Minutes of Special Vestry Meeting, Aptril 29, 2012

Saint David’s Special Vestry Meeting

April 29, 2012 11:00 a.m.

 Those present: Joan Amati, Jim Huber, Ralph Linscott, Donna Niednagel, Whitney Rice, Joe Ridenour, Phyllis Sindlinger, Carol Walker.   Sandy Ridenour, Treas. and Carol Ruffin, Clerk.  Absent: Jane Herr, and Yvonne Oliger

Guests: Gene Niednagel and Vivien Bridges

Minutes of the April 18, 2012 Vestry Meeting

 Saint David’s Episcopal Church Vestry, April 18, 2012, 7:00 p.m.  Ackerman Hall

 Those present: Joan Amati, Jane Herr, Jim Huber, Ralph Linscott, Donna Niednagel, Yvonne Oliger, Whitney Rice, Joe Ridenour, Phyllis Sindlinger and Carol Walker.  Sandy Ridenour, Treasurer.  Carol Ruffin, Clerk.

Guests:  Rich Hill, Tammera Lane, Gene Niednagel and Eli Rodriguez   

Stewardship & Finance Report with Revised 2012 Budget, April 2012

Minutes of Stewardship/Finance Committee Meeting  – March 26, 2012

 The Stewardship/Finance Committee meet Monday March 26 at 6:15 to review St. David’s Budget.  Whitney Rice, Phyllis Sindlinger, Sandy Ridenour, and Jim Huber were present.

Senior Warden’s Report, April 2012

Communications & Sr. Warden’s Report for April 18, 2011

Actually none of the info comes under the heading Communications, but things I said I’d do.

Organ Proceedings – April 2012 Report to Vestry

Request from the Pianos/Organ Committee

Vestry Meeting, April 18, 2012
Gene Niednagel, for the Committee

The Reason for our Request – Soon after our committee was formed to evaluate and make recommendations to the Vestry on our pianos and organ, we learned our assumption that the Saint David’s organ was in good shape was found to be in error.  Two evaluations, one during emergency repairs to restore playing ability, suggested to us that the organ was failing and that successful repair was questionable long-term.  Very recently, we discovered that Nashville Christian Church (NCC) has a seldom-played, 30-year-old Wicks Organ that, after two years of not being able to sell it, was scheduled to be scrapped/sold for junk prices this past weekend.  Our committee and NCC have agreed to a pardon for two weeks for us to evaluate whether or not this organ is suitable for Saint David’s.  NCC is waiting on the removal of the organ to remodel their stage, and they need to have it removed as soon as possible.

Senior Warden’s Report, March 2012

SENIOR WARDEN’S REPORT TO VESTRY

MARCH 21, 2012

            There’s not much interesting to report.  I’ve been attending the meetings of the Tithe Committee , CCC committee, and Worship/Music Committee as often as possible and have met with Whitney .  In addition, I generate a tentative agenda for each meeting (well, o. k., not February)

Update on the Organ, April 2012

ORGAN UPDATE AND INVITATION TO HELP THE ORGAN EVALUATION TEAM

Dear Saint David’s Members and Friends,

Please plan to join us after worship this Sunday to help us establish location options for the small-church pipe organ being offered to us by the Nashville Christian Church (NCC).

We have reached this point after an evaluation of the NCC organ by our organ consultant Tom Wood and Mark Goulding of Goulding & Wood pipe organ builders showed this seldom-used organ to be in great condition, both mechanically and musically, and well-suited for Saint David’s worship.  They agreed with each other that they had never experienced a small church organ offered for relocating in as good shape as this one, with years of quality service in the future.  Both indicated that the organ could be moved into place at Saint David’s and be ready to provide worship music with its current tuning and voicing.  As a result, the cost of disassembly, moving, and reassembly/testing will be less than their usual fee.

Signage Report, February 2012

Update of St. David’s signage-initial proposal

Phyllis and I met with Gary Anderson from Bloomington Design a couple weeks ago. He has been doing signs in the area for around 30 years and has done many local churches and businesses.  The signs with the nice looking posts are his, i.e. the Methodist Church.

Charge to the the Piano and Organ Committee, 2012

Charge to the Saint David’s Piano and Organ Committee
By the Vestry, February 15, 2012
BACKGROUND: Saint David’s has two pianos, a spinet and a baby grand, and a pipe organ. The organ and the baby grand have emotional history with this congregation that needs careful consideration before decisions are made, and the spinet’s history needs to be researched.

More photos from Haiti – March 2012