SAWUURA Board Meeting Minutes Feb 12 2026
- Meeting date, time & location: Feb 12, 2026, 6 PM Arizona Time, on Zoom
- Board attendees: Emrys Staton (Pres), Curtiss Seale (Treas), Hanna Coy (VP), Scott Henderson (Sectry), Efia Mallas, Jim Sorgatz
- Late or Absent board members: Bob Davis
- Approve Meeting Minutes from last month: not done
- Check-in
Agenda items:
- Treasurer Report
- There is $638 in checking
- There is $25,951.77 in savings
- …still searching for a new investment/brokerage/bank to handle SAWUURA money – Scott and Emrys said we might get together and discuss this
- SAWUURA has over $700 in Eb’s Paypal account. We need to establish a biz/organization account instead of using Eb’s
- Promotions/Fundraising:
- Status of and discussion/ideas about Promotions, e.g. sending out packets, emails, preparing sermons, plant sales, slides for projectors, and photos that congregations can use to promote Memorial and Labor Day group camps.
- Also Hanna is looking into submitting a proposal to Harvard divinity school’s call for papers.
- Hanna also to look into cost of advertising with Athiopagan group, which has a lot of UUs.
- Membership report:
- Have not located a good membership CRM/database for SAWUURA yet. Still investigating. We can continue using Scott’s existing Google account for now.
- Contact Scott if there are questions or comments about this.
- Camp “Work weekend” items that remain immediately below. We need to keep this list and at some point work on these items:
- Remove stone cabin roof
- maintenance on both gates
- Gather firewood
- paint toilet interiors
- secure historic well
- a lot of lumber around the boneyard needs to be moved to stone cabin
- cattle guard work
- lock on the historic well
- need paint for interior for composting toilets
- Remove old barbwire
- Visioning: Emrys asks us to think about visioning and what things we could do – including:
- searching for things other outdoor groups have done (search online)
- Outdoor education stuff, e.g. “how to be outdoors” for kids and others who have not had much (or any) exposure to outdoors and camping
- Organizational/membership structures – how do we want SAWUURA to operate, incl fundraising & what can we learn from others
- Think about how could we see ourselves in the future for SAWUURA
- Our next meeting will not be a Board mtg but open to all membership to discuss SAWUURA’s vision
Next meeting will not be a Board meeting but a Membership Visioning meeting: to be held March 19, 2026 @6pm AZ time, on Zoom