June 4, 2011

The Annual Meeting of Sonbeam Via de Cristo was called to order at 6:35 p.m. by our Lay Director, Jim McConnell, Jr.

Ø Edith Scheer, Treasurer, gave a Financial Report. As of today, the balance in our General Fund account is $4,773.48. For weekends #57, the total expenses were $19,220.74. Total income for the weekends was $19,035.24.

Ø Jim McConnell, Jr. introduced/announced the names of those members leaving Secretariat:

· Kaiwa Miller, At-large

· Dennis Galbreath, Outreach

· Linda Barnard, Extended Palanca

· Barbara Bridgeman, Post VdC

· Dianna Voss, Assistant Lay Director

· Dale Voss, At-Large

Ø Election Process –

· Ballot distributed for position of Assistant Lay Director – vote for just one of the following nominees: Diane Harrop, Michael Marquart, or Chuck Ott.

· Presented slate for the coming year – returning for a second term are: Denise Bentley/Local Palanca, Larry Hendry/Physical Arrangements, Jerry & Jane Brown/Purchasing Agents. The following people submitted letters of interest: Kristen Beiler/Post VdC, Shirley Phillips & Clo Malloy/At-Large (position #1) and Jan Foster/At-Large (position #2). Nominations for the positions of Outreach and Communications were taken from the floor as follows: Stacy Magee/Outreach and Jon & Lannie Kremin/Communications. Jim announced the position of Extended Palanca will be appointed as no letter of interest was submitted.

· Remaining members of Secretariat were introduced and the slate was approved as noted above.

· Result of ballot vote for Assistant Lay Director was Michael Marquart.

Meeting was adjourned at 7:11 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted,

Carol Rogers, Secretary