Attending: Linda Secretan, Mark Bussolini, Cathy Sandstrom, Diana Borrero-lowe, Jim Bigelow

Agenda & Notes:

• December 7th meeting
• Reschedule Feb. Meeting from 1st to 8th
  • passed by voice
• Racial Justice Ministry
  • donating funds to support the Black Community Alliance /Gospel Workshop for Black History Month
  • grant $250 & $250 for scholarships  – $500
  • Take this out of the $3200 reserved for the program Jan – May.
• Social Justice Resolutions
  • Resolutions Passed by voted on Dec 7, 2023
    • Saving the Salmon by Breaching the Four Lower Snake River Dams
    • Supporting Reproductive Rights
  • Follow up actions:
    • Saving Salmon — are there opportunities to support of Indigenous neighbors? — RJM
    • Reproductive Justice – Jim contact Reverend Sara how can resolution be useful
    • Inform the congregation – ask them to act
• Plate Partners
  • February –  Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation Rick Groff  — Jim to Follow up
    • Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley, P.O. Box 219, Owyhee, Nevada, 89832.
  • March – Boise Period Project, Jim
    • Macarah Wright, boiseperiodproject@gmail.com
    • Contacted, Jim will do so again in Feb.
  • April – Citizen’s Climate Lobby – Tentative Sharon R./Jim
• Carbon Neutral BUUF
  • 2023 Special Appeal – Imagining a Carbon Neutral World with Green Sanctuary 2030
    • Requesting $1,500 to support the appeal
      • $1,000 from the 2022 Special Appeal
      • $500 from the Social Justice Council budget
      • passed by voice vote
    • Appeal submitted Jan 4
    • See application here
  • Organizational meeting, Jan 31, 10 am, at BUUF
• Reproductive Justice in the Post-Roe World
  • Reproductive Justice Ministry
  • has $5,000 from the 2022 Special Appeal
    • free contraceptives,
• Rapid Response to Idaho Legislative Hearings
  • taking names of people who will speak at a hearing with short notice
• Duck Valley Winter Coats & Gloves – $869
  • 11//17/22 $600 Pledged
    • $300 from the Social Justice Council Budget
    • $300 from the 2022 Social Justice Special Appeal
      • $150 from the RJM allocation of $6,000 (see above)
      • $150 from the unallocated funds.
  • Total Expenses: $869
    • $584 expenses for coats delivered
      • $300 – paid from Social Justice Council Budget
      • $150 – paid from Racial Justice Ministry allocation of $6,000
      • $134 – paid from the 2022 Social Justice Special Appeal.
    • $285 expenses for children’s gloves
      • $200 – paid from the 2022 Social Justice Special Appeal
      • $85 – personal donations
• 2022 Special Appeal Social Justice Fund
  • Total in 2022 Social Justice Special Appeal:  $12,915
  • $6,000, Racial Justice Ministry
    • $802.61 total, July 9, 022 field trip to Four Rivers Cultural Center
      • $602.61 for catered lunch
        • $512 – lunch
        • $65.51 – table cloths & cups, ice
        • $34    – drinks for lunch
        • $20   – fee for pavilion at lunch
      • $200 donation to the Four Rivers Cultural Center.
    • $400 total, October program (indigenous Peoples’ Day)
      • $150 for speaker honorarium;
      • $200 donation;
      • $50 to Debbie Foster for tech support
    • $699.85 total, December 5th program (Black music)
      • $400 for speaker honorarium;
      • $200 to Mike Lemieux for tech support;
      • $60  to Racheal Strong for tech & design services
      • $39.85 to Sue Philly for refreshments for the planned “watch party.
    • $150, Winter clothing for for Duck Valley Shoshone-Paiute Tribes
      • See Duck Valley Coats below for breakdown of costs and funds
    • $490, Feb 11, 2023 Gospel Music Workshop
      • $250 Donation to Idaho Black Community Alliance
      • $240, Reserved funds for 6 scholarships at $40 each
    • $3,457.54, reserved for programs in January, February, April and May.
      • Specific program plans are TBD.
      • Estimate assumes an “outside expert” format for these programs.
  • $5,000, Reproductive Justice 
  • $500, CAT & Interfaith Power & Light
  • $334, Duck Valley Winter Coats & Gloves
    • $134 – coats
    • $200 – gloves
  • $1,000 Carbon Neutral
  • $81, balance
• 2022 – 2023 Social Justice Budget
  • $1,000
    • $300 – Duck Valley Winter Coats
    • $500 – Carbon Neutral
    • $150 – Registration fee for Idaho Conference on Refugee
    • $50 – balance
• Round Table
  • Refugees – Cathy & Diana
    • Feb 4: refugee 101 class by Glocal for people supporting refugee –
      • on-line registration & child care
      • Sat, Feb 4,  10 – 12
    • Feb 23-24: Annual conference on Refugees by Idaho Office of Refugees
      • scholarship $120 (early bird), $150  from Social Justice funds.
    • should we revisit Glocal as a plate partner?
    • very successful holiday gift drive, $800 for housing program Avenues for Hope, and $600 for gifts and gift cards.
  • RJM – Linda
    • very successful with the Black Music program
    • also the weekly RJM coffee meet up
    • working of other programs more info in the future
    • when thinking about doing something for the people in Duck Valley — best to wait for them to ask.
  • Mark
    • books – 75 boxes / month Friends of the Boise Library
    • Went to the Brown -like -me Kwanzaa celebration in Nampa.  Wonderful, warm, program, Should make it a yearly occasion.
    • 200 pairs of running shoes passed out
    • still getting winter gear
      • Next year:  a dual purpose program with Corpus Christy, Refugees & Racial Ministries  – could double or triple  amount of giving
      • talk about it next September