers etc)