This is going out to the UN 70th subgroups of our UNA SF Bay Council of Organizations list.
We have a major discussion we need to hold. The current setup of the COO as both a project of UNA-SF and a network with UNA-SF as a member is too ambiguous and UNA USA Director Chris Whatley has made it clear that to be part of UNA, the COO has to be unambiguously under a UNA chapter or division.
In the short run that means we can call ourselves a Council and we can have our own Exec Committee (the Core Collaborators is our exec committee), and we can basically continue as we have, but we must consider ourselves to be a Committee under UNA-SF and UNA-SF cannot be just another member of the COO. I think this will work out OK, but clearly we need to discuss.
We need to discuss and agree our role. Mary Steiner is taking the lead in the study, and she and I both are assuming the COO is fully supportive. We would like to make that official.
There are a couple other items as well - a full agenda will go out closer in with the venue - probably the UU Church at Franklin and Geary in San Francisco..
(Finally, this Sunday Oct 19 is our grand UN 69th Celebration - luncheon from 12:15-2:30 in San Francisco. See sfbaycoo.org for details.)
