Larry opened the meeting at 7:37. The minutes from December were reviewed and approved.

Gerry Alonzo provided the Treasurers Report for December. An unexpected pledge came and the YTD revenue shortfall is gone, so the lower expenses have resulted in a net $4,424 in the black. It was then pointed out that there is ~$15K in the bank, when the year to date net shows ~$19K, which is ~$4K short of where it should be. This is due to prior year shortfalls.

New Business:

Joan was added to the agenda and went first. She asked, on behalf of the landscape committee, for approval to buy ground cover plants for the area in front of the church ramp and plants for the new planter box. After some discussion about the types and amounts of plants needed, the trustees approved $200 for the landscape committee's use. After which, Joan left and we went on with the rest of the agenda.

Lou agreed to caulk the upstairs fireplace on Jan 16th and Gerry agreed to light a fire before service the next day. Brian agreed to buy some plexiglass to insert into the downstairs fireplace to keep the upper fireplace smoke from getting into the downstairs rooms via the lower fireplace. Larry agreed to purchase some high temp rope to help cut the smoke from getting into Whitiker hall when we have a fire.

Larry agreed to clear out the downstairs sink on Jan 9th.

Old Business

With regard to the annual meeting, Larry agreed to inform the nominating committee via Larry Lopp that there were three Trustee seats that needed filling. A 1 year term replacing Mike Overson, who is moving to Felton, and two of the 3 year seats. Gerry and the Trustees knew of no other items required of them for the annual meeting, except for the Trustee's report which Larry agreed to write.

We continued the discussion about the bathroom heaters. Larry Lopp swapped heaters in the two bathrooms, and Gerry put temporary pipes on all three exhaust outlets. The smell now seems to be in the men's bathroom. As such we determined there must be two conditions causing the smell:

a) there is a leak in the men's heater. Gerry agreed to find the receipt to get the heater exchanged.

b) a leak can occur if the pilot light is not covered sufficiently. Brian and Gerry said they would check the pilot light covers.

We still need to determine whether we need to make Gerry's temporary chimney pipes permanent.

Brian then presented his research on renting boom lifts. We agreed to rent one for the whole weekend from the most inexpensive place, providing we can get instruction on how to operate it. Brian also agreed to get some plexiglass to cover the stained glass window, and would talk to John Espinola about working on the weekend we have the boom.

We agreed to schedule the boom for second weekend in Feb. a week after the Annual meeting, weather permitting.

Other

The meeting was adjourned at 9:21pm.

The next meeting is Thursday 2/4/10 at 7:30pm.

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