ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE
MINUTES
June 25, 2005
Minnesota Valley UU Fellowship, Bloomington MN


Present: Sam Wormley--Chair, Eric Severson, Suzanne Owens-Pike, Gina 
Dugan

Iowa City Local Arrangements: Nancy Noyer

Minutes To: Nancy Heege, Phillip Lund, Sarah Greene, Elaine Rockwell

Check In

Volunteer Recording Secretary Accepted: Suzanne Owens-Pike. Permanent 
replacement to be decided in the fall.

Review Minutes of February 12 and April 10, 2005 - Minutes accepted

Site Visit and Local Arrangements Report: Sam Wormley, Nancy Noyer
Site looks good. Accommodations are at Sheraton Iowa City. UU Church is 
3 blocks away and will be used for youth and childcare. May use old 
theater for Sunday service (1 and ½ blocks from the hotel). Iowa City 
leadership is in good shape. The committee will work on electronic 
registration and registration confirmation. Suggest they meet with 
Barbara and Julie from 2005 committee. Discussion of budget, which needs 
to be ready for review by us in the fall and then by the PSD Board in 
November.

There was discussion of a planned social justice activity to take place at 
the Conference. This will have to be confirmed by the November brochure 
deadline. Hopefully connect it to some justice activity of the local UU 
Church. Possibly offer this activity in the later afternoon and reduce 
the number of workshops offered at that time to encourage participation.

Logo: The Committee accepted the local arrangements committee\u2019s first 
choice, which was designed by a youth in their church.

Speakers: Invitations are out to Valerie Mapstone-Ackerman and Charlie 
Clemens. Other suggested speakers were Jose Ballester, Jim Wallis, Carol 
or Tom Owen-Towle or another person from UUSC. Someone from our committee 
will be assigned to each speaker to assist them during conference. Will 
need local backup speaker in case of emergency.

Remember dates: April 28-30, 2006

Workshops: Eric Severson
Discussed changes to workshop application form, especially to have 
presenters list what people will take away from the workshop and maybe 
something about the presenter\u2019s previous experience. Possibly ask them 
for a reference. Goal is to have a greater consistency in the quality of 
the presentations among the workshops.

Local Church site visits are popular; possibly offer one during a workshop 
slot.

Check with Unity to make sure that all workshop presenters paid their 
registration fee, because if they did not, they are not invited back.

Summer Mailing: Suzanne Owens-Pike
Cover letter, workshop application and flier will be sent out by end of 
July. Sarah Greene will provide list, mailing labels and assistance. 
Suzanne will ask First Universalist Church, Minneapolis to donate the use 
of their copier. Suzanne will update letter and workshop application and 
Eric will do flier. Local arrangements will write article for PSD 
mailing. In January mailing, include a sheet with places of local 
interest so that people can include those in their plans in coming to Iowa 
City.

Youth: Need/desire to increase their involvement: social justice 
activity, worship service. Goal: PSD annual conference becomes an 
official youth con of the YAC.

Music: Make use of theme at worship and during programs. There are lots 
of possibilities with this theme!

Misc. Conference Discussion: Discussion about how to get people fired up. 
Focus on beginning of Conference. Have District leader and local leader 
do introductions and welcome. Encourage churches to participate in banner 
parade.


Next Meeting Date: Saturday, October 29, 2005. Minnesota Valley 
Fellowship, Bloomington MN. 10:00am-2:00pm with potluck lunch.

Respectfully (and temporarily) submitted,
Suzanne Owens-Pike