SAWUURA Board Meeting Minutes for May 7 2026
- Meeting date, time & location: May 7, 2026, 6 PM Arizona Time, on Zoom
- Board attendees: Emrys Staton (Pres), Curtiss Seale (Treas), Hanna Coy (VP), Scott Henderson (Sectry)
- Not in attendance: Eb, Efia Mallas, & Jim Sorgatz, Bob Davis
- Approve Meeting Minutes from last month: not done
- Check-in
Reports & discussion:
Facilities
- Report from work weekend/Memorial Day Preparations
- Hanna, Emrys and Fernando did some work the kitchen area.
- Eb and Hanna cleaned up around creekside cabin
- Finished door for lower composting toilet.
- Battery for solar system
- Emrys will look for a good deal to replace 12v deep cycle battery
- Propane Refrigerator
- Eb has a full side refrigerator that can be donated – no discussion
- Eb going back up first weekend in May
- Will patch and turn on water system.
Some Discussion about how to deal with winterizing the water line.
- Will patch and turn on water system.
Finance
- Insurance renewal – (Liability ins) – Emrys has reviewed it and all seems fine. Curtiss will follow up and renew policy.
- UU Common Endowment Fund report back
- Decided to put $22K of savings into the UU Common Endowment fund. Everyone agreed this is the best option for the bulk of SAWUURA’s financial assets. We will take 5% distribution annually, which should cover insurance.
Membership
- Need to send out emails to get people to pay their annual membership after confirming PayPal is properly set up on the web site.
- Scott would like to eventually pass off the Secretary job to another member.
Memorial Weekend
- Final promotions needed to boost registrations, several families from Phoenix and Tucson confirmed.
- Registrations coming in via online form
- Expected weather should be pleasant, dry
- No fire restrictions announced yet – but restrictions are likely due to dry and warm spring
Other business
- Curtiss having trouble connecting to Google Drive SAWUURA site. Scott to work with Curtiss to figure this out